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February 17, 2012
Download: Yvette Breaks in to a "Cold Sweat"
In 2010, YIMBY praised the debut 7" of noise-punk night terror Yvette, a "hard-edged, ultraviolent, spooktacular response to years of the fluttery squish of Animal Collective." They've finally returned with a follow-up, "Erosion" b/w "Cold Sweat" (out this week on the God Mode imprint of piglet-fuck ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Local Writer Says Farewell
In 2005, the Village Voice's music editor, Chuck Eddy, its web editor, Nick Catucci, and their intern, Nick Sylvester, had the novel idea that the Voice's music section might become something more than a once a week proposition. The eventual result of this idea was something called Riff Raff, ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Watch Mr. Dream Get Robbed in the Video For "Crime"
It's one of our great regrets we were out of town the weekend SOTC pals Mr. Dream invited a bunch of people to put on ski masks and come rob their practice space while they were playing in it, but at least now we have the video evidence--shot in 1:1 security cam verité, no less. The song is ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Download Mr. Dream's Set At Glasslands Friday Night
Pic via NYC TaperYes, we are quite fond of not-at-all-lo-fi Brooklyn rock band Mr. Dream. Yes, we know several of the dudes therein personally. And yes, there some of us were, Friday night at Glasslands, for a sold-out show capping a huge week for the band: Their debut album, Trash Hit, is ou ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Premiere: Stream Mr. Dream's Debut LP, Trash Hit, In Its Entirety
You will have your type of nostalgia, and we will have ours: to us, the debut LP from Brooklyn trio Mr. Dream (out today, at last) feels like a dazed walk back through the last 25 years of Jesus Lizard, Big Black, and Nirvana records, all arch sarcasm, drawling melodies, a peculiarly grown-up ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.Dear fellow illumin ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Sweet Bulbs, Midnight Magic, and Mr. Dream Play Columbia For Free This Friday
Our pal Nick Sylvester passes along the info and flyer for a show he's curating with Columbia and Barnard's WBAR radio station, featuring his own band, the Best of New York-garlanded Mr. Dream, along with recent YIMBY honorees (and in-house SOTC favorites) Sweet Bulbs, the ex-Hercules and Lov ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
No Age's Dean Spunt on How His Band's Rainbow Logo Became a New Punk-Rock Icon
"The idea was to have a visual identity before the band even started, before the music started. It kind of worked because people would be like, 'Dude, what is this? What is No Age?'" Radiohead's Colin Greenwood wearing the No Age "Classic" in January 2008 Dean Spunt's first band was a punk-rock ou ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Download Escort's Not-Exactly-Retro-Disco Single "Cocaine Blues"
So NYC disco non-revivalists Escort -- recall their Muppet-assisted clip for 2007's "All Through the Night" -- have returned with their own tense, swaggering version of "Cocaine Blues," putting their own spin on the long-mutating track by "making the groove harder, adding more hooks, fleshing ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Why Tila Tequila Should Share Some Responsibility for the Extent of the Gathering of the Juggalos Catastrophe
photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTila Tequila, trying to tame an angry mob with party-store supplies There was bound to be a problem at the 11th annual Gathering of the Juggalos--and there was. In one corner, we have a Playboy-model-turned-reality TV star who became famous only because she had the most fr ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
How Last Night's Pitchfork Office Party with Beach Fossils Really Went Down
No photos because they searched us for photographic devices on the way in. So Pitchfork had a party in their Greenpoint office last night. The young exuberant fellas of Beach Fossils played. Pitchfork.tv taped it. There was a keg and some awesome vodka made by a neighborhood guy named Tito. Some pe ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Download: Mr. Dream, "Scarred For Life"
Stereogum is already calling these guys post-"Knuckle Sandwich," which is funny--writing the next song is just what bands are supposed to do, right? Nevertheless, that site's Brandon Stosuy is indeed onto something: if "Knuckle Sandwich" was the howling, hobo-killing winter theme song for any ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
The Story Behind the California Mansion In That LCD Soundsystem Video That James Murphy Just Posted
First Vampire Weekend make an ostensibly California-themed record, and now it seems clear that the primary mythology of the new and upcoming LCD Soundsystem record will focus heavily on the awesome California mansion in which it was recorded. New York, rep for your own! Anyway, for the record, the ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Ah, And While We're At It: The Best Music Writing 2009 Reading Is Tonight
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
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October 21, 2008
CMJ Preview 2008: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Edition
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
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February 8, 2008
Sensitive-Whiteboy Robo-Soul Will Own 2008
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
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September 17, 2007
A Place to Bury Strangers: Effects-Pedal Memory Games
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2007
Status Ain't Hood Interviews LCD Soundsystem
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
News
March 7, 2006
Letters
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
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February 28, 2006
Letters
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
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February 28, 2006
Editor’s Note: What Happened to That Cover Story?
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
News
February 7, 2006
Letters
At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>
NYC Life
January 31, 2006
Plugged In
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
Specials
January 10, 2006
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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December 20, 2005
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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December 13, 2005
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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September 13, 2005
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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September 2, 2005
Musicians Dealing with Effects of Hurricane Katrina
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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June 14, 2005
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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April 26, 2005
Letters
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
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October 5, 2004
Take Them Out With Sex
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year

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