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The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

By Ryan Wasoba Bands are collections of people. In any such group, some people will be cooler than others. Even in an uncool rock band, there will be cool people. Here are the six coolest members of uncool bands. Cool? Cool. See also: Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

Six '90s Hits One Direction Should Cover Next

Saturday afternoon I spent some time at the Beacon Theater for a matinee performance by the British boy band One Direction, who played three shows (two at the Beacon, one at the Izod Center) in the area over the course of the long weekend. It was an extended version of the opening set they played at ... More >>

New Yorkers Escape The Nanny-State To Attend MMA Event. Sadly, They're Forced To Go To Jersey To Do It

Despite New York State's best efforts to regulate what consenting adults do in their spare time, New Yorkers are still flocking to mixed martial arts events. Unfortunately, they're forced to go to other states to do it -- MMA fighting has been banned in the Empire State since the mid-1990s. &nb ... More >>

Live: Bruce Springsteen Takes Care Of His Own At The Izod Center

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Izod Center Tuesday, April 3 Better than: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in any of the 49 other states. At 11:06 p.m., seated in the press box at the Izod Center, it's hard not to like Bruce Springsteen. His last three songs have been, in order, "Ou ... More >>

GLORY DAYS

Bruce Springsteen shows whether 
he's still got it

Live: The Secret Policeman's Ball Speaks Freely At Radio City Music Hall

The Secret Policeman's Ball: Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and many others Radio City Music Hall Sunday, March 4 Better than: Watching the Lohan Saturday Night Live on DVR. Going to a live show that's actually meant to be broadcast on television can be a deadly propositio ... More >>

Live: Miranda Lambert Gets Sassy At The Izod Center

Miranda Lambert w/Chris Young, Jerrod Niemann Izod Center Saturday, January 28 Better than: Being a good girl. At around 9 p.m. on Saturday, the lights went down at the Izod Center and Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)" began blaring from the speakers. Loretta Lynn's image came up on the screens ... More >>

People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?

Live: Guns N' Roses Reward The Patient At The Izod Center

Guns N' Roses w/Asking Alexandria Izod Center Thurdsay, November 18 Better than: Getting to sleep at a decent hour. "It's nice to be here," Axl Rose said from the Izod Center's stage at approximately midnight last night, an hour into Guns N' Roses set. "I had my doubts, too, if I'd make it." The ... More >>

A List Of Things That One Should Get If One Pays $1500 To See Jay-Z And Kanye West

"I thought you said you'd take me to McDonald's" ​Saturday night, after reading a flurry of tweets from Jay-Z and Kanye West's show at the Izod Center, I bought tickets to nosebleed seats for last night's Watch The Throne show at the Garden. It was worth it, though—especially since yeste ... More >>

Beyond Jay And Kanye's Throne: Ten More Regal Seats In Hip-Hop

Coming to an arena near you this weekend: Jay-Z and Kanye West. ​Kanye West and Jay-Z's grandiose Watch The Throne tour comes to the New York City area tomorrow, and sticks around through next week—the pair perform at the Izod Center on Saturday and Sunday, and at Madison Square Garden o ... More >>

THE KING’S TWO BODIES

Jay-Z and Kanye conquer Jersey

Jay-Z And Kanye West Will Be At Madison Square Garden Next Month

​Jay-Z and Kanye West will follow up their Izod Center performances as The Throne with two shows at Madison Square Garden, November 7 and 8. Tickets go on sale to those people who have an in with Citibank on Wednesday at 10 a.m., and the rest of the world can get tickets on Friday at 10 a.m. ( ... More >>

Those Jay-Z/Kanye West Concerts At The Izod Center Have Been Pushed Back To November

​Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne Tour has been shuffled around a bit, and the two concerts at the Izod Center originally scheduled for the end of September are now taking place at the Meadowlands' arena on November 5 and 6. The presale starts at 10 a.m. on August 2 (yes, that's today!) ... More >>

Jay-Z And Kanye West Form "The Throne," Will Headline The Izod Center In September

via PopdustThe Throne, living the good life in Australia. ​In addition to announcing a headlining tour and a drop date for their long-teased collaborative album Watch The Throne (August 8), Jay-Z and Kanye West have declared that when they operate as a unit they are to be referred to as The Th ... More >>

Live: Rihanna Can't Stop Touching Herself

​ Rihanna w/J. Cole Izod Center Thursday, July 21 Better than: Being outside in weather that makes you feel like you're perpetually trapped in the car with hot air blowing on you while you wait "just a few minutes while the engine gets going" for the AC to kick in. A friend of mine recently ... More >>

