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Blogs
March 26, 2013
Hunters Sign to Mom Pop, Announce Tour With JEFF the Brotherhood
File Under: BIG THANGS POPPIN'! Brooklyn cool kids and Voice cover subjects Hunters have just inked a deal with the Mom Pop record label, the home of Big Deal bands like Sleigh Bells, Wavves, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, FIDLAR, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, etc. etc., so on and so forth. They've a ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2012
Q&A: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Stephen Colbert, Ke$ha, And An Inadvertent Game Of Telephone With Lightning Bolt
Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne dreams weird and hard and big. What often starts of as a whimsical vision might just end up as a new world record (for the most live concerts in 24 hours) or a limited-edition vinyl release infused with the blood of other artists (as was the case for 2011's The Flamin ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
'Milk It A Little Longer For Me': Watching The Flaming Lips' Attempt To Make The Record Books
When news broke that the Flaming Lips were going to play eight separate shows in 24 hours in an attempt to eclipse a Guinness World Record set by Jay-Z, the collective response was something along the lines of, "Well, of course they are." The Lips have done so much bonkers shit up to this point in ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 29, 2012
ART ATTACK
Get a first look at the Armory Show
Blogs
October 19, 2011
CMJ Day One: The Campaign To Save Rock And Roll Continues
CMJ Day One: Hollerado, Mr. Dream, Delicate Steve, Chad Valley, Class Actress Better than: Trashing a hotel room and sex acts with a shark. In a CMJ world more than mildly dominated by moody bedroom electronica, Mediterranean sea-breezes, adolescent posse rap, and heaps of fashion-conscious ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 19, 2011
CHILLER INSTINCT
Neon Indian gets strange
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Neon Indian Releases New Music Video, Is DJing At Other Music Tonight
Coinciding with the release of Era Extraña, his follow-up to 2009's Psychic Chasms, Neon Indian (a/k/a Alan Palomo) has released a video, directed by The Creators Project, for "Polish Girl." The video shows Palomo in his retrofuturist wheelhouse, its robot-man-meets-human-girl love story ap ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
CMJ Announces Second Round Of Performers: J Mascis, Zomby, Kendrick Lamar, And More
Surfer Blood, who once upon a time was "just some band." Last month the CMJ Music Marathon—coming to the city's music venues from October 18 through 22—announced the first batch of artists that would be playing next month's industry confab; that list included (among others) Neon ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
Fashion's Night Out: Beth Ditto Vamps, Sean Lennon Multitasks, Neon Indian Commands The Room
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Debbie and I arrived at Fashion's Night Out like lambs to the slaughter. Never having attended before, we had no idea what kinds of mewling, puking throngs would fi ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
You Better Work: 21 Music-Heavy Fashion's Night Out Events
Nicki Minaj performs at Yves Saint Laurent tonight. Let's be honest: Shopping isn't really the main attraction of Fashion's Night Out. Who has time to sift through sales racks when there are so many parties to go to? Some events—Drake's DJ set at Versace, Neon Indian's invite-only gig a ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011
BLACK-TIE OPTIONAL
Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await
Music
January 19, 2011
Leave Chillwave Alone
In defense of the nostalgia-steeped genre Ariel Pink both invented and abandoned
Blogs
December 28, 2010
SOTC Nightlife Awards: The Best Parties of 2010, Featuring Q-Tip, Let's Play House, Jelly NYC, and More
The crowd at Let's Play House, our favorite wandering house party. Photo by John Barclay.Before we sink into holiday hibernation, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on our exploits, and present to you our very own 2010 SOTC Nightlife Awards. Below, our fourth installment examines the ye ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010
Neon Indian Is Judging a Halloween Costume Contest at Brooklyn Bowl Tomorrow
If you're doing this costume, your synthesizer better work.Well, he's also playing a show, with fellow space cadets Apache Beat and Prince Rama, but more importantly, this is the world's first ever chillwave costume contest. Judged by Neon Indian themselves, which probably means that combo ve ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
Was Animal Collective Really the Hipster?
Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2010
CMJ Portrait: Make-Up Artist Lisa Howard
photo by Sam Horine Lisa Howard Resides: Toronto Occupation: Make-up artist Most looking forward to during CMJ: Bowling at the Pitchfork #Offline party at Brooklyn Bowl Favorite CMJ band: Neon Indian
Blogs
September 22, 2010
CMJ 2010 Announces 700 More Artists: Phoenix, GZA, Francis and the Lights, Screaming Females, Franz Nicolay, and More
Our hero, Screaming Females frontlady Marissa Paternoster, at Siren. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.The second round of artists announcements is out, and it's the big one--count on newly installed acts Phoenix, GZA, Screaming Females, Extra Lens, Francis and the Lights, et al, to be your headliners, ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 4, 2010
GLOWWORM
Shake one for the team
Blogs
June 25, 2010
Live: Holy Ghost Wake Up All The Folks DJ Neon Indian Put To Sleep At Le Poisson Rouge
The DJ duo, radically expanded. Pic by Puja.Coming off a month-long tour with LCD Soundsystem, DFA's Holy Ghost celebrated the release of their own Static on the Wire EP with their first-ever "headlining show in NYC" at Le Poisson Rouge last night. Stretch Armstrong (head of the electro/disco ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2010
Die Antwoord, Mark Ronson, Interpol, and Sleigh Bells Are Playing Vice's Free Creators Project Thing
Last time this happened, Vice blew threw $250,000 and Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles ended up with red handprints on his neck and a sad, outraged story to tell. This time, semiconductor manufacturing unit Intel will foot the bill, and it's hard to imagine crazed South African rappers Die ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2010
