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Madison Square Garden

  • Voice Choices

    November 9, 2011

    FOREVER AND ALWAYS

    Taylor Swift wraps the ‘Speak Now’ tour

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    The Week in Food Blogs: Fall Foods, Fancy Stadium Fare and Halloween Candy... Already?

    This week in food blogs ... Eater got romantic with 10 New York restaurant missed connections. Grub Street delivered 41 things it's psyched to eat and drink this fall. Meanwhile, Food Republic gave us its 33 favorite fall foods. (See a trend?) Zagat Buzz was busy helping launch the 2012 New Yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Peep World to Be Replaced by Equally Obscene Gastropub

    ChefMattRock/FlickrScrewed.​Scarcely a week seems to pass that doesn't bring news of some vestige of New York being remade in the image of the upwardly mobile, possibly inebriated, and very vanilla young men and women who want to make the city their own, or at least cover it in vomit.

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    At Least The Beastie Boys Gave Madison Square Garden Something To Cheer About This Weekend

    ​On Saturday morning the Beastie Boys previewed their imminent album Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 in a way that married low and high technology and arena spectacle: They stuck a boombox in the middle of Madison Square Garden's basketball court, someone hit "play," and hey, there it was. Neither t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Burger King CEO Insults British Food, Women; Josh Ozersky Sings Praises of Margarine

    ​Bernardo Hees, the CEO of Burger King, recently said of England: "The food is terrible and the women are not very attractive," pissing off both Brits and women. [Telegraph] A roundup of whole chicken dinners includes the "Million Dollar" whole roast chicken for two at Standard Grill and fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Live: Lady Gaga, Loopy And Triumphant At Madison Square Garden

    Lady Gaga Madison Square Garden Tuesday, February 22 Better than: Carmelo Anthony's Knicks debut, probably. She has attention-span issues, Lady Gaga. Maybe you knew this already. For some of us, though, it's a slower realization -- something not immediately evident until, say, one observes her w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Rammstein Are Bringing Their Penis Cannons To The Izod Center

    They are German. Pic by Phil Freeman.​Pyro-drenched porn-metal titans Rammstein are a dark-horse candidate for your Five Live Shows I'd Better See Before I Die list, what with the flamethrowers, the showers of shattered baby dolls, the 20-foot angel wings that shoot yet more fire, the penis ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Week In Review: We Didn't Get LCD Soundsystem Tickets, Either

    'Twas a week of profound excitement undercut by crushing disappointment, all swirling around the same event: LCD Soundsystem at Madison Square Garden. It was announced. People got excited. A Wednesday-morning presale line wrapped around the Lower East Side. But a lot people got shut out. Then came ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Better Get Your LCD Soundsystem Tickets Today

    Don't get pissed at us if you miss this. Pic by Puja Patel.​As your favorite music-news outlet has probably already informed you, the indomitable LCD Soundsystem have announced their final show: April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, a venue unthinkable nearly a decade ago when the band started a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 26, 2011

    Prince

    Don't get pissed at us if you miss this. Pic by Puja Patel.​As your favorite music-news outlet has probably already informed you, the indomitable LCD Soundsystem have announced their final show: April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, a venue unthinkable nearly a decade ago when the band started a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    CMJ Day Two: Surfer Blood And The Drums Stand Triumphant At Webster Hall

    The Drums, willing to pretend they're paying Madison Square Garden themselves. Photos by Nick, more below.​The Drums/Surfer Blood/The Young Friends/The Dewars Webster Hall Wednesday, October 20 Better Than: There were how many performances yesterday? It had to be better than the vast majority ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Alas, That Free Phoenix Track "Love Like A Sunset Pt. 3" Is Super Terrible

    ​Look. We here at SOTC are perhaps unnecessarily protective of French maximal-pop stars Phoenix, architects of perhaps our single favorite album of 2009 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) and, therein, perhaps our favorite track of last year, the two-part arena-ambient masterpiece "Love Like a Sunset. ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2010

    Marc Anthony

    ​Look. We here at SOTC are perhaps unnecessarily protective of French maximal-pop stars Phoenix, architects of perhaps our single favorite album of 2009 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) and, therein, perhaps our favorite track of last year, the two-part arena-ambient masterpiece "Love Like a Sunset. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    We Made It, Sad People of New Jersey! Watch Titus Andronicus Perform on Fallon

    It's been a real good week for the indie zeitgeist, that weird feeling of we made it!, even if we don't necessarily know who "we" are. The Arcade Fire sold out Madison Square Garden twice. The Suburbs has a shot at being the #1 record in the country next week. And Titus Andronicus, ragged New Jers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

    Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Nets Owners Mikhail Prokhorov and Jay-Z, Lording Over Madison Square Garden: A Gallery of New York's Most Awesome Billboard

    Hey! Have you seen or heard about this awesome new mural of the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets' quirky Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov and smaller-shareholder-but-nonetheless-awesome co-owner Jay-Z? It's right above Madison Square Garden, where the New York Knicks play! Know what both teams h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Mace Me Later: A Gallery Of Tweets In Regard To The Great Drake Riot Of 2010

    ​So. Drake (and Hanson!) was set to play South Street Seaport last night, for free, at the behest of Paper Magazine. It did not go to plan, unless the plan including half a song by Ninjasonik, enormous crowds, fights, chairs flung from balconies (yoy), Mace, damaged soundboards, and general ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    MSG Reno to Exile Liberty ... to Newark?

