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Ten Unlikely Musicians Whose Best Songs Are Slow Jams

Over time, rock and roll lost touch with its "Love Me Tender" and "Peggy Sue" beginnings and became kind of a closet Quiet Storm listener sometime around the time Ozzy Osbourne entered the collective consciousness. Except even hair metal was dominated by lighter-wavers. Basically, no one can resist ... More >>

'The Concert for Sandy Relief'

Does Soundgarden Have Any Business Reuniting in 2012?

For a band of impressive magnitude -- an unholy sum of Chris Cornell's wails, Kim Thayil's strangely tuned, beautifully heavy guitar, and the Zeppelin/Sabbath-indebted rhythm section of bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- Soundgarden's return from their decade plus absence has been kind ... More >>

A King of Infinite Space

Dead Sara Is Weathering the Storm

Blazing hard rock might signal a sea change

Modernist Kicks: Swissted's Mike Joyce Discusses The Inspirations For 10 Of His Gig Poster Makeovers

​In 1978, the Sex Pistols would have hocked snot at the idea of being associated with prim layouts and orderly type. Sublime's signature colors were not purple, pink, red, and gray; The Replacements had no ties to concentric squares. Dr. Know and Gorilla Biscuits never put pinwheels anywhere i ... More >>

Q&A: Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf On Big-Budget Videos, Being "Highly Unfashionable," And Getting The Stoner-Rock Tag

Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf is a talkative guy. What was supposed to be a 30-minute interview to preview his band's performance of the 1995 album Dopes To Infinity at Music Hall of Williamsburg this Friday stretched into 90, as he took off and ran with subjects like how his band has been pi ... More >>

You Are Old: Pearl Jam Twenty

Map Shows NYC's Confusion With Rest of U.S.

WikipediaNope. Not how it looks.​What do New Yorkers believe rests beyond its borders? It's like cornfield, cornfield, D.C., cornfield, Chicago, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield, and then L.A. topped by San Francisco, right? Now there's (satirical) proof that we are a little confused ... More >>

Looking for Something to Do? How About the "Do Something Reel" Film Festival

​Dinner and a movie are a prescription for a fun time, but sometimes a movie about dinner is even better. Which is why the Whole Foods-sponsored "Do Something Reel" Film Festival at City Cinemas Village East next week is shaping up to be a great event.

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WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD

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Live: Urge Overkill Kickstart Their Reunion At Mercury Lounge

"Yes, it's really gonna happen." Pics by Rob, more below.​Urge Overkill Mercury Lounge Monday, October 4 Better Than: Most other 15-year reunions Of all the song titles shouted at the stage this evening, no one offers "Sister Havana" or "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon," and nobody plays them. ... More >>

A Brief Catalog of All the Other Musicians Marnie Stern Has Dissed

Marnie Stern will cut you. Photo by David Torch.​Local guitar wizard Marnie Stern is making a wonderful bid right now to become the Kanye West of indie-rock--she's cocky but shy, confident but self-deprecating, and more musically savvy than she gets credit for, even as she constantly pays homa ... More >>

In Praise Of Ween's "Poop Ship Destroyer," a/k/a The Penalty Song

​Ween, the thinking man's juvenile jam band, invade Central Park tonight for a performance that will last somewhere between two and nine hours. (Tickets are still available.) And while lately they've acquired some measure of critical legitimacy (their typically deranged and schizophrenic last ... More >>

Ted Leo: The Extra Long, Occasionally Meandering, Entirely Unexpurgated Interview

Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark Hewko​This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>

Paging Hipster Runoff: Andy Samberg Attends Pearl Jam Show

​A tipster pal sends along a photo of Saturday Night Live castmates Andy Samberg and Will Forte hanging out in the will-call line at last night's Pearl Jam concert at MSG. Note the era-appropriate flannel! Our pal Hipster Runoff might have something to say about the man who dates indie rock go ... More >>

Happy Hour at The Magician: $2.50 Montepulciano?

