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September 4, 2013Voice Choices
September 4, 2013Blogs
June 13, 2013It's unbelievable that Brooklyn's Northside Festival is just four years old. Since its DIY inception in 2009, the festival now showcases in 50-plus venue spaces for four straight days of interactive events, lectures from digital enterprises, film screenings and music showcases scattered across Brook ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 12, 2013Another music festival? Sure!
Blogs
June 10, 2013For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.
Voice Choices
June 5, 2013Blogs
May 2, 2013Better Than: That unimprovised Paisley/Cool J duet.
The format, in case you missed the emails, flyers, and Red Bull Music Academy promotional newspapers being handed out around the city, went something like this: One performer took the stage. He or she played for five minutes, at which point anothe ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2013These are the best jazz shows in NYC this month.
Blogs
April 29, 2013Kim Gordon, ?uestlove, Andrew Bird and Andrew W.K. walk into a Masonic Temple ... these are the 10 best shows in NYC this week.
Voice Choices
April 24, 2013A night of musical collisions
Blogs
January 16, 2013Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 9, 2013John Cale pays tribute to Nico
Voice Choices
November 28, 2012Dinosaur Jr. takes
Terminal 5 back in time
Music
April 18, 2012At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?
Blogs
April 11, 2012Krautwork 1-8 Condensed: Kraftwerk Covered
Littlefield
Tuesday, April 10
Better than: Waiting in the queue.
"Intellectual property" is the hot Hollywood buzzword this season for content with which potential audiences might have some previous and preciously guileless associations—enough to ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2012The 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—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 14, 2011Lee Ranaldo goes it alone
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile
Williamsburg Waterfront
Friday, August 12
Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify.
Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards" ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 13, 2011Music
January 19, 2011The Suburbs and Contra contemplate little pink polos for you and me
Blogs
December 15, 2010Welcome 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!
At least one song on this record is really good!Gent ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Murray Hill introduces the night's star attraction.
The Kathleen Hannah Project
The Knitting Factory
Saturday, December 12
Better than: Any actual battle of the bands that I've ever attended.
We are gathered here tonight at the Knitting Factory to praise Kathleen Hanna, not bury her. Though it ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2010Voice Choices
October 20, 2010Blogs
April 9, 2010TedLeo.comTed Leo loves popcorn more than youEveryone's favorite "goddamn American hero," Ted Leo, will be chord-chugging tonight at the Fillmore with Screaming Females. Though if you've been offended by his karaoke criticism, you can always check out mindlessly ecstatic lo-fiers the Sundelle ... More >>
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February 16, 2010Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 16, 2010Blogs
October 13, 2009
Videogum has the clip--Kim Gordon is apparently available to officiate your wedding. The song, a dazed, acoustic version of "Star Power," perfect for slow dancing at romantic occasions and the like, is available now from Sonic Youth, where it comes with all sorts of other bonus swag. Can someone w ... More >>
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October 5, 2009--Oops. Not much came of Method Man allegedly shooting a fan in the face with an air gun, or a friend in the leg with a BB, but evading those $32,799 in income taxes over three years landed the Staten Island rapper at the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse this morning. "Taxes are the burden th ... More >>
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September 18, 2009
Photos by Angela Ashman.
It was the kind of avant-garde spectacle that fashion outsiders would mock. Models, one by one, snipped away pieces of a spiral white dress worn by a model in the center of the room, until she was left wearing nothing but a bandeau top and high-waisted briefs. But ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
Look, Max Fischer is all grown up! Photos by David Wentworth.
"What are you doing to me?" a model was overheard saying to the makeup artist backstage at Band of Outsiders who was covering up her creamy pale complexion with a thick layer of golden-bronze makeup.
Sorry, dear, but you were ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2009David WentworthKim Gordon, 09/12/09, Band of Outsiders Fashion Week event at Milk Studios
Gotta be honest with you, Kim. It doesn't look like you're particularly enjoying getting your picture taken right now. In fact, that's a butt-clench glare if there ever was one. We understand it's annoying to ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2009
So what's it like being a girl in a band, Kim Gordon? Well, as we see from Sonic Youth's Tom Surgal-directed "Sacred Trickster" video, it's about trying on cocktail dresses, putting on wigs, and setting off paint ball bombs at a rooftop cocktail party with a mime waiter. Duh! "Sacred Trickster" is ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2009The Eternal doesn't break new ground, for the first time in 20-plus years
Blogs
June 10, 2009Surreptitiously taken with an Apple product.
Sonic Youth
Soho Apple Store
Tuesday, June 9
"It's so quiet," says Kim Gordon, and it instantly gets even quieter, everyone instinctively inhaling with anticipation, because Kim's not one for banter unless she's thought of something profound.
"One wou ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 3, 2009A look at those good ol' New York days you might have missed
Blogs
April 2, 2009
Two early reviews of the new Sonic Youth record, albeit from the same person, rate The Eternal as "fuck. in. maj. or." and also "GAMAZING," which is heartening, in an satisfyingly jittery internet squawk kind of manner. Back at the beginning of March, the band's clever, toy kaleidoscope of an albu ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 4, 2009She's not just angry 'cuz she's from Boston
Books
January 14, 2009Feedback titans send fiction writers to the inkwell in Noise.
Music
December 19, 2006Touring the frustrating but frequently brilliant Sonic Youth archives
Music
May 30, 2006The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks
NYC Life
March 21, 2006Blogs
October 17, 2005Music
August 3, 2004Mature pastoralists explore great outdoors, decide dead noise and emo boys are all right
Music
September 16, 2003Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood
Music
May 6, 2003NYC Life
March 4, 2003An Extreme Painter Lays It Out
Music
December 21, 1999Music
May 12, 1998Sonic Youth in Occupied America
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