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    May 9, 2012

    Win A Pair Of Tickets To See Daughn Gibson, Lightouts, And Todd Goldstein On Friday Night

    One of the more intriguing debuts I've heard this year is All Hell, the first album by the Pennsylvania singer-songwriter Daughn Gibson. It redefines the term "American Gothic," fusing together the vague suggestion of AM-radio static, sample-based melancholia, and his arresting, deep voice; the resu ... More >>

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    August 11, 2010

    Arms

    One of the more intriguing debuts I've heard this year is All Hell, the first album by the Pennsylvania singer-songwriter Daughn Gibson. It redefines the term "American Gothic," fusing together the vague suggestion of AM-radio static, sample-based melancholia, and his arresting, deep voice; the resu ... More >>

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    May 18, 2010

    Tonight! Public Image Ltd., Keepaway, DOM, Janelle Monae, Phantogram, BRAHMS, BELL, And ARMS

    Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    Harlem

    Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>

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    April 2, 2010

    We're Offering Two Free Tickets To the "Pop Tarts Suck Toasted" Showcase, Because the Phrase "Teaming Up With Mr. Pop Tarts" Was #135 on Our Bucket List

    Cookie-dough sucks toasted?Pop Tarts Suck Toasted confronted a rough technological beginning of 2010: in February, the local-music-blog's chief architect Patrick Duffy woke up find that Google had unceremoniously expunged the nearly five-year-old site's archives, allegedly for repeated DMCA complain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Premiere: ARMS, "Heat & Hot Water"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Will Calcutt​Brooklyn trio ARMS (all caps, please) is the tasteful, affable, basement-brewed indie-pop guise of Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein. Before breaking up in September of last year, H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Tonight! Shilpa Ray, The Cribs, and Arms

    ​Shilpa Ray, formerly of splendidly volatile trash-punkers Beat the Devil, has probably the loudest, brassiest, most arresting voice in the city, with an extraordinarily bizarre sense of humor to match. Now presiding over the band Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, her latest MySpace blog update ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Finger on the Pulse's Bresnitz Twins Bring You "Dinner with the Band" & Other Hipster Foodie Feed

    Arlie John CarstensDarin (left) and Greg (right) Bresnitz​How do twin DJs itching to get into the New York food scene go about doing so? you might ask. Simple. Just Google "hipster chefs in New York" and one name is sure to pop up: Sam Mason. "We just called him up and said, 'Hey, you don't k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    What's Happening This Week: Good Beer & Chocolate Camp

    As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Summer Blow-out BBQ Hope Lounge July 29, 7-11 p.m. Join Sam Mason of Tailor for a Summer Blow-out BBQ this Wednesday at Hope Lounge. There'll be $5 plates of me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition

    In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Live: The Harlem Shakes' Avant-Twee Utopia

    Harlem Shakes Piano's Wednesday, May 6 The knock -- OK, one of the knocks -- on Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is its portrayal of the Lower East Side as a relentlessly precocious, shiny, happy fantasy-land where beautiful people prance about listening to Bishop Allen and saying impossibly witt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    New Asobi Seksu Video, O'Death Mixtape, and Tonight's Brooklyn Vs. Baltimore Show Was Moved

    Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Impose is having a birthday party show on Saturday at Cake Shop. It's free if you were born in January. O'Death mixtape. Unfortunately this doesn't include yodeling diss tracks aimed at Akron/Family. On that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    More SXSW 2009 Bands Announced

    SXSW 2009: the sound of a thousand Babydick jokes cracking. Full list, with arbitrarily bolded highlights, below.

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