South by Southwest Festival

Film Summer Guide: Club-going Teens Turn Celebrity Burglars in Coppola's The Bling Ring

Kids in the haul

Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers Doesn't Read His Own Press Because It's Often Wrong

Trevor Powers doesn't really get it. The musician -- who performs under the moniker Youth Lagoon -- caught the ink of critics back when his debut record, The Year in Hibernation, was released in late 2011. The album is a sprawling, introspective sonic and lyrical examination of crippling anxiety. P ... More >>

30-Minute Set? Pffft! The Bottom Dollars GO HARD, Play 90-Minutes or All Night!

This Saturday night, emerging Brooklyn rock darlings the Bottom Dollars play a late night show at Mercury Lounge with brothers-in-rock the Nuclears. Known for the party-marathon atmosphere of their performances, the Bottom Dollars have amassed a following dedicated enough to effectively crowd-source ... More >>

BAMcinemaFest 2012: Coming of Age

At four, the festival grows into a grand celebration

My 5 Favorite NYC Breakfast Tacos

The huevos con chorizo breakfast taco at Tacombi The breakfast taco is a Tex-Mex specialty that originated in Austin (some say San Antonio) probably in the 1970s. In both cities it is firmly fixed in the breakfast firmament, and a recent trip to Central Texas suggested you could get one in nearly ... More >>

Bad Brains

11 More Ways For Jack White To Release A Limited-Edition Musical Work

"Three weeks prior to the April 24 release of his debut album Blunderbuss (Third Man Records/Columbia), Third Man Records has premiered the as yet unreleased Jack White album track "Freedom at 21" exclusively via 1000 flexi-disc records attached to helium balloons launched from the label headquarter ... More >>

Live: Miike Snow Brings Atmosphere To Music Hall Of Williamsburg

Miike Snow Music Hall of Williamsburg Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Better than: The $3 pre-show falafel. Fresh from running the SXSW gauntlet, Swedish electropop trio Miike Snow played to a packed Music Hall of Williamsburg last night. The Hall was packed, which isn't too surprising given that they've ... More >>

Cloud Nothings

DARK GLITTER

Don’t stay away from Charli XCX

Wheelchair Sports Camp's Crip Life

If there were ever a moment for a queer, disabled rapper with a love for pot, jokes, and revolution to be a star, the moment is now

Download Fear of God, the New Mixtape From the Clipse's Pusha T

​One of the happiest of the many stories to get lost in the maelstrom that was Kanye West's 2010 was the rehabilitation of Pusha T, perhaps the single most critically beloved and commercially unsuccessful rapper of the last five years. The Clipse, his duo with his brother Malice, had sat on th ... More >>

Live: Donald Glover Gets Emo as Childish Gambino During SXSW

photo by Nate "Igor" Smith I Am Donald Tour (Donald Glover/Childish Gambino) Red 7 in Austin (SXSW) Saturday, March 19 Fuck Rap Cool. If there was any message Childish Gambino, the rap alter ego of actor/improv comedian/joke writer Donald Glover, wanted to relay to the audience at Red 7, it was ... More >>

The Best Things I Ate While at SXSW Interactive

​The kimchee fries from the Chi-Lantro BBQ truck made a magnificent lunch one day. At the SXSW Interactive festival -- which started last Thursday, and concluded today -- I represented the Village Voice at a panel called "Bite Me" organized by chow.com concerning the ethics of food writing. ... 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 >>

This Week in the Voice: Bad Tenants and Gnarly Neighbors

​This week in the Voice, Elizabeth Dwoskin introduces us to New York's 10 worst tenants. Scam artists, murderers, and hoarders all make this list of nightmare neighbors. Next time you feel like complaining because the people upstairs are playing their music too loud, be thankful you don't live ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

WALK IT OUT

Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks

Why Pitchfork Is Challenging CMJ With Their #Offline Festival

Screaming Females at CMJ, last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In case there was any doubt, it's now official: next week's Pitchfork-sponsored #Offline Festival will have no CMJ affiliation whatsoever. "This is purely a Pitchfork event," a representative for the website told us yesterday: "just ... More >>

