You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>
The biographer reads at Book Court on Thursday with Rob Sheffield
Tonight, Bell House will screen the Monkees' 1968 film Head. The group and their management thought it wise to keep copping the Beatles' moves, and the film was likely greenlit with the idea that it would be their Help! Thankfully, the Monkees -- fueled by their growing insecurity over being percei ... More >>
A movie from the made-for-tv band
Music blog throws bash in honor of self
Tonight is a fine night for staying indoors and listening to people chat about music, and New York has two fine options: Friend of SotC Daphne Carr is throwing a party for her 33 1/3 series entry on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine at The Sackett (661 Sackett Street, Brooklyn); there will ... More >>
In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>
SOTC role model Ted Leo has had a long standing sideline in comedy, from Best Show cameos to Our Show skits, so it only makes sense that comedian John Frusciante, host of UCB's Break Up Your Band ("a live monthly discussion about the state of music past and present, what you should and should ... More >>
Ah, the Brooklyn Book Festival, a five-year-old, free, all-day blowout of panels, readings, and extraordinary quasi-literary happenings, where you might see, say, Ian MacKaye complaining about people who say "just type it in" when they mean "Google it." (On a panel with Thurston Moore and Lup ... More >>
Predictably nasty New York Post film critic Kyle Smith is now apparently telling his readers what else to do on the weekends. Not that he really should, but Smith obviously doesn't give a shit what Post readers are doing on the weekend, because he apparently wrote one entry just to be a cruel ... More >>
Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?
"Wow, Kenny Rogers was always right!" Photo by Deborah Suchman Zeolia"Oh my God, you're a Nick Rhodes girl," says Rob Sheffield, referring to Duran Duran's keyboardist. Earlier in the evening, we'd wrapped an interview about Sheffield's new book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young ... More >>
Chat up Chuck Klosterman at Lulu's
Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging
With apologies to our own Rob Trucks, you ain't gettin' more surreal in terms of Alex Chilton tributes today than the above brief speech from Steve Cohen -- make that Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee. He quotes from "The Letter" and everything. Very sweet, very bizarre. But of course he's not ... More >>
Librarians: smart enough to plan a party the right way
Forgive the moderate self-aggrandizement here, but tonight, Brooklyn's own Jalopy Theatre is hosting Peter Stampfel's Critical Karaoke, wherein the badass NYC folk heavyweight invites a bunch of rock critics -- the slate will apparently include Robert Christgau, Rob Sheffield, Joe Levy, Micha ... More >>
Love and loss among rock critics
Two beloved scribes release two dramatically different books, and celebrate accordingly
Bitchy doormen, '70s porn, and the paragraph that turned Fly Life gay
NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards
Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile
Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission
Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine
Falling in love for different reasons
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
The 'Voice' invents rock criticism
Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet
Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
"I'm Never Wrong" vs. "This Is What I'm Good At"
Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club
Rock-operatic American idol chews nonexistent scenery
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
Consumers Complain, Party, Riot, Look for Answers, and Crack Wise
Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock
