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Rob Sheffield

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Tonight: Smart People Read About Music In Brooklyn And Manhattan

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Tonight: See Ted Leo, Rob Sheffield, and Julie Klausner Tell Jokes About Music at Upright Citizens Brigade

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Behold The Musical Spoils Of The Brooklyn Book Festival

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    The New York Post 'Snarks' Brooklyn Books, Sarah Silverman, and Paul Krugman

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

    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?

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Q&A: Author Rob Sheffield on His New Book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

    "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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 6, 2010

    HAPPY HOUR

    Chat up Chuck Klosterman at Lulu's

  • Books

    May 25, 2010

    Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

    Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Alex Chilton Tribute Roundup: The Rockers, The Critics, The Congressmen

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2009

    BOOK IT!

    Librarians: smart enough to plan a party the right way

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    "Rock Critic Karaoke," Which Is a Real Thing, Is Occurring Tonight in Red Hook

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Live: Stories in High Fidelity at Highline Ballroom

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2008

    Wednesday 4:2

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2008

    Happy Ending Music and Reading Series

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2007

    I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

    ​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 >>

  • Books

    January 23, 2007

    Mix Tape Memories

    Love and loss among rock critics

  • NYC Life

    January 9, 2007

    From Andy Warhol to Thompson Twins

    Two beloved scribes release two dramatically different books, and celebrate accordingly

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Cat Scratch Fever

    Bitchy doormen, '70s porn, and the paragraph that turned Fly Life gay

  • NYC Life

    February 28, 2006

    Famous

    NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    I'm My Favorite Game

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Try Isn't Do

    Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Top Ten Plus

    Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Burn Baby Burn

    Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    The Personals

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Story of the Hurricane

    They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Can't Stop the Music

    The 'Voice' invents rock criticism

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    100 Hottest Hotties

    Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    Pebbles at the Palace

    Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    On Da Corner Worldwide

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    A Little Faster This Time

    "I'm Never Wrong" vs. "This Is What I'm Good At"

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    The Personals

    "I'm Never Wrong" vs. "This Is What I'm Good At"

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    Top Ten Plus

    Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club

  • Specials

    January 6, 2004

    Letters

    Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club

  • Music

    January 6, 2004

    Ham Lies Down on Broadway

    Rock-operatic American idol chews nonexistent scenery

  • Music

    June 6, 2000

    Fight for Your Right to Party

    Rock-operatic American idol chews nonexistent scenery

  • Home

    February 15, 2000

    Rev That Azz Up

    Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

  • Home

    February 15, 2000

    Thirdhand News

    Consumers Complain, Party, Riot, Look for Answers, and Crack Wise

  • Long Island Voice

    November 9, 1999

    Politics of the pit

    Consumers Complain, Party, Riot, Look for Answers, and Crack Wise

  • News

    November 2, 1999

    Politics of the Pit

    Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock

  • Specials

    November 17, 1998

    Letters

    Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock

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