John Mayer

Candles As Band Merch: An In-depth Look

Perhaps you have seen that in addition to the T-shirts, hoodies, posters, and brass boat necklaces (?) found in their online merch section, Sigur Ros has introduced their "Vardeldur candle" for the princely sum of $23.50. The site describes its scent thusly: The smoky, slightly briny smell of a fl ... More >>

Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

By Nate Jackson Hey, we can all appreciate a quality guitar god. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of music knows the joy of watching their favorite axe man/woman go on a tear and destroy the crowd with their fast-fingered prowess, signature style and lush mane of flowing hair. It's the textboo ... More >>

An Oral History of the "Super Bowl Shuffle" and Other Links

Over the course of the week we read a lot of music stories. Here are a few we love, love, loved.

Dear John Mayer: Thank You For Doing Away With Presales For Your Upcoming Tour

I'm going to open this post with a disclaimer: I get a lot of tickets to concerts for free. But I also know that the hotter the ticket, the tighter the guest list, and if I don't want to get shut out (or if I want to attend with a friend) of a particular concert, buying tickets is in my best interes ... More >>

Free Fallin' With John Mayer: Spotify's Most Popular Songs Of The Past Five Decades

Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you.​ Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>

What The Lineup For Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Music Festival Says About Radio Formats In 2011

Lady Gaga.​Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>

The Lemonheads

David Gray

Chefs Don't All Have Big Kitchens; Foodspotting Raises $3M

​Think you could be a better cook if only you had a kitchen like a five-star chef? Maybe not. Mehangir Mehta of the newly opened Mehtaphor, Anita Lo of Annisa, and husband-and-wife team Jo-Ann Makovitzky and Marco Moreira of Tocqueville and 15 East are among chefs with tiny apartment kitchens. ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Defending Taylor Swift And Hailing The-Dream

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! Happier times for us all​My friends, It's the confl ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Throw Taylor Swift In A Well

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! Pay Rich Juzwiak what you owe him, Jay Leno. Twitpic by Dav ... More >>

Giada Denies John Mayer Hookup; People Still Pissed at Cash-Only Restos

​Even Peter Meehan has experienced foodie righteousness gone mad: "What I'm worried about is that as the food thing gets trendier and trendier, at some point the know-it-alls will scare off the casually interested. Maybe even their fellow foot soldiers. Is that sustainable?" [T Magazine] The ... More >>

Perhaps You'd Like To Watch John Mayer Cover Katy Perry's "California Gurls"?

Not sure what it says about our level of expectation here that we were actually disappointed by the rendition, but there you go. Those who enjoy John Mayer making jokes about how much he hates getting sand in his stilettos may feel differently. Next time, maybe try "Teenage Dream" instead? [@KatyP ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

Surveying the Ladies of John Mayer's Jones Beach Concert Tonight, Via Twitter

There's a lot of anticipation in the New York air right now: John Mayer, unrepentant heartthrob, is coming to town. Marc Hogan's favorite crooner plays Jones Beach tonight; earlier today, he invited all of his Twitter fans to turn their geo-tagging on, so as to better find them mid-tailgate and ha ... More >>

Week in Review: A Safe Atmosphere

Those flower pots aren't going to replace themselves. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that 25,000 people converged on a South Street Seaport venue meant for only about 10,000, were denied a free Drake concert, and promptly began rioting, we dodged metal chairs, watched as Police Commission ... More >>

So... Did Anyone Make It Out To See John Mayer Play The Village Underground At 3 a.m. Last Night?

​Because apparently this actually happened. As it all went down, what, four hours ago, lousy video/breathless blogspot deconstructions are in short supply at the moment, but they'll certainly surface soon, and in the meantime, let this be a lesson to you: Hang out in the Village at all hours o ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 2 - 8, 2010

Clitter is the New Vajazzling

Today in things that make us dry heave, an advancement in the art of Vajazzling. You may remember a few months back when "actress" and John Mayer dumpee Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed in her horrendous self-help book, The Day I Shot Cupid, that she had bedazzled her "hoohah" (her word) with Swarov ... More >>

