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We Did Mushrooms at the Bronx Zoo With Andy Animal, Cannibal Tribesman

"The last interview I did on mushrooms, I said something about the Beatles, and then I'm like, 'Sorry, I can't do this.'" The day after his first show with his new band, Andy Animal's Cannibal Tribe, Andy Animal is driving me to the Bronx Zoo to eat mushrooms and commune with his non-human brethre ... More >>

Bleached - Bowery Ballroom - 4/23/13

Better Than: Watching the Knick's game in a crowded sports bar. There should be a point during every live show where you, as an audience member, undeniably want to be who you're watching onstage. That transformation may have been a bit difficult for Bleached's Clavin sisters to inspire in me last n ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Recruited for Ramones Cover Band Featuring an Actual Ramone

In hard partying news, Andrew W.K. has been tapped by the last remaining Ramone to provide lead vocals in Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg - a Ramones cover band - on their upcoming world tour. Formerly led by Misfits' singer Michael Graves, Blitzkrieg has been carrying the torch of the Ramones' punk leg ... More >>

Star-ry Eyed Alexz Johnson Cuts Through the Bull and Regains Her Independence

Alexz Johnson really loves Brooklyn. It shows on her face with the way she lights up whenever her neck of the woods is mentioned. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter/actress relocated to the borough with one goal for herself as an artist: total scene immersion. It's a pretty good goal when you have to ... More >>

Throw Mama From the Train, Please

Less scary than a call from Mom

Ten Things We Hope To See During My Morning Jacket's Three Day Port Chester Run

When My Morning Jacket play live, they tend to come off as an elemental force. They play three hours, paradoxically leaving you wanting more and leaving you absolutely spent. MMJ gives everything live, but also requires a lot of you, pulling you through blissed-out calms into twisting, peaking jams ... More >>

Sean Penn, Gothed Up and Great, in This Must Be the Place

The alt-rock Nazi hunter

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Th ... More >>

Q&A: Night Birds On Pizza And Bagel Snobbery, Being Fed Steak In Belgium, And Their Favorite NYC Venues

New Jersey-via-Brooklyn-DIY-periphery act Night Birds have been hovering since about 2009, but they recently soared into a higher atmosphere, packing shows here and on the West Coast and garnering slobbering reviews for their debut LP The Other Side of Darkness (Grave Mistake) and recent singles (co ... More >>

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

Live: Machine Gun Kelly Is The Valedictorian Of XXL's Freshman Class

XXL Freshman Class 2012: Don Trip, Kid Ink, Iggy Azalea, Roscoe Dash, Macklemore, Hopsin, Danny Brown, Future, French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly Best Buy Theater Monday, April 9 Better than: Ten rappers you're completely unfamiliar with. Every year, XXL selects a group of rappers to label as "fres ... More >>

Live: Lamb Of God Build Their Wall Of Death At Irving Plaza

Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>

Premiere: Lightouts' Decadent Video For "The Eloise Suite"

​Another band that resides on the early-'90s fascination street we traveled down last week is slippery Gowanus duo Lightouts, who resurrect the melancholy chug and darkly sexy swagger of bands like The Cure, Girls Against Boys, JAMC and Afghan Whigs and impolitely jam it into the drum machine ... More >>

Download: Hunny's Bruising, Crashing "I'm History"

​Hunny is the turn-of-the-millenium "return of the rock" played out in real time; it formed when the members of YIMBY-approved Staten Island dance-pop crew Paragraph got bored with glossy beats and threw their drum machines in the trash. The bruising grunge-metal gnashers' debut I'm History w ... More >>

Live: Danzig Takes A Halloween Tour Through His Legacy

Benjamin Lozovsky​Danzig Legacy New York Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday, October 29 Better than: Bobbing for dismembered limbs in a tank of formaldehyde. On a dreary, slushy Halloween weekend mess, Glenn Danzig, the diabolical mesh-loving doom crooner and heavy metal pioneer, celebrated his ... More >>

Live: Green Day Get A Little Less Serious At The Studio At Webster Hall

by Joshua Kurp Nadia Chaudhury​Green Day The Studio at Webster Hall Thursday, October 27 Better Than: Hearing blink-182 play "Hybrid Moments" three times. "We're gonna do an older song," Billie Joe Armstrong, dressed as Jack Skellington, told the packed-tight audience at the Studio at Webst ... More >>