Please Welcome Sherlock's Daughter, New York's Most Delightful New Transplants

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Kyle Dean Reinford​Sherlock's Daughter is New York's newest, awesomest band--"newest" as in, "they just moved here a few weeks ago." Freshly imported from Sydney, Australia, Sherlock's Daughter emplo ... More >>

Live: Best Coast, Cheerfully Yearning At Mercury Lounge

The "I wish he was my boyfriend" song at SXSW. Best Coast Mercury Lounge Wednesday, April 7 "I feel like she could use a friend," notes a friend with bizarrely genuine concern, upon hearing that I'm bound to see Bethany Cosentino, a/k/a Best Coast, this early, bizarrely sweltering evening. Her de ... More >>

Week In Review: I Feel Like My Whole Life Is Ridiculous

One of Fabolous' 23 victims. (Note: number is approximate.)​Well, we survived another April Fool's Day, a/k/a the worst Internet day of the year, casting aside this year's wan hoaxes and getting to the good stuff: Fucked Up, sued by an energy-drink juggernaut for bad-mouthing SXSW? Hilarious! ... More >>

L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear": Now With Bowtie Haterade

L MagazineTwin SisterAnother year, another edition of L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear." Said this last time around, but the point bears repeating: handpicking a barful of relatively intriguing unknowns in this city isn't an easy task, nor has it gotten any simpler in the last 12 months, e ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Spring Arts Guide, Todd P's MtyMx, Joke Rap, She & Him, Shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, Loser Lit, and More

Lizzi Bougatsos joins The Last Supper on Canal Street. Photo by David Wentworth.​In this week's Village Voice, we present our Spring Arts Guide: Angela Ashman goes shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, James Hannaham talks to Baise-Moi director Virginie Despentes, Ben Davis on Grúp ... More >>

Vivian Girls Played a "Nearly Acoustic" Set at SXSW, Thanks to the Austin Chill Wave

Rebecca SmeyneVivian Girls The biggest shocker of this year's SXSW was that it was bitterly cold in Austin on Saturday. Seriously freezing, out of nowhere, 37 degrees. The kind of abnormal Texas temperature that had yours truly shamefully wearing legwarmers purchased off the street (?!?) because th ... More >>

Tonight! Joanna Newsom, Scissor Sisters, King Missile, BAM's Opera Festival, and Nautical Almanac

​Tonight, Joanna Newsom spares you her baby/grandma coos -- her first New York outing in support of her new triple album, Have One on Me, is sold out at Town Hall, as is the Scissor Sisters show at Bowery Ballroom. So with the two biggest concerts of the night beyond reach, and with all those ... More >>

'Little Fury Things Records Party'

Eugene Mirman on Beef Navels, the Brooklyn Food Scene, and Babies in Bars

Eugene Mirman, with friend.​Eugene Mirman is a very funny man--so funny that this very publication dubbed him New York's best stand-up comedian in 2009. You've probably seen him on Flight of the Conchords or at Union Hall, where he hosts Tearing the Veil of Maya with Michael Showalter. Last ye ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Fixing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gorillaz, Bob Blank, Liars, SXSW Cheat Sheet, and More

The Liars, acting out a scene from the sequel to The Hangover. Photo by Zen Sekizawa​In this week's Village Voice, Jason Gross on how to fix--or blow up--the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Miles Marshall Lewis plays around with Gorillaz, Andy Beta talks with space-disco-and-beyond-producer Bob Bl ... More >>

On Janelle Monae's Incredible "Tightrope," Which Finally Exists In Physical Form, And Which You Should Hear Immediately, And Not Just Because Big Boi Is Involved

​Head to Pitchfork now and bask in this shit. I have been waiting for this song's release for 11 months, since I first heard it at SXSW 2009 (sorry about the photo), wherein my JM obsession began. (Several months later I was on the phone with her at the exact moment Michael Jackson's death was ... More >>

