Nirvana (Band)

In Real Life: Perverse Pleasure and A Motown Tribute to Nickelback's Live Debut in NYC

On Friday night, a once-viral YouTube clip beamed down from cyberspace, materializing as a musical band of living, breathing humans who graced New York with an entire hour of genre-warped Nickelback singles. In theory, "A Motown Tribute to Nickelback" seems like the most heinous sacrilege, muddling ... More >>

Live: Skerik Rips Open A Horn Portal At Cameo Gallery

Skerik's Bandalabra Cameo Gallery Tuesday, September 11 Better than: A tale of one city. When it comes to music, Tolstoy's dictum about the only two kinds of stories—1) someone goes on a journey, or 2) a stranger comes to town—can usually be distilled into a single notion: We hop on th ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 15-21, 2012

I Was A Teenage Jam Band Scenester: Coming Around On The Ominous Seapods And Other Life Lessons

Through a series of maybe not-so-unfortunate events, I was a teenage jam band scenester, which, when properly italicized and luridly capitalized, sounds like a sordid music-crit version of a '50s exploitation paperback. But the truth is, I wasn't seduced by drugs, sex, or anything else until college ... More >>

Sublime's "What I Got" And Its Ability To Inspire Low-Level Road Rage

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

A Father's Day Mix Of Songs With Mixed Feelings About Fathers

Every May, there's no shortage of mawkishly sentimental songs to play on Mother's Day, but a month later, there are comparatively few Father's Day equivalents. Sure, there are some treacly tracks like Bob Carlisle's 1997 adult-contempo hit "Butterfly Kisses," but fatherhood is more often than not in ... More >>

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Esplanade Lawn Finally Grows Back -- Just In Time To Get Trampled Again By Big Ass Tent (PHOTOS)

One of the Great Mysteries of Brooklyn which has long perplexed us is what happens every year to the Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn. The Cherry Esplanade is a treasure, especially in April. The grove comprises one of the most beautiful collection of blossoming cherry trees in the state, if not al ... More >>

The Electric Daisy Carnival Is Coming To New York City

Adele might have dominated the headlines of the record business last year, but live, the biggest story was EDM—"electronic dance music," the amalgam of past dance-music styles, accentuated here and there with the all-important drop, that packed clubs and fields around the country. This year th ... More >>

The Grammys: Rock and Grohl

When past and future collide, does the present win?

Live: Winter Jazzfest Breaks Down Boundaries And Confounds Expectations

​Winter Jazzfest Friday-Saturday, January 6-7 Better than: Summer Zydeco Fest (assuming such a terror exists). After a discordant, twisted reimagining of Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" by his trio Ceramic Dog, guitarist Marc Ribot slyly reminded the audience at Sullivan Hall Friday wha ... More >>

The Bamboozle: Moving Back To Asbury Park (!), Headlined By Bon Jovi (?)

The 2012 edition of The Bamboozle—the weekend-long festival of complete and utter overstimulation in the name of music and carnival rides—will take place May 18 through 20, and instead of being held in the parking lot of the Meadowlands' football stadium, as it has been for the past cou ... More >>

Live: 2NE1 Says Hello To America At The Best Buy Theater

MTV Iggy Best New Band 2011 Concert w/2NE1, Gyptian, La Vida Boheme, and Yuna Best Buy Theater Monday, December 12 Better than: The monoculture. Korean pop group 2NE1 waved at their fans from a wall-sized window above the Best Buy Theater Monday night. "Music is truly becoming a borderless thing, ... More >>

People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?

