Blogs
April 8, 2013Better Than: This by 2,000 light years.
"Life is not fucking pretty right now. Believe me, I can testify to that shit." This was Billie Joe Armstrong's call to arms. Shouted in the middle of performing "Letterbomb," he wanted the audience to let go with him for just a couple of Sunday evening hours ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 23, 2012Voice Choices
May 16, 2012Fred Armisen plays his favorite songs
Blogs
May 15, 2012Penelope Houston, the former lead singer of San Francisco punk legends The Avengers, has her solo shoes on again with the recent release of On Market Street (Devoted Ruins), her first solitary salvo in seven-plus years. But the official reissue of The Avengers' self-titled, posthumous LP—out t ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011Fucked Up Presents David Comes to Life
(le) poisson rouge
Monday, November 14
Better than: That start-to-finish performance of Pocket Full of Kryptonite at Brooklyn Bowl last month.
It took all of about 40 minutes—or, considering the context, until the end of Side B—for Damian " ... More >>
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November 4, 2011The Meat Puppets' thirty-year journey can be divided into a trio of disparate trajectories: the mind-melting Deadhead-cum-hardcore desert-rock genius of their SST Records years (1982-89); the glossy, muscular grunge-lite of the successful major-label stint they enjoyed in the 90's (thanks in ... More >>
Film
November 2, 2011Voice Choices
October 26, 2011Voice Choices
September 14, 2011The Coup take over Brooklyn Bowl
Blogs
June 6, 2011Against Me! w/Screaming Females
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sunday, June 5
Better than: A lecture on the evils of "selling out" delivered by a second-semester college freshman.
Against Me! played the first seven songs of their blistering set at the Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday night one ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011Mike Watt (center) and his Missingmen
To dig up some remotely negative bluster thrown at flannel-flyin,' bass-pluckin' Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stooges punk-rock guru and super-nice dude Mike Watt is no small feat. Enter Watt's ol' SST Records pal Henry Rollins for lighthearted jabs at Watt, found in Rol ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 16, 2011Voice Choices
January 26, 2011Voice Choices
January 5, 2011Voice Choices
December 15, 2010Voice Choices
August 25, 2010Voice Choices
August 18, 2010Voice Choices
June 22, 2010Books
March 24, 2010Failed again! Scribblers, orphans, and punks fumble through life in three new novels
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March 11, 2010New signage up at Thistle Hill, the much anticipated bar and restaurant from NOFX's Fat Mike and a consortium of others, including 'inoteca's David Massoni and Niagara Bar's John Bush. When last we checked in, the spot, which is located in the former Olive Vine location at 15th Street and 7th ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 2, 2010Blogs
January 22, 2010We're gonna explain who this mischievous dude is in a second. His name is Ben Rayner. Photo via Vice.Some backstory here: At last year's ATP New York, VBS.TV's Ian Svenonius goaded Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon to uncharacteristically attack their labelmates and fellow punk rock ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009Blogs
November 5, 2009Most definitely tonight's big whoop is Fucked Up, a/k/a that "brisk punk band from Toronto, with an unpublishable name," who will regale Brooklyn Masonic Temple, a/k/a New York's best venue for massive hearing loss, with a painstaking track-by-track recreation of their 2008 album The Chemistr ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 8, 2009Voice Choices
August 18, 2009Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love lo-fi
Voice Choices
July 1, 2009Voice Choices
June 3, 2009Voice Choices
March 11, 2009Books
November 19, 2008A rare chance to meet the pioneering punk producer.
Unknown
January 15, 2008LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the
Guitar Hero III–addled masses
Blogs
May 22, 2007NYC Life
September 5, 2006An East Village staple evolves, but dies a little in the process
Screens
January 24, 2006Film
August 16, 2005Music
April 26, 2005On their great new album, Brooklyn's best band explores why Catholic girls start much too early
Music
March 29, 2005Keren Ann and Nouvelle Vague open up New York ears to the chanteuse nation
Music
December 28, 2004News
October 28, 2003Uploader Supreme Joly MacFie Puts Indie-Rock New York on Cable and the Web
News
October 29, 2002Tony Hawk Airs on the Side of Commercialism
Specials
October 30, 2001Music
September 7, 1999Music
July 27, 1999Music
June 22, 1999Music
April 20, 1999Film
April 13, 1999Music
March 2, 1999News
October 13, 1998Spike Lee spins a raucous '70s morality tale
Music
August 11, 1998Music
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