    ​Proving the old line that the best way to find real news in the Times is to read the stories end-to-beginning, the Paper of Record offers up a classic buried lede in its article today about the upcoming renovations to Madison Square Garden. Round about the sixth paragraph, sportswriter Richar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Tonight! Jay-Z, Little Boots, Body Language, Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo, and ODDSAC

    ​Jay-Z, reigning singles champ of the Voice's own Pazz & Jop poll, makes his triumphant return to Madison Square Garden tonight. But for those of who have yet to accept him as the new Frank Sinatra, you and our beloved contest winners can head to the Highline Ballroom for some glossy synth-pop ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2010

    Black Eyed Peas

    ​Jay-Z, reigning singles champ of the Voice's own Pazz & Jop poll, makes his triumphant return to Madison Square Garden tonight. But for those of who have yet to accept him as the new Frank Sinatra, you and our beloved contest winners can head to the Highline Ballroom for some glossy synth-pop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Clip Job: Cassius Clay Trades Rhymes with Village Poets

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 14, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 21Coffee-House CassiusBy Stephanie GervisIn one of the most bizarre triumphs since P.T. Barnum had two of his midgets ceremonially married at Greenwich Village's Grace Episcopal Church, in the middle of nineteenth c ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 15, 2009

    Pterodactyl+Oneida

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 14, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 21Coffee-House CassiusBy Stephanie GervisIn one of the most bizarre triumphs since P.T. Barnum had two of his midgets ceremonially married at Greenwich Village's Grace Episcopal Church, in the middle of nineteenth c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Week in Review: A Punishing Turkish Prison Sentence of the Peter Green-Era Blues Explosion "Oh Well"

    David Atlas In the week all your friends went to South by Southwest, New York got a bit rowdy. The old scumbags of Mötley Crüe nearly burned down Madison Square Garden, while Fleetwood Mac brought both punishing Turkish prison sentences and "Silver Springs" to the same arena only a few days later ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Elephants, Others Parade Tonight Next Week From Queens to MSG

    The MTA advises motorists that between 11:30 p.m. tonight March 23 and 2 o'clock tomorrow the next day, the Queens Midtown Tunnel will be closed to traffic, as ten Asian elephants, nine horses and three ponies from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be marching through it. The b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Live: My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden, With MP3s

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Live: Oasis Call Soldiers "Gay Boys" at MSG

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Live: Neil Young at Madison Square Garden

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Live: Teenage Girls Run Z100's Jingle Ball

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Tor Hamer is now 2-0

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    The Gentleman Boxer Goes for Two

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Week in Review: Vote Barack Obama

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    MSG Renovations Delayed?

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Tonight and Tomorrow at MSG Theater

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2007

    Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2007

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2007

    Live: Fall Out Boy's Arena Emo

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2007

    Live: Interpol, Cat Power at MSG, 09.14.07

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Music

    August 21, 2007

    Cred Sheet

    Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2007

    Live: Snow Patrol Really Care About Romantically Frustrated Medical Students

    Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

  • News

    November 8, 2005

    Hillary Is Your Friend. Hillary Is Your Friend. Hillary Is--

    Clinton attacks her likability problem with some of New York's toughest guys

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2005

    Coldplay Bashes Mariah Carey

    Clinton attacks her likability problem with some of New York's toughest guys

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2005

    Dipset Invades Kiddie-Pop Extravaganza

    Clinton attacks her likability problem with some of New York's toughest guys

  • NYC Life

    May 31, 2005

    Behind the Bar

    Talking with Stout's head drink-slinger

  • Music

    February 22, 2005

    Music

    Talking with Stout's head drink-slinger

  • News

    August 3, 2004

    They'll Take Manhattan

    Activists again eye Central Park, central streets

  • NYC Life

    July 13, 2004

    Waiting for a Prince

    Fans get suckered at the Purple One's 'secret' gig

  • News

    June 22, 2004

    RingOut.org

    Ringing out the RNC din with 50,000 bells

  • News

    January 22, 2002

    Law of the Fist

    New York Cops Vow to Crush Violent Protest at World Economic Forum

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Chaos Theory

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

  • Long Island Voice

    December 21, 1999

    Señoritas' Choice

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

  • Music

    December 14, 1999

    Señoritas' Choice

    In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

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