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Live: Guided By Voices Reconfigure Time And Space

Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Is The Savviest Crazy Cat Lady Of All Time, And We've Got The Stats To Prove It

Bethany Cosentino and her alleged muse​You can summarize Best Coast's roughly 1,040,000 Google-search results in just seven words: "boy," "love," "summer," "weed," "cat," "cat," and "cat." This is remarkable because a) frontwoman Bethany Cosentino has been anointed indie-rock's first ever "cra ... More >>

Photos: Japanther (And/Or Their Crazed Fans) Shut Down Night One Of The Rock And Roll Circus at Lincoln Center

Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Phoenix! With Daft Punk! At Madison Square Garden! Holy Shit!

Phoenix/Dirty Projectors/Wavves Madison Square Garden Wednesday, October 20 Better Than: Breathing normally This year, the biggest show of CMJ had the biggest secret to keep. I postulated recently -- maybe facetiously -- that this MSG bill fulfilled every part of the psyche. Well, the rampant ... More >>

LO-FI IN THE BIG TIME

Three different rock bands in one unique gig

Live: Best Coast Channel The Ramones (And Shout Out The Voice) At Bowery Ballroom

She couldn't get into the Drake show either. Pics by Kiernan, more below.​Best Coast/Male Bonding/Small Black Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, September 29 Better Than: Going to a show in California. Just before Small Black took the stage at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom tonight, Best Coast's Betha ... More >>

2010: The Year of Indie Pets

Best Coast TumblrBobb, Bethany, and Snacks It's become increasingly impossible to mention Best Coast, the three-person vehicle for noise-pop Cali-queen Bethany Cosentino, without referencing her pet Snacks. That darn cat is on the cover of her debut full-length Crazy For You, nonchalantly poised am ... More >>

The Media T-Shirt Project!

​It's Summer, and as we all know, many businesses get slow in the summer. Media is one of these businesses, and in media, you have to diversify in order to stay afloat, or something. It's bad enough you have to concern yourself with the terrible fate of blogger burnout in this heat! But making ... More >>

Best Coast and Wavves, Sitting in a Tree

In praise of two great records from California's pre-eminent surf-fuzz power couple

Wavves+ the Smith Westerns

In praise of two great records from California's pre-eminent surf-fuzz power couple

Last Night: Wavves Inspire Moshing, Crowd-Surfing, Rampant Bliss

He's doing much better now. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Wavves/Cloud Nothings/DOM Knitting Factory Thursday, June 24 The Northside Festival opening night was a hipster frat party in which every dude (and a few dudettes) tried to out-bro the next guy. Instead of shotgunning Budweisers, though ... More >>

'Northside Festival Presents Wavves'

He's doing much better now. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Wavves/Cloud Nothings/DOM Knitting Factory Thursday, June 24 The Northside Festival opening night was a hipster frat party in which every dude (and a few dudettes) tried to out-bro the next guy. Instead of shotgunning Budweisers, though ... More >>

Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts

Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>

News Roundup: Vampire Weekend Comment Bombs, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, LCD Soundsystem

​--The free download of Vampire Weekend's new track "Horchata" has shaken the dust off the intractable divides between the army of anons. Over at Brooklyn Vegan, we see college students ("The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock") pitted against college students ("...it's like the whiffe ... More >>

News Roundup: David Paterson Hearts Jay-Z, Wavves Vs. Black Lips Anticlimax, Jay Reatard's Band Quits

--New York Governor David A. Paterson approves Jay-Z 's #1 spot on MTV's 2009 Hottest MCs in the Game list, and he let the cable channel know as much via e-mail. Vote-baiting, culture-critiquing gems included, "the MC that figures out that people 18 and older who got the right to vote in 1972 nev ... More >>

The Drums Don't Surf

Brooklyn transplants thrive with mopey, slightly insincere nautical-themed frivolity

New Wavves, Pt II: "Hula Hoop"

We'd be remiss if we failed to post the new Wavves song up on Terror Eyes today. The Zach Hill saga continues: first "Cool Jumper," the emphatically jumped-up premiere of Nathan Williams's new two-piece configuration, and now "Hula Hoop," which is unfinished, apparently, not that America would nec ... More >>

Talk to the Blog: Terminal Boredom's Rich Kroneiss on Haterism, Psychedelic Horseshit, and the "Indie Establishment" Oxymoron

Terminal Boredom began as a small webzine where garage rock aficionados critiqued new (preferably vinyl) releases. The site eventually added a messageboard, which soon attracted a wider arena of amateur opinionators who vented on everything from haircuts to shitty day jobs. It's also the place whe ... More >>

New Wavves: "Cool Jumper"

​ Nathan Williams's MySpace seems to indicate that Wavves have picked up a new, fulltime member--Zach Hill, who I guess we can stop identifying as a member of Hella, since he's also a member of every other band, ever. Anyway, Hill is up there, as far as ridiculous, bestial rock drummers go, a ... More >>

News Roundup: Pearl Jam, Wavves, Green Day, Dr. Dog

​--Pearl Jam have put together an online scavenger hunt to promote upcoming album Backspacer. The band has placed nine images (designed by political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow) thoughout the internet (view one here). If you find all nine images, Eddie Vedder will play a private acoustic concert i ... More >>

News Roundup: Kyp Malone, Wavves, Leonard Cohen

--TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone has released a song from his solo project, Rain Machine. The track "Give Blood," has Malone going as nuts as he would on any TVOTR track. The self-titled, 11-track disc comes out September 22nd on Anti. Check out the Malone-designed pornographic cover art here.--Follow ... More >>

Live: Wavves Totally Avoid Meltdowns, Further Injuries at Bowery Ballroom

CREDITTotally inaccurate depiction of this show, thankfully/alas Wavves/Woods Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, July 15 I feel bad for feeling slightly disappointed that nothing remotely disastrous happened here. Nathan Williams bounded onstage, his freshly broken wrist gingerly wrapped but still capable ... More >>

News Roundup: Wavves, Julian Casablancas, The Pixies, Miracle Legion Tribute Album

--Wavves' Nathan Williams has been on a very bad streak. In May, his drummer dumped a bottle of beer on his head at Spain's Primavera Sound Festival. (Williams later apologized, admitting he was on ecstacy, then deleted his apology.) Now, just before the band's first shows since that "meltdown," W ... More >>

New Wavves Video: "No Hope Kids"

Wavves have a new video out, for Wavvves standout track "No Hope Kids." The basic material will be familiar to anyone who watched the "Daytripping with Wavves" segment on Pitchfork, or to anyone who's seen any footage of Nathan Williams, ever: he's walking around some bleached-out urban wasteland, ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

The Wavves Deleted Apology Debacle: In Defense of Nathan Williams

So, you're Nathan Williams of Wavves. You just played a pretty disastrous show that Pitchfork, in full TMZ mode, called "a meltdown". What do you do? Well, you cancel your next bunch of shows, and then the next day, post an apology on your personal blog...before deleting it a few hours later. Very ... More >>

Interview: Wavves' Nathan Williams on Drugs and the Beach

"Musically...the Beach Boys...I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. I'm really high right now." Nathan Williams has spent 2009 busy and stoned. Rapturous press attention for his lo-fi pop project Wavves quickly translated into a Fat Possum record deal and a transcontinental tour schedule--b ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Top Five Wholly Subjective Austin Moments, Starring Dent May, Micachu, and Metallica

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

Wavves+Vampire Hands

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

Spring Guide: With Fantasies, Metric Learn A New System

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>