Blogs
November 15, 2012Long before the curtain goes up on the Rolling Jubilee's kick-off telethon tonight, it was clear that the event's organizers have struck a nerve.
The Rolling Jubilee, a project of the debt-activist group Strike Debt, an outgrowth of Occupy Wall Street and the people behind the Debt Resistors Operat ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 7, 2012Blogs
September 24, 2012Better than: That cousin of yours who has fantastic taste and knows he has fantastic taste coming to your house and playing you fantastic music and showing you a great time, and every so often you catch him looking at you in a condescending way and you want to enjoy yourself less but you just can't ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012A collaboration between 33-year old former Battles leader Tyondai Braxton and 75-year old minimalist forefather Philip Glass takes place today at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. It hardly falls under the header of WTF. In fact, it likely would have only taken a few dozen monkeys with a few doze ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 19, 2012All Tomorrow’s Parties curate your weekend of shows
Music
March 14, 2012Blogs
March 14, 2012In this week's Village Voice, out now: Michaelangelo Matos profiles Daniel Martin-McCormick, the Brooklyn electronic musician with widespread acclaim and punk rock roots; Jesse Jarnow talks to Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, who just released his first solo album; and I defend the boy band against the sn ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012Blogs
December 28, 2011Lee 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 >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011Lee Ranaldo
Glasslands Gallery
Saturday, December 17
Better than: Another '90s band playing a '90s album start to finish.
There wasn't a whole lot of noise from Lee Ranaldo's new quartet under the cloth clouds at Glasslands on Saturday, but there was plenty of crunch. Removing the art ab ... 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
June 8, 2010
Today brings more confirmations for the three-day line-up of the Jim Jarmusch-curated All Tomorrow's Parties New York. Adding to the stellar list of Explosions in the Sky, Raekwon, Sonic Youth, the Breeders, Fucked Up, Girls, and the Stooges doing Raw Power are Shellac (credited in the press relea ... More >>
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May 12, 2010In this week's Village Voice, Michael D. Ayers writes our cover story on the National, who make the awkward look cool and despair sound hilarious. Elsewhere, Mike Powell hangs out with creepy chillwave godfather Ariel Pink, Ben Westhoff on the massively divergent fates of Memphis rap crews Th ... More >>
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May 10, 2010Michael Gira's legendary noise punk crew Swans announced their reunion back in January, and with guitarist Norman Westberg on board (no Jarboe, alas), Gira seemed to be promising the return of the ferocious, '80s vintage of his band, rather than gothy, whispery, horror-house '90s version. Thi ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2010Time's running out to catch this amazing pop-up
Music
February 23, 2010A love connection (!) and a sequel (!!) for the downtown guitar-army god
Voice Choices
February 23, 2010Music
February 2, 2010Poland's finest annual fete heads to NYC
Film
January 26, 2010Blogs
November 20, 2009The NYC-based Cinema 16 series--which screens silent, "art-house films" along with live accompaniment by various musicians, a la Lee Ranaldo's Text of Light--lands at Galapagos tomorrow night with the promise of a These Are Powers soundtrack written expressly for the occasion. Plus free cockt ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009SWEET NOISE The Glenn Branca Ensemble tries out new material
Blogs
September 10, 2009--If you somehow haven't heard Album, the sublime glazed-over debut by San Francisco's Girls, Impose and Insound are holding a listening party for the record--and for fellow Matador signees Times New Viking's Born Again Revisited--at Bruar Falls in Williamsburg next Wednesday, September 16th. ... 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 >>
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 >>
Music
April 22, 2009Merce Cunningham gives a noisy band new eardrums to puncture
Voice Choices
March 25, 2009Blogs
March 3, 2009Andrew KesinDespite the headline, I will not make a phone-sex joke here
First, let me restate the utter confusion experienced this morning when the official Sonic Youth Twitter, a hilarious thing in and of itself, alerted the world to a new "audio sample" of the band's upcoming Matador release The ... More >>
Books
January 14, 2009Feedback titans send fiction writers to the inkwell in Noise.
Voice Choices
December 31, 2008Start ‘09 right with NYC’s finest performers
Voice Choices
September 3, 2008Big names in rock celebrate the beloved Jazzmaster
Voice Choices
May 20, 2008Voice Choices
May 20, 2008The Joshua Light Show comes back from the future
Voice Choices
May 13, 2008Voice Choices
May 13, 2008No Fun Fest ditches Brooklyn, heads downtown
Voice Choices
April 1, 2008Voice Choices
April 1, 2008Raise a trout to the genius of Captain Beefheart
Music
September 18, 2007Magik Markers use both to find their locomo
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
Music
July 13, 2004Metal from guitarless Norwegians, New Yorker with many
NYC Life
August 26, 2003Music
July 9, 2002Music
January 15, 2002Music
October 23, 2001NYC Life
August 7, 2001Music
June 27, 2000Music
December 21, 1999Music
July 20, 1999News
June 29, 1999Kick-starting a new literary scene on the lower east side
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