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Composer David Earl Buddin Can Totally Relate to Lindsay Lohan

In 2012, the Voice doled out honors to David Earl Buddin, tabbing him New York's Best Composer for very good reason: he's a beer-swillin', chain-smokin', gloriously prolific pioneer of electronic music and ringleader of the honky tonkin' trio of high rolling drunkards, American Liberty League. As ... More >>

Marissa Paternoster's Screaming Females Trouble

How mysterious, chronic pain changed the writing process for the singer/guitarist and her band

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/8/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

ALONE, AGAIN, OR

Don Giovanni records celebrates a decade 
in the business

New York's Far-Flung Theaters

Outré cinephilia with the bridge-and-tunnel set

The BIG BANG

Riot Fest storm Brooklyn

Cheap Shuck: New York's Oyster Happy Hour Specials

New York can be cruel. Long workdays, unpredictable commutes, exorbitant prices--it feels like we must be gluttons for punishment. But don't fret you tired, you poor, you huddled masses! With the abundance of oyster happy hour specials around the city, we can now indulge in another form of gluttony. ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 15-21, 2012

Don Giovanni Keeps the Jersey-Punk Dream Alive

Local hits for the drunk and alone crowd

Remembering The Court Tavern, New Brunswick's Storied Rock Dive

When word first started leaking out on Facebook that New Brunswick, N.J.'s Court Tavern had closed, an early response was, "Again? Is this a yearly occurrence now?" It wasn't as if the Court hadn't been in trouble before. A decade ago, management successfully fended off developers who wanted to buil ... More >>

The Bunker's Bryan Kasenic On The Berliniamsburg Era, Throwing Parties For Electronic-Music Nerds, And "Amateur Night"

This week, the Voice profiled Bryan Kasenic, who throws the monthly Bunker party—the city's premiere techno event—which celebrates its ninth year tonight at Public Assembly with a bash featuring Chicago house legend Derrick Carter and Dutch techno great Legowelt. Below are some outtakes ... More >>

Screaming Females

Live: Screaming Females Mix The Classic And The Punk At Bowery Ballroom

Screaming Females w/ Shellshag, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Hilly Eye Bowery Ballroom Saturday, October 8 Better than: Going to the gym. After nearly an hour of playing, the Screaming Females ducked offstage for a minute of rest, a drink of water, and a chance to regroup before the encore t ... More >>

Deadmau5, K-Holes, Screaming Females, And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

The week brought us Jon Brion and Shellac and Sam Sparro (not to mention a handful of surprise Occupy Wall Street pop-ins), and that wide spectrum of genres is also represented in this weekend's concert listings. Tonight Deadmau5, who Maura has just informed me stands out as the only artist to be n ... More >>

PRIMAL SCREAM

Screaming Females storm the Bowery Ballroom

Free Will Astrology: August 10-16, 2011

A Brief, YouTube-Assisted Look At The Greatness Of Screaming Females

by Matt Ealer "Laura and Marty" (from Castle Talk, 2010) Tomorrow's 4Knots Music Festival Kickoff at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 has as its opening act the New Brunswick trio Screaming Females, who pulled themselves up from the punk-house basement-show haze to the festival stages of Europe by t ... More >>

PUNK LOVE

The Bouncing Souls do

Screaming Females To Open For Ted Leo At 4Knots Kickoff Show

The kickoff party for the 4Knots Music Festival—a prelude to July 16's big fest, headlined by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists—takes place at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on July 9, and is it going to start off with a bang: Opening the show will be shred-happy New Brunswick trio Screaming ... More >>

Watch Titus Andronicus' Jersey Travelogue "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future"

​It's true, as Titus Andronicus frontman states in the prelude to his band's video for "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future", that New Jersey has taken a bit of a beating, reputation-wise, over the past year or so, thanks in large part to the many reality-TV depictions of the Garden St ... More >>

Study Finds Foods Labeled 'Organic' Seem Tastier; Parents Parade Their Foodie Tots

​A recent study suggests that consumers thinks foods labeled 'organic' are tastier, higher in fiber, and lower in fat and calories. [LA Times] Wendy's is hoping its natural sea salt fries will take a bite out of McDonald's market share. It reported that in a blind taste test, 56 percent respo ... More >>

New Jersey Man Uses Blind, Dumb Luck to Predict Correct Final Four

​5.9 million people filled out March Madness brackets on ESPN.com this year, and astoundingly only 2 of them picked the Final Four correctly. Of these two, one of their identities has yet to be revealed (probably because he's an octopus). WNYC reports that the other clairvoyant sports fan is J ... More >>