Pyramid Club, 'The Birthplace of Drag,' Considered for Historic Landmark Status

​An area of the East Village bounded by East 2nd and East 7th streets between First Avenue and the Bowery, plus 10th Street on the north side of Tompkins Square Park, is being considered as a possible future East Village Historic District. Today, DNA Info reports that the area for possible lan ... More >>

Download: NT's Spasmodic, Yet Catchy "Transparency"

​Brooklyn's tightly wound NT make nervous, spasmodic strangle-punk full of precarious poke and prickle--think the Minutemen if their lyrics were less about Vietnam and more about "do it 'till ya puke." The band evolved from Jake Pepper's laptop experiments; eventually, he started to miss the w ... More >>

Courtney Isn't Loved By Straight Guys

​Hit So Hard: The Life & Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel is a hard-hitting documentary about the lesbian ex-addict Hole drummer (second from right), which is playing the New Directors/New Films festival tonight at MoMA. In it, Courtney Love's first quote is, "I was completely high on drugs. ... More >>

Q&A: Animal Collective's Panda Bear On How He Is Similar To Kanye West

​ "Does that mean I have a massive ego? Is there something wrong with that?" asks Panda Bear, a/k/a Noah Lennox, about his latest conquest as a solo artist. Though Lennox is the soaring, helium-voiced member of the ubiquitous Animal Collective and the man responsible for one of the most prais ... More >>

The Martinez Brothers, Animal Collective (DJ-ing), And Afrika Bambaataa (Probably) Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Friday night in Manhattan, Webster Hall is the place to be. It's the year of dubstep, apparently, and U.K. duo Nero headline an especially solid lineup for tonight's Girls and Boys, along with L.A.'s Gaslamp Killer. The ravetastic Flashing Lights crew kick off the night with electro and glows ... More >>

Live From Santos Party House's Friday-Night reOPENed Party, Featuring Ladies Who Are All Legs And Dudes Who Are All Hands

A typical occurrence at reOPENed; just make sure it's voluntary. Pic from Mel D Cole/Village Slum ​Santos Party House's Friday-night situation has been a little dramatic lately. The club's weekly fete OPEN--featuring Q-Tip, Rich Medina, and Vashtie--seemed to be doing immensely well, even winn ... More >>

HOLE LOTTA LOVE

Go crowd-surfing with Courtney

BIG IN JAPAN

Composers score three silent films by Yasujiro Ozu

LOONEY TUNES

Sing along with Craig Robinson

Yes In My Backyard: Bishop Allen's Justin Rice on His Band's New Video for "True or False"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn pop savants Bishop Allen have been staying busy since the release of their second Dead Oceans album, Grrr..., in March--a natural move for a band who once self-released an EP every month for a y ... More >>

Halloween With Weezer

Bug costumes: Scary. New album: Way, way scarier.

DRAMA KINGS

Feeling melancholy? Get over it, and dance

Week in Review: I Dunno, I Don't Smoke

YYYs, by Rebecca Smeyne, of course.​In the week in which death shrugged off the "summer of" appellation and kept right on killing people, we mourned the Death Set's Beau Velasco, a good man cut down too early, and Mr. Magic, whose work as a DJ in New York in the 1980s is an enormous wormhole d ... More >>

Queens of England

Why the British love the Scissor Sisters more than we do

Four More Music Video Veterans Enshrined in Pop Canon

Music

Teens Age

Former adolescents jostle bodies with their '90s powerpop

Where You Been

Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

The Covers Album

Don't look back: From nostalgia-peddling dreck to sci-fi satire, the peril-fraught subgenre of the rockstar movie

Music

Pink Orbs for Pink Floyd

Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

Music

New Wave Guys and a Punk Rock Girl Go Out and Get Down

Demented Blur of Trombonist-Led Outfit Recovers From Info Overload

Brody's Screaming Fucking Bloody Mess of Antique Grunge

Babies on Fire

Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood

Showtime Wanks It Up

Hello Meta Man; the Grim Reaper Lands a Series

Ride Hard, Die Hard

Under-the-Table-Again Rock

Chairman of the Board

Tony Hawk Airs on the Side of Commercialism

Who Needs Eminem?

Theater

Metal Gets Sentimental

The Belated Return of Loud Mushy Rock

Music

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

Sunburnt

Still Not Just Art in a Cage