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March 6, 2013Help Disclosure get the Music Hall of Williamsburg dancing
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November 28, 2012See why Kanye loves TNGHT
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November 9, 2012This weekend, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival will take over Williamsburg for the fifth year running. (So it's technically the Williamsburg Electronic Music Festival, but who's counting when you're drunk and dancing to Nick Catchdubs at 4 a.m.?) Last year's Festival brought Matthew Dear, Beat ... More >>
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October 31, 2012Head into the urban wilderness with Woods
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June 15, 2012This Sunday, the Bronx hip-hop stalwarts the Ultramagnetic MCs are playing a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg as part of the Northside Festival, and Sound of the City has a pair of tickets to give away. See below for how to enter.
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June 14, 2012This weekend marks the return of the Northside Festival, the Brooklyn-blanketing series of concerts, films, art shows, and discussions of "entrepreneurship" now in its fourth year. The music lineup is pretty jam-packed with bands both local and visiting, and in order to assist you the SOTC staff has ... More >>
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June 4, 2012Marduk w/1349, Withered, Weapon and Mutant Supremacy
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Sunday, June 3
Better than: Whatever soul-crushing award ceremony was apparently taking place on MTV.
For all the pixels that have been given over lately to the discussion of the so-called "mainstreaming of black metal ... More >>
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May 23, 2012Lemonade play
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April 25, 2012Bowery Ballroom gets dark
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March 28, 2012SBTRKT brings the beats to Webster Hall
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March 21, 2012Two nights with Youth Lagoon
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November 16, 2011Holy Ghost! finish their tour in Brooklyn
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September 28, 2011Music
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June 27, 2011
Pomplamoose
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Friday, June 24
Better than: Watching broadcast TV without a DVR.
Explaining where I was going on Friday night engendered one of two single-syllable reactions from my friends: "Ugh!" or "Who?" Pomplamoose, the male-female duo from San Francisco who became fa ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Get ready, Bearliebers: Noah Lennox, d/b/a Panda Bear, has announced a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 3, with tickets going on sale this Friday; there's also a presale tomorrow. That's the hazy, just-released video for the vertigo-inducing Tomboy track "Slow Motion" above, by the wa ... More >>
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April 6, 2011Vidhya NagarajanSpecial for the Village Voice Comics Issue
TV On The Radio will mark the release of their forthcoming album Nine Types of Light with a show at Radio City Music Hall next Wednesday, April 13, and today we're giving away a pair of tickets to the concert. To enter, just send an email t ... More >>
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February 1, 2011Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>
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December 1, 2010Do you dare to watch a Peach?
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November 15, 2010Now in its third year, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival is fairly self-explanatory as these things go, cramming as many DJs, producers, and dance-music luminaries into one warehouse as possible (the Juan Maclean headlined last year's model), only this year they're moving up in the world ... More >>
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September 13, 2010Those forlorn Spoon fans shut out of tonight's Music Hall of Williamsburg gig have another option, if your definition of "lunch hour" is flexible enough and you're willing to wait in line on the L.E.S. for... what? Three hours? Two? Maybe an hour will do it? How many people does the Cake Shop ... More >>
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August 25, 2010Built to Spill try not to sink the ship
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August 25, 2010And three sheets to the wind
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July 26, 2010
Die Antwoord
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sunday, July 25
Yo-landi Visser, one-half of the notorious internet phenom South African rap project Die Antwoord, has a thing for spanking her own gold, spandex-plated butt. Naturally, this is a distracting spectacle to see onstage at the Music Hall of Wil ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
First Shepard Fairey gets up at the Music Hall of Williamsburg to the sweet, sweet strains of Band of Horses, Fugazi, and Metallica; now, it seems, Brooklyn vets Faile and their mysterious buddy Bast are getting in on the random street art-indie rock crossover act. The collective plus one have comm ... More >>
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April 9, 2010And this time, tickets seem to be still available. This follows last night's last minute, semi-secret Music Hall of Williamsburg show, about which we'll have more to say in a little while. Go now. [Webster]
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March 25, 2010Some 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 >>
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February 18, 2010Fool's Gold, rocking the West SideArguably 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 >>
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December 1, 2009Two nights with nu-gazers the Big Pink
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November 3, 2009Intrepid Voice food guru Robert Sietsema sends us this visual dispatch from the emo kingpins' victory lap at the Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday night; stay out of that pit if you don't want your ass kicked. Robert reports that the Kids only played two songs off 2002's On a Wire, which he d ... More >>
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October 27, 2009L.A. space cadet and early-'80s bedroom-electro fetishist Dam-Funk reverently evokes the era when Prince looked like this and your equipment looked like this. Whether his debut full-length, Toeachizown, is mere nostalgia-drenched kitsch or heartfelt innovation is a question best pondered in a ... More >>
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August 31, 2009
In 2008, the pioneering Jersey City-based freeform radio outfit WFMU celebrated its 50th anniversary. One year later, the party evidently continues: WFMU will host a music festival over the first three days of October at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and they're bringing out the heavy hitt ... More >>
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August 25, 2009A free show with Grizzly Bear
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August 4, 2009Maura Lanahan
Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Adult Swim's team of terrorists and aliens have organized a summer-long series of free shows at Santos' Party House. Tonight, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman joins Cheeseburger, the Woggles, and, apparently, "a hockey-mask-wearing burlesque review." [ED: Shouldn't that be "revue"? Or will s ... More >>
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June 19, 2009Rebecca 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 >>
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June 10, 2009A French lesson from Phoenix
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January 20, 2009
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Jemina Pearl
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Saturday, January 17
Jemina Pearl is one of the few world-class rock 'n rollers right now, especially if you factor in her age or breed--that is, riot grrrls, or riot anyone, who want the world and have the confidence, wit and sound t ... More >>
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