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January 10, 2012
Keepaway Add Just The Right Amount Of Sweetness To "Black Flute"
A partial list of comparisons the Brooklyn-based trio Keepaway has received since it released "Yellow Wings" in 2010: Timbaland; The Strokes; Gang Gang Dance; any number of Ethiopiques compilations; Modest Mouse; MGMT; Yeasayer; LFO; southern hip-hop (the drum patterns); a barbershop quartet; and An ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
HOMECOMING KINGS
Holy Ghost! finish their tour in Brooklyn
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Live: MGMT Travel Up The Spiral At The Guggenheim
Benjamin Lozovsky/BFAnyc.comMGMT Guggenheim Museum Thursday, November 10 Better than: A rock show without a reclining Pope sculpture looming above. During the afterparty for the Guggenheim Museum's annual International Gala Thursday night, held in honor of Maurizio Cattelan and his triump ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 2, 2011
ALL OR NOTHING
Skip the rent and go to MGMT
Voice Choices
October 19, 2011
CHILLER INSTINCT
Neon Indian gets strange
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Free Fallin' With John Mayer: Spotify's Most Popular Songs Of The Past Five Decades
Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you. Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Foo Fighters Foster The Alternative Generation Gap
The Foo Fighters' seventh album Wasting Light became the band's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in April, following a mountain of pre-release hype that included some of the best reviews of the band's career, a documentary about the making of the album, and the inevitable pu ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2011
Grouplove
The Foo Fighters' seventh album Wasting Light became the band's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in April, following a mountain of pre-release hype that included some of the best reviews of the band's career, a documentary about the making of the album, and the inevitable pu ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Love vs. Money: The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and R&B's Future Shock
As the Weeknd says, "XO till we overdose.."Two days ago, r&b changed again. On Sunday night, a Canadian collective called the Weeknd released their nine-song mixtape, House of Balloons, on their web site. Though they were quick to deny the direct involvement of Drake's sonic architect, Noah " ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Staten Island's PS22 Chorus Were The Only Remotely Competent Performers At The Oscars
Oh my dogg, the Oscars were terrible this year: Anyone who is not Trent Reznor, Randy Newman, or Cate Blanchett ("That's gross") is invited to take a seat. The only other entity that came out ahead: Staten Island's own PS22 Chorus, taking a break from prettying up tunes from Katy Perry, MGMT, Arie ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010
Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 27, 2010
BK BRASS
The revolution will have a hand up its bell
Voice Choices
August 25, 2010
ROCK AQUATIC
Built to Spill try not to sink the ship
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Week in Review: Jugga-luh-oh
Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Download MGMT's Set Tuesday Night At Radio City Music Hall
If MGMT's stupendously bizarre new Congratulations was designed to alienate everyone, it failed miserably -- the boys just wrapped up a two-night stand at Radio City, with Tuesday's opening night documented in full by NYC Taper.
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August 18, 2010
Live: B.o.B Covers MGMT, Regales Thoroughly Soused Masses At Irving Plaza
He'll probably buy you a beer if no one else will. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.B.o.B/Yelawolf/Playboy Tre Irving Plaza Tuesday, August 17 Every single person at this show was underage and/or drunk, present company excepted. Multiple amorous young couples took turns making out in various ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
What This Year's Bizarre Chart Results (Arcade Fire! #1!) Say About the State of Music in 2010
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!If the band Spoon can be trusted, then Billboard is about to announce (and here we are!) that the Arcade Fire and their label, Merge, have the #1 record in the country. (They've already done it in the UK.) The Suburbs sold 156,000 copies its first week out, ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Last Night We Were Literally on a Boat With Keepaway, Javelin, and a Newly Five-Year-Old Music Slut
Keepaway's Mike Burakoff. All photos by Georgia Kral.The Music Slut began posting five years ago, and to celebrate, the localish pop blog invited some of its favorite bands to play to a captive audience on the Marco Polo Cruise boat Half Moon. And we must admit: cruising down the East ... More >>
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July 19, 2010
Williamsburg's Relish Diner Has Closed
plate of the day/FlickrThe summer has claimed another classic railcar-style diner: Williamsburg's Relish, a fixture of Wythe Avenue for years, has closed.
Film
June 15, 2010
Norah Jones, MGMT, and Yeasayer Walk Into a Movie -- Why, Wah Do Dem, Why?
plate of the day/FlickrThe summer has claimed another classic railcar-style diner: Williamsburg's Relish, a fixture of Wythe Avenue for years, has closed.
Music
June 1, 2010
Fraternizing With Brooklyn Rockers at the Manhattan Inn
A Greenpoint spot finds an particular clientele, for good and/or ill
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May 18, 2010
Tonight! Public Image Ltd., Keepaway, DOM, Janelle Monae, Phantogram, BRAHMS, BELL, And ARMS
Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010
CHILD'S PLAY
Join the release party for Keepaway
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Q&A: Yo Gabba Gabba! Creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Shultz Explain Why Indie Rock Is Good For Children
Ben Clark/NickelodeonBottom row: Christian Jacobs, DJ Lance Rock, and Scott Shultz. Top row: Brobee, Muno, Plex.The characters of the Nickelodeon preschool children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba!, recently barbecued with riff-rockers Them Crooked Vultures: picture a gap-toothed cyclops (Muno), a pin ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
From the Vault: The Top 5 Most Fashionable Shows From The '80s
Before Carrie Bradshaw's ballerina skirt and Blair Waldorf's slutty/Stepford Wives silk blouses, there were Punky Brewster's ripped "boyfriend" jeans. In honor of the Metropolitan Museum's "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity," which explores the style evolution of American women ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Justin Bieber Tops MGMT, Plus An Analysis Of The Best-Selling (Well, Maybe) Record Store Day Singles
This week's album chart has in its first two positions the two biggest stories in pop music last week. Once again, the pole position was assumed by Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, whose first full-length, My World 2.0, sold 92,000 copies--only the second time this year that the No. 1 album h ... More >>
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April 14, 2010
This Week's Voice: MGMT, Paul Motian, Here Lies Love, Fassbinder's World on a Wire, and More
MGMT. You're wearing two different socks, dude. Photo by Josh CheuseIn this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on the gleeful self-sabotage of MGMT, Francis Davis looks back on the work of jazz's Paul Motian, and Theon Weber reviews David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love tribute to Imel ... More >>
Music
April 13, 2010
The Gleeful Self-Sabotage of MGMT
On Congratulations, which isn't quite as terrible or career-suicidal as it tries to be
Blogs
April 6, 2010
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 >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2010
INDIE POD
Rejoice for Freelance Whales!
