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How Does a Small Band Book a Tour?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Al Qaeda Wants to Be Your Friend on Facebook

According to a recent study from the University of Haifa, your latest friend request on Facebook may be from a terrorist organization, for, like the rest of us, they have shifted their Internet activity focus to...social networks, obvi! "Today, about 90% of organized terrorism on the Internet is bei ... More >>

Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

Presenting Sound of the City's First Annual Nightlife Awards: Best New Club, Best Place to Dance, and More

The Martinez Brothers rock Good Units, 2010's best place to dance. Photo by Puja Patel.​The best thing about living in New York is that there's never a lack of things to do. We've given up countless hours of sleep to go see our favorite DJs, catch late-night shows, peek into neighborhood hango ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #6: Salem, "Trap Door"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. The face of rap in 2010. Photo via MySpace.​Here are five compelling reasons why Salem is the worst new band of the year:

Four Loko is Dead: SNL, Social Networks and Street Corners; Let's Stop Talking About It

Consider the shark jumped. The $3 canned beverage, both caffeinated and alcoholic, has already been banned in New York, with distributors halting their local deliveries on Friday, and now we here at Runnin' Scared are moving to ban the drink from the internet. Our teeth are shivering from the sugar ... More >>

Live Streams From Matador 21 Start Tonight With Pavement, Sonic Youth, And Fucked Up

​It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>

NY Tech MeetUp Showcases Some Useful New Technology, Some Not

​NY Tech MeetUp is a monthly event for the technology community in New York that allows emerging companies to demo their new ideas in front of a large audience of like-minded techies. It's a safe place for these tech geeks, but it's open to outsiders like us, too. We went last June as well, took J ... More >>

Will "The Ultimate Chart" Change The Way We Quantify The Ubiquity Of Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, And Justin Bieber?

​A common complaint about music charts in the post-sales age is that, with their reliance on SoundScan data and airplay numbers, they miss other avenues for popular consumption, from YouTube streams to--shh!--free downloads. BigChampagne, which started off as a service charting the popularity ... More >>

Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos

​Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>

The New York Times (!) Will Be Streaming The National's New Record, High Violet, This Friday

​It ain't out until May 11, but it leaked, you see, and the band would rather you hear a high-quality version. From their MySpace:

Oh Hey, Floor Reunion!

Funny how you could barely find a Floor record a decade ago. Now look what happened.​South Florida doom outfit Floor released almost nothing in their four or five year run in the mid-nineties; a quick early aughts reformation and the release of Floor (2002) and the lost 1994 LP Dove (which fin ... More >>

Holiday Music Roundup '09

Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore

Tonight! Shilpa Ray, The Cribs, and Arms

​Shilpa Ray, formerly of splendidly volatile trash-punkers Beat the Devil, has probably the loudest, brassiest, most arresting voice in the city, with an extraordinarily bizarre sense of humor to match. Now presiding over the band Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, her latest MySpace blog update ... More >>

WHAT'S SO FUNNY?

New York Comedy Festival has the answer

Staten Island Man Drives into Backhoe, Dies

​Duo K. Diggs, 28, was doing well for himself. From his humble beginnings as a Liberian immigrant in foster care at the Seamen's Society for Children and Families in Staten Island, he elevated and educated himself sufficiently to graduate from the College of Staten Island and become a Parent A ... More >>

Week in Review: I Say "Your Alley" with the Utmost Respect

This is how we roll now. Photo of Electric Zoo inappropriateness by Puja Patel.​Short weeks are the longest of them all, aren't they? In honor of the rain and cold outside, and in the interest of killing just a bit more time before it gets good and dark, let's run things back. Relive the week ... More >>

The Vivian Girls/Woods Project the Babies Have A Couple New Songs For You to Get Senselessly Engraged By

​ This past fourth of July saw the live debut of the Babies, a new band featuring Woods bassist Kevin Morby, Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone, and Bossy's Justin Sullivan on drums. Their abbreviated set at a Market Hotel afterparty was duly YouTubed and scrutinized for clues, despite the m ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

