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  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Das Racist's Top Ten Tour Memories (So Far)

    ​Viktor Vazquez has just arrived at a hotel in Seattle and is pining for some noodles. Specifically, he has the hankering for some "fancy ramen noodles." It's a caliber of Japanese wheat-noodle that he has not been able to find since leaving his home in New York City to undertake a vehement 30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Download: Driphouse's Gurgling "Chompers World"

    The cover of Driphouse's Root 91.​Driphouse is a dizzying cumulus cloud of leapfrogging electronic squelch courtesy of Daren Ho, formerly of Iowa City psych-noise institution Raccoo-oo-oon. Ho made the trip to Brooklyn in 2008, and since then his sparkling, crystalline synth tones (released on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

    We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2010

    Migrating Forms and the Search for Meaning

    All avant-garde all the time at Anthology

  • Books

    March 24, 2010

    Loser Lit: John McNally's After the Workshop, Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow, and James Greer's The Failure

    Failed again! Scribblers, orphans, and punks fumble through life in three new novels

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Mountain Goats Gone Primitive: New Solo Tour Dates

    Two of these guys are not going on the no-sideburns tour For an awful long time, every John Darnielle tour was a solo tour. Excepting an early stretch with Rachel Ware, Darnielle's Mountain Goats were a purely one man entity, if a bit a of joke on the whole singer-songwriter phenomenon. The arrang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    No Context: Santos Party House

    Two of these guys are not going on the no-sideburns tour For an awful long time, every John Darnielle tour was a solo tour. Excepting an early stretch with Rachel Ware, Darnielle's Mountain Goats were a purely one man entity, if a bit a of joke on the whole singer-songwriter phenomenon. The arrang ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 5, 2008

    The Queer Heterosexual, Redux

    A classic from the Pucker Up vaults

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

    No Context: An Interview with the Magik Markers

    A classic from the Pucker Up vaults

  • Music

    May 2, 2006

    Keep on Trucking

    Semi-unreconstructed Southern rockers keep playing the only thing worth playing

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    The Personals

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Books

    November 15, 2005

    Naked Lunch

    Talking Beats, alternate history, and a biker "Isaak" Babel with Sesshu Foster

  • VLS

    November 1, 2005

    VLS Bestsellers List

    Talking Beats, alternate history, and a biker "Isaak" Babel with Sesshu Foster

  • Specials

    August 16, 2005

    Letters

    Talking Beats, alternate history, and a biker "Isaak" Babel with Sesshu Foster

  • VLS

    May 10, 2005

    VLS Bestsellers List

    Talking Beats, alternate history, and a biker "Isaak" Babel with Sesshu Foster

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    Meant for the Stage

    Theatrical indie heartthrobs the Decemberists give gawky drama-club girls something to dream and blog about

  • News

    January 6, 2004

    The Dennis Kucinich Polka

    What's so funny about peace, love, and the Dems' Great Ignored Candidate?

  • Music

    June 10, 2003

    Rap Food Nation

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Columns

    May 6, 2003

    The Queer Heterosexual

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • News

    April 15, 2003

    In No One's Army

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • Specials

    December 17, 2002

    Letters

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • Theater

    October 15, 2002

    Theater

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • Books

    January 15, 2002

    Books

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • Books

    December 11, 2001

    Books

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • Books

    November 13, 2001

    Books

    A West Coast Call for Civil Disobedience

  • News

    November 13, 2001

    All-American Boy

    Remembering Ozzie Simmons

  • Books

    September 11, 2001

    VLS Bestsellers

    Remembering Ozzie Simmons

  • Art

    December 7, 1999

    Fully Booked

    Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

  • Specials

    February 16, 1999

    Letters

    Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

  • Specials

    November 10, 1998

    Letters

    Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Rebel Radio

    The Lower East Side's Pirate Station, Steal This Radio, Joins the Fight Against the Feds

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