The Best Local Music Of 2010: Our Annual Mixtape Starring Sweet Bulbs, Marnie Stern, Sharon Van Etten, and Special Guest Hannibal Buress

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2010's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten. See last year's tape here. R.I.P. Chris Weingarten's old blue trucker hat. Photo by Rebecca ... More >>

QUIET RIOT

A less-furious Corin Tucker brings relief to Sleater-Kinney fans

Download: Screaming Females' "I Don't Mind It," Coming Soon To A Siren Festival Near You

​BV's got the first available track from Castle Talk, the latest from agreeably scuzzy New Brunswick scuzz-rockers Screaming Females, one of the finest acts to grace the stage at this weekend's Siren Festival. Record's due in September, though iron-lunged singer/guitar-thrasher Marissa Paterno ... More >>

Our 10 Best Places to Slurp Raw Oysters

Blue Ribbon shucks a mighty fine Caraquet oyster.​Yes, we know the old maxim about not eating oysters in the summer -- but the rule is less about food safety (warm-weather oysters are perfectly safe to eat as long as they've been kept cold) as it is about the fact that oysters spawn in the sum ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Places to Slurp Raw Oysters

Blue Ribbon's Caraquet oysters from New Brunswick. ​Tune in tomorrow to read our list of the 10 Best Places to Slurp Raw Oysters. The old maxim about eating oysters only in months that contain an "r" has less to do with food safety these days and more to do with the fact that oysters mate in ... More >>

This 5,000-Word Report From The Screaming Females Titled "If You Want To Know Why The Rest Of The Tour Was Cancelled..." Will Make You Very Glad You're Not In A Touring Rock Band

​Fantastic New Brunswick basement-rockers Screaming Females were recently on tour in the Southwest. They aren't any more. This is why. It is incredibly long, incredibly funny, incredibly heartbreaking. Photos of four people mashed into a three-seater U-Haul. References to huevos rancheros, Bur ... More >>

Judge Judy's Cat-Killing-Hipster Plaintiff Speaks: An Interview With Teeth Mountain's Kate Levitt and Andrew Burt

A little over a month ago, Baltimore primal-noise collective Teeth Mountain set the internet on fire with a dubiously outrageous appearance on Judge Judy. Teeth Mountain co-founder Kate Levitt, 24, alleged that Jonathan Coward of SHAMS got so drunk he smashed a TV and killed her cat. What followed ... More >>

Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

Interview: Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster on Guitar Heroes and Basement Shows

Rebecca SmeyneScreaming Females Above the Auto Parts Store during CMJ. More photos from the show here. It's been a big year for the Screaming Females. After two self-recorded and self-released albums, the New Brunswick trio (guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, bassist King Mike and drummer Jarret ... More >>

Live: The Gaslight Anthem Go Bowling in Brooklyn

The night before, at Terminal 5--a more video happy crowd. Gaslight Anthem Brooklyn Bowl Friday, October 16 In addition to being the wonderful apotheosis of both melodic Jersey punk and cheeseball Jersey AOR, and besides having songs in spades, there is the non-ignorable fact that in person, the ... More >>

Live: Fighting Off Punk Nostalgia with Lifetime and the Bouncing Souls

The Bouncing Souls/Lifetime Webster Hall Thursday, August 20 We will do our absolute best to refrain from ascribing metaphorical significance to the guy in the wheelchair at last night's Bouncing Souls 20th anniversary show who calmly spun his way into the thick of the crowd, had himself hoisted ... More >>

WEATHER UNDERGROUND

Yet another side project from Jack White

Rocking the Basements of New Brunswick with Screaming Females

Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly

"We always just wanted to be Fugazi, but people saw us otherwise." Thursday: Geoff Rickly is the one in the middle It's been almost a decade since Thursday released their breakout record Full Collapse, the album that launched the "post-hardcore" band into a major label contract with Island Records ... More >>

From the Crap Archives: Unseen Kingdoms

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Unseen Kingdoms Author: Bill Cox Publisher: Inner Light Publications, New Brunswick, NJ Date: 1983 D ... More >>

Streetlight Manifesto's Somewhere in Between

Jazzy ska-punk excellence in need of an audience

New York's Fumble Recovery

Why Rutgers deserves more New York love, and Notre Dame less

A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met

White supremacists from across the country gather in New Jersey and New York for barbecue and culture.

Watching the Detective

Sherlock Holmes lives on—in fan societies, annotated versions, and new adventures

Classical Music

Come to Bed

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The Dope on Dope

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Breaking The Ice

One-Eyed Willie O'Ree, the man who busted the NHL'S color line

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