In Honor of Matador's Gerard Cosloy, A Fuck Victory Records Playlist

​ Tony Brummel, the iTunes/Ne-Yo-despising Victory Records proprietor and bete noir of DIY hardcore since time immemorial, appears to have crossed yet another line. Gerard Cosloy, whose Austin home burned to the ground completely in the early hours of Tuesday morning, took the Matablog today ... More >>

News Roundup: Radiohead, Weezer, Brooklyn Book Festival, Them Crooked Vultures, The Verve

​--A new Radiohead track was mysteriously posted at the fan site Atease yesterday. "These Are My Twisted Words" is a two-minute number that may just well be the sing-along anthem of the summer. Just kidding. It's an eerie, echoey five-and-a-half minutes of noise and Thom Yorke's vocals don't e ... More >>

On the Very Best's "Rain Dance," Featuring M.I.A.

Last year, Malawian pop singer Esau Mwamwaya and the production duo Radioclit linked up for Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit Are the Very Best, a marvel of a mixtape that ran through versions of everything from Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" to M.I.A.'s "Boyz." The tape reflected a deep fam ... More >>

Photo of Flipped Dirty Projectors Van Not Exactly An Advertisement for Driving, Detroit, Touring in General

Well that's terrifying. First the Dirty Projectors were reported to have been in a "pretty bad" auto accident outside of Detroit yesterday. Early reports made it sound like one or more of them had been seriously hurt. An official statement quickly cleared things up ("Although the crash was serious ... More >>

Which One of You Jerks Spilled Whiskey on Mika Miko's Amp in Brooklyn?

One of you out there owes no-wave ladymen Mika Miko $300 for dumping whiskey on their amp in Brooklyn, weekend before last. They had no idea you'd gotten all drunk and tilt-a-whirly and poured liquor on their gear, so they turned it on, and KABLOOEY. Since you weren't wo/man enough to fess up when ... More >>

Murdered Staten Island Woman's Parents Sue EMT Who Posted Death Pic

The parents of Carolyn Wimmer -- the Staten Island woman apparently murdered by a nut who thought she was spreading stories about him on MySpace -- are involved in an internet dispute of their own: they're bringing a lawsuit against the EMT who posted a picture Wimmer's corpse on his Facebook page. ... More >>

Jersey Hits Nude 14-Year-Old With Child Porn Charges

The growing trend of prosecutors bringing child pornography charges against minors for posting nude pictures of themselves online gets noticed by the Daily News, which covers one such prosecution of a 14-year-old in Jersey. The case is notable for being the first one such to involve MySpace, and for ... More >>

Meet the Littlest City Council Candidate

Meet Dodge Landesman, who at eighteen is challenging Rosie Mendez for the city council seat in District 2. "I may be the youngest city council candidate in New York City history," he says, "but I want to transform our political system so it can involve New Yorkers of every generation." (Don't they t ... More >>

Animated-Gif Flyer of the Year, So Far: The Eskalators' Subway Show

Digiromp: There's a Hot Lesbian Party and You're Not Invited

This new social-networking site considers itself the Facebook of lesbian sex. Straight girls and guys get turned away at the door.

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE TRIPS THE APPLE

And we can dig it!

Black Kids Giddily Rage Against the Hype Machine

Dance like no one's blogging

Hugs and Kisses #46: Rude Mechanicals and Serpentone

Following SleepWhenDeadNYC's Subway Show from Bowery JMZ to Goodbye Blue Monday

EX–LION TAMERS

Wire hoist their pink flag

Da Willys' Old NY Scuzz-Rock

Celebrating their raucous debut, 20 years late

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV

Trent makes a middling ambient record. So can you, incidentally.

Runway to Nowhere: Ford Supermodel of the World Competition and Make Me a Supermodel

A global model competition that wobbles. Plus, the latest example of displaying shell-shocked beauties.

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles

CMJ: Tee Pee Records Had A Party, 10.18.07

M.I.A.'s New Album Kala: A Preview

Shitty Band Promo #2: Broad Noodles

Scott Storch is an Idiot

Live: Emo Titans My Chemical Romance

Live: Girl Talk Gets Hit With More Ass Than A Toilet Seat

Fall Out Boy's Self-Obsessed Emo

Singles Going Steady

Hits of iTunes

Emo Goes Crazy

Perpetual Summer Cruelty

London web phenom's walk in the park no walk in the park

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