Marissa Paternoster

Garbage - Terminal 5 - 3/22/13

Better Than: Practicing your '90's nostalgia with Mark McGrath's cruise-replacing tour. Garbage had never played Terminal 5 before. "This feels like how a venue is supposed to feel," proclaimed lead singer Shirley Manson before a sold-out show at the Hell's Kitchen venue Friday night. With the way ... More >>

Marissa Paternoster's Screaming Females Trouble

How mysterious, chronic pain changed the writing process for the singer/guitarist and her band

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/8/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

ALONE, AGAIN, OR

Don Giovanni records celebrates a decade 
in the business

Don Giovanni Keeps the Jersey-Punk Dream Alive

Local hits for the drunk and alone crowd

Pazz & Jop 2011: Michael Tedder On Fucked Up's Majesty, Danny Brown's Cunning Skills, And The Joy Formidable's Outro Power

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Michael Tedder breaks down his entire ballot, and along the way he talks about about the operatic heights of Fucked Up, the shredding ability of Annie Clark and R ... More >>

Live: Screaming Females Mix The Classic And The Punk At Bowery Ballroom

Screaming Females w/ Shellshag, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Hilly Eye Bowery Ballroom Saturday, October 8 Better than: Going to the gym. After nearly an hour of playing, the Screaming Females ducked offstage for a minute of rest, a drink of water, and a chance to regroup before the encore t ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: The Wake And Weekend Get Rained On But Not Rained Out, Ted Leo And Screaming Females Shine In The Sun

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Sweaty DIY venues are great, but even Waste Of Paint needs a break from them once in a while. Furthermore, I haven't been leaving my dark cave much lately, and my c ... More >>

A Brief, YouTube-Assisted Look At The Greatness Of Screaming Females

by Matt Ealer "Laura and Marty" (from Castle Talk, 2010) Tomorrow's 4Knots Music Festival Kickoff at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 has as its opening act the New Brunswick trio Screaming Females, who pulled themselves up from the punk-house basement-show haze to the festival stages of Europe by t ... More >>

Live: JEFF The Brotherhood Smoke Out Santos, Screaming Females Wail, Snarl, Continue To Be Badass

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneThe boys are back in town JEFF the Brotherhood Screaming Females Juiceboxxx Thursday, March 31 Santos Party House Last night at Santos, Nashville's JEFF the Brotherhood reunited with frequent New York (via New Jersey) bill-mates Screaming Females. In April 2009, the two ... More >>

CMJ Day Three: The Blow and the Screaming Females Conquer All

Teen Daze really looks like this.​Teen Daze Pianos Thursday, October 21 The Blow and the Screaming Females Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, October 21 Better than: Trying to find the next big thing. "Sometimes I feel like when I do the moves," the Blow's Khaela Maricich says toward the ... More >>

CMJ 2010 Announces 700 More Artists: Phoenix, GZA, Francis and the Lights, Screaming Females, Franz Nicolay, and More

Our hero, Screaming Females frontlady Marissa Paternoster, at Siren. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The second round of artists announcements is out, and it's the big one--count on newly installed acts Phoenix, GZA, Screaming Females, Extra Lens, Francis and the Lights, et al, to be your headliners, ... More >>

Watch The Clip For Screaming Females' "I Don't Mind It"

Here we have an idle notebook doodle turned Technicolor jumble turned disquieting cartoon orgy, all in the name of "I Don't Mind It," the latest garage-pop thunderclap from New Jersey basement-destroyers Screaming Females, led by snarling guitar heroine Marissa Paternoster, with whom we remain obs ... More >>

Week in Review: This Means Something

Hey, Marty. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week a former member of the Fugees declared his intention to run an entire country, despite his gross lack of qualifications for said job, we started a campaign against him. Sorry 'Clef, but this is ridiculous.

Ted Leo, Great American Hero, Is Playing Brooklyn Bowl This Sunday

Love this guy. Pic by Rebecca Smeyne.​Fresh off a triumphant coronation at our very own Siren Festival a few weeks back, the indefatigable Ted Leo is doing yet another free show, this very Sunday at Brooklyn Bowl, with Darlings and ArpLine, at the behest of the Jelly Pool Parties cabal, whose ... More >>

Watch Ted Leo Perform "Little Dawn" and "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone" Live at Siren Festival

If we're being honest, we've been refreshing YouTube all week in the hopes that someone might have uploaded footage of Marissa Paternoster's obliteratingly awesome guest turn on Ted Leo's "Woke Up Near Chelsea" at Siren this past Saturday, but it seems it's time to give up hope. (How is it possibl ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

Marnie Stern Returns, Declares "Female Guitar Players Are the New Black"

​Local guitar heroine Marnie Stern, whose great 2008 LP This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That seems like it came out way more than two years ago (though we don't miss the title), is finally ready to release a follow-up. Th ... More >>

Your 2010 Siren Festival MVP Is The Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster

​So much for dressing for the weather. Photos by Rebecca Smeyne​As you may have derived from weather reports, or common sense, or Twitter, or me, it was tremendously fuckin' hot Saturday afternoon in Coney Island, home of the nonetheless raucous and lively tenth-annual Siren Festival, wh ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Siren Fest and The Fake Retirement of Ted Leo

​Every summer, Coney Island gets taken over for a Saturday by a mass of incredible music, and the mass of fans who hop on the F or the Q to get to one of the furthest edges of Brooklyn to hear them. The best part? It's free, and it's ours: The Siren Fest is here again. This year's headliner? Mod-r ... More >>

This Week's Voice: M.I.A., Ted Leo, Marissa Paternoster, Early Indie Reissues, and More

Ted Leo, blowing a vuvuzela. Photo by Mark Hewko.​In this week's Village Voice, we get ready for Siren Festival by talking to Ted Leo about the rumors of his impending retirement (not true!), while Rob Harvilla attempts to sort through former Siren headliner M.I.A.'s new Maya, Chuck Eddy round ... More >>

Download: Screaming Females' "I Don't Mind It," Coming Soon To A Siren Festival Near You

​BV's got the first available track from Castle Talk, the latest from agreeably scuzzy New Brunswick scuzz-rockers Screaming Females, one of the finest acts to grace the stage at this weekend's Siren Festival. Record's due in September, though iron-lunged singer/guitar-thrasher Marissa Paterno ... More >>

Shellshag+Forgetters+Screaming Females

Download Shellshag's "Resilient Bastard", From Next Month's Rumors In Disguise on Don Giovanni Records

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Shellshag have been playing mucky, minimal punk throughout Brooklyn and beyond for over a decade, touring all the time and putting out records under the radar. Rumors In Disguise, their t ... More >>

Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

Week in Review: Bros4Life

Not even the 15th worst record this decade. Have a good weekend!​In the week our F2K crew quantitatively decided that though Nickleback and Gym Class Heroes are bad, William Hung and Hinder were a whole lot worse, we continued to count down the worst songs of the '00s. That Santana song keepin ... More >>

Interview: Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster on Guitar Heroes and Basement Shows

Rebecca SmeyneScreaming Females Above the Auto Parts Store during CMJ. More photos from the show here. It's been a big year for the Screaming Females. After two self-recorded and self-released albums, the New Brunswick trio (guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, bassist King Mike and drummer Jarret ... More >>

Rocking the Basements of New Brunswick with Screaming Females

Screaming Females+Ian Svenonius