Morrissey (Singer)

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/20/13

Need plans? Check out any of these 10 shows around the city this week.

Get Lost in the Virulent Tumblr Maelstrom of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper's Aly Spaltro

How best to tag the restless, reactive folk-pop of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper? So many ways, dude: rambunctious, precocious, invigorating, probing, sweet, exasperating, quirky, self-indulgent, lunging, crackers, too sane, even. The outfit led by Brooklyn's Aly Spaltro, 23 -- named after something she s ... More >>

Unloveable: A Smiths and Morrissey Valentine's Day

5 Great Ideas for New York City Singles on Valentine's Day

Being single on Valentine's Day is secretly awesome. You have to spend exactly $0 on someone else. You can buy a crappy box of chocolates without wondering if it's good enough for a significant other -- it's good enough for you! And you don't even have to think about sky-high prix-fixe menus for two ... More >>

Defend Your Ballot: Rob Sheffield, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Exit Interview: Charlie Looker on the Life and Death of Extra Life

After its Saturday night performance at 285 Kent, Extra Life will be no more. On November 13, the band shared news of the "amicable" breakup on its blog: "While it's somewhat difficult to articulate exactly why, let's just say that the inner creative momentum driving the band has stalled." In short, ... More >>

You Don't Have To Feel Bad For Kristeen Young Anymore

"I know it makes no sense, but I know it's going to work out, that I shouldn't give up," says Kristeen Young, punctuating the serious thought with a bright, loud laugh, as she does often in conversation. "There's no logic to it, but I know the best is still to come." Kristeen Young performs with Mo ... More >>

A Handy Guide To Help Determine Whether or Not Your Band Tattoo Is Awful (Spoiler: It Is)

Last week the Daily News broke the story about New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's tattoo, a Lost-like Easter egg pregnant with allegory and symbolism that held all the clues to the mysteries of the Jets woeful season on bungling purgatory island. It was, in case you missed it, an image of his wife weari ... More >>

ASK HIM

Meet the smiths expert
 Tony Fletcher

Q&A: Tony Fletcher on A Light That Never Goes Out, the Cultural Significance of the Smiths, and Not Getting to Interview Morrissey

The biographer reads at Book Court on Thursday with Rob Sheffield

In Depth With Japandroids' Brian King: "Nothing Is Off the Record"

Few guitar bands cleaned up this year like Japandroids, whose triumphant second album Celebration Rock brought them massive universal acclaim and a bounty of new fans in the spirit of Titus Andronicus' The Monitor and the Hold Steady's Separation Sunday. Just yesterday their Celebration Rock was nam ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 12/3/12

Here are the ten best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

Diamond Rings

The Least Likely Music Headlines of 2013

For the last six months, the Sound of the City Supercomputer (a 1998 Compaq Presario) has been analyzing the structure and content of every pop news headline in the world in order to create a highly detailed predictive model of the music industry. While this project has important practical uses, suc ... More >>

"You Don't Need A College Degree To Rock" and Other Words of Wisdom From Teenage Thrash Band ShitKill

There are two things you should know about NYC thrash band ShitKill. The first is that they're some of the most promising young metal musicians we've seen in a long time. The second is that, when we say young, we mean barely old enough to vote: none of them are over 18-years-old. See Also: - Live: ... More >>

Paul Stanley On Rock and Rolling All Night and Partying Every Day

Talking to Paul Stanley of Kiss on the phone is one thing. Talking to him in person in full Starchild regalia -- as we did the other day while the band was in New York -- is something else entirely. For one thing, he's huuuuge. It's not just the eight-inch boots; his hair is giant, too. Perched on a ... More >>

KISS and Morrissey: Together At Last

Last night I saw KISS and Morrissey perform live back to back shows. I came out the other side a changed man. A man who, because he'd just seen KISS and Morrissey back to back, questioned whether or not he even was one. I don't know anything anymore. Except this: I wanna Rock 'n' Roll all night, and ... More >>

A Look Inside Morrissey's Mind

A little while back, during one of his U.S. tours, we had the distinct honor of attending and photographing Morrissey in concert. He played mainly solo stuff, with a few Smiths nuggets mixed in, and we expect more of the same this evening when His Mozzer performs at Radio City Music Hall. Recently, ... More >>

Morrissey On His Hatred of "Cellphone Nation," His Skin of "Perished Rubber"and Why He Loves System of a Down

Although Morrissey doesn't currently have a record deal, he hasn't slowed down one bit. Tonight, he will perform a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall, playing hits from throughout his career as well as a few numbers that might surface whenever he releases the follow-up to 2009's Years of Refusal ... More >>

