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April 4, 2012
Navigating Stephin Merritt's Many Shades of Dry
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March 2, 2012
Q&A: Wussy's Chuck Cleaver And Lisa Walker On The Cincinnati Scene, Playing Music With Your Ex, And Shaking The "Critic's Band" Tag
It's high time Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the core of Cincinnati crust-stained yet dreamy jangle-pop heroes Wussy, get uttered in the same breath as holier-than-thou lady/dude combos like John Doe & Exene, Ira & Georgia, Mac & Laura, and Thurston & Kim. The rough-and-tumble, whiny disposition of ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Live: Yo La Tengo Light The Menorah At Maxwell's One More Time
Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/Yo La Tengo, "Mote" Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah Shows Maxwell's December 20-27 Better than: Christmas. Hanukkah doesn't technically end until sundown Wednesday, but Yo La Tengo unplugged their electric menorah at Maxwell's last night, just after a post-midnight sign-of ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City
Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Q&A: East River Pipe On His Sweet Merge Records Deal, Not Falling Off The Wagon, And How Working At Home Depot Is The Shit
"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara PowersAs the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: The Personals
"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara PowersAs the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.Dear fellow illumin ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Live: Superchunk Are Just Great at Bowery
At Other Music on Sunday Superchunk Bowery Ballroom Saturday, September 18 Better than: The entire genre of chillwave. Let's start with "Driveway to Driveway," the first song of Superchunk's first of two encores this Saturday night, and overwhelmingly triumphant for a onetime landmine that seem ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Superchunk Are Playing a Free In-Store All-Acoustic Set at Other Music on Sunday
Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. "Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 8, 2010
Superchunk
Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. "Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Merge Takes a Few Hours Off From the Arcade Fire Extravaganza to Sign the Mountain Goats
Farewell, 4AD logoNorth Carolina indie titan Merge is having a good week. Two days ago, the long-awaited third Arcade Fire record, The Suburbs, came out to tremendous acclaim, some consternation, and one hell of a New York show last night at MSG. And today, the label announced two new signing ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
More from Last Night's Chris Knox Benefit at Le Poisson Rouge, Including Weeping at Jeff Mangum
The six-hour benefit for underground New Zealand songwriter Chris Knox at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday was indie-fundraising done right: all-star jams that made sense, meaty set lengths, a thoroughly worthwhile lineup, decidedly fan-oriented ticketing, and a stunning marquee name to sell out the r ... More >>
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April 12, 2010
Superchunk Talks With Us About Their Last Show Ever, Which Will Never Happen
After chatting backstage at the Village Voice Media SXSW party with Surfer Blood (who told us about their Twittering philosophy), and Pains of Being Pure at Heart (who recounted an innocently embarrassing incident involving a condom), we cornered Merge Records honchos/Superchunk leaders Mac McCaug ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
The Village Voice SXSW Party Was Really Spectacular And We're Not Just Saying That Because These People Employ Us
photo by S. Taylor Not a clunker in the bunch of this year's VVM SXSW afternoon party at La Zona Rosa: Surfer Blood, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Superchunk, the xx. Surfer Blood, who'd by now lost count which number show this was, opened--and they are, as we later discovered, the nicest kids ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records On Gawker, Right Now
Our Noise, the ace Merge Records/Superchunk oral history from author (and VV spouse) John Cook, is currently excerpted over at Gawker, where Cook, Merge co-founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, and New York's Hugo Lindgren will be discussing the book live at 1 p.m. Sample requisite "Cour ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Preview the New Merge Records Book, Then Go See Superchunk Tomorrow Night
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 8, 2009
Superchunk
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2007
Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
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January 30, 2007
Live: Conor Oberst, uh, M. Ward at Town Hall
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Music
October 24, 2006
CMJ Music Marathon Highlights
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Music
March 7, 2000
Talk About the Passion
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Long Island Voice
November 2, 1999
It takes two
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>
Music
October 26, 1999
It Takes Two
Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>

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