MySpace Inc.

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 >>

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 >>

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 Smeyne​Ah, 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Oh! You Pretty Things

Rocking out with Au Revoir Simone and Alexa Wilding

Joseph Arthur

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Proclaimers

Bad Rabbits

The Cool Kids

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 >>

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 >>

Nymph+Neg-Fi+Dinowalrus+Begushkin

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Morning After Girls

Possibly 4th Street 25: Akron/Family

ROBO PARTY DON'T STOP

Idle Warship redefines the classic power trio

'Learning 2.0' Brings Schools into the Digital Age

ALL HE KNOWS

Don't mess with Jay Reatard

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Black Gold's "Detroit"

Voice Choice: Stars in the Margin

MARGIN NOTES

Broadway’s Top Girl, a folk singer, and her folks

Clover Club fails To Exhilarate; Ninjasonik Inexplicably Does

Underwhelming bars and tight pants

The Trials of Jean Grae

Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't stopped threatening yet

No Age Playing South Street Seaport on July 11

SXSW: Kate Nash at the Q Magazine Party

Hotpants Romance Coming to New York Next Month

Interview With Nacotheque DJ Amylu

TABLOIDED: The Daily News vs. The Post

Intertrend Crib Notes: Radiohead's New Album, Van Halen, Feist

The Online Hunt For Biggie Smalls

A Double-Shot of 'Hate Us or Love Us'

Ghost in the Machine

Aphex Twin, the Mozart (or Beethoven) of electronic music, re-emerges. Maybe.

Just Bought One: !!! Tix on Sale for Studio B

Moan-Struck

No cutie for your death cab? Read on.

Hellogoodbye: Emo Doesn't Always Suck

E-so Horny

Porn's MySpace queen screws her way through cyberspace

Music

Stuff you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

Bleat on the Brats

Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material

The Pussy Rock Monologues

On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls

Lily Allen is Hater-Proof

'24 Hours on Craigslist'

My New Year's Sexolutions

A Six-Point Plan for 12 Months of Arousal, In Bed and Out

Hey, You, Get Off MySpace

Concerned school administrators warn parents about a Web site's corruptive powers