Live: Archers Of Loaf And The Drums Close Out 4Knots

The Drums, Archers of Loaf 4Knots Music Festival Main Stage Saturday, July 14 Better than: Going to the park. The Drums' bouncily fey music is well-suited to anyone who's been eagerly devouring the entirety of the Real Estate/Craft Spells crop of purely enjoyable modern guitar pop. Live, their son ... More >>

Q&A: Extra Life's Charlie Looker On Dream Seeds, Being A Music Schoolteacher And Thinking Antony Is Awesome

Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celebrating the release of Dream Seeds (Northern Spy) in his typical, adverse fashion: on a bill with bl ... More >>

Unloveable: A Smiths and Morrissey Valentine’s Day

ONLY THE LONELY

Emo kids know how to party!

Live: The Drums Bring A Dance Party To Both Sides Of The River

​The Drums Bowery Ballroom/Music Hall of Williamsburg November 2/3 Better than: Staying home wondering why 30 Rock isn't on but Whitney is. When I was a little kid, my parents used to have dinner parties that would always devolve into dancing by the second half of the evening. I'd sneak dow ... More >>

The Drums

Morrissey Thinks The Word "Indie" Has Been Bleached Of All Meaning

​"The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair." —The always-quotable Morrissey has some things to say about the current state of pop music in an extended interview with Billboard; he calls Madonna "McDonna" and wishes she'd be more ... More >>

Live: Sharpless And Humbert Humbert Go All In At 285 Kent

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Q&A: New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain On His Twin Fascinations With Bo Diddley And Michelle Obama

"We live in the present. And we're digging it." Sylvain Sylvain (left) and David Johansen, actually requesting "Pills," not pills, for once. PIc by Anna Victoria.​Sylvain Sylvain is an enchanting mix of contradictions. He's a founding member of wildly attired proto-punks the New York Dolls, a ... More >>

Why Mexicans Should Learn to Dance to Tropical Music

Stars

Behold the Delightfully Emo/Christian Rock Cover to the Hold Steady's New Heaven Is Whenever

​Anyone who has ever been to a Christian rock concert knows that the pious one-hand-in-the-air gesture is a popular one; pair that image with the word "Heaven" in the title and band's famous lapsed Catholicism (not to mention lyrics about "embracing suffering and finding reward in our everyday ... More >>

"Morrissey's Voice Will Never Give Me the Ability to Ride My Bicycle Up a Wall"

​"Basically I need to realize that no matter how much I enjoy listening to 'This Charming Man' while on mushrooms, Morrissey's voice will never give me the ability to ride my bicycle up a wall. I mean it's definitely fun to try and all, but ultimately there's something sad about trying to defy ... More >>

BREAKING HEARTS, TAKING NAMES

Scottish tear-jerkers play Webster Hall

'Morrissey's 50th Birthday Party with Kaki King'

Coachella 2009, By The Numbers

David AtlasLeonard Cohen: hymnal, transcendant Clubs editor Stacey Anderson sojourned in Indio, California this past weekend for Coachella. She already covered the frantic play-by-play over at our Twitter, so we asked her to wrap-up the festival with a by-the-numbers guide to her three days in the ... More >>

Live: Morrissey Gets Stoned at Bowery Ballroom

Angela HoganOur unsleepable friend gets the message on an ill-wind Morrissey Bowery Ballroom Saturday, March 21 "I can smell your draft," Morrissey announced upon taking the stage at the Bowery Ballroom, the smallest New York venue the former Smiths emo-crooner has played in easily Googleable i ... More >>

Morrissey

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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LIPSTICK KILLERS

The New York Dolls vamp it up at Irving Plaza

Morrison Rules, Romo Drools

Mexican love the Doors icon, and the Cowboy chokes

Resident Alien Klaus Nomi is Back From Outer Space—25 Years After His Death—With a Wondrous New Disc

Back to the Clubs, Everybody

The prime spots for your first big '08 hangover

Live: Morrissey in Birmingham, Alabama.

Noise From The Front: The Pyrotechnical Special

For the week of July 4-10, 2007

Sugar on My Tongue

The Status Ain't Hood Valentine's Day Playlist

U-Turn to Hell

British Riff-Meisters and Shrieker Confront the Humorless

Books

Closet Case

Searching for queer clues and a tv producer who can pick them up

How Soon Is Then?

The Smiths' aging bigmouth messiah risks ridicule, wags his finger, and stamps his feet