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May 23, 2012
This Week In The Voice: 12 Songs From 2012, Santigold Ascends, The Geeks Take Over, And The Mystery Of Death Grips
This week in the Voice, out now: I offer up a dozen songs from this year that are worth your time; Puja Patel talks to the shape-shifting cutting-edge pop star Santigold; Vijith Assar previews the geek takeover at the Blip Festival; and Seth Colter Walls examines the strange disappearing act of Deat ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
SOTC March Madness: Larry Levan (7) Squares Off Against The Beastie Boys (10)
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 14, 2012
SEEK ELECTRICITY
Dan Deacon returns to  the Ecstatic Music Festival
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February 3, 2012
The Top 9 Things Overheard Outside Last Night's Secret Skrillex Show
As you may have by now heard, last night, as part of his weeklong New York takeover, dubstep phenom Skrillex played a show so secret that even he didn't know its whereabouts. Nevertheless, Voice nightlife correspondent Puja Patel managed to score an invite, one that required us to meet at another se ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries
Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.
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October 20, 2011
Spotted At CMJ: Clubfeet Go From Down Under To A New York City Rooftop
Puja PatelWith more than a thousand bands in the city for CMJ, there's a strong chance you'll happen to run into one on the streets, hanging out after a show, or taking advantage of an open bar at a blog party. Here we'll check in with musicians we spot during the festival to see how they're ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Kenny Chesney And Beyoncé Achieve Intimacy, Kelly Rowland Breaks Out, Resident Advisor Throws A Party
This week in the Village Voice, on newsstands now: I look at the intimacy achieved at shows by Kenny Chesney (at left, with Zac Brown) and Beyoncé; Puja Patel on Resident Advisor's 10th-anniversary party and its secret headliner; and Mikael Wood talks to Power 105 Live headliner Kelly Rowlan ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Exclusive: Download Blaqstarr's Cosmic-Aerobics Workout "Ride"
Delightfully cracked Baltimore-club stalwart Blaqstarr recently explained his creative process to our own Puja Patel with an extended spiel that might best be summarized as "It was just, like, cosmically absorbed through the universe." Hot on the heels of his new Divine EP (a bit of an experi ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
LCD Soundsystem Tickets For Their Terminal 5 Run Are On Sale At 9 A.M.
Don't forget your ID, either. Pic by Puja Patel.Our long national LCD Soundsystem ticket-scarcity nightmare is almost over: Their four Terminal 5 shows, running March 28-31, are on sale this morning at 9 a.m., priced at a reasonable $40 a pop and with all sorts of scalper-frustrating measures ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Better Get Your LCD Soundsystem Tickets Today
Don't get pissed at us if you miss this. Pic by Puja Patel.As your favorite music-news outlet has probably already informed you, the indomitable LCD Soundsystem have announced their final show: April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, a venue unthinkable nearly a decade ago when the band started a ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Live: Dan Deacon and So Percussion Shake Things Up at the Kaufman Center's Ecstatic Music Festival
Dan Deacon, wearing a shirt with a collar on it. All photos by Puja Patel; more below. Dan Deacon and So Percussion Ecstatic Music Festival Kaufman Center Thursday, January 20 Better Than: Choir practice. Audience participation is something that Dan Deacon has mastered, though we're not us ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Lil B To Last Night's Sold-Out Crowd At the Highline Ballroom: "I Adopted A Cat!"
