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A look back at a decade of NYC rock

Q&A: Greg Fox On How A Rasta Alien In A Yellow Adidas Tracksuit Handed Him The New Guardian Alien Record While He Was Meditating In A Van On Tour

Greg Fox, drummer extraordinaire for the sonic-spiritualist psychers Guardian Alien, is chowing down on grub at Cong Ly on Hester Street, and with the exception of a small dose of displeasure regarding the econo cuisine ("Weird. I feel like they used different noodles today or something"), the vibes ... More >>

The Top Ten DIY Venues In New York City

In New York's chaotic do-it-yourself music ecosystem, nothing is a given. A venue might combust as suddenly as easily a new one might spring up, making this list obsolete—yet that volatility is part of the venues' inherent uncivilized appeal. Who's to say where the next bunch of longhairs migh ... More >>

Friendz With Benefits

Fall for Tami Hart

Q&A: Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner And Andy Stack On The Hype Machine, Touring For Almost An Entire Year, And Feeling Unworthy

A year ago this month, Wye Oak kicked off their 2011 with an opening slot for The Decemberists at Beacon Theatre. There was a snowstorm, and it was a pain in the ass to get home, but their set was a great kickoff to what's been, for the Baltimore duo, a great year. Their third album Civilian, a slow ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Brooklyn Gets Into The Seasonal Spirit With Solo Projects And Post-Punk

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we learned Manhattan has no monopoly on holiday cheer. Sure, the decorations on Fifth Avenue might cost a little more, but not even the gaudiest depart ... More >>

Live: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Occupy Shea Stadium

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, So So Glos Shea Stadium Monday, November 21 Better than: Getting into another political argument on Tumblr. In honor of last night's benefit for the National Lawyers Guild at Shea Stadium, the letters "OWS," for "Occupy Wall Street," were haphazardly applied to the wall ... More >>

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Are Playing An Occupy Wall Street Benefit At Shea Stadium Tonight

If you aren't doing anything this evening, perhaps you'd like to catch this hot bill that's playing tonight at Shea Stadium: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, and the So So Glos. The show, which was announced last night, will benefit the National Lawyer's Guild, who's working with people in need of legal a ... More >>

Download: Songs From Greg Fox's Side Projects, The Psych Quartet Guardian Alien And The Squelchy GDFX

​This week, wiry drummer Greg Fox announced that he was quitting black metal nirvana-seekers Liturgy, leaving the mega-buzzed art-rockers without one of Brooklyn's fiercest, blurstiest spasmotrons. Eager to explore other musical endeavors, Fox is blasting full-speed ahead with two side project ... More >>

Live: K-Holes And Making Friendz Try To Outdo Each Other At Shea Stadium

K-Holes.​ HoZac Records Presents w/ K-Holes, Xray Eyeballs, My Teenage Stride, Making Friendz Shea Stadium Thursday, June 16 Better Than: Losing on a walk-off balk. Half the fun of going to a show at Shea Stadium is walking to Shea Stadium. It's better when there's no one around except for y ... More >>

Ten New York Bands You Should See At This Weekend's Northside Festival

Making Friendz (aka Tami Hart) plays Shea Stadium tonight.​Northside Festival starts tonight! Finally, your very own chance to see the best emerging local bands taking over Brooklyn bars for four nights... or as we like to call it, "pretty much every weekend in New York ever." We here at Sound ... More >>

Prince Charles in D.C. to Discuss the Future of Food; Airlines Appeal to Epicures

​An 86-year-old beer vendor at Shea Stadium has failed to prove discrimination when her employer reassigned her but not her younger co-worker. Court papers say she was replaced by a 75-year-old. [Reuters] World food prices nearly hit a record in April as grain costs increased, which boosted i ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Top 10 "Live At Shea Stadium" Bootlegs, Starring Screaming Females, Teeth Mountain, And The So So Glos

Whatever show this was, it didn't make the list, remarkably. Pic by Rebecca Smeyne.​Shea Stadium has been one of Brooklyn's finer DIY-type venues since opening in April 2009 -- after a quick move from Debevoise Avenue over to its current home at 20 Meadow Street (neighbor issues, alas), the sp ... More >>

'Personality Crisis'

Greenpoint Club Coco66 Is Taking The Week Off From Doing Shows To "Become A Better Venue With More Space For People"

Yesterday, a manager at the beleaguered Greenpoint club Coco66 promised us that despite a police raid on Friday that momentarily closed the venue, they were reopening at regular capacity this week--"we didn't have to close at all," they told us. But this morning, we noticed that every show booked ... More >>

Janis Joplin Highlights a Surprisingly Good 'Summer Festival for Peace' at Shea

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 13, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 33 Riffs By Don Heckman If anybody out there is looking for a convenient, already-built set for a film of Kafka's "The Castle," I've got just the thing -- Shea Stadium. Endless ramps that lead nowhere in p ... More >>

Wavves Afterparty At Shea Stadium Broken Up By (Justifiably) Pissed-Off Cops

​Protip: If you're ever looking to get a show shut down as fast as possible, whip a bottle at a police car. "The plan was originally for Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork, and Patrick Stickles, lead singer of the grouchy New Jersey band Titus Andronicus, to DJ at Shea Stadium from 2 a.m. un ... More >>

