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The merging of art and joy

The Least Likely Music Headlines of 2013

For the last six months, the Sound of the City Supercomputer (a 1998 Compaq Presario) has been analyzing the structure and content of every pop news headline in the world in order to create a highly detailed predictive model of the music industry. While this project has important practical uses, suc ... More >>

A Visit With Art-World Hero Chuck Close

Getting some face time, as he gears up for his new fall show

MOVIN' ON

St. Ann's Warehouse throws itself 
a big farewell party

VOTE NOW For The Elite Eight: Coltrane vs. Keys; Blondie vs. Diamond; SY vs. VU; Wu-Tang vs. Rakim

After three weeks of feverish clicking and arguing, the final eight contenders in our search for the quintessential New York musician have been finalized—you can peruse the bracket here—and it's time for you to vote. Representing the Uptown division are No. 1 seed John Coltrane and No. 1 ... More >>

'Pierrot Lunair'

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 >>

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

Live: The Big 4 Go To Bat For Metal At Yankee Stadium

River Avenue, 3:45 p.m. Most of the Anthrax shirt-wearers were inside by this point. ​ The Big 4: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Yankee Stadium Wednesday, September 14 Better than: "Nationals beat the Mets, 2-0. WP: Brad Peacock (1-0), LP: Mike Pelfrey (7-12)" Truth be told, the crowd ... More >>

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

Q&A: Marianne Faithfull On Her Critics, Her Voice, And The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones

​ "Either you like my voice or you don't," Marianne Faithfull says in a deep, husky breath. "If people come to my music expecting my pretty voice, or anything pretty, they're going to be disappointed and they're going to hate it. It's much better to come to my work and say, 'This is going to b ... More >>

Metallica And Lou Reed Just Finished Recording A Bunch Of Songs Together [UPDATED]

via Metallica.com​ This is going to make for one heck of a Chance card: A few months ago our own Kirk Hammett hinted at a new Metallica project that's "not really 100 percent a Metallica record." While Kirk may have jumped the gun a little (and has since been properly punished with a series o ... More >>

!!! Do Berlin

Dance-punk hedonists seek closure, more hedonism

Lou Reed Doesn't Make a Very Good Illustrated Mermaid

Norman Blake via LouReed.orgLaurie and Lou: Queen and King Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson have been christened Master of Ceremonies for this year's Mermaid Parade, which for a day will make them, respectively, King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. Hopefully, this means in the press lead-up to June 19's top ... More >>

Scenes from the Anthology Film Archives 40th Anniversary: Sonic Youth, Julian Schnabel, Kenneth Anger, and Some Guy Named Lou

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithDon't care what you say, Thurston still looks bad-ass The Anthology Film Archives celebrated its 40th anniversary last night at the Hiro Ballroom. The scene was, by all accounts, an intimately swanky affair--reserved tables started at $500; mezzanine tickets cost $99 ... More >>

All-star benefit for proto-Fug Tuli Kupferberg in Brooklyn

​On January 22, St. Ann's Warehouse will be hosting a benefit concert to help pay medical expenses for Tuli Kupferberg, the anti-war poet and all around wiseass who co-founded local heroes the Fugs. Whether because of their political activism (Kupferberg was arrested trying to levitate the P ... More >>

Moe Tucker: Young Artists Can't Afford New York Today

​Three surviving members of the Velvet Underground -- Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, and latecomer Doug Yule (Sterling Morrison is deceased; John Cale just absent) -- did Q&A at the New York Public Library on Tuesday, and someone in the back took some crappy video, which NME reproduces today. It's al ... More >>

The Velvet Underground Reunion That Probably Won't Happen But Still (!)

​On December 8th, former Velvets Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule will find themselves sitting in the same room at the New York Public Library as part of an event promoting The Velvet Underground: New York Art, an omnibus VU retro out now on Rizzoli. David Fricke will be on hand to inte ... More >>

Cruelty-Free Pre-Thanksgiving with Lou Reed, Others at Tavern on the Green

​Planning to tuck into a nice, fat turkey this Thanksgiving? What are you, sick? Turkeys are your animal companions. Repent of your carnivorism in the traditional way -- with celebrities! On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Russell Simmons will host "Celebration FOR The Turkeys" ... More >>

The Top 10 Records Sold Last Week at Bleecker Bob's in the West Village

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that sold in the last week at a store near you. Brian Dube​When ... More >>

SUNDAY MORNING

Richard Unterberger discusses his new book on the Velvet Underground

GOOD COP

Joan as Policewoman breaks the rules

ENDURANCE TEST

A rare screening of one very long concert

Tonight! Jonathan Richman Dances in the Lesbian Bar Once More

The prophecies of a teenage Jonathan Richman, drawn in 1967. Jonathan Richman's first group, the Modern Lovers, distilled the early hipster scene at CBGB down to punk. But throughout his subsequent solo career, he's favored acoustic instrumentation over sonic assault, and his songwriting has borr ... More >>

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Live: Jemina Pearl at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Photos by John Burlage Jemina Pearl Music Hall of Williamsburg Saturday, January 17 Jemina Pearl is one of the few world-class rock 'n rollers right now, especially if you factor in her age or breed--that is, riot grrrls, or riot anyone, who want the world and have the confidence, wit and sound t ... More >>

Antony Hegarty, Transformer

Fresh from a disco smash, an NYC original evolves anew

IN WITH THE NEW

Two downtown musicians open a downtown club

Jenny Scheinman's Crossing the Field

Local luminary explores America, high and low

SXSW: Unacceptable Souvenirs for Your Sweetie Back Home

BAND AID

Anti-war stars speak up

Lowlifes of the High Line

On the crabby hypnosis of Lou Reed, and the WTF delight of Ken Nordine

Maddin Bowl

Catch Guy's latest as a celeb-studded, live music spectacle, or don't catch it at all

Lou Reed Gets Syracuse Arts Medal; Induction Ceremony Definitively Not On Wild Side

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

We Got the Beat: On the L.E.S., the Spirit of Ginsberg Lives

'Wild Side'

Days of being 'Wild': A French threesome seeks harmony

Hugged By Fog

Yoga-rock bridesmaids lull, meander, and refuse to commit

NY Mirror

Grits Vs. Gravy

Bronx hulk, West Coast harpist make two house parties hop

Queen of Mean

Jackie Beat tears you a new one, and you like it; Detroit's disco d sells out

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Busking for Bucks

Teach Yourself Fugging

The Lower East Side’s First Underground Band Refuses to Burn Out

Do The Strokes

England Discovers New York Again

Checkin’ Out the Weather Chart

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Ian Dury 1942–2000

Avoiding the Grave With Mr. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Fumin' Emotions

Winners Take All

The Seventh Annual Village Voice Sportswriters Poll