Lissy Trullie

The Top Six Contenders For 2012's Song Of The Summer

Now that the calendar has flipped to May, and the schedules for the area's big sheds have been announced, and the Hot 97 Summer Jam lineup is on the verge of being made public, it's time to think of other musical concerns related to the year's hottest months. Today, let's wonder about what song will ... More >>

Q&A: Elizabeth "Lissy Trullie" McChesney On The "Jackhammer" Hype Cycle, Her Workout Playlist, And Her New Album

NYC denizen Elizabeth McChesney answers to "Lissy Trullie," but Lissy Trullie is also a band: frontwoman McChesney and Eben D'Amico slinging guitars, Ian Fenger folding in stubbornly insinuative bass lines, Josh Elrod's backbeat lending teeth to the whole. The fierce, spiky interplay between the fou ... More >>

Working Out With Lissy Trullie: Turning Her Album Into The Ideal Gym Playlist

"Oh eye oh/ Joe, don't go/ Oh eye oh/ Joe, I know," Lissy Trullie wails on the chorus to "Wearing Blue," the second song on her self-titled album, over-enunciating every syllable, exaggerating every "O." The New Yorker and former model otherwise known as Elizabeth McChesney sounds positively regal a ... More >>

This Month's Dueling East End Music Festivals: How To Tell Them Apart

Take a holiday with Vampire Weekend at the MTK Music Festival. And go shopping! After many stabs at hosting multi-day music festivals on Long Island (Field Day Fest, we knew you when), August 2011, at least for now, brings us two festivals happening on the East End: Escape To New York kicks off tomo ... More >>

Your Week In Nightlife, Starring Downtown Records, Dixon, Rye Rye, And A Party Called "Reality Bites"

​The weekend starts early, as we're desperately trying to take advantage of the pleasant weather and gallivant around the city by foot. Start your Thursday night off at Sway for the relatively new Reality Bites throwdown -- yes, a reference to the '90s film classic. (Note: We're basically will ... More >>

Lissy Trullie

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Richard Kern Directs New Lissy Trullie Video "Ready for the Floor"

Somewhere in the midst of Lissy Trullie's new video for her Hot Chip cover "Ready for the Floor," it occurred that everything and everyone looked both uncommonly beautiful and vaguely porno--the signature of, it turns out, the video's director, Richard Kern, whose music videos for Sonic Youth and ... More >>

GLAMOUR AND GRIT

The stylistas love Lissy

Fashion Week: Kanye Commands the S.S. Phillip Lim

Of all the invitations we've received to Fashion Week, the one for 3.1 Phillip Lim in the Tent (with a capital T) at Bryant Park is the prettiest. Red thread has actually been sewn into the paper to make a swirling "PL" design suitable for framing. Many designers e-mailed invitations this year to ... More >>

This Week in the Voice (Updated)

Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Huds ... More >>

Lissy Trullie Is Ready to Cross 14th Street

A fashion-plate ingenue vies for the rawer pleasures of rock stardom

Your Last Minute New Year's Eve

Sound of the City will resume full-force come Monday. In the meantime, find your last minute arrangements below...

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

Week in Review: A Collection of Preposterously Foxy Debbie Harry Photos

Live: Adam Green and Lissy Trullie Cover Biz Markie at Santos

The Boys of CMJ

Starring Mission of Burma, and, uh, the Women

CMJ: School of Seven Bells at Fader Fort; Lissy Trullie at Webster Hall's Studio

GIMME SHELTER

Helping your fellow animals

Dear the Virgins, Who Are Headlining the Mercury Lounge Tonight,