Blogs
April 19, 2013Not that I'm endorsing this or anything.
But with National Weed Day coming tomorrow, it's a good time to toke--I mean take--notice of which songs would be the best to inhale to. If that were allowed.
Blogs
March 15, 2013Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
March 6, 2013Blogs
February 15, 2013This week, Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah have been performing alongside a cardboard cutout of their singer, Jens Kidman, whose fearsome voice was completely annihilated by the flu. (Don't worry, he's recovering.) Whether he'll join his bandmates onstage tonight at the Roseland Ballroom re ... More >>
Film
November 7, 2012Blogs
August 31, 2012Tesco Vee has stretched his bawdy bile over three decades now as leader of the Meatmen, the Hate Police, and a few other concerns his lawyer would rather we not talk about. Whipping up face-slapping punk rock while juggling numerous onstage props—dildos, nun outfits, bloody rubber chickens, an ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 15, 2012Blogs
July 9, 2012Roger Waters
Yankee Stadium
Friday, July 6
Better than: The Yanks taking three of four from the Red Sox.
Size matters. Roger Waters proved this Friday night at Yankee Stadium when he put on his biggest-yet production of one of the biggest albums of all time, his former band Pink Floyd's double-LP ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 27, 2012Blogs
May 9, 2012John Peck has an irresistible post on McSweeney's today, listing ideal sandwich components for various bands.
For example, this gem:
Pink Floyd: Amethyst-rubbed pork, asparagus jelly, moon-dried tomatoes, pumpernickel.
Voice Choices
October 19, 2011Voice Choices
May 11, 2011Voice Choices
September 22, 2010Voice Choices
September 1, 2010Voice Choices
August 11, 2010Blogs
June 21, 2010
Isis earlier this month, letting it all go.
Isis/Melvins/Totimoshi
Webster Hall
Friday, June 18
Farewell tours are weird, the celebratory nature of live rock being counteracted by the knowledge that this will never happen again; the listener can frequently walk away feeling weirdly hollow, as tho ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 25, 2010Blogs
March 11, 2010Pink Floyd has won a legal claim in the UK against EMI; Chancellor Sir Andrew Morritt agreed that the music company doesn't have the right to sell the band's music in formats the band does not accept. The band cited an artistic integrity clause in its contract that the court agreed applied to ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 29, 2009Jazz bridges the pop gaps
Voice Choices
August 11, 2009Blogs
July 6, 2009Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009Voice Choices
November 26, 2008Nachtmystium headline a righteous bill
Voice Choices
November 12, 2008Joe Boyd is a raconteur of sonic mystery
Music
May 29, 2007A winsome mix of Pink Floyd and Sesame Street
Blogs
February 14, 2007NYC Life
December 12, 2006Music
October 17, 2006MCR's valedictorian sonic bombast soothes detention sufferers nationwide
Music
July 11, 2006Music
June 13, 2006A Radiohead reggae tribute bewilders, while the real thing just beguiles
Music
April 4, 2006It's spacey local rockers the Secret Machines, opening their new album cycle by making a movie
NYC Life
January 31, 2006Rock stars, dating experts, and cartoon characters talk about Valentine's Day
Music
November 22, 2005Around town, four fine lady singer-songwriters in four nights
Music
July 26, 2005Fancy-pants glitter bands from Detroit, Canada, and upstate remember their forefathers
Screens
March 29, 2005Music
February 22, 2005Dance
February 8, 2005Individual and cultural takes on choreographic modernity still reflect one big trendy tribe
Music
September 14, 2004Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image
Music
August 3, 2004Texas transplants discover uncharted nebula in Brooklyn
Music
December 30, 2003NYC Life
October 28, 2003Music
August 19, 2003Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
Music
March 25, 2003Film
March 11, 2003Music
September 4, 2001Long Island Voice
November 30, 1999Long Island Voice
November 23, 1999Long Island Voice
September 14, 1999Long Island Voice
August 24, 1999News
August 3, 1999Technology Goes Back to the Womb
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