If it were any cheaper, they'd be paying you.​There are drink specials and there are drink specials. For some, an $8 martini is a marvelous deal -- by New York cocktailing standards, anyway. For others, it's not happy hour unless you can pay your tip out in quarters. At The Magician, from Mond ... More >>

Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention

These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>

Tonight! LCD Soundsystem, Truman Peyote, The Proclaimers, Pearl Jam, Veronica Falls, Das Racist, And Rassle

Truman Peyote: "Yo, someone send this Polaroid to Gorilla vs. Bear, ASAP!"​Starting tonight, LCD Soundystem begin their four-show, all-sold-out NYC stint -- without a ticket or the bankroll to deal with Stubhub et al, the closest you're getting to James Murphy's sardonic devastation is Zach Ba ... More >>

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Q&A: Local Monterrey Band Quiero Club Talk Todd P's MtyMx Fest, What New Yorkers Can Expect to Find Down in Mexico, and Why You'll Never See Their Band on U.S. Soil

​Chances are if you're not going to local promoter Todd P's MtyMx Festival--the DIY indie-rock gathering happening in Monterrey, Mexico next week--you'll never get to see Quiero Club live. Along with their counterparts Kinky and Plastilina Mosh, the electro-pop quintet have become local heroes ... More >>

Deer Tick's Wild Year Ends With An Access Hollywood (?!) Co-Sign

​So first the Providence proto-folk band picked up the unlikely endorsement of Brian Williams, kicking off the newsman's "BriTunes" program in a kind of deadpan surrealist interview. Then a cross-dressed John McCauley was a surprise guest on a St. Louis stage, randomly filling in for King Khan ... More >>

Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall Grossed About 1.5 Billion Dollars Combined This Decade

Pearl Jam at MSG via​The Garden is the highest grossing venue on the whole planet, according to Billboard, good for about $776 million in sales in the aughts; Radio City, at around a quarter of MSG's capacity, did even better (?) at $804 million--meaning something is screwy in this press relea ... More >>

Parsing the Record Sales of Pitchfork's Top 10 Albums of the Year

​Matthew Perpetua posts the numbers behind one of the more visible/influential year-end lists out--so what do they mean? Well, for one thing, the once and future Brooklyn triumvirate of Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, and Dirty Projectors really sold records. About 300K of them, to be exact-- ... More >>

This Week's Voice: BLK JKS, Pearl Jam, Brooklyn Book Festival, Bright Star, The Informant!, Will Ryman, and More

Vinyl Life: Not just hitting the space bar. Photo by David Herron.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla spends an evening at S.O.B.'s with BLK JKS and returns, a bit overwhelmed: "No band on the planet right now is overplaying with the titanic, fearless, stupendously excessive gusto of S ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​19-year-old Caleb Lacey wanted to be a fireman. He volunteered for the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department in Long Island. He seemed to enjoy the work. Now he stands accused of arson and second-degree murder. Elizabeth Dwoskin has the story. You knew before it dropped there'd be backlash o ... More >>

In Defense of Pearl Jam's Backspacer

Seattle's second-favorite sons gamely redefine their Target audience

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>

Tom Tomorrow Rocks Pearl Jam Cover, Voice

​ For a while there wasn't enough change in the sofa cushions for the Village Voice to pay cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, and he had to scrounge for work from his friends, like Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Vedder just so happened to have a Pearl Jam album coming out and TT worked up a CD cover design ... More >>

News Roundup: Jay Z, Pearl Jam, Ryan Adams

​--Jay Z, who released a new track with Drake yesterday, is expected to announce today that he will play Madison Square Garden on September 11th, the day Blueprint 3 is scheduled to come out. The show will benefit the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund, created in 198 ... More >>

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News Roundup: Pearl Jam, Wavves, Green Day, Dr. Dog

​--Pearl Jam have put together an online scavenger hunt to promote upcoming album Backspacer. The band has placed nine images (designed by political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow) thoughout the internet (view one here). If you find all nine images, Eddie Vedder will play a private acoustic concert i ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Islands, They Might Be Giants

Islands--Islands have released the bubbly new track "No You Don't," from their upcoming third album Vapours, the one frontman Nick Thorburn once famously left on the C Train. The song features him switching between a falsetto and more conversational style, with lyrics like "Don't buy dope from the m ... More >>

News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

--Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

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