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James Murphy's Cerebral Cortex Cannot Handle a DFA Musical

As part of the ongoing series of events Red Bull Music Academy has been hosting across New York City for the past month or so, former LCD Soundsystem frontman and founder of DFA Records James Murphy held a conversation with the Music Academy's Editor-In-Chief, Todd L. Burns. The interview took place ... More >>

March Madness: Will LCD Soundsystem (9) Lose Their Edge Against The Talking Heads (8)?

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>

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The Top 20 12-Inches Of 2011

The debate between digital digging and its analog analogue is the same useless arguing as the one pitting digital playback against the analog kind. In 2011, if it sounded good, it was worth listening to. The resulting stew was a mix of past and present where classic house met nu-disco and created a ... More >>

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Get out of your steamy apartment and dance next to hot people

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Warm Up Schedule Announced: Four Tet, Juan Maclean, Solange, And More

​P.S. 1 and MoMa have announced the lineup for the 2011 edition of Warm Up, the Saturdays-in-summer series that allows visitors to walk around the Long Island City museum's courtyard and listen to music and marvel at the intricate, shade-providing installations set up outdoors. This year's lin ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Say Goodbye, For Once and For All

Got three hours and 41 minutes? LCD Soundsystem, Liquid Liquid Saturday, April 2 Madison Square Garden Better Than: Seeing the Strokes there on Friday. Midway through the evocative "Someone Great," James Murphy wiped his cheek with his hand. Maybe he was crying. Or maybe he was sweating. It could ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Caribou, Frankie Knuckles, Trouble & Bass, Night People, and, Uh, LCD Soundsystem

There's no getting around it, this is LCD Soundsystem week. Buy your tickets on Craigslist and be scorned by James Murphy forever if you must--sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. But hey, other things are happening this week too! Tropical dance fete Que Bajo?! has relocated to a new home fo ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Prepares Us For the End of the World at Terminal 5

Reggie and James LCD Soundsystem Terminal 5 Monday, March 28 Better than: The rest of those Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Thinks We are gathered here in New York City's Terminal 5 to say goodbye to one of the most impeccable music projects of our adult lives. ... More >>

Your Week In Nightlife, Starring Juan Maclean, Benny B, the Death Set, and a Dance Party For Japan

​The good thing about this weekend is that your Twitter feeds won't be cluttered with SXSW tweets. Unfortunately, they'll likely be replaced by DJs tweeting about being on the beach in Miami for WMC. (Whatever. It's almost Spring here too.) Thankfully, at least a handful dance acts decided to ... More >>

'20 Years of Planet E Present Carl Craig+Derrick May+Paul Woolford'

Kid Sister, Penguin Prison, Javelin, Etc. Tapped For The 2010 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

​Now in its third year, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival is fairly self-explanatory as these things go, cramming as many DJs, producers, and dance-music luminaries into one warehouse as possible (the Juan Maclean headlined last year's model), only this year they're moving up in the world ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring DJ Cato, Caps, Beach Blanket Disco, Yeasayer, The Juan Maclean, And The Rub

​Start your weekend off with a little art therapy. Scion hosts the opening of touring art exhibit Installation Six at Eastern District in Brooklyn: The show is comprised of "non-narrative video installations" created by some of our favorite music fiends and local artists, most notably Brooklyn ... More >>

Q&A: Juan Maclean on DFA Records, His DJ Kicks Entry, and How DJ Mixes Are Great for Doing the Dishes

The summer months can grind down a big-name DJ. The traveling is constant, the sets start at ridiculous hours (in some cities, 4AM is considered "peak time"), and there is something kind of lonely about shuttling around the globe with only your records to keep you company. But Juan Maclean doesn' ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

Week in Review: Listen to Them Goddamn Drums

​In the week SOTC blood kin Christopher R. Weingarten swore up an absolute storm in defense of music criticism, we memorialized his cascades of profanity in a very special video edit, then rode out on the battlefield once more to sort out the critical scrum that broke out in the speech's wake. ... More >>

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Remembering Jerry Fuchs, The Most Wanted Drummer In Brooklyn

Jerry Fuchs was that totally fucking amazing monster drummer you saw play in at least one show in the last 10 years--it could have been with Maserati, Turing Machine, !!!, or the Juan MacLean, as he completely decimated his hapless kit and mesmerized everyone no matter what band he was in. He die ... More >>

Fall Guide: The Pains of Pure at Heart Will Pervert Your Indie Cliché

"Happy House" Still Kills at the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

The Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (BEMF), obviously inspired by Detroit's legendary DEMF, returned for its second year Saturday night: The 12-hour event at the Old American Can Factory consisted of a band/DJ setup outdoors, a smaller DJ platform indoors, five port-o-potties, and a modest food ... More >>

GUITAR-LESS BROOKLYN

Lo-fi makes a hasty exit . . . for 12 hours

Details On the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

Information remains scant on the super minimal page for the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, scheduled for August 8 at everybody's favorite BK venue the Old American Can Factory, a/k/a the Yard, a/k/a the old Issue Project Room space, a/k/a probably the only inhabitable lawn along all of t ... More >>

This Weekend! Trombones at the Guggenheim, Black Metal, and Classical With and Without Class

Every year, 327 cities around the world arrange to simultaneously celebrate the first day of summer. So on Sunday, Make Music New York sponsors 800 free performances spanning all five boroughs. The most appropriately superlative event is at the Guggenheim, where 80 trombonists will line the museum' ... More >>

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The Inhuman League: the Juan MacLean

On the dance-music dude's faux-android love affairs

This Week's Voice: Superdrag, Rap Beef, Juan MacLean, State of Play, Guy Maddin, 'Younger Than Jesus', and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on Superdrag's snarling, ferocious comeback, spiritual awakening notwithstanding. Erik Parker on rap battles, circa 2009, starring 50 Cent and Rick Ross. Plus Ben Detrick comes through with a particularly formidable catalog of spectacular rap ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Juan MacLean and Free Blood at Santos; Deerhoof at Irving

Juan Maclean Moby at Santos Party House

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 30

Not Degenerate Enough

Too much preening, not enough dancing at Moby’s new club night

Harry Potter and the Deathly Dearth of Post-Siren Action

Creative beer receptacles and futile after-party searches after a long day at Coney Island

Primal, Feral, and Mobile

On the Paleolithic clockwork of Brooklyn drummer Jerry Fuchs

Get Your Cool On

From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes

What a Year That Was

NYC nightlife luminaries fondly recall what they can still remember from 2006

Hipsters Dancing on a Boat

Heading South

Revolver evolves the Winter Music Conference; MisShapes invade Miami

Hungover

Where everyone from Parker Posey to Miss Guy played during the holidays

New Again

Dirty Martini, Angie Pontani, and members of Caribou, Underworld and Grandaddy make promises.

So Over

2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

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Lycanthropy

Carnies, wolves, and goblin cocks transmogrify CMJ indie-rock fest

CMJ Music Marathon

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House of Zealous Rockers

James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of local label DFA reconstruct post-punk for a whole new dancefloor

Vice Bust

Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World

Disco Still Not Disco

New York Rockers Remember How to Dance

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