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The Winey Neighbor Offers Prospect Heights Wine and Music Pairings

Photo courtesy the Winey NeighborA little rock and roll with that red?​Oenophiles in Prospect Heights will be pleased to discover that a new boutique wine shop has opened in the neighborhood. Run by husband and wife Kenneth Hung and Young Jung, the Winey Neighbor (679 Washington Avenue, 345-71 ... More >>

Tanya Donelly

Photo courtesy the Winey NeighborA little rock and roll with that red?​Oenophiles in Prospect Heights will be pleased to discover that a new boutique wine shop has opened in the neighborhood. Run by husband and wife Kenneth Hung and Young Jung, the Winey Neighbor (679 Washington Avenue, 345-71 ... More >>

Free Fallin' With John Mayer: Spotify's Most Popular Songs Of The Past Five Decades

Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you.​ Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>

The Donkeys+Snowmine

Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you.​ Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>

Live: Neil Young And Bert Jansch Preside Over Avery Fischer Hall

Neil Young/ Bert Jansch Avery Fischer Hall Sunday, April 24 Better than: Easter dinner with your two guitar-playing grandfathers. As the crowd of Neil fans sorted themselves out at Lincoln Center, there was a bit of murmuring when opener Bert Jansch took the stage. For all their knowledge of Neil' ... More >>

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

The ‘Godfather of Grunge’ comes to Avery Fisher

Q&A: Kurt Vile on His Favorite Bob Seger Song and the Neil Young Solo That Changed His Life

​Kurt Vile is a virtuoso of self-pity. As a songwriter, he paints more shades in this particular spectrum--industrial silver, steel-blue, watery gray--than just about anyone. His newest record, Smoke Ring For My Halo, is a small masterpiece of this small subset of emotion, nailing the center o ... More >>

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

Neil Young Made A Surprise Cameo at the Bell House Last Night

​In retrospect, this one was not unforeseeable, given that last night's lineup at the Bell House was headlined by Bert Jansch, a not infrequent Neil Young tour partner and buddy, and supported by the Pegi Young Band, which of course is fronted by Young's wife. Brooklyn Vegan even touted the ru ... More >>

Bert Jansch

​In retrospect, this one was not unforeseeable, given that last night's lineup at the Bell House was headlined by Bert Jansch, a not infrequent Neil Young tour partner and buddy, and supported by the Pegi Young Band, which of course is fronted by Young's wife. Brooklyn Vegan even touted the ru ... More >>

SEX, DRUGS & FILM

Rock 'n' roll legends caught on camera

Tonight! Phosphorescent, Strange Powers, Softspot, And Unsolved Mysteries

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck, a/k/a the bro who sat for Da Vinci one time. ​Tonight, Phosphorescent, the only country warblers ever to dedicate a song to Coney Island's fleshy Mermaid Parade, celebrate the release of their new album at Other Music. In last week's Yes in My Backyard installme ... More >>

Adam Kolker Group

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck, a/k/a the bro who sat for Da Vinci one time. ​Tonight, Phosphorescent, the only country warblers ever to dedicate a song to Coney Island's fleshy Mermaid Parade, celebrate the release of their new album at Other Music. In last week's Yes in My Backyard installme ... More >>

The Slapdash Concert Doc Neil Young Trunk Show

Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck, a/k/a the bro who sat for Da Vinci one time. ​Tonight, Phosphorescent, the only country warblers ever to dedicate a song to Coney Island's fleshy Mermaid Parade, celebrate the release of their new album at Other Music. In last week's Yes in My Backyard installme ... More >>

HEART OF A MAN

Neil Young, part two

Riot, Girls! Stooges Enter Rock Hall of Fame; ABBA, Genesis, Cliff, Hollies Also In

​The Stooges, who patiently rocked behind Iggy while beer bottles flew at the Michigan Theater in the late 60s and early 70s, have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rendering the honor bittersweet is guitarist Ron Asheton's death earlier this year, and music in general. Also ... More >>

Phosphorescent

​The Stooges, who patiently rocked behind Iggy while beer bottles flew at the Michigan Theater in the late 60s and early 70s, have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rendering the honor bittersweet is guitarist Ron Asheton's death earlier this year, and music in general. Also ... More >>

Akitsa+Bone Awl+Ashdautus

​The Stooges, who patiently rocked behind Iggy while beer bottles flew at the Michigan Theater in the late 60s and early 70s, have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rendering the honor bittersweet is guitarist Ron Asheton's death earlier this year, and music in general. Also ... More >>

BOOK IT

A soul giant comes back to center stage

Pink Mountaintops

A soul giant comes back to center stage

Cough Up the Bugs: Here's Two New Neil Young Videos

Already, one prominent critic who's had the pleasure of hearing Neil Young's imminent new Fork in the Road in its entirety has suggested to me that writing an article with the title "Let's Avoid Neil Young's Next Record" was a bad idea. A popular sentiment. Two videos have emerged to let the uncon ... More >>

Tony Scherr

Already, one prominent critic who's had the pleasure of hearing Neil Young's imminent new Fork in the Road in its entirety has suggested to me that writing an article with the title "Let's Avoid Neil Young's Next Record" was a bad idea. A popular sentiment. Two videos have emerged to let the uncon ... More >>

On Booker T. Jones' "Warped Sister," featuring Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young

Booker T. the DBT's; presumably Neil Young's too busy with his electric-car rock opera to be photographed. As the phrase "bitter cold" figures heavily in many NYC weather reports today, let us seek out perhaps the warmest-sounding man in all of music: Booker T. Pitchfork is streaming a track fro ... More >>

Letters 1.07.09

Booker T. the DBT's; presumably Neil Young's too busy with his electric-car rock opera to be photographed. As the phrase "bitter cold" figures heavily in many NYC weather reports today, let us seek out perhaps the warmest-sounding man in all of music: Booker T. Pitchfork is streaming a track fro ... More >>

Letters 12.31.08

Booker T. the DBT's; presumably Neil Young's too busy with his electric-car rock opera to be photographed. As the phrase "bitter cold" figures heavily in many NYC weather reports today, let us seek out perhaps the warmest-sounding man in all of music: Booker T. Pitchfork is streaming a track fro ... More >>

Let's Avoid Neil Young's Next Record

The old stuff enthralls, but the new stuff terrorizes at MSG

Jeff Tweedy's Son Has a Blog and Is Way Cooler Than You, Evidently

The old stuff enthralls, but the new stuff terrorizes at MSG

Live: Neil Young at Madison Square Garden

The old stuff enthralls, but the new stuff terrorizes at MSG

GIVE US FREE!

Neil Young salutes you with liberty, death, and funk

POP Montreal: The Weekend in Review

Neil Young salutes you with liberty, death, and funk

POP Montreal Day 2: Irma Thomas, Lil' Andy & Ideal Lovers, 'MILF Cruisers 12'

Neil Young salutes you with liberty, death, and funk

CSNY: Déjà Vu

Neil Young salutes you with liberty, death, and funk

GO GREEN

Neil Young’s idealistic rock opera gets a new adaptation

The Hawks and Doves Finally Coincide

Reflective Neil and Pissed-Off Neil finally share some space on a revitalizing 'sequel'

P&J Winners: Singles #41-50ish

Reflective Neil and Pissed-Off Neil finally share some space on a revitalizing 'sequel'

British Folk's Own Hendrix Enjoys New Friends, Old Excellence

Reflective Neil and Pissed-Off Neil finally share some space on a revitalizing 'sequel'

Rack Focus

Reflective Neil and Pissed-Off Neil finally share some space on a revitalizing 'sequel'

Radicals of the Moment

Public enemies tricoastal, and that doesn't even count the Balkan guys

Long May He Run

At 60, a not-so-young Neil confronts death with elegiac hymns to family, friendship, and love

Forever Young

The joyous clamor of today's youth punches you in the nose

Young's flag-waving anti-Bushism achieves ragged glory

The joyous clamor of today's youth punches you in the nose

Soup Cans in the Supermarket

Two Middle-Aged Guys Make the Biographical and Intentional Fallacies Rock, Dude

Pump Up The Volume

Sad Songs, Rock Legends, and a Naked Meg Ryan Dominate the Toronto Film Festival

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Sad Songs, Rock Legends, and a Naked Meg Ryan Dominate the Toronto Film Festival

Effective but Defective

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro

Ragged Glory

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro

Love the Sun, Lasso the Moon

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro

Irony Man Lives Again

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro