Greg Fox

Big Snow Buffalo Lodge Shutters After Co-Owner Yoni David Is Shot

1992 Jose Canseco Was the World's Worst Comic-Book Hero

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Baseball Superstars Comics: Jose Canseco Author: Mitsuko Herrera (words) and Greg Fox (art) Date: 1992 Publisher: Revolutionary Comics Discovered at: Sunnyside T ... More >>

Zs' Sam Hillmer on Hating Skronk, and the Possibility of Disappearing Completely

The Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music Festival began last weekend, and it runs through March. The performers, which include Deerhoof, Julia Holter, Laurel Halo and the JACK Quartet, were selected because they occupy the "fertile terrain between classical and popular music." Among these so-called ... More >>

Weekend In New York: Guardian Alien Transcends, Walter Schreifels Solos, And The Beets Get Weird For A Good Cause

Illustrations by Debbie Allen The hurricane might be over, but as Waste of Paint spent much of the weekend discovering, the recovery work has only just begun. Thankfully, the people of this city support one another in times of need, and the music community is no exception; two of the three shows we ... More >>

Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands. Two decades ago, L.E.S. resident Bettina Richards founded Thrill Jockey while working the rounds at ... More >>

Q&A: XADDAX On Married Couple Band Life And Bushwick's Zombie People

Gloriously wretched, hoarse-throated bloody rasp bawls and fractured clusterfucked guitar squalor careen head on with drums and synth-triggering pedal demolition in XADDAX, a Bushwickian noise-rock monster whose members—ax grinder Nick Sakes and traps basher Chrissy Rossettie—happen to b ... More >>

This Week's Five Best Concerts: Pistol Annies, Thrill Jockey, Austra, And More

If you're thumbing through the print edition (God bless your soul), it's hard to miss the three pages of recommended events that open the issue. Because the internet makes those a little less obvious, here are our five picks for concerts this week. Tomorrow, the Pistol Annies come to Midtown's Term ... More >>

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Tortoise play Thrill Jockey’s anniversary party

Q&A: Greg Fox On How A Rasta Alien In A Yellow Adidas Tracksuit Handed Him The New Guardian Alien Record While He Was Meditating In A Van On Tour

Greg Fox, drummer extraordinaire for the sonic-spiritualist psychers Guardian Alien, is chowing down on grub at Cong Ly on Hester Street, and with the exception of a small dose of displeasure regarding the econo cuisine ("Weird. I feel like they used different noodles today or something"), the vibes ... More >>

Live: Guardian Alien Bring The Heat To Secret Project Robot's Maze

Xeno and Oaklander, Guardian Alien, Black Jeans, Uumans You Are Here at Secret Project Robot Friday, July 27 Better than: A shvitz. There are probably better times than mid-summer to build a massive maze installation in an un-airconditioned DIY venue. Nothing disproves this theory on a throbbingl ... More >>

The Oral History Of Kid Millions' Man Forever: "A Cross Between Metal Machine Music And 'Dare to Be Stupid'"

Kid Millions is juggling a shitload of action. The drummer extraordinaire just played another epic gig this past weekend with Oneida, the psych-rock jamming savants he's anchored since 1997. Man Forever, the bohemian collective of shape shifters he's united to realize his percussive-based spiritual ... More >>

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Q&A: Extra Life's Charlie Looker On Dream Seeds, Being A Music Schoolteacher And Thinking Antony Is Awesome

Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celebrating the release of Dream Seeds (Northern Spy) in his typical, adverse fashion: on a bill with bl ... More >>

EXTRATERRESTRIAL

Greg Fox phones home at LPR

Live: Greg Fox, Metal Tongues, And Hubble Bring Williamsburg To Atlantic Avenue

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Live: Man Forever And People Of The North Plant The Flag At Secret Project Robot

Infinite Loop Opening Reception, with music by Man Forever and People of the North Secret Project Robot Saturday, January 14 Better than: Any venue without free pinball. Infinite Loop, the month-long art show by Val Britton and John Colpitts that opened at Secret Project Robot's new location in ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Brooklyn Gets Into The Seasonal Spirit With Solo Projects And Post-Punk

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we learned Manhattan has no monopoly on holiday cheer. Sure, the decorations on Fifth Avenue might cost a little more, but not even the gaudiest depart ... More >>

Greg Fox Breaks Free from the Drum Circle

This Week In The Voice: Outrunning "Drummer Boy" And Catching Up With Greg Fox's Latest Beats

Watch out! ​This week in the Voice, out now: I reveal a challenge to outrun Christmas Creep by avoiding a listen to "The Little Drummer Boy"—yes, even the Bowie and Bing version; and Nick Murray talks to the master drummer Greg Fox about his post-Liturgy life and his desire to break new ... More >>

Guardian Alien, Notekillers, Man Forever, And Mountains' Koen Holtkamp Are Playing An Occupy Wall Street Benefit Next Sunday

​This just in from the Twitter of Greg Fox: There'll be a benefit for Occupy Wall Street this next Sunday (October 23) at Shea Stadium starring his psych project Guardian Alien, Oneida drummer Kid Millions' outfit Man Forever, Notekillers, and Mountains member Koen Holtkamp. The show starts at ... More >>

Missed Oneida's ATP Jam Session? Listen To It Online Now

... and even if you were present for all of the Ocropolis III, Oneida's extended improvisation at last weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror festival down in Asbury Park, it's worth revisiting the day via NPR's archive of the whole shebang, which is split into three parts sho ... More >>

Download: Songs From Greg Fox's Side Projects, The Psych Quartet Guardian Alien And The Squelchy GDFX

​This week, wiry drummer Greg Fox announced that he was quitting black metal nirvana-seekers Liturgy, leaving the mega-buzzed art-rockers without one of Brooklyn's fiercest, blurstiest spasmotrons. Eager to explore other musical endeavors, Fox is blasting full-speed ahead with two side project ... More >>

Top 10 "Live At Shea Stadium" Bootlegs, Starring Screaming Females, Teeth Mountain, And The So So Glos

Whatever show this was, it didn't make the list, remarkably. Pic by Rebecca Smeyne.​Shea Stadium has been one of Brooklyn's finer DIY-type venues since opening in April 2009 -- after a quick move from Debevoise Avenue over to its current home at 20 Meadow Street (neighbor issues, alas), the sp ... More >>

Live: The Sequence Of Waves Exhibit Crams A Former Convent With 60 Artists, Including Chris Weingarten In Duet With Justin Bieber

Guardian Alien's Greg Fox, in the house that Parts and Labor built. Pics by Rebecca.​On a quiet residential block near the BQE in Greenpoint, a vacant former convent and schoolhouse came alive on Saturday thanks to a collective called Rabid Handsand 60 or so artists they invited to collaborate ... More >>

Live: Man Forever, Oneida Drummer Kid Millions' Pulverizing Side Project, Pounds Issue Project Room, Ecstatically

Good lord: The brahs in action a few weeks back. Man Forever Issue Project Room Friday, June 25 Say "drummer's solo project" and conflicting sounds come to mind--Foo Fighters, "Sussudio," Peter Criss, Charlie Watts' Charlie Parker project--with few of them ever meditating exclusively on the drum ... More >>

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