GLORY DAZE

It feels good to be the Boss

John Mayer Shuts Up and Sings

Which is a really great idea, actually, and yet also kind of a drag

Rob Tannenbaum, The Guy Who Asked the Q's In The Disastrous John Mayer Playboy Q&A, Speaks: "I Hope the Story Will Have A Revisionist Phase, Where More People Address the Non-Repulsive Things He Had To Say"

​L.A. Times rock-critic queen Ann Powers has a long, engrossing email chat with Rob Tannebaum, who conducted the "My dick is a white supremacist" Playboy interview that ruined John Mayer's week last week. (Ruined a few people's weeks, maybe.) Rob offers a few clarifications ("Let me answer a r ... More >>

John Mayer: "My Dick Is Sort Of Like A White Supremacist"

Dude you mispelled "SVU"​Let it be known that John Mayer's candid-interview game is unstoppable right now. Hot on the heels of his bonkers TMI orgy of a Rolling Stone cover story ("The Joshua Tree of vaginas" and so forth) comes an in-depth chat with friend-of-SOTC Rob Tannenbaum for none oth ... More >>

John Mayer Playboy Gibberish a Big Deal for Some Reason

​"This Celine Dion interview on Oprah is making me GAG like I have John Mayer's David Duke in my mouth!" tweets bevysmith. She refers to John Mayer's Playboy interview, in which he says a bunch of weird shit, like "My dick is sort of like a white supremacist." He does aver that "I'm going to ... More >>

HIPPIE DUDE

Citizen Cope is somehow everywhere

Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

F2K No. 29: John Mayer, "Your Body Is A Wonderland"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. "Afternoon Delight," served with a side of dorm-cafeteria sugar cereal. Sure, he's the tabloids' top Twittering troubadour right now, but back in 2001, John Mayer was just a grin-happy kid who sang about fucking shi ... More >>

John Mayer Is #1; 50 Cent Is Definitely Not

​The lady-lonely John Mayer, the man with the audacity to tell the New York Times, on the record, "I should be fucking more girls," has America's #1 record this week. His Battle Studies, which somehow avoids including any of the myriad things that actually make John Mayer interesting, sold a v ... More >>

John Mayer

MJ Tribute Wrap-Up

We're more accustomed to 50-minute sets and cannot really stick around for We Are The World, Heal the World, Give the World a Nice Hug, and whatever other treacle is in store. And we can't stand mourning no matter how splendidly staged. But we must give props to local statesman Reverend Al ("There ... More >>

Grammys Fawn over Coldplay and Plant/Krauss, Set Race Relations Back 20 Years

Good for you. As any self-respecting Grammy live blog will have told you by now, the highlight of last night's occasionally lively fiasco was undoubtedly the "Rap Pack" black-and-white "Swagga Like Us" blowout, ostensibly starring Jay-Z/Kanye/Wayne/T.I. but dominated by a stupendously pregnant M ... More >>

Age, Beauty Before Youth at Grammys

Despite myriad concessions to modishness and a Twitter feed, it was a Steely Dan sort of year at the Grammys as Robert Plant and Alison Krause's Raising Sand won five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ("Please Read the Letter"), and awards in the Country and Contemporary Folk ... More >>

GREAT JOB, GUYS!

Tim and Eric bring their absurdity to the stage

LAUGH RIOT

Hone your craft, or just heckle others

A Night With Alicia Keys, John Mayer, and Diddy!

Gambling on being satisfied by ham on wry; finding sex outside of the city.

Grading the iTunes Hits, Again

A Short Interview With Perez Hilton

Sneaker Pimps

Moby, Q-Tip, and a bunch of a dudes on a bench bring a little bit of L.A. to the LES

NBC's Live Earth Special: A Running Diary

'Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace'

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Trick Daddy Keeps It Ugly

New Wonderland

Accidental teenthrob counts himself a man in his new wonderland

Master and Sacrament

The greatest bluesman standing whams his not so marginal differentiations all the way home

Democracy Now

Annual collaborative fest puts the 'O' back in countronica

Spanish and Other Tinges

In spite of some silent heroes, it was a better year for recorded jazz than for the planet

Body of work an extreme-makeover St. Lunatic wonderland

Phallus in Wonderland

Fretboard hunk wanks his smug way into women's hearts

Not Joshing Around

You Mean Rouse, Right? No, I Mean Joplin. Maybe Ritter. But for Damn Sure Not Kelley.

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