Blogs
April 1, 2010
Presenting The Hilarious Music-Related April Fool's Joke Probability Index
Tough day on the Internet: Everyone is both probably lying to you and totally hilarious. As we grapple with this whole Fucked Up getting sued thing, let us examine today's other remarkable music-biz announcements and rate them on a) believability and b) amusement.
Blogs
March 26, 2010
In Defense of Chillwave
"Glo-fi" or "chil-wave", that sub-sub-sub genre of electronic indie pop, was kind of a big deal at SXSW this year. Well, as big of a deal as something solely focused on trying to sound like Christopher Cross on muscle relaxers can be in 2010 at a constantly internet-streaming, forever re-twee ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010
CHICK FACTOR
The guys of Girls play with actual girls
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Live Blogging Choice Eats, Round 3
7:42 p.m. Trio of women standing at the Fork in the Road table eating sliders from Purple Yam. Another woman sips a beer and eats some of the Tiffin Wallah spread, which looks bountiful, stomach-filling, and quite wonderful. Crowd is large but not out of control. People wander around with happy, ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
Vampire Weekend Vogue Shoot Mercifully Neck Scarf Free
Yeah, that's right, we're talking about you, Rostam. Scans via StereogumWill Vampire Weekend lose their unofficial Polo endorsement? Is this the end of MGMT's scarf, headband, and sunglasses-sponsorship deal with Beacon's Closet? Will Beirut's Zach Condon lose his humble gypsy cred by standin ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Week in Review: Humming and Ready to Take Us On a Golden Ride Way Out Somewhere in the Yonder
In the week we learned to our deep and lasting dismay what a Gummibar is, we counted down the worst songs of the '00s with the newly relocated F2K crew--peruse if you dare but do not blame us when you come in contact with something like "I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)," or are ina ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2009
We Live In A World Where MGMT Could Lose A Grammy To Hall & Oates
Hey the Grammy nominations were announced. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell (!!), etc. Best Male Solo Rock Performance is staggeringly old (Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Fogerty, Prince). Best Metal Performance ain't so youthful neither (Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, ... More >>
Film
December 1, 2009
Dave Foley Goes Lower than Celebrity Poker for The Strip
Hey the Grammy nominations were announced. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell (!!), etc. Best Male Solo Rock Performance is staggeringly old (Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Fogerty, Prince). Best Metal Performance ain't so youthful neither (Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, ... More >>
Music
August 4, 2009
The Wesleyan Mafia: MGMT, Boy Crisis, Amazing Baby
How a Connecticut liberal arts school became the epicenter of surrealist Brooklyn pop
Blogs
July 1, 2009
Tonight! Reality-TV Rejects, '80s Cheese, and Worthy Jazz
How the fuck did Ryan Cabrera fall all the way to Sullivan Hall? Five years ago, the MTV star was sitting happily in the Billboard top 10, hooking up with Elvis' granddaughter, ripping Ashlee Simpson's facile little heart into pieces. Tonight, he plays an acoustic set at a venue music-business stude ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 24, 2009
MGMT
How the fuck did Ryan Cabrera fall all the way to Sullivan Hall? Five years ago, the MTV star was sitting happily in the Billboard top 10, hooking up with Elvis' granddaughter, ripping Ashlee Simpson's facile little heart into pieces. Tonight, he plays an acoustic set at a venue music-business stude ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009
Acrylics
How the fuck did Ryan Cabrera fall all the way to Sullivan Hall? Five years ago, the MTV star was sitting happily in the Billboard top 10, hooking up with Elvis' granddaughter, ripping Ashlee Simpson's facile little heart into pieces. Tonight, he plays an acoustic set at a venue music-business stude ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
News Roundup: Jack White, Tim Burton, Paul McCartney
--Jack White says he hopes to start work on a solo album by the end of the year. The tidbit is only a sidebar in White's interview with the industry magazine Music Connection. The story also states White wants to work with drinking country icon George Jones. We'd gladly hold off on a new White Stri ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 4, 2009
Primal Scream+Kuroma
--Jack White says he hopes to start work on a solo album by the end of the year. The tidbit is only a sidebar in White's interview with the industry magazine Music Connection. The story also states White wants to work with drinking country icon George Jones. We'd gladly hold off on a new White Stri ... More >>
Music
January 21, 2009
Way More Important Things to Worry About
How politics changed how we thought about music, if we thought about music at all
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
BECK AND CALL
Mr. Hansen shows us his serious sideâ€”again
Voice Choices
September 3, 2008
ROOFTOP OASIS
A tiny gathering of vast proportions
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