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November 3, 2011
Live: Wale Brings Lots And Lots Of Friends To The Highline Ballroom
Wale Highline Ballroom Wednesday, November 2 Better than: watching next week, when the show will air on MySpace. The line had packed itself six-deep, turning the long sidewalk from the Highline Ballroom to Ninth Avenue into a traffic jam of Wale fans. Or maybe just fans of events. Or maybe sheep. ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Young People Would Rather Lose Sense of Smell Than Social Networks
A McCann survey of 6,000 people aged 16 to 30 found that 53 percent of respondents would rather forfeit the ability to smell than lose access to social networking websites. BizReport.com says that the study "identified three key factors motivating today's youngsters -- the need for connection ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Is Kingmaking At CMJ A Real Thing Or An Act of Futility? Our Critics Discuss
Titus Andronicus play Webster Hall during last year's CMJ. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneAh, the first day of CMJ: a moment of optimism, possibility, and prophecy. Even now every website and publication with any kind of music-related bent is scrambling to post guides and predictions, links to MySpac ... More >>
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April 25, 2010
Fake Facebook Names Make Fake Trend in Sunday's New York Times
Ah, Sunday morning, the time when old people everywhere peer down their noses -- through bifocals with their arms extended -- at the paper, as they attempt to decipher what exactly it is kids are doing these days. This week, it seems high school students are using fake names on Facebook to av ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
A Gift Guide for Rupert Murdoch's 79th Birthday: 79 Presents to Give the Chairman
Happy Birthday, Rupert Murdoch! At the great old age of 79, the media baron's going to have to be gifted well. Who knows how many he has left? It's late in the day and you still haven't gotten him anything, and you don't know what to get him? Funny you should ask. We've got a few decent ideas ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 5, 2010
Oh! You Pretty Things
Rocking out with Au Revoir Simone and Alexa Wilding
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December 29, 2009
Joseph Arthur
Rocking out with Au Revoir Simone and Alexa Wilding
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November 25, 2009
F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s
Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. It's super-cute to peruse decade-end lists and pretend to be enthusiastic about true artists like Arcade Fire, timeless m ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Crown on the Ground, Hands Up in the Air
A video of Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells doing "Crown on the Ground" at Le Poisson Rouge about a month ago, via this guy. Every single dynamic change in this song is great. Guitarist Derek Miller used to play in Poison the Well, a band that did very different (but, paradoxically, similar!) juxtapositi ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
Stream Converge's Axe to Fall
It's their seventh album, out next week on Epitaph, described by one SOTC buddy as "Converge from the future," which gets at the band's ever growing monster tech virtuosity but not the record's old-fashioned ability to turn minds to ashes. It's streaming on MySpace--start with "Dark Horse" or ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 8, 2009
The Proclaimers
It's their seventh album, out next week on Epitaph, described by one SOTC buddy as "Converge from the future," which gets at the band's ever growing monster tech virtuosity but not the record's old-fashioned ability to turn minds to ashes. It's streaming on MySpace--start with "Dark Horse" or ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2009
Bad Rabbits
It's their seventh album, out next week on Epitaph, described by one SOTC buddy as "Converge from the future," which gets at the band's ever growing monster tech virtuosity but not the record's old-fashioned ability to turn minds to ashes. It's streaming on MySpace--start with "Dark Horse" or ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
The Cool Kids
It's their seventh album, out next week on Epitaph, described by one SOTC buddy as "Converge from the future," which gets at the band's ever growing monster tech virtuosity but not the record's old-fashioned ability to turn minds to ashes. It's streaming on MySpace--start with "Dark Horse" or ... More >>
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August 11, 2009
Today in Rap Beef: El-P and Vast Aire Joust Over MySpace (Yes, It's Still August 2009)
Consider Def Jux, the brash NYC label founded by EL-P at the onset of this decade and immediately conjuring up murky, enigmatic, gorgeously menacing hip-hop records like El's own Fantastic Damage, RJD2's Deadringer, and Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein. Following those up has proven difficult: RJ' ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Boy Crisis, One of Those Wesleyan Mafia Bands, Needs Talent This Weekend For Music Video: "Costumes Are Relatively Minimal But There Is No Nudity Involved," There Will Be Food
Let me take this opportunity to thank dance-lite dilettantes Boy Crisis publicly, most recently recognized here for their Wesleyan mafia ties, for changing their MySpace location from Iraq to Brooklyn. Let us also clarify that although I once insisted that these guys wouldn't take ladies out to br ... More >>
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July 1, 2009
Nymph+Neg-Fi+Dinowalrus+Begushkin
Let me take this opportunity to thank dance-lite dilettantes Boy Crisis publicly, most recently recognized here for their Wesleyan mafia ties, for changing their MySpace location from Iraq to Brooklyn. Let us also clarify that although I once insisted that these guys wouldn't take ladies out to br ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2009
On Free Energy's "Dream City"
Free Energy, the DFA-signed, mysteriously polarizing (witness the back-to-back-to-back Brooklyn Vegan triptych of "could someone set fire to the brush under these guys feet..PLEASE?"/ "bands like this make me lose all hope for the future of music"/ "if i saw these idiots crossing the street i would ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
Boy Crisis' "L'Homme": A Quick Reminder That This Song Is Not a Good Look
For the same reason that it's not funny to set your MySpace location to "Iraq" unless one of your band members has actually been shipped there, the Boy Crisis lazy-come-on drug-dance "L'Homme" continues to be one of the more reprehensible songs to come out of pre-recession, Royal Oak dance-partyin ... More >>
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March 9, 2009
M.I.A.'s Baby Is Not Named Ickitt. Too bad.