Further Details on the SXSW-Killing Todd P Festival in Monterrey, Mexico

That right there looks like an insanely beautiful spot in which to have a show. Photo via Impose.​March 19 to March 22, two stages, a "tent city," shuttle buses running both ways across the border, tickets at the absurdly low cost of $10 a day, and as many as 80 bands already confirmed, accord ... More >>

THE RETURN OF PARKERILLA

A venerable Brit-punk scales the Himalayas

All Tomorrow's Parties: The Film Gets a NYC Screening at the IFC Center

At long last, a New York City screening of the official All Tomorrow's Parties movie. The 82-minute documentary premiered in the States at SXSW last spring, showed at ATP NY in September, and now has an official release date of November 24, when it'll be available from Warp Films both as a physica ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Remember the epidemic years of AIDS, when infected New Yorkers fought to get into untested drug trials? People fought to get infected babies into those trials, too. Some of them, because of the nature of the trials, were given placebo drugs. Some made it, some didn't. Not much has been written abo ... More >>

CARNAVAL, THE SEQUEL

What the world needs now is trumpets

SXSW 2009: Top Five Wholly Subjective Austin Moments, Starring Dent May, Micachu, and Metallica

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Jason Lytle Shyly Resurfaces An Exceptionally Poor Band-Venue Combination

This one's for you, Zeke. Jason Lytle (Home Slice Pizza) Explosions in the Sky (Auditorium Shores Stage) SXSW Saturday Afternoon, March 21 So I've got this Grandaddy fixation thing I'd just as soon not gas on about. (Anymore.) Suffice it to say that ex-frontman Jason Lytle remains a person of int ... More >>

SXSW 2009: The Perils of "Day Rock" with Obits, Handsome Furs, and American Analog Set

American Analog Set/Handsome Furs/Obits Club De Ville SXSW Friday Afternoon, March 20 "I think this is the first show where I haven't been drunk in four years," is how Handsome Fur Dan Boeckner puts it, his poor sentence construction a further sign of fatigue/sobriety/broad-daylight disorientatio ... More >>

Week in Review: A Punishing Turkish Prison Sentence of the Peter Green-Era Blues Explosion "Oh Well"

David Atlas In the week all your friends went to South by Southwest, New York got a bit rowdy. The old scumbags of Mötley Crüe nearly burned down Madison Square Garden, while Fleetwood Mac brought both punishing Turkish prison sentences and "Silver Springs" to the same arena only a few days later ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Getting Off on the Good Foot with Marnie Stern and Heartless Bastards

Heartless Bastards (Radio Room) Marnie Stern (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Afternoon, March 18 Erika Wennerstrom's bandmates give her a tremendously wide berth onstage, three grizzled gentlemen crowding demurely to our far right as she holds court on the left, the sort of blast radius you'd give ... More >>

Week in Review: You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!

Rebecca SmeyneStill so mad I missed this... This will seem strange, but the Oscars were not even a week ago. Not that they were all that memorable--at this point, we only retain a foggy recollection, something about a Beck song and James Franco recommending a certain book on the red carpet... To b ... More >>

Week in Review: Asher Roth, the Silent Superhero; Real World: Brooklyn, Obnoxious Diseasebags

In the week we met the Real World Brooklyn cast (again) and yipee-skippied at the first episode, we also watched Whitney Port in The City and learned to stay away from the "Downtown Crowd." Meanwhile, the real youth-world Brooklyn was actually here. A rap spectacular this week. For a second, Ashe ... More >>

Polaroid Candids of Your Favorite Indie Luminaries (And A Characteristically Disagreeable Lou Reed)

SXSW: The Constantines

A Fierce Night in Brooklyn

Honoring a somewhat fatigued Project Runway victor at a South Slope house party

SXSW Tip Sheet 2008, NYC Edition: Kaki King

The Power of Soul Compels You

Risking drunken pawing from her grabby admirers, Sharon Jones obliterates your cynicism

A Not-Going-to-SXSW Playlist

Music

Triple Whammy

Tsuris-racked Christian spends her own money on Tex-Mex Disney breakup set