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Fall Out Boy - Terminal 5 - 5/29/2013

Better Than: Pretending like you don't have a small place in your heart for Fall Out Boy and their contemporaries, or that you don't majorly appreciate 2006's big musical comeback this year. During the From Under the Cork Tree era, Fall Out Boy had been convinced that they had found the cure to gr ... More >>

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Say Goodbye to Angels & Kings, RBC NYC

​​It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line. East Village bar Angels & Kings by Peter Wentz closed several weeks back and no one seemed to notice. According to their Facebook page: "Unfortunately, its with great sadness that we annou ... More >>

CMJ Day Three: Iggy Azalea Brings Her Cat Scratch Fever To The Canal Room

CMJ Day Three: Iggy Azalea Better than: Writing your own mea culpa. When I saw that Iggy Azalea was performing at CMJ, my scathing reviewer senses began tingling. The Australian femme fatale is the kind of artist that incites fervor among the hip-hop cognoscenti with her raunchy lyrics and bar ... More >>

Live: Travie McCoy and Pete Wentz's Black Cards Get Emotional at the Gramercy Theatre

Maura Johnston​The Sgt. Schlepper's Who Needs Hearts Club Band Tour feat. Travie McCoy, Donnis, Black Cards, XV, and Bad Rabbits Gramercy Theatre Tuesday, March 24 Better than: Being broken up with by email. There was apparently some sort of apocalyptic weather going on outside the Gramercy ... More >>

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Rock stars can do more than just rock

Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse

A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg St. Ann's Warehouse Friday, January 22 Nothing crystallizes the identity politics lurking somewhere near the core of pop music quite like benefit and tribute concerts, where donor acts reconstruct the beneficiary in their own image, often to revelatory - or, nearly a ... More >>

"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 >>

Yes In My Backyard: The Video Premiere of Talk Normal's "In A Strangeland"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Now that Brooklyn loft-rock is leaning towards toward beach-y, garage-y, tape-damaged nostalgiasmush, we should thank the stars that Talk Normal have arrived to keep it ugly. The best thing to lurch out ... More >>

Crown on the Ground, Hands Up in the Air

A video of Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells doing "Crown on the Ground" at Le Poisson Rouge about a month ago, via this guy. Every single dynamic change in this song is great. Guitarist Derek Miller used to play in Poison the Well, a band that did very different (but, paradoxically, similar!) juxtapositi ... More >>

CMJ on the Street: Holly Miranda's Guitarist Timmy Mislock

photo by Sam Horine Timmy Mislock, Guitarist for Holly Miranda Most looking forward to: The xx and The Antlers at The Delancey. Fashion Aesthetic: Band T-shirts and flannel. Years at CMJ: Three. Best memory: Seeing A Place to Bury Strangers at Bowery Ballroom.

"Stars' Sexperiences" Make Us Feel Bad About Hollywood, Ourselves

​Tina Fey (pictured) reveals that she "couldn't give it away" -- meaning her virginity -- when she was a young lass, prompting respected journalistic organization ABC News to run a slide show of "Stars' Sexperiences." You would imagine these Sexperiences would be calculated to include simila ... More >>

Have You Seen... Failed Hipster Bank Robber

​Another guy tried to rob a bank Wednesday. Around 12:35 p.m. this man went into the BoA at 150 Broadway, passed a note, got no money for his trouble, and fled. Witnesses say he's 30-40 years old, 5' 6", and about 175 pounds, and as you'll see from the photo, he appears to have arrived at the ... More >>

Live: Faust Bring Joyful Damage to the Music Hall of Williamsburg's WFMU Fest

Twitpic via Eardrumnyc​Faust WFMU Fest/Music Hall Of Williamsburg October 1 Dear American experimental underground, Faust has a message for you: You're no fun. Last night was a rollicking, all-smiles 90-minute set from a bunch of Germans who were making weird records when Mike Patton was sti ... More >>

News Roundup: Eddie Van Halen, Dan Graham, Modest Mouse, Bob Bogle

--Eddie Van Halen is suing Nike, alleging the company copied his red, black and white "Frankenstrat" guitar design in the design of their new "Dunk Lows" sneakers. The federal lawsuit contends Nike is doing "irreparable harm and damage" to Halen's signature guitar. The guitarist sort of already did ... More >>

Cops Start Downtown Crackdown By Closing Celebrity Training Bar

Though claims of a crime wave in the West Village seem a little overstated, it is a high-profile neighborhood -- high enough for President Obama to take his wife to dinner there during his weekend visit -- and it has had some nightlife-related assault cases lately that can't be good for tourism or ... More >>

Live: Peter Bjorn and John Temporarily Banish Swine Flu at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Even before the house lights had come back on at the end of Chairlift's opening set, someone in the crowd was whistling the melody from "Young Folks." Years later, the song is still endearing, and so is the band. Since "Young Folks," Peter Bjorn and John have released a neat instrumental album, be ... More >>

Real World Brooklyn, Episode 9: Katelynn Has To Stick Things Inside Her Vag, Chet Auditions for MTV VJ Slot

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>

Real World Brooklyn: Chetubular the Morminator Interviews Pete Wentz, Devyn's Boobs Admire Scott's Abs

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, Chet acted like a boob instead of touching one. This week, everybody's favorite MTV Morminator interviews Pete Wentz. Pete Wentz and Orville Redenbacher A disturbing, self-motivational movement has swept ... More >>

Real World Brooklyn: Will Chet the Morminator Please Touch a Boob Instead of Acting Like One?

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, Ryan sang about a tampon. This week, he dons a mustache while other stuff happens to far less interesting people. Last night's Real World: Brooklyn only featured about five minutes of Ryan, who we've perm ... More >>

Live: Vivian Girls and Bones Royal play Kidrockers

Lifetime Throw Off Pete Wentz's Shackles

Jersey hardcore punks Lifetime had an immortal run in the mid/late '90s; their template, as much or more as anyone else's, was the final late-stage emo adaptation that set the table for the dudes who would almost make money playing similar music--the Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World--and then finally ... More >>

Week in Review: A Home-Made Midi File Ringtone of Cut Copy's "In Ghost Colours"

Live: Fall Out Boy Week Continues at Nokia Theater

With Folie a Deuz, Fall Out Boy Keep Their Sellout Streak Going

(And good for them)

Secret/Totally Badass Fall Out Boy Show in Washington Square Park Is Not to Be, Alas

Famous Dimwits Name Baby "Bronx"

Murs Hits the Big Time, If 'the Big Time' Even Exists

iVoice: Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift Paint their Toenails!

iVoice: Coldplay's Chris Martin Tries to Befriend Thom Yorke

The Veronicas' Hook Me Up

Superhuman tween songbirds are waylaid by technology

iVoice: A Night Out With Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson

iVoice: Kanye West "Flashing Lights" Video Chat

iVoice: Paramore Hosts MTV Hits!

iVoice: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Re-Enact Once Live

iVoice: Mariah Carey Gets Married!

iVoice: On the Improbable Romance of Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart

iVoice: Julie Taymor Makes a Bob Seger American History Homage

iVoice: Prince Covers "Creep" Over IM, Coachellafield Ensues

iVoice: Colin Meloy Meets the Shankill Butchers

The Constantines' Kensington Heights

Canadian workhorses run gloriously free

Live: Fall Out Boy's Arena Emo

Emo "Elder" Statesmen Jimmy Eat World and Thrice

Emo "elder" statesmen are dependably accessible, or not

Pete Wentz's Brilliant Ideas: Heckler- Fighting, Salt-Water Drinking, Turd Measuring

Overheard From Others and Myself

Another dead animal, another celebrity clothing line. Oh, and I love Paris when she's sprung—then and only then.

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The Bamboozle Festival and the Emo Takeover