One thousand based gods at last night's Highline Ballroom. Twitpic via Debby LONDON"I'm the first rapper ever to write a book in email and text message form," Lil B says from a Highline Ballroom stage, surveying the sold-out room. "At 19! And they had the nerve to call me stupid." Lil B is no ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Week in Review: Top Train-Wreck Bloggers
Presenting... burger-core. Pic by Puja Patel.In the week we spent holed up in Sound of the City headquarters preparing Pazz & Jop results, we still found time to report back from shows by former Talking Heads members Tom Tom Club, former Deee-Lite member, Lady Miss Kier, former the Pack membe ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Presenting Sound of the City's First Annual Nightlife Awards: Best New Club, Best Place to Dance, and More
The Martinez Brothers rock Good Units, 2010's best place to dance. Photo by Puja Patel.The best thing about living in New York is that there's never a lack of things to do. We've given up countless hours of sleep to go see our favorite DJs, catch late-night shows, peek into neighborhood hango ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
Tonight: Voice Writers Spin Holiday Rap At Gallery Bar
Yes, this holiday hip-hop happy hour-themed party thrown by none other than our own nightlife correspondent Puja Patel is called "I Got Ho's," and yes guest DJ and SOTC stalwart Christopher R. Weingarten has threatened to play a solid hour's worth of Christmas-themed rap (not to mention Insane Clo ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
The Noche De Los Muertos Party At Santos Party House Friday Night Is Canceled
Bad news for those who had their week in nightlife all planned out: Friday night's Noche de Los Muertos fete at Santos, to have featured Munchi, Maluca, DJ Comrade, DirtyFinger and Cobra Krames, has been canceled, (Not by any police action, though -- the MNDR show there will go as scheduled.) ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton
Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
District 36, A New Manhattan Dance Club, Has Its Grand Opening This Saturday, Featuring Lee Burridge and Danny Howells
District 36, exterior, daylight. All photos by Puja Patel.In this time of venue and general nightlife uncertainty in NYC, we'll take what we can get, and so it is with some happiness that we hail the opening of District 36, a new club opening this weekend at 29 W. 36th Street. An SOTC operati ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Meet Extra Place, the Semi-Secret, "Never Open to the Public" Performance Space Underneath the Old CBGB
Extra PlaceWell, it's not that secret--both The Fader and the CMJ Music Marathon have already made use of Extra Place (we've been there before, too), the new private, "never open to the public" performance space that is located on, wait for it...Extra Place, the blind alley off 1st Street bet ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
LCD Soundsystem Are Releasing A "John Peel Session-Style" iTunes-Only Record Next Week
The crew at Terminal 5. These guys are good. Pic by Puja Patel.LCD Soundsystem live are a fearsome, complicated, pretty wonderful thing, as hopefully you've found out by yourself by now; they've got an iTunes-only thing coming out Tuesday that will, for those who haven't seen 'em in person ye ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Manhattan Club Santos Party House Shut Down Due To The "Criminal Sale Or Possession of Controlled Substances"
On the door at Santos. All photographs by Puja Patel.The notice went up abruptly last night, just hours before Ninja Tune's 20th anniversary party was scheduled to kick off at the downtown club Santos Party House: "NINJA TUNE XX NYC HAS BEEN MOVE TO BOULEVARD 199 BOWERY AT SPRING." Why? See t ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
DJ Ayres on Savalas's Rap Music Ban: "I've Been Going Through This With Club Owners in New York City for Ten Years"
Yesterday, ubiquitous New York turntable presence DJ Ayres found his monthly Savalas party, Strictly Hits, abruptly cancelled. The reason? In the words of the club: Savalas is "taking a rap sabbatical." What this meant became clear when SOTC obtained the email a Savalas employee had sent to c ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Live: Das Racist Celebrate the Release of Sit Down, Man With a Few Hundred of Their Closest Friends
They're not joking. Just joking. All photos by Puja Patel.Last night, Das Racist celebrated the release of their second mixtape, Sit Down, Man, with a Mad Decent and Mishka-backed spectacle at Santos. The bill featured contributors to the mixtape - Keepaway and Chairlift - as well as Mad Dece ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
Sound Of The City Is Looking For Nightlife Writers
If you can talk to these people and explain to us what's going on here, we'd appreciate it.It is a glamorous life, music blogging, and we invite you to join us: Sound of the City is looking for new freelancers, particularly those specializing in the dance-music/nightlife/clubrat nexus.
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September 8, 2010
Yes, M.I.A. Is Still Doing A Free New York Show, Somewhere, Sometime
Let's try this again, shall we? Pic by Puja Patel.So M.I.A.'s last show here, headlining July's HARD Festival at Governors Island, was an unpleasant experience for all involved, due to some combination of technical difficulty, weather calamity, and further bad mojo from her seemingly cursed 2 ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Brooklyn, This Is Your Rain Dance: Rating Audience Moves at Yesterday's Chromeo Pool Party
So much umbrella dancing. "An accurate summary of the pagan ritual-meets-Fred Astaire umbrella dancing that became yesterday's BK show," wrote Montreal joke-funk duo Chromeo on Twitter earlier today, about our own Puja Patel's report on the show. (Thanks Chromeo!) But that got us thinking: what do ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Last Night: Falu Perform at Celebrate Brooklyn's "Mother India: The 21st Century Remix"
Photos by Puja PatelMI21: Mother India 21st Century Remix with DJ Tigerstyle and Falu Celebrate Brooklyn/Prospect Park Thursday, July 29 "Some of you already have the Bollywood thing down, wearing your sunglasses at night," teased Falu singer Gaurav Shah, as he donned his own pair. "T ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Is M.I.A.'s 2010 Cursed?