We here at Sound of the City stand 100 percent behind this post, if only for "Lemony Ickitt and the Series of Unfortunate Tamil/Sri Lankan Events," but it may shock you to learn that the Internet has misled us. From M.I.A.'s MySpace blog (her page is a disaster, by the way, don't go there): MY BA ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2009
4 Stabbed at Notorious Party
"DONT FORGET THIS FRIDAY JAN 16TH ITS GOIN DOWN @ D'JUMBALA NIGHTCLUB!!!!" said the flyer at the Canarsie club's MySpace page. What went down included four stabbed patrons, one of whom is in critical condition. The event was advertised as an "official afterparty for the movie Notorious," so there's ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 14, 2009
The Morning After Girls
"DONT FORGET THIS FRIDAY JAN 16TH ITS GOIN DOWN @ D'JUMBALA NIGHTCLUB!!!!" said the flyer at the Canarsie club's MySpace page. What went down included four stabbed patrons, one of whom is in critical condition. The event was advertised as an "official afterparty for the movie Notorious," so there's ... More >>
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December 30, 2008
Possibly 4th Street 25: Akron/Family
"DONT FORGET THIS FRIDAY JAN 16TH ITS GOIN DOWN @ D'JUMBALA NIGHTCLUB!!!!" said the flyer at the Canarsie club's MySpace page. What went down included four stabbed patrons, one of whom is in critical condition. The event was advertised as an "official afterparty for the movie Notorious," so there's ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 10, 2008
ROBO PARTY DON'T STOP
Idle Warship redefines the classic power trio
Blogs
November 4, 2008
Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Beast's "Mr. Hurricane"
Idle Warship redefines the classic power trio
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
ALL HE KNOWS
Don't mess with Jay Reatard
Blogs
October 7, 2008
Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Black Gold's "Detroit"
Don't mess with Jay Reatard
Blogs
August 11, 2008
Voice Choice: Stars in the Margin
Don't mess with Jay Reatard
Voice Choices
August 5, 2008
MARGIN NOTES
Broadway’s Top Girl, a folk singer, and her folks
Music
July 9, 2008
Clover Club fails To Exhilarate; Ninjasonik Inexplicably Does
Underwhelming bars and tight pants
Music
July 9, 2008
The Trials of Jean Grae
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
March 31, 2008
No Age Playing South Street Seaport on July 11
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
March 17, 2008
SXSW: Kate Nash at the Q Magazine Party
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
February 14, 2008
Hotpants Romance Coming to New York Next Month
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
February 8, 2008
Interview With Nacotheque DJ Amylu
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
January 15, 2008
TABLOIDED: The Daily News vs. The Post
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
October 1, 2007
Intertrend Crib Notes: Radiohead's New Album, Van Halen, Feist
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
August 22, 2007
The Online Hunt For Biggie Smalls
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Blogs
August 3, 2007
A Double-Shot of 'Hate Us or Love Us'
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet
Music
July 24, 2007
Ghost in the Machine
Aphex Twin, the Mozart (or Beethoven) of electronic music, re-emerges. Maybe.
Blogs
April 18, 2007
Just Bought One: !!! Tix on Sale for Studio B
Aphex Twin, the Mozart (or Beethoven) of electronic music, re-emerges. Maybe.
Books
April 17, 2007
Moan-Struck
No cutie for your death cab? Read on.
Blogs
February 6, 2007
Hellogoodbye: Emo Doesn't Always Suck
No cutie for your death cab? Read on.
People
January 9, 2007
E-so Horny
Porn's MySpace queen screws her way through cyberspace
Music
January 2, 2007
Music
Stuff you need to know this week to avoid ostracism
Music
August 15, 2006
Bleat on the Brats
Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material
Music
August 8, 2006
The Pussy Rock Monologues
On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls
Blogs
June 20, 2006
Lily Allen is Hater-Proof
On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls
Film
January 10, 2006
'24 Hours on Craigslist'
On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls
People
December 27, 2005
My New Year's Sexolutions
A Six-Point Plan for 12 Months of Arousal, In Bed and Out
Screens
August 23, 2005
Hey, You, Get Off MySpace
Concerned school administrators warn parents about a Web site's corruptive powers
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