Norah Jones

Esperanza Spalding

The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Promo Photos

By Daniel Hill Here at SOTC Music HQ we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to shoulder. Make sure no one smiles, ever. Have the artists try to look thoughtful, but also like they are not trying to look ... More >>

Norah Jones

LOVE BITES

Norah Jones plays SummerStage

Live: Esperanza Spalding Cuts Through The Static At Florence Gould Hall

Esperanza Spalding Florence Gould Hall (at the Alliance Francaise) Monday, April 16 Better than: What you usually do on a Monday night. Within minutes of hitting the stage for last night's invite-only tour peek, Esperanza Spalding's orchestra put its bigness into context. Most of its twelve pieces ... More >>

SOTC's March Madness: Welcome To The Lightning Round Of 16

This week, our search for New York's quintessential post-1955 musician is about to get hectic, with the winner crowned as the calendar flips to April on Saturday night. (A rundown of all the matches so far is here.) So for the Round of 16 matchups—four of which will happen today, four tomorrow ... More >>

SOTC's March Madness Pits Thelonious Monk (2) Against Norah Jones (10) In The Round Of 32

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Monk handily dispatched TV On The Radio, and he now moves on to face a surprisingly ascendant Norah Jones, who pitched off ... More >>

Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

'Stones Fest'

Jenny Scheinman's Mischief and Mayhem

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

PETTY APPROVED

Don't tell Michele Bachmann about this

DYLAN'S SUPER SWEET 70

A subterranean birthday party

The 10 Best Remixes By Ad-Rock

​The Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 comes out Tuesday. But beyond the trio's newest collection of raffish rap japes, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz--the Beastie who isn't going gray and who isn't rumored to be related to Saved By The Bell's Screech Powers--has been steadily carving out a nic ... More >>

Wretches & Jabberers: An Info Packet on Autism

Norah Jones, MGMT, and Yeasayer Walk Into a Movie -- Why, Wah Do Dem, Why?

Free Will Astrology: June 16 through 22, 2010

Week in Review: Sign of Victory

One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>

Live: Norah Jones Survives A Downpour, Inaugurates Celebrate Brooklyn! 2010 At Prospect Park

She's up there somewhere. Pic from @cvbryant​Norah Jones Prospect Park Bandshell Wednesday, June 9 "Let's go get wet!" announces Norah Jones, accepting some sort of award during the mercifully be-tented Celebrate Brooklyn! pre-show gala minutes before taking the Prospect Park Bandshell stage ... More >>

BEST OF THE FEST

Starring Norah and Mrs. Jones

Celebrate Brooklyn Returns, With a Little Help From Sonic Youth and the Roots

Ryan Muir​Park Slope parents, get ready: Celebrate Brooklyn's 2010 Season is out! Go-to Brownstone Brooklyn avatar Norah Jones kicks things off at the Prospect Park concert series with a June 9 gala benefit (after which Passion Pit, Rufus Wainwright, the National, and the Dead Weather pick up ... More >>

Norah Jones Brooklyn window crisis averted

​Singer Norah Jones, whose plans to install windows in the brick side wall of her landmarked $4.99 million Cobble Hill brownstone had her feuding with preservationist neighbors, has fended off a threatened lawsuit by filing a new building plan calling for fewer windows.

John Mayer Is #1; 50 Cent Is Definitely Not

​The lady-lonely John Mayer, the man with the audacity to tell the New York Times, on the record, "I should be fucking more girls," has America's #1 record this week. His Battle Studies, which somehow avoids including any of the myriad things that actually make John Mayer interesting, sold a v ... More >>

Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... More >>

Why Norah Jones Can't Have Windows in Brooklyn

​Ever wondered why those brownstones down in Cobble Hill never have windows on their weirdly smooth brick sidewalls, even though it seems like a total wasted opportunity to easily engineer a whole lot more precious urban sunlight? Allow Norah Jones, her irate pop star-hating neighbors, and the ... More >>

M. Ward+Mike Watt & Nels Cline

Live: Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis, and Norah Jones Take Lincoln Center, Display One Long Septuagenarian Braid

Photo via Stillisstillmoving Two Men With the Blues with Norah Jones Rose Theater February 10 When trumpeter Wynton Marsalis admonishes a member of the audience for only flying a Texas flag but not one from Louisiana, someone yells back "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulet!" bringing a smile to his face ... More >>

My Blueberry Nights: Wong Kar Wai Tries American Pie

Wong's first English-language foray is a minor confection

THE WONG WAY

A conversation with Hong Kong’s hottest director

No Context: Speak Up! With Lou Reed, Moby, Antony, and More

BAND AID

Anti-war stars speak up

This Year's Grammy Nominations: Fucking Insane

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination

No Limit to Our Love

Wherein rock critics' ongoing bout of Feistmania is found to be entirely justified

A Perfect Circle Too Desperate to Show Some Edge

Brooklyn Zoo

Dan Zanes builds an interactive kid rock empire one starstruck toddler at a time

Folk-Rock Up-and-Comer Goes by Book, Places Pretty Products

Mercury Positioning

England gives a New Yorker its prize, but Americans still wonder about the bands who also ran

Triple Whammy

Tsuris-racked Christian spends her own money on Tex-Mex Disney breakup set

Big Joe Goes Down

Tactical media collective's counter-marketing device fights Starbucks with decent panini

Big Ole Time

Country-blues revivalists wail against wars for Phish-heads

Mine Enemy The Turkey

Add to the many things not to be thankful for this year 13 CDs that will make your gorge rise

Horoscope

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

Music

Singing School

Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation

Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals in Redneck-Haiku Pajamas

What's Not to Like?

A Success Story Where the Good Guys Win?

Music

Keeping Up With the Jones