Mercury Lounge

30-Minute Set? Pffft! The Bottom Dollars GO HARD, Play 90-Minutes or All Night!

This Saturday night, emerging Brooklyn rock darlings the Bottom Dollars play a late night show at Mercury Lounge with brothers-in-rock the Nuclears. Known for the party-marathon atmosphere of their performances, the Bottom Dollars have amassed a following dedicated enough to effectively crowd-source ... More >>

Damien Jurado Will Take Your Breakfast Food Related Question Now

Earlier this year, Seattle's Damien Jurado issued his tenth full-length album, Maraqopa, continuing his evolution from spectral, introspective folk whisperer to bold, ambitious, genre-splicing troubadour. It's his second album -- following 2010's Saint Bartlett -- helmed by fellow musician/bard Rich ... More >>

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Low Cut Connie and Wussy play mercury lounge

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Live: Grimes Pushes Buttons At Mercury Lounge

Grimes Mercury Lounge Friday, March 23 Better than: Sitting at home crying into my beer over my failure to score Fiona Apple tickets. Today, bands are offered infinite opportunities for attention; given the right combination of talent and virality, an obscure 18-year-old bedroom musician might wak ... More >>

Perfume Genius

Al Doyle Of Hot Chip And New Build Picks Three Noteworthy Spin-Offs

New Build will appeal to fans of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, if only because it's made up of members of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. The trio—which will expand to a seven-piece (!!!) live band for its two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday and Wednesday—counts among its membe ... More >>

STAYING POSITIVE

Craig Finn rallies the boys and girls to Mercury Lounge

Live: Sharon Van Etten Warms A Very Receptive Mercury Lounge

Sharon Van Etten Mercury Lounge Wednesday, January 18 Better than: Standing outside in that unbearable wind. It's almost a New York City cliche at this point, but it holds up: there are few things better than tucking into a warm venue on a cold night in the city. It creates a sense of longing for ... More >>

Beast Make Bomb

NO SLEEP ’TIL BROOKLYN

CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear

This Weekend In New York: High And Low Culture, From The Met To The Cover-Band Depths

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This past weekend was a glorious cultural swan dive for Debbie and me that started uptown in the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sailed down throu ... More >>

Announcing the 2011 Village Voice and Frank 151 SXSW Party, Featuring the Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, and More

Rocky Business at the Mercury Lounge last week. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​With three weeks to go and counting, we figured we might as well make it official: please join us in welcoming the 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, presented in concert with Frank 151, and starring the Wu-Tang Clan, Fish ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Live: Joan Of Arc Noodle With Aplomb At Mercury Lounge

Just ignore that weird burning smell. Pic by Jonah.​Joan of Arc Mercury Lounge Tuesday, February 1 Better Than: Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Owen, Friend/Enemy, Make Believe, Ghosts and Vodka, Tim Kinsella(s) . . . pretty much every JOA-affiliated band besides American Football. Joan of Arc and Jean-Lu ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

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?

Last Night: Beach Fossils Say Goodbye To Guitarist Chris Burke at the Mercury Lounge

​Beach Fossils' Dustin Payseur. All photos by Georgia Kral.​Beach Fossils/Small Black Mercury Lounge Wednesday, July 14 These last two weeks have been pretty exciting for Brooklyn's Beach Fossils: first, their bassist threw his low-end ax off a boat at the conclusion of a Fourth of Jul ... More >>

Tonight! Julianna Barwick, Todd P, Ryan Schreiber, Blissed Out, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Moby, And Black Keys

via PitchforkThe Barwick-meister​Tonight, Julianna Barwick mimics the cries of weeping dolphins and angels with Bieber Fever at Le Poisson Rouge, her latest vocal-loop monastery. For the show's after-party, venture out to Monster Island Basement, where she's spinning her first DJ set alongside ... More >>

Tonight! Beach Fossils, Woods w/ the Joshua Light Show, Phosphorescent, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, These are Powers, Buzzcocks, Das Racist, And Lady Gaga w/ Elton John

Tonight, The Deli's "Best of NYC" festival kicks off with Beach Fossils, the sensitive, disaffectedly distorted surf bums with a mobile drummer. At the Abrons Art Center, the Joshua Light Show splashes lava-lamp gurgling, polka-dotted hallucinogen projections atop Woods, a lo-fi folk act whose psy ... More >>

Tonight! Joshua Light Show w/ itsnotyouitsme, Venom P. Stinger, Fresh Kills, Massive Attack, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, And Escort

Returning tonight to the Abrons Arts Center is the Joshua Light Show, a/k/a the guy who, during the '60s and '70s, popularized gloopy, Technicolor, acid-brewed concert projections and, oh yeah, worked with Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who, and other sweet dudes. Yes in My Backyard-pick itsnotyouit ... More >>

Tonight! Gang Gang Dance, Harlem, And Javelin

Leslie van Steltein​Well-dressed art rockers Gang Gang Dance (to your left) will show you how to lose control (and snatch it back) as Lizzi Bougatsos screeches and coos at tonight's MHOW dance party. Elsewhere, Austin-bred merry pranksters Harlem (c'mon, their first record was called Free Drug ... More >>

Tonight! Plants and Animals, The Deli Presents, and Beatbox Guitar

Don't let the name fool you: Plants and Animals are not a biology lesson, but a Montreal-based trio whose epic songs shapeshift from plush orchestral arrangements into sprightly, choral folk. They're at Union Hall. Or, brace yourself for an evening of headbanger delights at Webster Hall, where the ... More >>

Week in Review: THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!

