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November 16, 2011Blogs
September 30, 2011After a recent boisterous and discordant performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Deerhoof's dressing room briefly felt like the center of the indie universe. Hanging out and sipping on the beer and wine that usually go to waste (Deerhoof is more of a tea-swilling bunch) were members of The Di ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Wilco w/Nick Lowe
Central Park SummerStage
Friday, September 23
Better than: Standing in one place for two hours in the rain in Central Park without Wilco.
The dudes from NYCTaper peer up at the steady falling rain and the umbrella perched over their microphones, worried that the drops' patter ... More >>
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September 26, 2011Megafaun
Mercury Lounge
Saturday, September 24
Better than: More than a few '90s Dead shows I could mention.
Set openers don't get much more inviting than "Real Slow," a slyly seductive scene setter wherein "people come from miles just to take a seat and watch the show." Better yet, North C ... More >>
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January 12, 2011The soul icon/golden girl hooks up with Jeff Tweedy and charms the world anew
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January 12, 2011This week in the Voice, Graham Rayman details the disaster that is CityTime, a project of the Bloomberg administration meant to automate the city's payroll system. Last month, one CityTime consultant, Spherion, was indicted for defrauding the city of $80 million. Over the last 12 years, CityT ... More >>
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January 12, 2011Mavis Staples: For kids aged 8-80. Photo by Chris Strong.In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden talks with soul icon/golden girl Mavis Staples about her collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, and David Cotner profiles local wailer Shilpa Ray.
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December 9, 2010Georgia, Ira, and the Clean's Hamish Kilgour, leading a drummer summit. Pics by Liz Clayton, more below.Yo La Tengo/The National
Maxwell's
Wednesday, December 8
Better than: The other seven nights, kinda.
Nels Cline sitting in Tuesday was pretty sweet. Ditto Jeff Tweedy a few nights earl ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>
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September 1, 2010But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist
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November 24, 2009Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions?
This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>
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July 14, 2009photo by Harry Shuldman
Wilco/Yo La Tengo
13 July 2009
KeySpan Park
Brooklyn, NY
Things Wilco are not (the American Radiohead; uncute). Things Wilco are (strummable; a great band to sing along to on a breezy eve on Coney Island, where they played last night in centerfield of KeySpan Park). Steeple ... More >>
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July 1, 2009Music for white people to relax to, and what's wrong with that?
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July 1, 2009A blander Wilco should still be great live
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June 17, 2009Blogs
May 26, 2009The terrible news that singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer/former Wilco cohort Jay Bennett died in his sleep at age 45 over the weekend will both draw attention to his most recent solo album, Whatever Happened I Apologize (still officially available as a free download here) and make tha ... More >>
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May 14, 2009I have tremendous sympathy for bands whose new records leak months prior to their release dates, perhaps borne of a vivid, unpleasant memory of a 2006 Shins CMJ gig wherein all the stage banter was them moaning, in an unconvincingly jocular manner, about the recent inadvertent Internet unveiling of ... More >>
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May 8, 2009"I'm a really big fan of Sonic Youth, and I kind of don't make any bones about it."
Jeff Tweedy pulled a rabbit out of his beard when he landed Nels Cline in Wilco following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Screwing with that album's winning formula by introducing an off-the-wall competing guitarist on its ... More >>
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August 14, 2008Music
July 2, 2008An appealingly bummed-out troubadour slouches toward redemption
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February 13, 2007Big-shot cameos temporarily help a Louvin Brother forget his better half
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March 28, 2006An Old 97 asks the existential question: Does the kissing ever have to stop?
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September 20, 2005Alt-country vets not as one-dimensional as they look
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June 22, 2004August precedents, timely details, and timeless novelties you will find nowhere else
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June 15, 2004Heroic humans reveal game plan: Get organic, let stuff happen, opt for antique machinery
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