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Top Five Anti-War Songs Ten Years After Iraq

By Gabriel San Roman Ten years ago this week, "Shock and Awe" airstrikes by U.S. forces in Iraq marked the onset of another invasion of that country. President George W. Bush led a so-called "Coalition of the Willing" mocked by anti-war activists as a "coalition of the shilling" into hostilities un ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

The Babies+Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

Perfume Genius - (le) Poisson Rouge - 10/9/2012

Better than: Your ex. Mike Hadreas shifted his weight on the piano bench. "This one's a cover," the singer--who records under the moniker Perfume Genius--noted softly, slowly tapping the keys of the grand piano found under red lights on stage at (le) Poisson Rouge. The melody was familiar, one that ... More >>

Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Black Keys To Play A Big Charity Show In Central Park

The Global Festival 2012, a concert on Central Park's Great Lawn sponsored by an outfit called the Global Poverty Project, will take place on September 29; Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, and the Black Keys will headline, with Band of Horses and K'Naan serving as support acts. As is custom ... More >>

Nellie McKay's 'Silent Spring'

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 >>

Bert Jansch, R.I.P.

Influential British folk guitarist Bert Jansch, 67, passed away on Wednesday night in London from lung cancer. Having watched Jansch in performance when he opened for Neil Young just over five months ago, it's shocking to say the least: "while Jansch's singing voice at times came out murmured and in ... More >>

Not a Picnic: Dennis Hopper's Family Drama Out of the Blue

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

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 >>

Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

Bert Jansch

The Arcade Fire Get Serious

A singular talent for grandiose, unintentional comedy, sadly dampened by The Suburbs

John Biz

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 >>

Justin Bieber Tops MGMT, Plus An Analysis Of The Best-Selling (Well, Maybe) Record Store Day Singles

​This week's album chart has in its first two positions the two biggest stories in pop music last week. Once again, the pole position was assumed by Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, whose first full-length, My World 2.0, sold 92,000 copies--only the second time this year that the No. 1 album h ... More >>

Woods Do Daytrotter

​Daytrotter's currently got a session up with Brooklyn's Woods gang on which the band plays an EP's worth of unreleased material: three new dripping wet Neil Young leg-stretchers and one Songs of Shame standby, "Where and What Are You?" Dunno if we're still killing Brooklyn lo-fi or what but ... More >>

News Roundup: Leonard Cohen, The Decemberists, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guitar Hero

​--Tickets for Leonard Cohen's October 23rd gig at Madison Square Garden are now available via Fan Club Pre-Sale: the password is CENTRALPARK. Regular seats for the Garden show go on sale August 10th at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for all the general public schmucks. The 74-year-old legend re ... More >>

News Roundup: Lupe Fiasco, Elliott Smith, Brooklyn Bowl, Late Night TV

-- Lupe Fiasco released the first single from his upcoming album, Lasers. The track is the spacey "Shining Down," which has Lupe taking a dig at autotune by using it. It leaked last month to the rapper's dismay. He plays Governors Island on Sept 11 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon) and SUNY's Dewa ... More >>

Pink Mountaintops

4 More Reasons to Like Minetta Tavern

In his review, Our Man Sietsema liked the fat-drenched, "transgressional cuisine" doled out at Minetta Tavern, and Bruni just gave it three stars and called it the best steakhouse in New York. I wanted to check it out, but imagined it to be snotty to no-names and impossible to get into. Not so! I ... More >>

Booker T. Jones, Man at Work

The indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star

Kurt Reaches For the Shotgun. But He Hesitates: 'The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain'

On the fifteen-year-anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, Ward Sutton pens "In Bloom: The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain," in which Kurt instead puts the gun down, becomes a latter-day Brian Wilson, alienates his bandmates and wife, inspires retaliatory albums from Guns N' Roses and Neil Young, prev ... More >>

Neil Young Wrote a Song for Us!

Just kidding. But hey, there is talk of pot bellies and an apple plays a starring role--not unlike our day so far. And it's called Fork in the Road. We also identify with the line "There's a bailout comin' but it's not for you. It's for all those creeps hiding what they do..." And, "Keep on bloggin' ... More >>

Letters 1.07.09

Your Christmas Voice Is Here

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

The Constantines' Kensington Heights

Canadian workhorses run gloriously free

Hugs and Kisses 24: The Kate Nash Interview!

Tonight: O'Death at the Luna Lounge, plus MP3s

Living With Post-War

M. Ward's recipe for political change: Let's ignore the president

Open-Road Rock Nostalgia Goes Awkwardly Disco

Forever Young

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

Dazed and Confuzed

Jim James's alienated roots maneuvers murmur mistily at the world beyond the Bonnarooskis

Single-Malt Scotch Anyone: Welcome to Aging Hipster Heaven

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Close-Up on Turtle Bay

When to Say When

Sundry New South up-and-comers turn lifers before our very ears, and survive it to boot

Don't Blame Canada

Chameleonic chanteuse re-examines abandoned heritage

Zetta Bytes Trumped by Huckapoo in Battle of Fake Bands

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

FCS reaches critical mass, yielding No Rest for the Brave

Ear, Nose, and Throat

Ho ho hee hee ha ha to the funny farm where life is beautiful

Drafting a Patriot Act to Fend off NYC's Invading Commies

Like a Hurricane Six Feet Under There's Calm in Your Eye

Pump Up The Volume

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

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