Maxwell (Musician)

Youth Lagoon Majical Cloudz - Maxwell's - 5/6/13

Better Than: "Thinking about dying alone" If you saw Majical Cloudz play before they signed to Matador in February, it probably felt like you were watching an awkwardly mesmerizing high school talent show performance. Perhaps you were used to the Devon Welsh who sits in the back of your history cla ... More >>

Let Black Francis Sing His Songs About Mustaches and UFOs To You Tonight

He's a man of many monikers and moods, and he rocks under any name. Charles Thompson / Frank Black / Black Francis has 23 albums to his credit, beginning in 1988 with Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, a band where the tired journalistic cliché "seminal" actually applies. Black Francis performs tonight ... More >>

Advice For Aspiring Music Writers: Quit Now

There may be 100,000 blogs about indie music, bikes, and beer already in existence, but what if there were 100,001? There is now, thanks to the initiative of a young man in Boston behind this Kickstarter project to fund his blog Indie, Bikes & Beer. All he needs to get going is $12,500. Sounds like ... More >>

Five Lesser-Known Soul Men Worth Your Attention

You're right to believe Frank Ocean was robbed by Mumford & Sons for Album of the Year at the Grammys Sunday. But nevertheless, last year was a good one for r&b, one that saw different facets of the genre take center stage. By extension, Frank Ocean is now a household name. And though Kelly Clarkson ... More >>

The Secret, Untold Story of "Gangsta Dreidel"

We're still smack in the middle of Hanukkah. I know this because Yo La Tengo still has a few of their annual Hanukkah gigs over at Maxwell's to go. And also because people I know on Facebook and Twitter--like they do around this time every year--continue to post this video (typically titled somethin ... More >>

The Oral History of Rat At Rat R: The NYC-via-Philly Noise-Rock Heroes Celebrate the Re-issue of Their 1985 Debut, Amer$ide

"In my way of thinking, first there is Sonic Youth then comes Rat At Rat R then after that comes Swans -- that order was kind of their appearance in the New York scene. But Rat At Rat R just stumbled -- there was just a lot of bad luck. They'd get going and something would happen." Ron Anderson, pun ... More >>

Crocodiles Getting Messy

The San Diego band bring mature, but not fussy, rock anthems to 4Knots

Q&A: Calvin Johnson Of The Hive Dwellers On Running K Records, Beat Happening, And How He's Always Wanted To Play Staten Island

Calvin Johnson is one forward-looking dude. He brought strict punk rock ethos and DIY aesthetics—supporting community, contributing to 'zines, booking shows—to underground rock, and played an integral role in revolutionizing it. Johnson's K Records (which he launched in the early '80s) w ... More >>

Paul McCartney Opens The Book Of Love Songs With Kisses On The Bottom

What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: The Gories, Black Dice, And Real Estate Go Beyond Brooklyn

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Remember when you had to drive an hour to a town you'd never been to just to see whatever D.I.Y. shit was going down in your state that weekend? You'd bitch about it at the ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Q & A: Scratch Acid's David Yow On Reunions, Nirvana And Book, The Jesus Lizard Coffee Table Book

Niles J. FullerScratch Acid in 1984. ​David Yow—the beer-swilling, crowd-surfing, lunging, occasionally dick-waving, shirtless, human sweat-mop frontman of post-punk iconoclasts the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid—is quite the congenial dude, despite the juicy belches meted out in my ... More >>

CMJ Day One: Titus Andronicus Outlast The Buzz Cycle At Glasslands

Ben Lozovsky​Titus Andronicus Glasslands Gallery Wednesday, October 18 Better than: Reading a good book and being in bed by 10. As you're surely by now aware, this year's CMJ Music Marathon has some thousand-plus bands, not from all over the country but all over the world—everyone from ... More >>

Wild Flag, Method Man, Cyndi Lauper And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

Those Darlins, hangin' out in those giant pipes.​The mouse-headed DJ Deadmau5 finally finished his six-night stand at the Roseland Ballroom earlier this week (in one of the week's strangest press releases, I learned that the event was commemorated by a fancy cake that placed his signature head ... More >>

Live: Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang Play Dress-Up at Town Hall

The day before, at Yo La Tengo's show at Maxwell's. Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang Town Hall Wednesday, December 9 Better than: Any other band wearing both pajamas and black suits in the course of one night. "Are you deceiving me?" went the first line of the tonight's six-piece opening ban ... More >>

The 6 Best Things You Can Bid On From WFMU's Benefit Auction

Inside the WFMU archives.​It's fundraising time again for awesome local freeform radio station WFMU, and rather than do another fall marathon, music festival, record fair, or art benefit, the station has organized an online auction, with all proceeds going to support the beloved and increasing ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

On Sade and the Virtues of Scarcity

Sade, hiding. Photo courtesy ThinkTank Marketing.​This week's album charts were topped by Sade's Soldier Of Love, the smoky soul singer's sixth full-length and first since 2000's Lovers Rock. Soldier accomplished the rarer-than-ever feat of going gold in its first week of release, selling 502, ... More >>

The-Dream Syndicate

Lovers of r&b already love him. Time to wake up everyone else.

The Top 10

Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears

Sloan

Shonen Knife

Tonight! Girls, Fuck Buttons, Noah and the Whale

Might not be XXX or nothin' but, y'know, nudity. Man, if you really wanna one-up all those chumps lucky enough to have tickets for Girls/Real Estate Friday night at Bowery Ballroom, you'd head out to see 'em at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight, except that show is sold out too, so forget I said anyth ... More >>

Doug Hughes's Labor of Love and Reprisal, Royal Family

The director wrangles one of the biggest, most stellar casts of the season

Roy Loney & Cyril Jordan

This Week's Voice: The Apollo's Salute to Michael Jackson, Maxwell, Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno, Memoirs by Lydia Lunch and Reverend Jen, Bard's 'Consider the Lobster,' and More

Tina ChouIn this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla reports back live from the somewhat Michael Jackson-themed Amateur Night at the Apollo: "It is extraordinarily difficult to impersonate, mimic, or pay entirely reverent homage to Michael Jackson without coming across like you're makin ... More >>

News Roundup: Chris Brown/Rihanna, Oxford Collapse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Phish!

Props to Zach for intentionally running the words "Phish in a barrel" on this website. Starting today, the legendary jam band wanks three nights away at Jones Beach. Isis do metaphysics by way of doom metal at Irving Plaza, plus a set by sludgy post-rockers Pelican. Sweden is weathering the rece ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Another Brave New World

Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one.

Cutting Remarks

Vagina dialogues, wildly theatrical theatrics, and some of zee most outrageous zings you've heard

Still Tryin'

Macy Gray soldiers on where her formerly mighty neo-soul cohorts fear to tread

Wednesday 8/9

Bucolic Pop Evokes Supertramp, William Carlos Williams

Stands for Duo Back

'80s Band Recaptures Youth

The Straight and Narrow

Thousands of anti-wedding vows at D.C. rally

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Get My Fill I'm Chilly Chill

TV Commercials, Old Ravers, and Australian Weirdos Surrender to Chillout's Narcoleptic Bliss

Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

Body Rock

Double Dutch Busk

No No Depression

Heroine Addiction

Giving Gender the Shakes, Four Performers Prove There's Life in Drag Yet

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