Live: NKOTBSB Keep The Fires Burning At The Izod Center

Bryan HorowitzThis was the last time it would get quiet all evening. ​ NKOTBSB w/Jordin Sparks Izod Center Tuesday, June 13 Better than: Sitting at home bitching about "manufactured pop." It was 8:35 last night when the lights at the Izod Center went down, and it was approximately 8:35:01 w ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Take Brad Paisley to the Airport Strip Club

The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks

Nicki Minaj Will Reportedly Give Britney Spears' Tour A Bit Of Fire

​In what a lot of think pieces will probably herald as the passing of some sort of "leading lady of pop" torch, Nicki Minaj has reportedly signed on to open for Britney Spears' tour this summer. (The tour hits Nassau Coliseum Aug. 2, and the Izod Center Aug. 5.) Minaj's lap-dancing, sex-toy-as ... More >>

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

Rammstein Are Bringing Their Penis Cannons To The Izod Center

They are German. Pic by Phil Freeman.​Pyro-drenched porn-metal titans Rammstein are a dark-horse candidate for your Five Live Shows I'd Better See Before I Die list, what with the flamethrowers, the showers of shattered baby dolls, the 20-foot angel wings that shoot yet more fire, the penis ca ... More >>

Live: The New Jersey Monster-Truck Jam Is Decadent And Depraved

All hail Grave Digger. Pics by Chris.​Monster Jam The Izod Center Friday, February 5 Better Than: Almost anything else in the state of New Jersey We all know the drill at a monster-truck rally: It's like an air show on the ground. We come to these kind of things to see the bravery, the stupi ... More >>

Prince Just Added Another Madison Square Garden Show

Could be you up there this time.​Not that you need someone to tell you to go see a Prince concert, but you really oughta go see a Prince concert if you get a chance -- and now you have another one. His bizarrely staggered but absolutely stupendous run of shows here, split between Madison Squar ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

Tickets For The Last Prince Show At Madison Square Garden Are On Sale At Noon

​A brief public service announcement: Prince's NYC-and-surrounding-environs run may begin next week at New Jersey's Izod Center (on December 15th, not 14th, as you recall), but it's stretching on for awhile, and if you've been shut out for tickets thus far, today's perhaps your last chance to ... More >>

Natalie Storm, Blondes, DJ Pauly D, Derrick May, And (Maybe!) Prince Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​Your partying jag kicks off on Thursday this week and features a global takeover of NYC. Jamaican dancehall queen Natalie Storm is something of an obsession for us lately (especially after Friday night's reOPENed party) -- she's returning to the Lower East Side for an appearance at Happy Endi ... More >>

Prince Cancels One NYC Show, Adds Another

​So Prince is coming to town soon, for a suite of shows at both Madison Square Garden and the Izod Center in New Jersey. First one was supposed to be December 14th at the latter. That show has been canceled. Ticketholders can either opt for "an email notification with a new seat location" for ... More >>

You'd Better Get Your Prince Tickets Soon

​As you may have heard, Prince is playing five NYC shows in December, as part of his Welcome 2 America tour, also featuring the likes of Maceo Parker, Mint Condition, Esperanza Spalding, Cassandra Wilson, Sinbad (!!), Lalah Hathaway, Sheila E., Graham Central Station, and still-extant SOTC obs ... More >>

Kings Of Leon And Rammstein (!), Coming Soon (Separately, Alas) To A Madison Square Garden Near You

​Fresh from being chased off the stage by voluminously defecating birds at an outdoor amphitheater in St. Louis this summer, the Kings of Leon are fleeing indoors this fall to Madison Square Garden, a very large and conveniently covered building they have conquered before. Also coming to MSG: ... More >>

News Roundup: Kings of Leon, Built to Spill, Wordless Music Series, Yellow Submarine Illustrator

 --Kings of Leon have announced a 30-plus date fall victory-lap supporting last year's Only By The Night. The tour includes a September 12 stop at the Izod Center in East Rutheford, New Jersey. Meanwhile, Only By The Night has been certified platinum by the RIAA, with more than a million copies ... More >>

Tonight! Chuck Mangione, William Elliott Whitmore, Bastille Day Punk

div#main{overflow:visible;} MIchael's editor would like to know if this clip makes any more sense in context. He doubts it. The Jonas Brothers have siphoned any trace of youthful rock 'n' roll energy out to the Izod Center tonight, leaving us city-dwellers a matured palette: Chuck Mangione, Ameri ... More >>

Tonight! Gil, Elvis, and, If You Must, the Decemberists

The poetry of Gil Scott-Heron spoke for the wretched of the earth-- his concocted third-world revolution was fearsome enough to stand in for the real thing. Since denying the addictive properties of cocaine in 2001, the spoken-word artist has been in and out of prison on drug-related charges, resu ... More >>

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