CMJ Weekend: Acid Baby Jesus, Vockah Redu, Jacuzzi Boys, And Chelsea Wolfe Exist On The Fringes

​ 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 weekend, Debbie and I continued our Homeric quest to find bands over which to get excited. In an effort to broaden our search, we decided to look a little bit ... More >>

Q&A: dos' Kira On The Physicality Of Bass Playing, Her Definition Of "Punk," And Why Duos Should Stay Duos

​When the subject of women in punk and rock is broached, the usual suspects often come up: Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Kim Deal and Debbie Harry. The injustice here is how punk-rock bassist Kira (born Kira Roessler) is rarely mentioned in the same breath—not that she cares m ... More >>

Danzig's One Last Caress

Don't call it a comeback, because, for better or worse, the guy never went anywhere

"The Voice" Closes Its Eyes And Takes On "American Idol"

​So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>

Q&A: My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on Vampires, Glee, And Liza Minnelli

​ My Chemical Romance's fearless leader talks about mocking his own concept albums and rebelling vicariously through his hair. What are your favorite post-apocalyptic movies? Night of the Comet, Mad Max obviously--I actually prefer the first one. A Boy and His Dog. I think those are like the ... More >>

Q&A: The Slants' Simon Young on How His Band's Name Should Have the Same Legal Protection as The Name N.W.A.

The Slants bill themselves as "Chinatown Dance Rock," which means they have no problem copping to the fact they sound like "the Asian version of the Killers." The Portland, Oregon-based group, who come to Union Hall next month, made news recently when they attempted to trademark their name, but th ... More >>

Live: Smith Westerns Turn Glasslands Into Their Own Private Garage

Everybody wants to be a star on a Tuesday night. Pics by Rob, more below.​Smith Westerns/Ducktails/Bass Drum of Death Glasslands Tuesday, January 18 Better Than: Well, certainly staying at home sulking about missing another Prince show at Madison Square Garden. Every Smith Westerns lead-guit ... More >>

Q&A: White Zombie's Sean Yseult On The Band's Early Lower East Side Days: "It Was The '80s, And We Hated Everything"

​White Zombie had rules. One: no solo albums under their own names. So Sean Yseult -- the bassist in the NYC punk-metal monolith, led by growling frontman Rob Zombie, that slowly evolved from mid-'80s CBGBs punks to the '90s alterna-metal titans of "Thunder Kiss '65" and "More Human Than Human ... More >>

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Download Live NYC Sets From Pavement And Superchunk

Put this memory on your iPhone forever. We just enjoyed a killer weekend of shows for indie-rock nostalgia (or not) types: Pavement's glorious return to NYC you saw coming from a long way off, of course; Superchunk's equally glorious resurgence, maybe not so much. Thanks to NYC Taper, you can peru ... More >>

Week in Review: Sign of Victory

One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>

Did You Know NYC Had Its Own All-Girls Misfits Cover Band, Ghoul's Night Out? We Didn't Either.

all photos by Robert Sietsema News we learned too late: NYC has its own all-girl Misfits cover band, Ghoul's Night Out. Make that "had." Comprised of front-woman Glen-nora Danzig, guitarist Aileen, bassist Tibbie X, and drummer Miss Carrie, the foursome, who predominantly came out on Halloween, pla ... More >>

Loser Lit: John McNally's After the Workshop, Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow, and James Greer's The Failure

Failed again! Scribblers, orphans, and punks fumble through life in three new novels

'That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' at BAM

The accident changed Monty's face, and his life, but not his talent

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Live: Fighting Off Punk Nostalgia with Lifetime and the Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls/Lifetime Webster Hall Thursday, August 20 We will do our absolute best to refrain from ascribing metaphorical significance to the guy in the wheelchair at last night's Bouncing Souls 20th anniversary show who calmly spun his way into the thick of the crowd, had himself hoisted ... More >>

ROCKIN' 'N' ROLLIN'

Afro-punks rule at this skate park

News Roundup: Le Tigre, Touch and Go, Kenny Rankin

-- Usually when a band announces an "extended break," it means they are too afraid to say they broke up. Not the case with Le Tigre. The electro-punk trio are back in the studio working with Christina Aguilera, though there isn't much more information available than that. The group has been quiet si ... More >>

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Last Stand at CBGB

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