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May 9, 2012
Kid Cudi Added To Governors Ball Lineup
The Governors Ball—taking place at Randalls IslandJune 23 and 24—has added another headliner to its lineup, which is already led by the likes of Passion Pit, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Kid Cudi, the recently alt-rock-water-testing rapper from Chicago, will play on Saturday, which will also h ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 25, 2012
SATAN'S CHILDREN
WU LYF fire up Williamsburg
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February 21, 2012
Beck, Passion Pit To Headline 2012 Governor's Ball
The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>
Music
November 23, 2011
Holiday Guide: Yo La Tengo Celebrates 10 Years of Hanukkah Miracles
Next year, in Hoboken
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
HOMECOMING KINGS
Holy Ghost! finish their tour in Brooklyn
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Live: MGMT Travel Up The Spiral At The Guggenheim
Benjamin Lozovsky/BFAnyc.comMGMT Guggenheim Museum Thursday, November 10 Better than: A rock show without a reclining Pope sculpture looming above. During the afterparty for the Guggenheim Museum's annual International Gala Thursday night, held in honor of Maurizio Cattelan and his triump ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Inni
Benjamin Lozovsky/BFAnyc.comMGMT Guggenheim Museum Thursday, November 10 Better than: A rock show without a reclining Pope sculpture looming above. During the afterparty for the Guggenheim Museum's annual International Gala Thursday night, held in honor of Maurizio Cattelan and his triump ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 2, 2011
ALL OR NOTHING
Skip the rent and go to MGMT
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September 7, 2011
Yo La Tengo
Skip the rent and go to MGMT
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August 4, 2011
This Month's Dueling East End Music Festivals: How To Tell Them Apart
Take a holiday with Vampire Weekend at the MTK Music Festival. And go shopping! After many stabs at hosting multi-day music festivals on Long Island (Field Day Fest, we knew you when), August 2011, at least for now, brings us two festivals happening on the East End: Escape To New York kicks off tomo ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Full Truck America Festival Lineup Announced; /-, Bird Of Youth, And Real Estate Now On The Bill
The Truck America Festival—a three-day fest happening in the middle of September at the Full Moon Resort in kinda-up-there Big Indian, N.Y.—has announced its full slate of performers. Joining the already-confirmed Wye Oak, Hold Steady, and Okkervil River on the bill are a slew of ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2011
Grouplove
The Truck America Festival—a three-day fest happening in the middle of September at the Full Moon Resort in kinda-up-there Big Indian, N.Y.—has announced its full slate of performers. Joining the already-confirmed Wye Oak, Hold Steady, and Okkervil River on the bill are a slew of ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 23, 2011
IN THE ZONE
Cut Copy feel the love
Voice Choices
March 16, 2011
J Mascis
Cut Copy feel the love
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City
Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2011
Mark Kozelek+Jennifer O'Conner
Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield
Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Q&A: East River Pipe On His Sweet Merge Records Deal, Not Falling Off The Wagon, And How Working At Home Depot Is The Shit
"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara PowersAs the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 19, 2011
Jarrod Gorbel
"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara PowersAs the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys
"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 12, 2011
Yuck
"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 5, 2011
The Depreciation Guild
"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Redeeming M.I.A.
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Dear Rob, Sean, Rich, and Maura, I believe, as per ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010
Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
The Hood Internet
Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Bright Eyes Playing Radio City Music Hall In March, To Celebrate Their New Record
You may regard Conor Oberst and his ongoing Bright Eyes concern as emblematic of a pasty, Paste-addled strain of whiny indie rock, but as such they can still be wildly entertaining: Last time I saw him, Oberst was kicking the crap out of a toy piano (with help from Dave Rawlings!) onstage at ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 24, 2010
Yo La Tengo
You may regard Conor Oberst and his ongoing Bright Eyes concern as emblematic of a pasty, Paste-addled strain of whiny indie rock, but as such they can still be wildly entertaining: Last time I saw him, Oberst was kicking the crap out of a toy piano (with help from Dave Rawlings!) onstage at ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Was Animal Collective Really the Hipster?
Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>
Music
October 13, 2010
Frankie Rose Isn't Going Anywhere
After ditching three rising fuzz-pop bands, a Brooklyn fixture finds solace with her fourth
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010
QUIET RIOT
A less-furious Corin Tucker brings relief to Sleater-Kinney fans
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010
'CMJ: BrooklynVegan Showcase'
A less-furious Corin Tucker brings relief to Sleater-Kinney fans
Blogs
October 4, 2010
2010, The Year of Indie Pets, Example #6: Mo-Mo-Hair Dances to Wavves "So Bored"
Given the resounding success of last week's declaration that 2010 is the Year of the Indie Pet, it behooves us to provide you with more evidence of this Very Important Trend. Which brings us to "Chinchilla Mohair Room," a slightly confusing, slightly ridiculous blog dedicated to a furry Mo ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Live Streams From Matador 21 Start Tonight With Pavement, Sonic Youth, And Fucked Up
It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 22, 2010
Chapterhouse
It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 22, 2010
Marnie Stern
It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Live: Superchunk Are Just Great at Bowery
At Other Music on Sunday Superchunk Bowery Ballroom Saturday, September 18 Better than: The entire genre of chillwave. Let's start with "Driveway to Driveway," the first song of Superchunk's first of two encores this Saturday night, and overwhelmingly triumphant for a onetime landmine that seem ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2010
Superchunk Are Not Reuniting
Rejecting nostalgia on the majestic Majesty Shredding
Voice Choices
September 8, 2010
Superchunk
Rejecting nostalgia on the majestic Majesty Shredding
Voice Choices
September 8, 2010
Ra Ra Riot
Rejecting nostalgia on the majestic Majesty Shredding
Blogs
September 7, 2010
A Brief History of So-Called "Dirty Words" in Indie-Rock
Are these kids at a Phish show or an Animal Collective show? You'll never know. Photo by Max Herman. Over the weekend, the Washington Post suggested that a shift was underway in the indie-rock community. As the headline went: "For indie rockers, 'jam band' increasingly no longer a shameful te ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Live: The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Turn Arcade Fire, Santigold, And LCD Soundsystem Hits Into Latin Big-Band Anthems
They do a mean "Keep the Car Running," honest. More pics below. The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Cameo Gallery Wednesday, September 1 It's tremendously cheering to see that people actually dance during Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra shows -- unadulterated, mildly erotic, not at all ironic sals ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
CMJ 2010 Initial Line-Up Announced: Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Ghostface Killah, the Blow, Salem, and More
Surfer Blood play Cake Shop during last year's CMJ. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.Hey, remember last year, when we predicted that the stresses of Surfer Blood's twelve different CMJ shows would cause the band to self-destruct? Um, that's not at all what happened. Instead, the Florida band rode thei ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2010
ROCK AQUATIC
Built to Spill try not to sink the ship
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Week in Review: Jugga-luh-oh
Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Download MGMT's Set Tuesday Night At Radio City Music Hall
If MGMT's stupendously bizarre new Congratulations was designed to alienate everyone, it failed miserably -- the boys just wrapped up a two-night stand at Radio City, with Tuesday's opening night documented in full by NYC Taper.
Blogs
August 18, 2010
Live: B.o.B Covers MGMT, Regales Thoroughly Soused Masses At Irving Plaza
He'll probably buy you a beer if no one else will. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.B.o.B/Yelawolf/Playboy Tre Irving Plaza Tuesday, August 17 Every single person at this show was underage and/or drunk, present company excepted. Multiple amorous young couples took turns making out in various ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Eminem Is Back At #1, But Arcade Fire Still Have the Second Most Popular Record in the Country
Yeah, so their sales got cut in half and they only retained the #2 spot by the grace of one of the slowest release weeks in the entire year--but Arcade Fire are still mostly on top! (On top of the Disney Channel's Camp Rock 2: the Final Jam, but whatever.) The indie band sold 52,000 copies their s ... More >>
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