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Ian Svenonius

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    April 20, 2012

    Jonathan Toubin Returns! The Return Of New York Night Train Is Imminent

    After a lengthy recovery from a freak accident where a car crashed through a hotel room and landed on him while he was asleep, Jonathan Toubin is ready to thrill crowds with his deeply dug musical selections again. His New York Night Train party will make its triumphant return to Brooklyn Bowl on Ma ... More >>

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    April 16, 2012

    This Weekend In New York: Zambri, Black Pus, Coasting, And Chain And The Gang Get Frisky

    In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Maybe it was just the warm weather messing with my head, but everyone in New York seemed a little bit friskier this weekend. From the black-clad romantics swaying back and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Tickets To The Afghan Whigs ATP Go On Sale Monday; Louis CK (!), The Make-Up (!!), Scrawl, The Roots, Mark Lanegan On The Bill

    Tickets for the 2012 iteration of All Tomorrow's Parties' I'll Be Your Mirror Festival—happening September 21-23 in Asbury Park, and headlined by the reformed Afghan Whigs—go on sale on Monday morning, and the festival has released a partial list of who's scheduled to play the three-day ... More >>

  • Music

    January 18, 2012
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    January 17, 2012

    Live: Jonathan Toubin's Friends Rally For His Recovery

    Jonathan Toubin Benefit Show: Chain And The Gang, 5 Dollar Priest, Eleanor Friedberger, Nicole Atkins, Dorit Chrysler and theremin, Shilpa Ray, An American Dream, TWO TEARS Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, January 12 Jonathan Toubin plays rock and soul records, but unfamiliar ones, songs that h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Chain And The Gang, Eleanor Friedberger To Play Jonathan Toubin Benefit Next Month

    ​A benefit for the storied New York DJ Jonathan Toubin, who's still recuperating from the freak accident in which he was hit by a taxi while asleep in a Portland hotel room earlier this month, will take place on January 12 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Among those on the quite-stuffed bill: C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Celebrating Jonathan Toubin: Gibby Haynes, Jon Spencer, Neil Hamburger And Others Share Their JT Stories

    Eleanor LoganCertainly you've heard that New York's very own soul-and-rock DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident where a taxi crashed into his Portland hotel room and landed on top of him while he slept. As the kind of guy who knows all his local bodega owners, DJs in four states in six ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 7, 2011

    The Rapture

    Eleanor LoganCertainly you've heard that New York's very own soul-and-rock DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident where a taxi crashed into his Portland hotel room and landed on top of him while he slept. As the kind of guy who knows all his local bodega owners, DJs in four states in six ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    'LCD Soundsystem Preparty Presents Shit Robot+the Juan Maclean'

    Eleanor LoganCertainly you've heard that New York's very own soul-and-rock DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident where a taxi crashed into his Portland hotel room and landed on top of him while he slept. As the kind of guy who knows all his local bodega owners, DJs in four states in six ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2011

    Publicist

    Eleanor LoganCertainly you've heard that New York's very own soul-and-rock DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident where a taxi crashed into his Portland hotel room and landed on top of him while he slept. As the kind of guy who knows all his local bodega owners, DJs in four states in six ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

    Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Ted Leo: The Extra Long, Occasionally Meandering, Entirely Unexpurgated Interview

    Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark Hewko​This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    A Fucked Up Diss Song Targeted at Sonic Youth Exists, Is Called "Cranking To Sonic Youth"

    We're gonna explain who this mischievous dude is in a second. His name is Ben Rayner. Photo via Vice.​Some backstory here: At last year's ATP New York, VBS.TV's Ian Svenonius goaded Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon to uncharacteristically attack their labelmates and fellow punk rock ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    SMASH IT UP

    Chain and the Gang do stripped-down soul-punk

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

    Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Interview: Ian Svenonius on Sam Cooke, Kanye West, and His New Band, Chain and the Gang

    "Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile--except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government." Sarah Cass Ian Svenonius has come a long way since Sassy Magazine first dubbed him the "Sassiest Boy in America" in 1991. The D.C. singer has never been anythi ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 8, 2009

    Chain & the Gang+the Hive Dwellers

    "Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile--except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government." Sarah Cass Ian Svenonius has come a long way since Sassy Magazine first dubbed him the "Sassiest Boy in America" in 1991. The D.C. singer has never been anythi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    You Can't Always Get No Satisfaction: The Ian Svenonious Anthology

    photo via Family Fluxtumblr posts The Ian Svenonius Anthology, which has sucked at least an hour out of our day and sparked some fierce internal monologue argument as to the relative merits of "The Sound of Jazz to Come" (left off) versus "Last Train to Cool" (included) versus Cupid Car Club (one s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Live: Quintron and Miss Pussycat are Swamp Buggy Badasses at Santos

    photo via Family Fluxtumblr posts The Ian Svenonius Anthology, which has sucked at least an hour out of our day and sparked some fierce internal monologue argument as to the relative merits of "The Sound of Jazz to Come" (left off) versus "Last Train to Cool" (included) versus Cupid Car Club (one s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Hugs and Kisses 58: Comet Gain

    photo via Family Fluxtumblr posts The Ian Svenonius Anthology, which has sucked at least an hour out of our day and sparked some fierce internal monologue argument as to the relative merits of "The Sound of Jazz to Come" (left off) versus "Last Train to Cool" (included) versus Cupid Car Club (one s ... More >>

  • Music

    August 22, 2000

    Missions and Concepts

    photo via Family Fluxtumblr posts The Ian Svenonius Anthology, which has sucked at least an hour out of our day and sparked some fierce internal monologue argument as to the relative merits of "The Sound of Jazz to Come" (left off) versus "Last Train to Cool" (included) versus Cupid Car Club (one s ... More >>

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