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On AMOK, Thom Yorke's Atoms For Peace Embrace Big, Scary Technology

Recently, science fiction has crept into the news. The FDA just approved the first bionic eye, which will reverse certain types of blindness. At last year's Usenix Security Conference, researchers displayed how the human brain could now essentially be hacked with devices that read brain patterns, id ... More >>

The Hold Steady Stay in the Key of E Street

The bar band looks to rebound after first stumble

The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Promo Photos

By Daniel Hill Here at SOTC Music HQ we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to shoulder. Make sure no one smiles, ever. Have the artists try to look thoughtful, but also like they are not trying to look ... More >>

Advice to Every New Band: Stop Putting Out Albums

By Daniel Hopkins Ask a Failed Musician, is a new column from our sister music blog at Dallas Observer, in which Daniel Hopkins helps struggling musicians make sense of their careers and offers advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn't work for him. But then again, he was o ... More >>

Q&A: The Arrogant Sons of Bitches' Jeff Rosenstock On The Joys And Stigmas Of Ska, CBGB Misery And Pranky Vibes

During my high school years in the early 2000s, I wanted to be in a ska-punk band. This fantasy could have been sparked by an Operation Ivy record, Save Ferris's prom-night concert in 10 Things I Hate About You, the genre's sartorial trappings, or the sound of trumpets. But one thing's for sure: Any ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Dreams Of A Giant Jam Session May 1

"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>

Bombay Bicycle Club

Pazz & Jop 2011: Michael Tedder On Fucked Up's Majesty, Danny Brown's Cunning Skills, And The Joy Formidable's Outro Power

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Michael Tedder breaks down his entire ballot, and along the way he talks about about the operatic heights of Fucked Up, the shredding ability of Annie Clark and R ... More >>

Man Behind Occupy Wall Street's Radiohead Hoax Speaks

​Two and a half months after the fact, Gawker's Adrian Chen has identified the guy who fooled Occupy Wall Street into thinking that Radiohead was going to play a free show at Zuccotti Park. It's this guy Malcolm Harris who writes for lit-mag The New Inquiry. He says he and his friends thought ... More >>

ONLY THE LONELY

Emo kids know how to party!

You Really Can't Miss Wheelchair Sports Camp at Kenny's Castaways Tonight

Most people think the name's a bad joke, but Wheelchair Sports Camp are anything but offensive. A psuedo-hip-hop trio from Denver fronted by Kalyn Heffernan, a 56-pound wheelchair-bound badass emcee with CRIP LIFE tattooed on her stomach, the band is playing Kenny's Castaways tonight at 8pm and th ... More >>

UPDATE: Radiohead Not Playing A "Surprise" Occupy Wall Street Show At 4 This Afternoon

So sayeth the official web site of the downtown occupation. Is it a surprise show if it's announced ahead of time? (Not really!) Do you think they'll break out "Creep" from the archives and tweak the lyrics? "No, you're the creep, you fatcats!" (Probably not!) Should you probably start heading down ... More >>

OK JONNY

Radiohead's guitarist goes to the dogs

The 10 Best Original Songs From 21st Century Films

Earlier today, the National released a video for the song "Think You Can Wait," from the "quirky" Paul Giamatti film Win Win. The video is a misguided combination of film dialogue transposed over a staged performance (the YouTube comments have already begun trashing it, and Matt Berninger's voice ... More >>

The Dears

Top 10 Music Videos Starring Muppets

Have to love when the crowd erupts as the song kicks into overdrive. You may have seen the LCD Soundsystem "Dance Yrself Clean" Muppets video floating around today (that's it above) and wondered, "Hmm, what other bands have had their songs Muppetized?" First, that's probably not a word. Second, we ... More >>

Vienna Teng & Alex Wong

Detroit Producer Black Milk's Top Ten Albums Of the Last Decade

​"I don't hear anything else out there like my record." So says a confident Black Milk, the Detroit hip-hop producer who's struck 2010's boldest titular move to date by electing to call his fifth solo project Album Of The Year (out today). With his gritty-yet-soulful beats, Black Milk is often ... More >>

Japan Cuts Like a (Very Sharp) Knife

Manga, J-quirk, revenge, and the Naughtiest decade

Dinosaur Bones

Spring Guide: Londoners the xx and More

Enjoying American top-10 lists with the hit Brits

An Early Look at 8st Kitchen: New Korean on West 8th Street

The best dish of the night, by far​ 8st Kitchen took over the spot on West 8th Street recently vacated by another Korean restaurant, Sanmaroo. They've kept the staid gray tones, the wall that looks like a pile of firewood, and the incongruous posters of Radiohead album covers in the back. Sanm ... More >>

Thursday

BLK JKS

News Roundup: Oasis, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke

​--Noel Gallagher has posted a statement regarding his reasons for quitting Oasis minutes before the band was to go onstage at the Rock en Seine festival in France. On the band's website, Gallagher wrote that "the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comr ... More >>

On Radiohead's New "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"

"Thom Yorke singing like he can talk to dolphins" is my favorite reaction thus far to this morning's unveiling of a new Radiohead track, a relatively simple Thom-plus-mournful-orchestra affair inspired by the titular Harry Patch, the last remaining survivor of World War I, who recently died at 111 ... More >>

Live on the LES with the Punch Brothers

On five wily, omnivorous bluegrass titans

The Easy Star All-Stars+Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

Age, Beauty Before Youth at Grammys

Despite myriad concessions to modishness and a Twitter feed, it was a Steely Dan sort of year at the Grammys as Robert Plant and Alison Krause's Raising Sand won five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ("Please Read the Letter"), and awards in the Country and Contemporary Folk ... More >>

Grammy Nominations Closely Track America's Downfall

WILD THING

Move your booty to Girl Talk’s megamix

Best Moderately Snooty Concert Series: Wordless Music Series

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

All Points West: Beginners Luck? Probably not.

LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Go find something you like at the All Points West Festival

Fuck a Blog: Jonny Greenwood's Orchestral Thing

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 15 & 16

Radiohead's In Rainbows [Disc 2]

More capitalist nightmares, though you have to pay for these

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying

The Android You're Looking For

Radiohead head broods beautifully but anticlimactically

My Irie Lung

A Radiohead reggae tribute bewilders, while the real thing just beguiles

Go Weird

California cavepunks fight imaginary enemies with real dirt

Film

Magical Mediocrity Tour

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

Home Alone

Labels and Labeling

Five Corporations Cope With Content

Forever Old

NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year

No Hype to Not Believe

Letters