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May 9, 2012
Kid Cudi Added To Governors Ball Lineup
The Governors Ball—taking place at Randalls IslandJune 23 and 24—has added another headliner to its lineup, which is already led by the likes of Passion Pit, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Kid Cudi, the recently alt-rock-water-testing rapper from Chicago, will play on Saturday, which will also h ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You
The hated revenge-porn profiteer says he wants to teach a lesson with his web site. How long before the 26-year-old learns one himself?
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February 21, 2012
Beck, Passion Pit To Headline 2012 Governor's Ball
The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
'The Governors Ball'
The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Live: Panda Bear Builds An 100-Layer Burrito At Governors Island
As much stuff as one guy can operate crediblyPanda Bear/Gala Drop/Teengirl Fantasy Water Taxi Beach at Governors Island Saturday, September 11 Better Than: Watching cable news, on this day in particular He makes a hell of a racket, Panda Bear, a one-man maelstrom of stabbing synth washes, h ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
Cut Copy+Memory Tapes+Glasser
As much stuff as one guy can operate crediblyPanda Bear/Gala Drop/Teengirl Fantasy Water Taxi Beach at Governors Island Saturday, September 11 Better Than: Watching cable news, on this day in particular He makes a hell of a racket, Panda Bear, a one-man maelstrom of stabbing synth washes, h ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Video: Tokyo Police Club, "Breakneck Speed"
Our favorite (or should we say, as these Canadians do, favourite) type of video: tour/friend footage, shot on flip cams and cell phones and whatever else is at hand, repurposed as scrolling nostalgia for a song that pretty much simulates the same. This record, Champ, is a total delight, by the way ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 4, 2010
Celebrate Brooklyn Returns, With a Little Help From Sonic Youth and the Roots
Ryan MuirPark 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 >>
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April 22, 2010
Justin Bieber Tops MGMT, Plus An Analysis Of The Best-Selling (Well, Maybe) Record Store Day Singles
This week's album chart has in its first two positions the two biggest stories in pop music last week. Once again, the pole position was assumed by Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, whose first full-length, My World 2.0, sold 92,000 copies--only the second time this year that the No. 1 album h ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Premiere: ARMS, "Heat & Hot Water"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Will CalcuttBrooklyn trio ARMS (all caps, please) is the tasteful, affable, basement-brewed indie-pop guise of Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein. Before breaking up in September of last year, H ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
So Is Terminal 5 Really the Third Best Club in the World?
Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5 a few weeks back. Photo by Araceli Cruz.The concert-promotion and ticket-sales aggregator website Pollstar recently compiled a list of the "Top 100 Worldwide Club Venues" on which Terminal 5 ranked a shocking #3. The result surprised even Pollstar--"When a New ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 5, 2010
HAPPY FEET
Real men dance spasmodically to electro
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December 24, 2009
New Year's Eve 2010: New York Shows
Yeah it's Christmas, but it's also the dawn of the first of many, many maddeningly inconclusive conversations you're about to have about your New Year's plans. Let this guide help you. We're out of here for the day, and back on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend. May your holidays look a lot like this. ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
Tonight! Phoenix/Passion Pit, DJ Spooky, Phish, And Jaguar Love
SOTC-beloved French pop doggs Phoenix and hyperactive aggro-twee synth-bashers Passion Pit love each other so much they can't stop playing shows together -- fresh off a stint at Central Park a couple months back, they reunite this evening at Hammerstein Ballroom for 101.9 RXP DJ Matt Pinfield's Ho ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2009
'101.9 WRXP Presents Matt Pinfield's Holiday Extravaganza with Phoenix and Passion Pit'
SOTC-beloved French pop doggs Phoenix and hyperactive aggro-twee synth-bashers Passion Pit love each other so much they can't stop playing shows together -- fresh off a stint at Central Park a couple months back, they reunite this evening at Hammerstein Ballroom for 101.9 RXP DJ Matt Pinfield's Ho ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
"You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies
Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
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 >>
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October 1, 2009
On The Animal Collective Remix Of "Love Like A Sunset," By Phoenix, A Band Of Whom We Here At SOTC Are Perhaps Excessively Protective
Download here, friends. Listen, we really like this song around here -- no, seriously -- and we thus regard any attempts to alter/improve it, however respectful and benevolent their intent, with profound suspicion. Particularly when Animal Collective is involved. But this has a nice, unobtr ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 22, 2009
FRENCH KISS
Bid adieu to summer with Phoenix
Blogs
August 4, 2009
Streaking Past Viacom Offices in Times Square Now Legitimate Path to MTV Video Music Award Nominations
Hey, so the downy elf with the dilated pupils who dwells inside the padded confines of MTV's viral marketing campaign closet did good today! The MTV Video Music Award Nominations are out, and boy, look at that Breakthrough Video category: the ninja-filled, Underworld-vibing video to Bat For Lash's ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2009
Jay-Z Doesn't Show at Diesel Party; Kanye, Clipse Do
We're gonna go ahead and suggest that yesterday was the first and last time Jay-Z and Swedish livewire Lykke Li will ever be confused for one another. The smart money for a good part of yesterday was that Jay-Z was maybe definitely due to step onstage last night with the Roots at that ridiculous D ... More >>
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July 23, 2009
See the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band Today, For Free, No Jean Purchase Necessary
Photo of the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band by Rebecca Smeyne, of course Partially atoning for the basically unforgivable sin of actually requiring everyone who wants to go to next week's Roots/Drake/Passion Pit Webster Hall extravaganza to wear hideous Diesel jeans in order just to receive an invitatio ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
News Roundup: Bruce Springsteen, Dead Weather, Michael Jackson, Another Diesel Party
--The Dead Weather, who we saw at the Bowery last April, long ago sold out their gigs at Terminal 5 this Thursday and Friday, but the band will play a free show tomorrow at noon at the Third Man Records pop-up store store at 131 Chrystie Street. The one-off is first come, first serve. We recommend b ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2009
The Top 10 Records That Sold Last Week at Other Music in the East Village
In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. Photo of Tak ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009
The Hood Internet
In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. Photo of Tak ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 6, 2009
Passion Pit
In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. Photo of Tak ... More >>

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