Figured this one deserved an encore.​In the week Aimee Mann heard the phrase "Eat a hot bowl of dicks" for the first time, we made suggestions for her inevitable reconciliation with Ice-T, whose acting she at first did not sufficiently respect. Perhaps it'll involve Key Largo, Jon Brion, "Cop ... More >>

Tonight! Cave, Penguin Prison, And High Places

Caves pic by Laura Coleman​This could be another day of cursing the gods, considering that both Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Webster Hall show and Midlake's gig at the Bowery Ballroom are sold out, but hey, there are plenty of excellent consolatory shows. You could start a therapeutic sing-al ... More >>

Tonight! Acid Mothers Temple, Best Coast, The Babies, So Cow, Surprisers, and Midlake

Best Coast just needs a friend.​Japanese psych-rock emperors Acid Mothers Temple are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory. But "psych-rock" is not a term to be taken lightly here -- the band's latest effort destroys the beautiful Terry Riley piano orchestration In C and instead erects a mas ... More >>

This Weekend! Megafaun, The Temper Trap, The Bronx, Girls, Major Lazer, Soft Pack, Bonobo, Anita Tijoux, Maluca, and Male Bonding

​So, Friday. To start off, Megafaun, an Appalachian folk-rock trio (to your left), meld spirited banjo, soaring guitars, and mountain-man harmonies at the Mercury Lounge as part of their first U.S. tour. While the Temper Trap are best known for their hit song "Sweet Disposition" (which snuck i ... More >>

Tonight! Little Dragon, Weasel Walter, And Seabears

​Some combinations are undeniably gut-wrenching (like pineapple-ring sandwiches on white bread), but Swedish trio Little Dragon's blend of r&b, atmospheric synths, and ice-cold vocals (courtesy of Yukimi Nagano, hanging out with her bandmates to your left) will produce something irresistible ... More >>

Tonight! Oh No Ono, Black Lips, Julian Casablancas, And Clogs

​Never pass up the opportunity to see a self-proclaimed group of Danish "Internet Warriors" who have specifically branded themselves as human-headed "Lion Fish." That'd be Oh No Ono (to your left), performing their springy, game-show post-punk at Mercury Lounge tonight. Meanwhile, at Bowery Ba ... More >>

This Weekend! Oneida, Judas Priestess, Kill The Alarm, Psychedelic Horseshit, And The Bellmer Dolls

​If there's any chance your reckless behavior will be rewarded with a shiner this weekend, it's gotta be tonight. Oneida (to your left), with (thoughtfully) abrasive rock and destructive, amped-up guitars, will make all gentle souls within a 100-foot radius of the Knitting Factory shake in th ... More >>

Tonight! Lucky Chops, Cecilia Brauer, Mr. North, And Kindergarten

​Considering it's Saint Patrick's Day and you've already had a few hours' head start on the drinking festivities, show some support at the Knitting Factory's fundraiser for the not-for-profit City Reliquary Museum, which houses otherwise overlooked artifacts from subway tokens to L-train paint ... More >>

Tonight! Dre Day, Mumford and Sons, Fool's Gold, Fucked Up, Kurt Vile, Dan Black, Free Blood, and the Growlers

Fool's Gold, rocking the West Side​Arguably more significant than Valentine's Day, the third-annual Dre Day will commence at the Music Hall of Williamsburg: Let us gather, celebrate the life and times of Mr. Andre Young, and pray Detox into existence. Instead of mourning your inability to snea ... More >>

Bros Before Leos

Nashville racketeers are related, but not that relatable

Mercury Lounge Booker Jay Belin Picks His Best Place To Find Cobras and To Shotgun Beers

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Rapper Twitter Feed and Best Radio DJ. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. Jay a/k/a DJ Good Times is the one on the right. Jay Belin is th ... More >>

THIS RADIO WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

CMJ marathon separates the men from the boys

Jawbox Is Doing Jimmy Fallon In December

​As rumored, outstanding D.C. post-hardcore crew Jawbox are reuniting, if only for a Jimmy Fallon performance December 8, ostensibly to promo the imminent reissue of For Your Own Special Sweetheart, which is plenty rad, but don't sleep on 1996's self-titled follow-up neither. Shouldn't you guy ... More >>

If You Missed a Band at Siren, Have No Fear, They Just Might Be Coming Back

Nate "Igor" SmithJapandroids Now that Siren Festival is over, the sundry bands who played the Voice's Coney Island hotdogging extravaganza can announce their next New York shows without worrying about your proscratinated attendance. So if you did, perchance, miss an act you meant to see--either beca ... More >>

¡VIVA LA ALTERNATIVA!

Celebrating the best in Latin alt-rock

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A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust

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