M.I.A.'s Saturday performance at HARD NYC did not go well. Like, kind of spectacularly not well. Her headlining set at the festival was the evening's low point, by all accounts; her sound, in particular, was a catastrophe, and this was before the heavens opened up and sent most of the crowd sprint ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Last Night: The Puma Social Club Celebrates The Drake Riot By Refusing To Allow People to Dance--Until Rusty Lazer Went On, Anyway
If you can figure out a way to dance on this "dance floor," you are smarter than we are. All photos by Puja PatelEven bleeding heart DIY promoters will admit that there's so much more you can do when there's money to spend. Frills come second to the show, of course, but none of us can deny th ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!
Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Creepy Uncle New York James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem Is #10 In the Country
LCD at Terminal 5, celebrating. Photo by Puja PatelSo can we just put that whole "LCD Soundsystem are merely a regional phenomenon speaking to solely to jaded New Yorkers and people who are worried about turning 40" thing to bed now? This Is Happening is one of the top ten most popular record ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Live: LCD Soundsystem And All Their Friends Settle In At Terminal 5
I was there when they dropped balloons at the LCD show. Pics by Puja Patel.LCD Soundsystem (Night #1) Terminal 5 Thursday, May 20 "We're here for four days -- tonight I will sleep in my own bed, and wake up and have coffee in my own house," announces James Murphy, with palpable relie ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
Live: Ed Banger Records Celebrates Its Seventh Anniversary with Justice, Uffie, Busy P, and DJ Mehdi at Terminal 5
Ed Banger Records Seventh Anniversary Terminal 5 Friday, February 12 Those of us that remember when "Pop the Glock" came out--all the way back in 2006-- were eagerly awaiting some sort of Ke$ha-themed diatribe from Uffie last Friday night. The Parisian rapper was one of the "surprise guests" at t ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Live From The Paper Nightlife Awards, Which Honored Quite A Few Sketchy People (Musto Excepted, Of Course)
Puja PatelYou get older, and Amanda Lepore stays the same age.Last night's Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards joined the dismayingly long list of 2009 award-show travesties. The invite-only event went down at M2 (the old Mansion) to a packed audience of important downtown scenesters (that's the ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Live: Makeout Couches, Fanny-Packed Bartenders, And Cultural Mashups Galore At Que Bajo!?
Puja PatelUproot Andy and Gecko Jones, clearly enjoying themselvesOne Thursday a month (it varies), DJs Uproot Andy and Gecko Jones (of Dutty Artz) throw a cumbia-themed dance party called Que Bajo?! After stints at Rose Live in Williamsburg and APT in the Meatpacking District, they've finall ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
Live: DJs Cavort With DJs At Plan B
Puja PatelToddla T (above) begets some obnoxious dancing (below)Once a month (every third Tuesday, to be precise), the East Village's Plan B hosts a nameless party that could very well be the best Tuesday-night-out around. Publicity is a word-of-mouth affair--lots of DJs re-Tweeting D ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
A Somewhat Rueful Live Report From Twestival, As In "Twitter Festival," Which Went About As Well As You'd Suspect It Would
Pic by Puja PatelNYC's Twestival (Twitter festival, get it?) went down Saturday at Brooklyn Bowl, raising money for Bronx-based charity Camp Interactive, which means there was at least one good thing about it.
Blogs
September 11, 2009
Week in Review: I Say "Your Alley" with the Utmost Respect
This is how we roll now. Photo of Electric Zoo inappropriateness by Puja Patel.Short weeks are the longest of them all, aren't they? In honor of the rain and cold outside, and in the interest of killing just a bit more time before it gets good and dark, let's run things back. Relive the week ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Live from the Converse Band of Ballers: Mad Decent Loses, Fool's Gold Wins, and Jim Jones Takes Home A Golden (Spraypainted) Trophy
all photos by Puja PatelThe Brooklyn Crew's aggressive (and we suspect, inebriated) group of fans Converse Band of Ballers Wednesday, August 12 Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers was as much of a shit-talking contest as it was a three-on-three tournament. The invite-only event went down at the C ... More >>

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