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ROCK RELIEF

Brooklyn's best band together

Live: L'Arc-En-Ciel Land At Madison Square Garden

L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

Live: Romeo Santos Summons Usher And Prince Royce To Madison Square Garden

Romeo Santos Madison Square Garden Saturday, February 11 Better than: Coming home and hearing about Whitney. I lived in the Bronx during the 23 weeks when Aventura's The Last reigned over the Billboard Latin chart, and the local quartet's music was everywhere. From all-night dance clubs to family ... More >>

WHEREFORE ART THOU

Romeo Santos brings bachata back to the Garden

Live: Swedish House Mafia Reign Supreme At Madison Square Garden

Swedish House Mafia w/A-Trak, Jacques Lu Cont Madison Square Garden Friday, December 18 Better than: Sitting around and becoming convinced audio of a microwave breaking is actually a leaked Daft Punk track. Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Square Garden in nine minutes for Friday night's mam ... More >>

Live: My Morning Jacket Build A Better Classic Rock At Madison Square Garden

My Morning Jacket w/Band of Horses Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 14 Better than: The other bands on the Bonnaroo roots-jam circuit. I sometimes imagine the young Kentucky rock fan who would one day name himself Jim James surfing the internet in the late '90s (we called it surfing bac ... More >>

Jay-Z And Kanye West Will Be At Madison Square Garden Next Month

​Jay-Z and Kanye West will follow up their Izod Center performances as The Throne with two shows at Madison Square Garden, November 7 and 8. Tickets go on sale to those people who have an in with Citibank on Wednesday at 10 a.m., and the rest of the world can get tickets on Friday at 10 a.m. ( ... More >>

MAGIC HOUR

The No. 1 chick of the ’70s hits a modest stage

Jeff Mangum at Town Hall Tickets Sell Out Instantly, And a Twitter Nation Laments

At 11 a.m., New Yorkers got their long awaited, announced in advance, ticketed-and-everything, first official Neutral Milk Hotel show (slated for October 29th) in a long, long time. And at 11:01 a.m., perhaps unsurprisingly, it was already over--if LCD Soundsystem can sell out Madison Square Garde ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Shows Take Longer Than 15 Seconds To Sell Out, As Twitter Rejoices

LCD Soundsystem have finally succeeded at getting tickets into the hands of people other than scalpers. The group's four warm-up gigs at Terminal 5 went on sale this morning at 9 A.M. and, to the delight of many a James Murphy fan, took almost an hour to sell out completely. While this may seem li ... More >>

Presale For the Strokes' March 1 Show at Madison Square Garden Starts Today at 4 p.m.

​Alright Ticketmaster--here we go again. Will the ticket sales for the Strokes' newly-announced March 1 show at Madison Square Garden be the complete disaster that was the LCD Soundsystem Experience? Tune in today at 4 p.m. to find out, when the band hosts a presale ahead of a general on sale ... More >>

The Rageful Tweets of A Nation of LCD Soundsystem Fans Defeated By Ticketmaster

It's official: LCD Soundsystem will say farewell on April 2, 2011, at Madison Square Garden, to an audience comprised entirely of ticket scalpers and StubHub captcha bots. It was a grim scene this morning on Ticketmaster and Twitter, where LCD fans went first to one and then the other, crying out ... More >>

Manhole Explodes in Midtown

​Reports are rippling through Twitter (top photo via @NewYorkology and Nicole Breskin) about smoke and fire at 34th Street on the west side, near Madison Square Garden, where it seems a manhole blew up. Cops have blocked traffic and we have more pictures after the jump. Updates as they come!

Prince Cancels One NYC Show, Adds Another

​So Prince is coming to town soon, for a suite of shows at both Madison Square Garden and the Izod Center in New Jersey. First one was supposed to be December 14th at the latter. That show has been canceled. Ticketholders can either opt for "an email notification with a new seat location" for ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

College hoops for a good cause

Tourist Zombies Annoy Actual Working New Yorkers During Rush Hour

​Don't worry if you ran into someone who looked distinctly undead (and not the morning-after-tequila-shots kind) on your way to the office this a.m. A bunch of zombies were stumbling around outside of Madison Square Garden, all in your way when you're already late to work -- but, you know, it ... More >>

LO-FI IN THE BIG TIME

Three different rock bands in one unique gig

Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

Justin Bieber

So Here's What Terry Gilliam Directing An Arcade Fire Concert Looks Like

Sorry haters (keep trying!), but no, a giant cartoon foot doesn't appear out of nowhere and crush our new arena-rock overlords, who played Madison Square Garden again last night (Wednesday's opening gig was wonderful), this time streamed on the web in its entirety, filmed by no less a personage th ... More >>

Live: The Arcade Fire Basically Own Madison Square Garden Now

Régine, basking. Pic by Ben Jay, more below.​Arcade Fire/Spoon Madison Square Garden Wednesday, August 4 Gold medal, stage banter, 2010: "I have to say my favorite part of Madison Square Garden is this area right over here," announces Win Butler, gesturing toward a spot to his right maybe h ... More >>

The Arcade Fire Get Serious

A singular talent for grandiose, unintentional comedy, sadly dampened by The Suburbs

THAT’S BULL

Rough riders take New York

Tonight! Mastadon, Cymbals Eat Guitars, And That Rock Hall Thing

Mastadon. Dethklok. (Who apparently actually exist.) Converge. High on Fire. At Hammerstein tonight. You're welcome.

Live: Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden

all photos by David Atlas Fleetwood Mac Madison Square Garden March 19 It was sometime during Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's delicate duet performance of the lullabye-like "Never Going Back Again" at last night's Madison Square Garden Fleetwood Mac show when someone behind me opined, "They ... More >>

COWBOY JUNKIES

The most dangerous eight seconds in sports

Interview: Rivers Cuomo of Weezer

Live: Juanes at Madison Square Garden

The Sound of Summer

Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.

Hyperactive Anthems, Suitable for Wining

New York Nationals Lose Again!

And why not? It's their job, as the official patsies for the Harlem Globetrotters

Doubting Thomas

Even Isiah can't fix the Knicks

Let the Music Play (Again)

Latin freestyle's dreamboys and dreamgirls dance back into the spotlight

Sometimes He's Shot

The piano man has lots of bad songs to play at the Garden, but some are worse than others

Nationalism of Fools

Farrakhan Brings It All Back Home

Mayor Mute

Bloomberg gives Bush a four-year pass at city's expense

Giving Away the Store

A costly, developing problem for New York City that's three decades old

Remaking the Band

Reunited and it feels so good: Our favorite groups are back to teach the young'uns how it's done

The GOP as Charity Case

Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

Rage, Peace, and Panty Lines

Elephants Never Forget

A retro convention for the neocons: 9-11 gives way to 1968

Just Say Yes

The Yes Men's Guide to Not Smashing the State

Get Mad. Act Out. Re-Elect George Bush.

Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

Latin Swing's Last Lion

Johnny Pacheco Returns To The New York His Salsa Once Changed

Sports

Rock: One-Offs

Disappearing Acts

Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

Clit Club

V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden