Kurt Vile

Lil B to Play 4Knots Music Festival After Party

Over the last couple weeks we've rolled out all the acts playing this year's 4Knots Music Festival, our annual FREE outdoor concert taking place down at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on June 29 from 1 - 8pm. And what a lineup it is: Kurt Vile, the Men, Parquet Courts, Marnie Stern, Reigning Sound, ... More >>

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Barclays Center - 4/16/13

Better Than: Pretending today's music has got the same soul. (Couldn't resist.) Bob Seger is summer nights and long drives. His songs capture the romantic suburban fantasies of middle America that star drive-in movies and stolen moments of youthful passion. He's a Midwestern boy through and through ... More >>

Kurt Vile, Marnie Stern More Confirmed to Play 4Knots Music Festival

The lineup for this year's 4Knots Music Festival--the Village Voice's free, all-day outdoor summer music extravaganza at the South Street Seaport (Pier 17) on June 29--is beginning to take shape. We've just booked a few big-name acts we're completely thrilled about.

Insane Clown Posse's Violent J: "I Feel Like God is Talking Through Me"

Ease into the weekend with this round-up of music writing we've been reading.

King Kurt (Vile)

The songwriter's Wakin' on a Pretty Daze completes a trilogy of masterful LPs

Kurt Vile Shares Wakin on a Pretty Daze at Electric Lady Studios

Better than: Cocktails that make your lips turn gold. Last night in Electric Lady Studios, about 90 people gathered in the famed recording studio. The reason? Philadelphia's pensive guitar maestro (and longhair enthusiast) Kurt Vile hosted a listening party for his upcoming album Wakin on a Pretty ... More >>

Ten Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the coming weeks and months:

GREEN MIND

Dinosaur Jr. takes 
Terminal 5 back in time

Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

Attn. Gear Nerds: Talking Guitars With Purling Hiss

Mike Polizze, leader of the Philadelphia psych-noise outfit Purling Hiss, can make even a two-dollar thrift store guitar sound like a molten slab of rock. In just a couple of years, Purling Hiss has gone from Polizze's solo project to a full-fledged trio that's toured with the like-minded Dinosaur J ... More >>

Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge hardcore rascals in D.C. (she felt more at home with the stoners); she scurried off to New York City at ... More >>

Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats

Live: Yo La Tengo Light The Menorah At Maxwell's One More Time

Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/Yo La Tengo, "Mote" Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah Shows Maxwell's December 20-27 Better than: Christmas. Hanukkah doesn't technically end until sundown Wednesday, but Yo La Tengo unplugged their electric menorah at Maxwell's last night, just after a post-midnight sign-of ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

Four Potential Special Guests For Taylor Swift's Two New York Shows

As you might have heard, Taylor Swift has been crossing the country touring behind 2010's Speak Now and performing a new cover song, often with a surprise guest, at each city along the way, leaving in a trail of camera phone YouTube videos and exclamation point-filled tweets in her wake. In Atlanta ... More >>

Kurt Vile

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

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 >>

Five Reasons You Should See Wild Flag Tonight

​The term "supergroup" is pretty well overused in this hyperadjectived age, so let's call Wild Flag—ex-Sleater Kinneyans Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, former Helium mastermind Mary Timony, and onetime Minder Rebecca Cole—something more superlative, because they certainly deser ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Theophilus London, Kurt Vile, And A Bit Of Possible Self-Parody

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend involved lots of semi-aimless wandering around the city for Debbie and me, for which we were rewarded with one strange new friend after another. It was ... More >>

Q&A: Kurt Vile on His Favorite Bob Seger Song and the Neil Young Solo That Changed His Life

​Kurt Vile is a virtuoso of self-pity. As a songwriter, he paints more shades in this particular spectrum--industrial silver, steel-blue, watery gray--than just about anyone. His newest record, Smoke Ring For My Halo, is a small masterpiece of this small subset of emotion, nailing the center o ... More >>

J Mascis

Celebrate Bob Dylan's Return To NYC With This Atlas Sound Cover of "This Wheel's On Fire"

​At long last, Bob Dylan arrives in town tonight, kicking off three days at Terminal 5. The shows are sold out as all hell, of course, though Craigslist doesn't seem too predatory at the moment (think $75-150, or considerably more if you want to go the Stubhub route). And what better way to ce ... More >>

Jim Jarmusch's Showtunes

On ATP 2010, musicians as actors, Tom Waits's threats, and what planet ODB was on

Real Estate+Kurt Vile

Live: Kurt Vile Commands A Sea Of Hair And Plaid At Union Pool

Get used to not seeing this dude's face. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Kurt Vile Union Pool Friday, June 18 Union Pool is one of the long-standing hook-up bars in Williamsburg. For as long as we can remember, it's been a place where people, usually young and fresh-faced college kids new t ... More >>

Tonight! Dre Day, Mumford and Sons, Fool's Gold, Fucked Up, Kurt Vile, Dan Black, Free Blood, and the Growlers

Fool's Gold, rocking the West Side​Arguably more significant than Valentine's Day, the third-annual Dre Day will commence at the Music Hall of Williamsburg: Let us gather, celebrate the life and times of Mr. Andre Young, and pray Detox into existence. Instead of mourning your inability to snea ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr.

Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts

Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>

Tonight! Happy Holidays From Bob Dylan, Plus The Dead Weather, A Camp, and Kurt Vile

​The video for "Must Be Santa," off Bob Dylan's deranged new Christmas album, features ol' Bob gallivanting around in a Santa hat, and as such is required viewing. He's at United Palace Theatre tonight for the first of a three-night stand. Man this is gonna be bizarre. You better watch out.

Big Star

The Sunnier Days of Real Estate

New Jersey indie-pop bros celebrate their pretty (and shitty) hometown

Photos from the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival, Starring Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, and Woods

all photos by Rebecca Smeyne The two-day festival put on by Woodsist and Captured Tracks, the imprint of Blank Dogs' Mike Sniper that lives underneath Williamsburg's Academy Records, took place Friday and Saturday of this weekend. Originally set for the 979 Broadway Backyard in Bushwick, Friday's ... More >>

News Roundup: Brooklyn Bowl, Michael Jackson, Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival

--The Brooklyn Bowl is almost open. Curated by former Wetlands owner Peter Shaprio, the 600-capacity Williamsburg space triples as a bowling ally/music club/Blue Ribbon Restaurant. It includes eight massive high-def screens (tickets for a Sept. 24 Lebowski-fest are on sale now). The ally's opening n ... More >>

DIY DAYS

Two plucky local labels join forces for one fest

News Roundup: Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival, Beck, RIAA, Sean Lennon Hates Springsteen

--The full lineup to Brooklyn's "Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival" has been announced. Organized by Blank Dogs Mike Sniper's label, the shows will be at Broadway Backyard July 3rd and 4th. The lineup includes Woods, Kurt Vile, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Psychedelic Horseshit, Blank Dogs, and Crys ... More >>

Todd P Announces Free Day Show SXSW Line-Ups, Broke-Ass Austin-Bound Kids Rejoice

The back patio in 2007 Let it be known that Todd P's deftly orchestrated unofficial all-day parties are one of the SXSW's undisputed highlights, tucked a few blocks away from the main Sixth Street drag on the back patio of Ms. Bea's, the best dive bar South of Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern. So we a ... More >>