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Why Artists Should Stop Playing Their Seminal Albums Live

On a wispy evening last October, my housemate and I went to see GZA perform his magnum opus Liquid Swords in full at D.C.'s swanky Howard Theater. I wasn't the only one with high expectations. The crowd's hunger escalated with Killer Mike slaying his opening set, pulling out perfectly punctuated sho ... More >>

Why French Death Metal Band Gojira Don't Sing About Death

No one sounds like French metal band Gojira (who play Irving Plaza tonight)--or, rather, they sound like no one else. They bear the European death metal hallmarks of speed and rhythmic trickiness, but instead of reveling in the blood, guts, nihilism, etc., that characterize the lyrics of their peers ... More >>

SOUR TIMES

Portishead Side-Project Beak> Explores Darker Territory

Pazz & Jop: The Confounding, Inexplicable Splendor of Rapper Future

Space is the place

Electronic Producers to Watch For in 2013

This promises to be a fantastic year for electronic music, as the calendar is peppered with releases from some of the most exciting names around. Here are some acts to make sure you keep an eye on throughout the year. A quick note: You can classify much of the music that follows as dubstep, a genre ... More >>

Don't Miss These Bands At CMJ

CMJ: So many shows (about 1,300), so little time (5 days). Poring through the schedule, separating the wheat from the chaff--and sorry, there's lots of chaff every year--and figuring out a plan of attack is time-consuming and headache-inducing. So to help you out a tiny bit, we've picked out 10 acts ... More >>

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

Q&A: Tone Tank On Making Bootleg Toys, The Beastie Boys, And Why L&B Spumoni Gardens Has The Best Sicilian Slice

Tone Tank anointed himself the King of Surf Guitar Rap back in 2009. It's a title the rapper, who resides in Brooklyn, admits he didn't have much in the way of competition for, but it's one that brought him to the attention of Geoff Barrow, the producer for Brit trip-hop troupe Portishead. Barrow wa ... More >>

Live: Charli XCX Punches Through The Haze At Santos

Charli XCX Santos Party House Monday, March 12 Better than: Writing in a diary. The early Monday-night slot is by no means a prime gig; potential audience members are still shaking off the weekend cobwebs, counting the change from a couple of days of overindulgence and late-night taxi rides. But ... More >>

Tickets To The Afghan Whigs ATP Go On Sale Monday; Louis CK (!), The Make-Up (!!), Scrawl, The Roots, Mark Lanegan On The Bill

Tickets for the 2012 iteration of All Tomorrow's Parties' I'll Be Your Mirror Festival—happening September 21-23 in Asbury Park, and headlined by the reformed Afghan Whigs—go on sale on Monday morning, and the festival has released a partial list of who's scheduled to play the three-day ... More >>

Portishead and Deadmau5 Shift the Focus

This Week In The Voice: Portishead And Deadmau5 Get Screened, Neon Marshmallow Arrives In New York, And The Collected Chuck Eddy

​In this week's Village Voice, out now: I look at how Portishead and Deadmau5 took back the screen in their live settings; Christopher R. Weingarten talks to the folks behind the new-to-NYC experimental-music fest Neon Marshmallow; and Michael Hoinski chats with the great Chuck Eddy on the occ ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Footloose Remake, Begging Your Pardon, Mr. Obama

​This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman details the activities of Obama's Pardons Office. Rayman discusses policy and some heartbreaking cases. Robert Sietsema checks out North Carolina-style East Village restaurant The Cardinal, which is partially owned by Dov Charney. Maura Johns ... More >>

Missed Oneida's ATP Jam Session? Listen To It Online Now

... and even if you were present for all of the Ocropolis III, Oneida's extended improvisation at last weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror festival down in Asbury Park, it's worth revisiting the day via NPR's archive of the whole shebang, which is split into three parts sho ... More >>

Live: Portishead And Jeff Mangum Come Out Of The Shadows In Asbury Park

All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror Asbury Park, NJ September 30-October 2 Better than: Your favorite worn-out band tee. Timelessness isn't a foresight. Most experiences can't predict their own longevity, and as much as any creator strives to avoid miring his or her work in a dated exterio ... More >>

Geoff Barrow's Sour Rhymes

The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

This Week In The Voice: Portishead's Hip-Hop Roots, Northern-Spy's Grand Ambitions, And The Breakup Of R.E.M.

