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Live: Catalpa Offers A Little Bit Of Everything To The Soggy Masses At Randall's Island

PHOTOS: Sunday at Catalpa Catalpa NYC: Snoop Dogg, Black Keys, Matt & Kim, Matisyahu, A$AP Rocky, Hercules & Love Affair, TV On The Radio, Girl Talk, et al. Randall's Island Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 Better than: Arguing over an iPod's shuffle function. Music festivals without a histor ... More >>

Matt & Kim

NYE Guide: Memories from Matt Johnson of Matt and Kim

Yeah, about last night

NYE Guide: Never Let The Party End

Surviving 2011 calls for a celebration. Your guide to ringing in 2012 with reckless abandon.

Week In Review: Confirming Kanye's Inevitable Victory

​So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>

Live: Matt & Kim Get Interplanetary For One Step Beyond At The Museum of Natural History

At least they're enjoying themselves. Pics by Chris, more below.​One Step Beyond Featuring Matt & Kim, Nacey, and AraabMuzik American Museum of Natural History Friday, January 14 Better Than: Night at the Museum Astronomy: It's so hot right now, from the recent zodiac-sign hoax to the rele ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

Live: Matt & Kim Bring Their Nuclear-Powered Cheerfulness To Webster Hall

ENTHUSIASM. Pics by Rob, more below.​Matt & Kim Webster Hall Wednesday, October 27 Better than: Most other "don't-worry-be-happy"-type situations. "I'm going to refer to this Wednesday night as 'Friday night' from now on!" shouts Matt, as the young-and-pretty Webster Hall crowd roars and Kim ... More >>

Week in Review: Sit Down, Man

​​​​Behold the amazing talents of Ryan Dombal.​In the week someone introduced us to the term "rap sabbatical," we got investigative, bringing news of the newfound hip-hop ban at Savalas (which sent DJ Ayres packing), HARD Fest's harsh words for M.I.A., Lil Wayne's prefe ... More >>

Matt & Kim Sidewalks Cover and Tracklist! Webster Hall Dates! Yeeee!

Stripes, sneakers, smiles If we've let the incessant Matt & Kim updates lapse (They're naked! They're Siren Fest headliners! Matt's rapping R. Kelly! They ate too fast yesterday!), it's not for lack of enthusiasm, it's that we started to feel badly for constantly making all those babies jealous. (H ... More >>

SIREN SERENADE

We're the best! We rule! Yay, us!

Siren Festival 2010 Line-Up Additions: Ponytail, Dom, Holy Fuck, Apache Beat

The tenth-anniversary line-up of the our Siren Festival is already stacked. Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Night Marchers, Screaming Females, Earl Greyhound, Wye Oak, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Harlem. But as of this morning, there're four new names to add to that l ... More >>

New Siren Festival Additions!: The Night Marchers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Earl Greyhound, Wye Oak, and Screaming Females

​If the ace, tenth-anniversary themed line-up of our very own Siren Festival--featuring Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem--wasn't convincing you, how about some new additions? San Diego ex-Hot Snakes guitar slingers The Night Marchers, the tiny firebra ... More >>

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

New Ninjasonik MP3: The Matt-and-Kim-Sampling, Dan-Deacon-Namechecking Premiere of "All Our Friends"

Nate "Igor" SmithTelli Gramz of Ninjasonik Why isn't there universal shorthand for tracks in which rappers individually single out their loved ones, from God to Mom to the local corner slinger? Lupe Fiasco's "Outro" is a bloated example that comes to mind, with 12-plus Food & Liquor minutes of Corn ... More >>

Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke????, Pavement, Etc

​Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>

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 >>

"You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies

Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.​Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>

Weezer

Good Morning, Matt and Diddy-Headed Kim

That right there is a candid photo posted to the official Matt & Kim Twitter yesterday. Matt's rocking a new pair of horn-rimmed specs and Kim's rocking a new head. Perhaps the real Diddy will make a guest appearance when our hometown heroes open for Weezer this Halloween at Hammerstein? One can o ... More >>

Matt and Kim Do "Daylight" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

And now may we present the video of our fearless neighborhood heroes Matt and Kim's debut late-night television appearance last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Our bets were on them doing either "Lessons Learned" (the one with the streaking video) or "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare" (the one featured i ... More >>

Photos: Jim Jones Did, In Fact, Ride in on a Skateboard at Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneJim Jones rides in on a skateboard The undisclosed location of yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers--an afternoon shoe-branded contest that pitted reps from Mad Decent, Fools Gold, Brooklyn via Matt and Kim, and Jim Jones's family against one another in for the humiliati ... More >>

