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I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: Cinco De Mayo Spectacular

​It's Cinco de Mayo! We're going to go ahead and admit that we have no idea why Americans celebrate the holiday other than to over-indulge in margaritas, tacos, and cervezas. As it turns out, though, tonight's schedule of dance parties is more than willing to accommodate. If you want to get y ... More >>

Dog Eat Dog Lost & Found

The Lower East Side trio's music gets rescued from the No Wave depths

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 >>

Liquid Liquid Haven't Lost Their Edge

New  York City's punk-funk godfathers still make music to move you by

LCD Soundsystem, Remembered

Cool but never cold, funny but never ironic, a great New  York band bids adieu

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem Tickets For Their Terminal 5 Run Are On Sale At 9 A.M.

Don't forget your ID, either. Pic by Puja Patel.​Our long national LCD Soundsystem ticket-scarcity nightmare is almost over: Their four Terminal 5 shows, running March 28-31, are on sale this morning at 9 a.m., priced at a reasonable $40 a pop and with all sorts of scalper-frustrating measures ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: Can You Name All Four Bands on No New York?

​A few weeks ago, James Murphy, reluctant voice to a generation of record-obsessed man-children, announced that LCD Soundsystem was going to call it quits, culminating in a fascinating pushing-and-shoving match for farewell concert tickets. Seriously, it was like Black Friday for doughy people ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Dre Day, Heavy Carnivale, Fantasy Love Affair, And Meat Beat Manifesto

​If you're looking for an early start to your night (and a whole lot of bass), head to the Bless Up! happy hour at Brooklyn's Halcyon. Every Thursday, the tiny record store that caters to lovers of techno, house, drum 'n' bass, and so forth hosts an in-store BYOB hang that features local DJs a ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Bowling With Titus Andronicus and the Joy of the Work

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! Please, this holiday season, spare a thought for these mill ... More >>

Download: Soft Circle, "Treading Water"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Hisham Bharoocha has been the reigning Brooklyn blissout champ since his days pummeling tom-toms in Black Dice's dreamiest epoch. His solo project, Soft Circle, debuted in 2006 as a platform for fea ... More >>

Week In Review: Kill Harvilla, But Get Belly To Reunite First

​It was the week White America lost its mind, as did the guy who wrote a song called "Kill Harvilla" and sent us both the lyrics (not bad) and the instrumental MP3 (very bad). But we here at SOTC prefer more constructive exercises, like listing every '90s band that hasn't reunited yet. A lot o ... More >>

Live: Salvatore Principato Fist-Pumps With New Jerseyian Abandon At Treehouse

Sal making his home state proud. Pics by Chris, more below.​Salvatore Principato/Safety Scissors Coco 68 Saturday, September 25 OK, pop quiz, hotshots. Salvatore Principato is: a) DJ and lead vocalist of post-disco titans Liquid Liquid, b) a local vegetarian chef, c) also known as UniverSAL ... More >>

The Surreal Estate Party That Went Wrong: A Liquid Liquid DJ Set, a Police Raid, and a Cop's Threat of Rape

The mass exodus after the cops hit the door. All photos by Robert Sietsema​Surreal Estate is one of Bushwick's many sprawling, quasi-legal, live/work/party spaces, a nominally community-centered resource that hosts everything from Food Not Bombs to anarchist book fairs to noise fests. On Frida ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Rob Swift And Total Eclipse, Just Blaze, And Louie Vega

​Friday is for hip-hop. First and foremost, the X-Ecutioners' Rob Swift and Total Eclipse headline the appropriately named "Respect the Architect" Full Spectrum party series at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Though Swift and Eclipse are turntablists at their core, expect a dance party easy on the sc ... More >>

Presenting The Ultimate Record Store Day Guide: See Some Music, Buy Some Music, Or Make Your Own

​It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>

THE DAY THE MUSIC LIVED

Mp3s take a hike!

Watch Liquid Liquid Perform "Cavern" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Liquid Liquid's first ever performance on national television--so, thirty years in the making, pretty much. Way looser and more slithery than your average evening on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon which, given that the Roots tend to be involved, is saying something. Can you spot the rock critic in t ... More >>

Liquid Liquid Are Playing With the Roots in the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Studios, Right Now

Twitpic by @brainofjoacohen​We were very excited when this news was first announced, and now it's come to pass: Liquid Liquid, the finest art-punk dance weirdoes ever to do it in downtown New York, are performing with the Roots on Jimmy Fallon tonight, and they're in the television studio now, ... More >>

Liquid Liquid Will Perform with the Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

​Liquid Liquid, one of the finest assemblages of downtown weirdos ever to grace post-punk NYC, will perform with the Roots on Jimmy Fallon's show on April 2, reports Stupefaction. Once, Liquid Liquid were the band from the mysterious and hard to find 99 Records LPs, sampled on "White Lines (Do ... More >>

'Arms Around Haiti'

Q&A: Four Tet's Kieran Hebden on There is Love in You, the Speed of Cultural Consumption, and Getting Disrespected by Tori Amos

Kieran Hebden doesn't like repeating himself artistically. Of course, all artists will tell you this. And now that electronic musicians like Hebden can flit from dubstep to ambient, or from folk to funk just by downloading extra plug-ins, it's not exactly a bold stance to take on the issue of craf ... More >>

High Places, Spooky House Jams, "On Giving Up"

Really loving the woozy depressification going on with these guys. Photo by Katelyn Reeves.​Wow, word was that Mary Pearson and Rob Barber were doing something completely different for High Places vs. Mankind (out in April on Thrill Jockey) and October's "I Was Born" was pretty ethereal and da ... More >>

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 >>

'The Wurst BBQ'

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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

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Where Do I Go Now?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

Disco Still Not Disco

New York Rockers Remember How to Dance

Phone Home, Michael Zilkha

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Disco Double Take

New York Parties Like It’s 1975

A Time to Refrain From Embracing

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