Ryan Adams

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 7/29/13

For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Beth Orton

Night Beds

Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up

​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 >>

The Wood Brothers

Jesse Malin+Juliana Hatfield

The Lemonheads

ROCKIN’ READING

Shudder to Think’s Nathan Larson reads his debut novel

American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

Farewell, Paste Magazine

​After nearly folding last summer, it looks like the Georgia-based music mag Paste is departing for good this time. Staffers got the news in an afternoon meeting yesterday, and have since taken to Twitter, looking for new jobs--pretty conclusive evidence that the pay cuts the writers took and ... More >>

Big-Shot Chicago Sun-Times Rock Critic Jim DeRogatis Is Bound For Academia

Critic, author, radio show co-host, professional R. Kelly antagonizer, and all-around polarizing pop-music raconteur Jim DeRogatis announced his resignation from the Chicago Sun-Times late yesterday, where's he held down the pop-critic spot for nearly two decades, give or take a brief, unhappy sti ... More >>

A Week of Human Cheese; Is Your CSA a Ripoff?

This week in food blogs... Eater compiled a list of the best headlines for stories about Daniel Angerer's breast milk cheese. FitR fave: "N.Y. Chef Keeps Abreast of Food Trends With Mother's-Milk Cheese." Grub Street reported that the ASPCA might have to send a "letter of disapproval" to Sushi Uo ... More >>

Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul

Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>

RIP NYC Musician and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Bassist Chris Feinstein

Jon Graboff​He was 42. The Nashville-born multi-instrumentalist had been a New York fixture for more than a decade, producing and writing for artists as varied as Albert Hammond Jr. and Fat Joe. In 2006, he became the bassist for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, who dubbed him "Spacewolf." Feinstei ... More >>

News Roundup: Ryan Adams, Raekwon, The-Dream

​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

News Roundup: Jay Z, Pearl Jam, Ryan Adams

​--Jay Z, who released a new track with Drake yesterday, is expected to announce today that he will play Madison Square Garden on September 11th, the day Blueprint 3 is scheduled to come out. The show will benefit the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund, created in 198 ... More >>

Donavon Frankenreiter+Gary Jules

Yes In My Backyard: Motel Motel Exclusive Video Premiere for "Coffee"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Last time, we gave you new MP3s from Love Like Deloreans and Blondes. Photo by Davey Wilson Motel Motel Brooklyn monster-buzz-band Motel Motel scream and bubble and flourish and sweat with that hyper-ext ... More >>

Preview the New Merge Records Book, Then Go See Superchunk Tomorrow Night

Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>

Richard Swift

Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

Ryan Adams Would Like To Acknowledge the Following People for Inspiration or Guidance: Albert Einstein, David Letterman, Nas, the Dalai Lama...

It being April and all, we feel compelled to announce that the long awaited Infinity Blues, the poetry collection by Ryan Adams, is in finally in stores. To the left: a poem drawn from the "Lower Class Mythology" section, one of five chapters that also include "Bad Ideas," "Infinity Blues," "Chapt ... More >>

Live: Oasis Call Soldiers "Gay Boys" at MSG

The Exquisite Winter Blahs of Horse Feathers

John Varvatos Wants Care Bears On Fire Mom's Phone Number

D. Charles Speer's New Weirder America

To take us back to the country, NY avant-garde vet spaces as far out as possible

The Boy With Fewer Thorns in His Side

The sound of his own wheels no longer drives Ryan Adams, or us, crazy

Humble Pie

Introspective piano man broadcasts from deep inside his own head

The Vapid '70s Folk-Rock Resurgence You Did Not Request Has Arrived

Music

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Ostracism

A Month on the Town

The man who's reviewed 12,000 records reviews 32 shows in 30 days

Alt-Country's Similarity to Porn, Finally Explained

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

Back to the Future

Two electronic chanteuses go their own way, one in the wayback machine, the other into a broken-beat future

Three Times a Crybaby

Here's more non-bad publicity for a guy who never sees it that way

Laptop for Desktoppers

Music so unlikely it could be written and performed rather than researched and found

Democracy Now

Annual collaborative fest puts the 'O' back in countronica

Pay To Play

The Pixies lead a mixed bag of Apple-only mini-albums

Okies From MMMBopee Remain Brothers for the Long Haul

Anti-Gravitational Boots

Some very rough guides to living in a nation that won't share and will never be the same

Ska, Jam, Rock, and Reggae Stars Try to Drop Pressure

Crudités, Anyone?

Note to Ryan Adams: Like, you know, shut the fuck up

Music

Where Do I Go Now?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

I Said Ignoramus, Not Dummie

Music

Don't Call It a Comeback

A Bit of a Dag

2001 Gets Better

Here Comes a Regular