Lollapalooza

Nearly All the Big Acts Playing Lollapalooza 2013 Have Played Lollapalooza Before

Thanks to Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, Lollapalooza's headliners have been revealed, and it appears that Perry Farrell & Co. are dipping into the past few years of the Chicago-based festival's lineup history for a little inspiration. Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, and the Killers have ... More >>

30 Facts About Ke$ha Gleaned From Her New Book My Crazy Beautiful Life

If you listen closely to Ke$ha's songs (and is there any other way to listen to Ke$ha?), you already know quite a bit about her. She wakes up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. She uses a bottle of Jack to brush her teeth (which sounds dangerous). Etc. Etc. So on. So forth. ANYWAY, to learn more, ... More >>

Bon Iver Fave Poliça Give You The Ghost At Webster Hall Tomorrow Night

When Poliça packed up their microphones, looping pedals, guitars, horns and drum kits and commenced with the touring efforts following Give You The Ghost's Valentine's Day release earlier this year, the Minneapolis electro-groove outfit was, arguably, getting to know their first record on the same ... More >>

Fan Landers: How Can I Bootstrap My Way To Pop Stardom?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; conf ... More >>

Six Superlative Summer Shows

Our music critic's picks for the season's hottest concerts

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

Deftones: Here Comes the Rain

Offering a master class in outperforming a storm

How To Make A Crowd Not Mind That They're In The Middle Of A Torrential Rainstorm, By The Deftones

Not to be one of those people who talks about the weather, but has this summer's concert-going season seemed sorta... washed out to you? Multi-day festivals from Lollapalooza to Catalpa to Pitchfork have been plagued by rain delays, and other outdoor concerts have been similarly doused. Shows at the ... More >>

Just Like Being There: The Economics Of Livestreaming Concerts

Tonight, at 10 P.M., you can see the Dirty Projectors live. They're playing here in town, in support of their just-released new album, Swing Lo Magellan, at Music Hall of Williamsburg. If you didn't get a ticket, or just don't feel like leaving your apartment, you can cruise over to the YouTube home ... More >>

Dead Sara Is Weathering the Storm

Blazing hard rock might signal a sea change

Live: The Great GoogaMooga Tries To Break New York's Festival Curse

The Great GoogaMooga Prospect Park Sunday, May 20 Better than: Eating anything in my fridge. Vineland. Field Day. All Points West. New York is littered with the acrid corpses of past festivals, a perpetual tease giving hope to the most jaded music fan that maybe this year, someone will get it righ ... More >>

Sonic Youth (5) And Arthur Russell (12) Close Out Round One Of SOTC's March Madness

​The 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 >>

Metallica To Throw The Orion Music And More Festival In Atlantic City This Summer

​Metallica has announced the first annual Orion Music & More Festival, which will take place in Atlantic City on June 23 and 24 and feature the band headlining both nights and playing the Black Album—you know, Bob Rock, commercial breakthrough, "Enter Sandman," etc.—in its entirety ... More >>

My Weirdest Pitches Of The Week

​Think the life of a gossip columnist/blogger is all sawdust and tinsel? Well, here are some of the pitches I've gotten this week, to give you a hint of the reality behind the glitterdome: *"Andrea Bocelli rides the East River ferry"

Watch: Nas and Damian Marley Trek Through Jamaica in "Nah Mean"

​Not content with just being announced as part of the rather-weak Lollapalooza 2011 lineup today, Nas and Damian Marley have dropped the music video for "Nah Mean" from their album Distant Relatives. The clip, shot almost entirely in black and white, follows Nasty Nas and Jr. Gong as they take ... More >>

Download Hunters' Bubblegum-Sludge Anthem "Deadbeat"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn bubblegum-sludge bashers Hunters are the bastard children of Lollapalooza 1996, a perfect blend of Boss Hog cheer and Melvins churn. Led by co-frontscrungers Isabel Ibsen and Derek Watson, ... More >>

Bootleg Roundup: Download Spoon At Madison Square Garden, And Darcy James Argue's Secret Society At the Newport Jazz Festival

All hail Spoon, arena-rockers at last. Pic by Ben Jay.​A couple splendid bootlegs to start your week, starting with Spoon's triumphant, 15-song (!) opening set for Arcade Fire at MSG last Wednesday, as captured by the indomitable NYC Taper. Britt Daniel and co. fill the place just as capably a ... More >>

Soundgarden Invent Chillwave On Unreleased Track "Black Rain"

LOL, j/k. "Black Rain" (a Badmotorfinger sessions outtake, not a brand-new track as I'd initially suspected) leaked in the aftermath of Soundgarden's triumphant (or at least not-catastrophic, in any case) return at Lollapalooza over the weekend (setlist here, and thank god they're still playing "G ... More >>

Live: The Hood Internet Unleash A Torrent Of Guilty Pleasures At Bell House

Best Bar Mitzvah ever.​The Hood Internet Bell House Friday, July 2 The scene at the Bell House Friday night could've easily been mistaken for a totally rad Bar Mitzvah: A dance floor filled with boys and girls not touching, but rather dancing in circles around each other (some were even shoel ... More >>

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Lollapalooza Lineup Announced in Full

​Featuring the odd return of 1995, in the persons of Soundgarden and Green Day, modern arena-rock surrogates the Strokes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix, the National, and the Black Keys, and who else but Lady Gaga? Music is a befuddling tapestry in which Cypress Hill will always have a home. Comp ... More >>

Live From Nine Inch Nails' Retirement Party

In praise of Trent Reznor, the nihilist-turned-populist, waving goodbye

News Roundup: Radiohead, Weezer, Brooklyn Book Festival, Them Crooked Vultures, The Verve

​--A new Radiohead track was mysteriously posted at the fan site Atease yesterday. "These Are My Twisted Words" is a two-minute number that may just well be the sing-along anthem of the summer. Just kidding. It's an eerie, echoey five-and-a-half minutes of noise and Thom Yorke's vocals don't e ... More >>

News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

Ambiguous All Points West 2009 Attendance Figures Announced

Rebecca Smeyne​The attendance numbers are in for this year's All Points West. The festival drew 71,500 people over three days, according to APW promoter Paul Tollett, down 4000 from last year. In an interview with the New York Times, Tollett chalks the inferior numbers up to the weather, which ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne

--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>

Jane's Addiction's Relapse

With everyone (finally) on board, one of the last great rock bands rides again

Nine Inch Nails+Jane's Addiction

OF COVERS AND CULTURE

New York turns 40

Fall Preview: Artists Soldier for Democracy at the Park Avenue Armory

TWICE IN A LIFETIME

Absentee Boredoms arrange an encore

Welcome to Bonnaroo 2008: Where's the Fun in Festivals?

Live: Black Dice Are "Pure Electricity" in Williamsburg

Batgirl Returns

Karen O: Still a deity worth seeing, even if you've seen it all before

M.I.A Cancels Sasquatch Appearance

Live: Pitchfork's Indie-Rock Festival

Placing Politics Within the Pop Culture Landscape

Wu-Tang Clan to Reunite

Cosmic Surfin'

Nonsensical Japanese noise legends get sunbaked, go up in incense smoke at the beach

Music

Beach Noise

Indie guitar bands and their fans ride the love roller coaster

Live Dead

Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

Lollapalost

Where to catch your favorite bands now that the big show is canceled

Cancer and Karma

Jackie Farry and friends fuck cancer; filmmaker Scott Crary kills his idols

Music

Listings

NY Mirror

Citizen Corgan

Statue of Limitations