Live from the Converse Band of Ballers: Mad Decent Loses, Fool's Gold Wins, and Jim Jones Takes Home A Golden (Spraypainted) Trophy

all photos by Puja PatelThe Brooklyn Crew's aggressive (and we suspect, inebriated) group of fans Converse Band of Ballers Wednesday, August 12 Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers was as much of a shit-talking contest as it was a three-on-three tournament. The invite-only event went down at the C ... More >>

Streaking Past Viacom Offices in Times Square Now Legitimate Path to MTV Video Music Award Nominations

Hey, so the downy elf with the dilated pupils who dwells inside the padded confines of MTV's viral marketing campaign closet did good today! The MTV Video Music Award Nominations are out, and boy, look at that Breakthrough Video category: the ninja-filled, Underworld-vibing video to Bat For Lash's ... More >>

Todd P Documentary Exists, Is Called Todd P Goes to Austin

Todd Patrick, whose reign at the top of New York's DIY show circuit hasn't exactly escaped documentation in the eight years since he started putting on concerts in north Brooklyn, has picked up another plaudit for the scrapbook--a documentary film, entitled Todd P Goes To Austin, produced by FVMMO ... More >>

Hey, Did You Notice That Was a Matt & Kim Song in the Promos for the NBC Fall Comedy Community?

Just about fell off the couch last night, when parked in a post-Siren stupor I heard Matt & Kim's "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare" wafting from the TV. But there it was--the stadium-bleacher foot-stomp, Matt's soaring Ahhhhhhhhhhs, the joyous piano tinkling--scoring a 30-second spot for the upcoming ... More >>

YEA YEAH

Matt and Kim are so happy together

Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

On Todd P's Unamplified Acoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden Beach on Sunday, From Which We Only Just Recovered

Todd P's Unamplified Show Acoustic BBQ Fort Tilden State Park Sunday, June 14 If the mind-melding absurdity of Sunday's unamplified acoustic all-day show at Fort Tilden National Park could be summed up in a scene, it'd have to be when Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck was in the middle of his gorgeo ... More >>

Week in Review: Penetration!

Hey, it was porn week! Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>

SOTC Naked People Day, Act III: Apparently Those Cops in the Matt and Kim's "Lessons Learned" Video Weren't Plants

Matt and Kim blew our minds last week with their video for "Lessons Learned," an audacious, life-affirming sequence in which the joy-rock tour horses go streaking in Times Square. The spot's tone is generally chaste--private parts were blurred, etc--but Matt and Kim are definitely naked. Thus, the ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

Matt and Kim, Naked--Seriously, Naked--in "Lessons Learned" Video

Dear Matt & Kim: If there was anything you could do to "push away" the cute factor, the above video for "Lessons Learned" that premiered today on MTV is it. Streaking in Times Square, ogling the tall buildings like you're newborn aliens, and then having a cop throw Matt to the ground and wail on h ... More >>

Week in Review: The Really Angry and Mean Outtakes

photo of Lady Sovereign by Rebecca Smeyne In the week we mourned Lux Interior, we also noted William Burrough's birthday, and the anniversary of Sid Vicious's death. Did you hear Bruce Springsteen played the Super Bowl? And rammed his pelvis directly into the national mood? Sports were a weird c ... More >>

Matt and Kim At Home: The Really Angry and Mean Outtakes

The post where I tell a cute couple what's what Let me, first, formally apologize for perpetuating the rumor last week that Williamsburg drums-and-keys duo Matt and Kim are profoundly cute. "We try to push away the 'cute' factor a lot, but it just keeps coming," Kim told me. And then I went and wr ... More >>

Matt and Kim Fight Cute, Fail Miserably

The Brooklyn duo giddily save their beloved borough's soul, just in time

Matt and Kim on Touring With Cut Copy, Those Whopping $31.80 Tickets

photo by Tod Seelie Matt and Kim came up playing lofts, warehouse, galleries, basements--and still do locally whenever the circumstances permit, though their ever-increasing popularity makes it impossible to throw down at, say, Dead Herring without murdering its show potential forever. So even whe ... More >>

The Best of Showpaper "I Saw You," Edition One

Closed Caption Comics Opening at Cinders Gallery

Chris Day: Faile fed on Mighty Mouse instead of Mao? Now that Matt & Kim have an instrumental jam on their upcoming full-length Grand called "Cinders," Cinders Gallery may be Williamsburg's M79--except not smelly. Tonight there's an excellent group show from Closed Caption Comics, a 'zine collecti ... More >>

Our Old Pal Deuce Seven Bombs a Club Toilet

MP3: Hermit Thrushes, "Fourth"

Todd P + Panache Big Halloween Bash

Indie Cribz Episode 2, Part 1: Parts & Labor's BJ Warshaw

Back to the Clubs, Everybody

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Dearth of Post-Siren Action

Creative beer receptacles and futile after-party searches after a long day at Coney Island

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