Tonight! Joshua Light Show w/ itsnotyouitsme, Venom P. Stinger, Fresh Kills, Massive Attack, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, And Escort

Returning tonight to the Abrons Arts Center is the Joshua Light Show, a/k/a the guy who, during the '60s and '70s, popularized gloopy, Technicolor, acid-brewed concert projections and, oh yeah, worked with Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who, and other sweet dudes. Yes in My Backyard-pick itsnotyouit ... More >>

This Weekend! Sleigh Bells, Broken Social Scene, Death Set, Ava Luna, Beauty Feast, Dinosaur Feathers, Jonsi w/ Nico Muhly, And Much Much More

Unless you regard yourself as a ticket-scalping monger, you must accept that a Friday roundup begins with four sadly inaccessible sold-out shows: Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, and Broken Social Scene. Fortunately, this gives you the opportunity to revel in some well-earned "I'm on a Boat" ... More >>

Tonight! Cave, Penguin Prison, And High Places

Caves pic by Laura Coleman​This could be another day of cursing the gods, considering that both Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Webster Hall show and Midlake's gig at the Bowery Ballroom are sold out, but hey, there are plenty of excellent consolatory shows. You could start a therapeutic sing-al ... More >>

This Weekend! Oneida, Judas Priestess, Kill The Alarm, Psychedelic Horseshit, And The Bellmer Dolls

​If there's any chance your reckless behavior will be rewarded with a shiner this weekend, it's gotta be tonight. Oneida (to your left), with (thoughtfully) abrasive rock and destructive, amped-up guitars, will make all gentle souls within a 100-foot radius of the Knitting Factory shake in th ... More >>

Week in Review: Let Us Soak in Positive Forces

New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>

New Year's Eve Party Crawl Photos: Cake Shop, Home Sweet Home, Shea Stadium

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneBlastoids at Shea Stadium, somewhere in the vicinity of 5 am Yes, bleary-eyed, Resolution-abiding, returned-to-work masses, this is what your weekday life is really like. But before we all slip back into the morass of parasitic assholes and mindless tasks, let's take a m ... More >>

Photos: New Year's Eve 2010 MSTRKRFT at Webster Hall

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithNo idea Last year, Lady Gaga headlined Webster Hall; this year MSTRKRFT showed up for the after-hours slot. Nevermind that all-night Shea Stadium show, if you were at Webster on New Year's Eve, you definitely don't remember it. Enter our party photog Nate "Igor" Smith ... More >>

CMJ In Photos, So Far

Ume at Public Assembly. Photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​Elsewhere: Endless recaps, involuntary rants, street fashion. Right here: SOTC photographer Rebecca Smeyne, putting in work. Her first installment, featuring Small Black, Woods, El Perro Del Mar, Beach Fossils, Titus Andronicus, Heavy Trash, an ... More >>

Northside Festival Began Last Night, Magik Markers Played, Controversy Ensued at Shea Stadium

Magik Markers at Shea Stadium, photos Rebecca Smeyne So last night was the beginning of L Magazine's ambitious little festival that could, Northside Festival, and it is, by all appearances, cozier and far more endearingly starry-eyed than our old embattled, but lovable glue-bound horse CMJ, whose ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Zap Mama, Cake, and Some Golden-Age Hip-Hop

Starting today, intrepid Voice intern Michael Downes will offer a daily, highly biased digest of that evening's best NYC shows -- and the whole weekend's slate on Friday, which today is, mercifully, if you were not aware. Enjoy. FRIDAY Zaire-born Marie Daulne fronts Zap Mama at Joe's Pub. Foun ... More >>

Mets, Yanks Fans Not Filling Up Their New Ballparks

Apparently not even the prospect of starring in baseball's new umpire replay videos is enough to induce New Yorkers to shell out $300 for tickets to the new Yankee Stadium. After River Avenue Blues ran photos of entire empty sections during Friday's matinee, things got even worse yesterday, when ... More >>

The Clash at Shea: Queens Is Burning

You weren't there, and everyone who was was kind of a jerk

The Strange History of Final Games in Stadiums Slated for Demolition

Loot, loot, loot for the home team

Former Mets/Yankees Reflect on the Stadiums Facing Demolition

Happy Friday: News You Can Lose

Billy Joel. Shea Stadium. Let's Do This.

Captain Jack's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Horseplay at Shea? What Really Happened in the Escalator Death?

Son of a Pitch!

Looking for answers about the pathetic Mets' collapse

Taking Credit for the Mets 7 Express Home from Shea

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Capture the Flag

Corona diner re-creates the national colors in a platter

A Queens Ransom

The Mets are in and the Jets are out, but where do the taxpayers fit in?

Great Gatsby Dumplings

Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes

Close-Up on Corona

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Mo' Better Mets?

A Heavy Whiff of Uncertainty After Phillips’s Frenetic Deals

Rich Men, Pour Men

Yankee Stadium Beer Vendors’ Cups Runneth Over—So Tip ’Em Already

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Bats Out Of Hell