Bros Icing Bros: The War on (Smirnoff Ice) Terrorism
Are you familiar with this Bros Icing Bros frenzy? It's a fad, game, and form of "fun" urban terrorism that involves you, every "bro" you know, and The Most Disgusting Malt Liquor Beverage on Earth, Smirnoff Ice. It works like this: You challenge your friends to drink it by "surprising" them ... More >>
Music
June 1, 2010
Fraternizing With Brooklyn Rockers at the Manhattan Inn
A Greenpoint spot finds an particular clientele, for good and/or ill
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Tonight! Stereogum's 'Gum Bowl (w/ Woods, Effi Briest, and DJ St. Vincent), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Japanther, Taken By Trees, And Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River
via Stereogum"I'm-a whoop yo' ass at bowling, Alan Palomo."Tonight, alt.celebrities defend the Eastern wilderness in Stereogum's inaugural bowling tournament, a/k/a the 'Gum Bowl, at Brooklyn Bowl. So after Marnie Stern beats the shit out of Neon Indian, a free (with RSVP) concert shall comme ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
This Weekend! The Hold Steady, Neon indian w/ Moby, Joshua Light Show w/ Silver Apples, Golden Triangles, The National, Crystal Stilts, Dr. Dog, Deer Tick, Postelles, Wild Yaks, And Much Much More
The Hold Steady, our favorite group of "wizened and wistful" meta-rock daddies (or "lowbrow bar rockers," your pick), perform tonight as part of WNYC's "Soundcheck" program" at the Greene Space. Then, abruptly setting aside all wisdom/wistfulness, the night plunges into a DJ-set orgy: Neon Indian ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Todd Edwards, DJ LeFtO, And, Yes, Moby
Tonight, legendary garage producer Todd Edwards headlines the Uptown Downtown loft party in Chelsea. Most widely known as a Daft Punk collaborator (he made a rare lead-vocal turn on "Face to Face"), the DJ specializes in sample-heavy and irresistibly catchy production, not to mention his remi ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
In Defense of Chillwave
"Glo-fi" or "chil-wave", that sub-sub-sub genre of electronic indie pop, was kind of a big deal at SXSW this year. Well, as big of a deal as something solely focused on trying to sound like Christopher Cross on muscle relaxers can be in 2010 at a constantly internet-streaming, forever re-twee ... More >>
Music
March 24, 2010
Todd P’s MtyMx Mexican Standoff
The chaotic, contentious, possibly dangerous, proudly defiant scene at the promoter's Monterrey festival
Blogs
March 23, 2010
Must-Read SXSW Wrap-Up: The Times' Jon Pareles Kicks Glo-Fi's Ass Up And Down The Street
Call it "chill-wave" if you'd rather, but either way, Pareles ain't havin' it. After citing the micro-genre's leading lights (Neon Indian, Memory Tapes, Small Black, etc.), dude goes in:
Blogs
February 12, 2010
This Weekend! Justice, Harlem, Phantogram, Blank Dogs, The Magnetic Fields, Beach Fossils, The Beets, Suckers, Rain Machine, and Neon Indian
While the city's alt-bros are locked up in Terminal 5 for a Justice DJ set and the subsequent Ed Banger 7th Anniversary Party, you can be crawling around in the cavernous Monster Island. There, the scuzzy (Frankie Rose and the Outs), the scuzzier (Harlem), and the scuzziest (Stupid Party) wil ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
The Weekend In Clubbing: Ed Banger, "One Night Stand," Rain Machine, Fertile Ground, And More
It's Valentine's Day weekend. I'm not one to buy into Hallmark holidays (publicly, at least), so we'll treat this weekend like any other. Excuse the cleverly named soirees and sexual innuendo. On Friday, lonely singles and teenagers unite at the One Night Stand warehouse party in Brooklyn. E ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Here Is The Completely Charming Though Utterly Ineffective Neon Indian Bit Jimmy Fallon Did in His Opening Monologue Last Night
Anytime you have to explain to your national television audience a), what the iPhone app Shazam does, b) the out-of-state origins of the University of Washington's KEXP, c) who the band Neon Indian are, d), why it might be fitting that they have a song called "Terminally Chill" and e), repeatedly ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot
In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2010
Todd P Announces the (More or Less) Full Lineup For His MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music In Mexico
Let's just take one more moment to wonder here at a mountainside festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with a ticket that will run you a cool $30 for three days, 75 bands, a bunch of visual artists, and a shuttle running from SXSW in Austin across the border three times a day. That's about as real a ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Tonight! Neon Indian, Atlas Sound, and Sisters; Questlove; Cold Cave and Nite Jewel; and Japanther
Today is de facto back to school night: Neon Indian, Atlas Sound, and Sisters will be performing at NYU's Kimmel Center, the very building that Take Back NYU! took over a year ago this month. Fortunately, tonight's excitement will involve woozy chillwave, tingling euphoric pop, and lo-fi rocking, ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
Todd P's Mexico Fest, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, Is Fully Confirmed; Tickets On Sale Now
There had been speculation about this show going all the way back to December. Privately, Todd P began confirming it this week. And now comes the official announcement about one of the more ridiculous bits of derring-do ever attempted by a local DIY promoter: an outdoor, two stage, three day ... More >>
Music
December 22, 2009
The Decade in Music Genre Hype
A solemn tribute to once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won't be joining us in the '10s
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul
Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2009
Live: Neon Indian Do "Christmas In July" In Reverse At Mercury Lounge
Mr. Palomo, elsewhere. CREDITNeon Indian/MNDR/Toro y Moi Mercury Lounge Tuesday, December 15 "Play that Pitchfork song, man!" hoots some dude in the crowd semi-derisively -- yeah, it's gonna be that kind of show. The gentleman is referring, one supposes, to the Top 100 Tracks of 100, and Ne ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009
INDIAN IN THE BOARDS
Electro experimentalist chills a bit

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