In this week's Village Voice, out now: Christopher R. Weingarten talks to Portishead's Geoff Barrow about his group's relationship with hip-hop in advance of this weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror Festival and the band's shows next week; Jesse Jarnow examines the grand—yet r ... More >>

SWANS' WAY

Michael Gira puts the fear into his fans again

Portishead Is Playing Two Shows At The Hammerstein Ballroom This October

They'll be in the States for the I'll Be Your Mirror festival in Asbury Park this fall, so the doomy British trio Portishead has decided to play a slew of shows around the country in October—and New York City gets them first, with a pair of shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 4 and 5 ... More >>

Second Jeff Mangum Show Added To Portishead's Big Three-Day Fest In Asbury Park

​The Portishead/All Tomorrow's Parties-curated festival I'll Be Your Mirror, taking place down the shore in Asbury Park from September 30 through October 2, has added a second performance by the no-longer-all-that-reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum to its itinerary, and is relea ... More >>

How Much Would You Pay To See The Concert Of Your Dreams?

​The Daily Swarm got wind of an eBay auction for a pair of tickets to Elephant 6 cult hero Jeff Mangum's September 9 show at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, which predates his appearance at the Portishead-curated ATP in Asbury Park by about three weeks. The asking price for the chance to be ... More >>

Week In Review: We'll Never Get Over The White Stripes

​We started out the week on a positive jam. Riding high off Bob Dylan Week, we spent the weekend paying tribute to all those bands who came before with Craig Finn at Music Hall of Williamsburg and trying with all our hearts to sing along while the Dismemberment Plan flailed around on stage at ... More >>

Portishead And Jeff Mangum Are Headlining All Tomorrow's Parties In Asbury Park, NJ

​Good lord. All Tomorrow's Parties is bringing their boutique full-immersion indie-rock weekend blowout to a new spot this year: Asbury Park, NJ. ATP's three-day I'll Be Your Mirror fest will be partially curated by Portishead (!) and headlined by none other than fuckin' Jeff Mangum (!!!!), la ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #7: Aaron Lewis featuring George Jones, Charlie Daniels, and Chris Young, "Country Boy"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Let's say you're Staind frontman Aaron Lewis. You're a titan of the post-alt era who made his bones moaning about the frustrations of the rock-embracing American male--but you're a bit long in the tooth, which means ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? House Music vs. Hashtag Rap

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! The most important artist of 2010.​Hi everybody! To ... More >>

Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy

BLOOD TIES

Real vampires don’t sparkle

Live: The Breeders Smash the Bowery Ballroom

The Breeders Bowery Ballroom August 18, 2009 The Breeders are way, way past "Cannonball" and you better be too. The band's first of two rapidly sold-out shows at Bowery Ballroom was loaded with classics--hell, they played half of their 1993 breakthrough Last Splash. But the Breeders' eyes were ai ... More >>

Crippled Black Phoenix

Spank Rock Wild Style No Show Theory: "Charity Rate" Not Worth Getting Out of Bed?

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

POP Montreal Day 1: Winter Gloves, Vetiver, The Clips, Woodhands, An Orgy of Keytar

The Faint's Fasciinatiion: Hot-Fudge Basslines and Thom Yorke's Farts

A welcome reboot leads to goodsongs and better random noises

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

Hugs and Kisses #40: Drinking Tea With Old Time Relijun's Arrington de Dionyso

Portishead: Replicants of Funk

Trip-hop OGs return with another astounding 5 a.m. comedown record

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 29

Portishead Brings Evil Back

Beach House's Devotion

Joke ripped off from Robin Hood: Men in Tights redacted

Goldfrapp's Seventh Tree

Seamless but faceless electro-pop for yawning arenas

Pulsing, Throbbing Sinus-rending Beats

Suffering in semi-silence to these lovely tunes...

Mysterious Producer Wankers Deploy Wan Whumps

A Zombie Apocalypse Playlist

Portishead Lady and Some Talk Talk Guy Respect Recognizable Song-Forms

A Room With a Clue

Dorm Living 101

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I'm In Love With My Walls

More Trip-Hop (Or Not) About Buildings and Atmosphere

Rocky Mountain Warhol

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