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Sweden's Niki & the Dove Take Aim at American Success

When Doves Sigh

DARK VISIONS

Grimes comes to Mercury Lounge

DARK GLITTER

Don’t stay away from Charli XCX

Drake and The Weeknd Wallow in their Misery

Riding the Bummer

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs of 2011

More reasons to turn off the radio

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part I: Was 2011 The Worst Year For Music Ever?

A number one song from 2011. Not really helping the year's case, this.​Welcome to the 2011 edition of the Sound of the City Year-End Critic Roundtable, an epistolary back-and-forth about the year in music between five observers of the medium: Tom Ewing; Eric Harvey; Nick Murray; Katherine St. ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part III: Occupying The Year Of The Woman Cliché In Hopes Of Blowing It Up

Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street; confused woman. ​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. ... More >>

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Introducing The Trollgaze Index With An Analysis Of The Internet's "Cocaine" Video

Don't get spun out—eat spun sugar instead! ​2011 has been the year of "trollgaze," a media-agnostic genre name for those pieces of pop culture as designed for maximum Internet attention as they are pieces of art that can stand (or at least wobble) on their own. The ways to get inducted i ... More >>

Fashion Week: Paola Hernandez Hosts a Pool Party; Tracy Reese Knocks It Out of the Park

Araceli CruzModels allowed to party while working​Mexican designer Paola Hernandez is a genius! We love her for taking us out of the Lincoln Center tents, to high above Chelsea at Hotel Americano's rooftop terrace. Was she trying to bribe us with cocktails and lounge chairs? Who cares! That's ... More >>

Live: Lykke Li Puts A Spell On Central Park

Lykke Li Central Park Summerstage Monday, August 1 Better than: Throwing out love incantations at home. The title of Lykke Li's second album, Wounded Rhymes, implies sullen dwelling on past offenses, but the record itself is much more peeved than those two words imply. It opens with the barnburn ... More >>

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The Great Radiohead Postmortem: Is The Entire World Live-Tweeting About The King of Limbs At The Same Time Such A Terrible Thing?

So maybe you heard that Radiohead put out a new album, The King of Limbs, on Friday, one day earlier than planned, a gift that triggered a "live-Tweeting my first listen" torrent of unprecedented volume and ferocity, a glut of Internet-borne insta-opinions that seemed at odds with the band's reput ... More >>

Odd Future, Wiz Khalifa, and the Internet-Rap Atomization

Lil B et al. build tiny kingdoms, and rule them

On Drake, Nicki Minaj, B.o.B., and the Art of the Debut-As-Pop-Crossover

Attack of the singing rappers

Week in Review: Who's Your Daddy?

​In the week we began our countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010, we celebrated by mocking efforts from the Far East Movement, Ringo Starr, Godsmack, Trade Martin, and Lil Wayne. Where will Susan Boyle fall? Tune in next week and suffer more abuse until you find out.

Live: Lykke Li Soundtracks Your Personal Makeout Session at Le Poisson Rouge

Lykke Li (Le) Poisson Rouge December 1, 2010 Better Than: Your standard overpraised Swedish pop starlet. The Swedish ingénue-cum-big-deal Lykke Li is a little bit of a thing. No more than five feet tall, she fills a space like someone twice that size. At Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night she ... More >>

Soulja Boy, Dimitri From Paris, And Mannie Fresh Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​A full range of emotions this week -- get emo tonight, go pantless on Saturday, giggle at the goofy songs of your youth on Tuesday. With Mannie Fresh, you might be able to do all three. In any event, here are your nightly nightlife picks for the next seven days:

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SWEDEN STRIKES BACK

There can be only one Lykke Li

Detroit Producer Black Milk's Top Ten Albums Of the Last Decade

​"I don't hear anything else out there like my record." So says a confident Black Milk, the Detroit hip-hop producer who's struck 2010's boldest titular move to date by electing to call his fifth solo project Album Of The Year (out today). With his gritty-yet-soulful beats, Black Milk is often ... More >>

Bow Down to Michael Buble, America

​Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>

Jay-Z Doesn't Show at Diesel Party; Kanye, Clipse Do

We're gonna go ahead and suggest that yesterday was the first and last time Jay-Z and Swedish livewire Lykke Li will ever be confused for one another. The smart money for a good part of yesterday was that Jay-Z was maybe definitely due to step onstage last night with the Roots at that ridiculous D ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Art Brut, Lykke Li, and of Course, Dave Matthews

We'll think of a better name for this soon: Until then, here's Monday night's finest NYC shows. Holding tickets to the sold-out Dave Matthews gig at the Beacon this evening? Well, here's the most responsible financial advice you've gotten all year: SELL SELL SELL. Watch the thing on Hulu instead ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Lykke Li on Nearly Getting Mugged in Bushwick

It would be easy to dismiss 23-year old Swedish singer Lykke Li as the latest manufactured pop confection. After all, last year's debut Youth Novels--produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John--yielded several electro bubblegummy hits, songs with hooks that stuck in your head like claws. A ... More >>

Six Great Records That Likely Put Touch & Go Out of Business

Big Black established Chicago's Touch & Go Records, Butthole Surfers nearly undid it, and Ted Leo stuck with the indie for far longer than anyone expected. But there's also a whole roster of lesser-known, weirdo, commercially doomed T&G releases that likely contributed to yesterday's announcement ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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The Boys of CMJ

Starring Mission of Burma, and, uh, the Women

CMJ: Lykke Li at Bowery Ballroom

Dirty Blonde: Book Eaters, CMJ, and Studio B's Demise

That infamous festival is back, though chicks may happily dominate this year

Live: Nap-Pop Songstress Lykke Li at Le Poisson Rouge

El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li Tonight and Tomorrow

Interview: El Perro Del Mar