Spoon (Band)

Spoon Drummer Jim Eno Adds "Record Label Owner" to His Very Long Resume

When Jim Eno converted his garage into Public Hi-Fi Studios in 1998, he didn't think owning a studio would involve doing anything other than making music. About a month before he launched Public Hi-Fi Records in March, however, everything hit at once. "Studio owner = booking agent, tech, IT support, ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers: Will My Band Always Be Broke?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Beacon Theatre - 1/15/13

Better Than: Hearing a drunk crowd shout "Freebird" at a concert where the annoyed band onstage did not write and will not perform said timeless classic by that name. It would have been Ronnie Van Zant's 65th birthday had he not perished--with other members of Skynyrd and their entourage--at the a ... More >>

My Inability To Schmooze Is Killing My Music Career!

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Relatives Want to Save Your Psychedelic Soul

A swirl of gritty, psychedelic guitars and screaming fans with their hands raised to the heavens isn't what you typically think of when you hear gospel. But Dallas-bred group the Relatives have no concern about your or anyone else's preconceived notions of the Lord's music. They weren't concerned in ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers Britt Daniel of Spoon: How Do I Get A Big Name Producer For My No Name Band?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Robbers on High Street

The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010

Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>

Live Streams From Matador 21 Start Tonight With Pavement, Sonic Youth, And Fucked Up

​It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>

Draft the Walkmen High

The finest drunk-sounding American rock band around perseveres, buzzless

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Black Mountain

The Arcade Fire Sold 156,000 Copies Of The Suburbs, According To... Spoon

​The Arcade Fire will "probably, and most assuredly definitely" have the #1 album in the country this week, according to the L.A. Times, which attributes the 156,000-copies figure to Merge labelmates Spoon, who of course helped AF burn down Madison Square Garden last week. Should this number, ... More >>

What This Year's Bizarre Chart Results (Arcade Fire! #1!) Say About the State of Music in 2010

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!​If the band Spoon can be trusted, then Billboard is about to announce (and here we are!) that the Arcade Fire and their label, Merge, have the #1 record in the country. (They've already done it in the UK.) The Suburbs sold 156,000 copies its first week out, ... More >>

Bootleg Roundup: Download Spoon At Madison Square Garden, And Darcy James Argue's Secret Society At the Newport Jazz Festival

All hail Spoon, arena-rockers at last. Pic by Ben Jay.​A couple splendid bootlegs to start your week, starting with Spoon's triumphant, 15-song (!) opening set for Arcade Fire at MSG last Wednesday, as captured by the indomitable NYC Taper. Britt Daniel and co. fill the place just as capably a ... More >>

Whoever Just Faked The Jelly Pool Parties Lineup Could've Done A Way Better Job

​So a couple hours ago Brooklyn Vegan seemed to post this year's Jelly Pool Party schedule, easily the most vital dance card for Brooklyn-is-the-center-of-the-universe types. But apparently it was some clown with access to the JPP braintrust's official Twitter account last year. BV posts a pho ... More >>

Woe Betide Those Attempting To Buy Tickets For Arcade Fire's Madison Square Garden Show Today

​So the Arcade Fire's got a new record (The Suburbs) and an NYC tour date (August 4 at MSG, with Spoon opening) on the horizon, but contrary to Merge Records' announcement yesterday, pre-sale tix for the latter don't seem to be available yet. Prefix mag notes much mashing of teeth from local f ... More >>

This Weekend! Toro Y Moi, Ruby Suns, Holy Ghost!, Bear Hands, Gil Scott-Heron, Talib Kweli, Spoon, Deerhunter, Basseko Kouyate, Miike Snow, Crystal Stilts, Love Is All, Lymbyc System, Glass Ghost, And The Big Pink

Making up for last week's paucity of shows thanks to SXSW and MtyMx, the city has an overstuffed dance card this weekend. First, chilllwave maestro Toro Y Moi will be playing with Tropicalia breakbeat-borrowers the Ruby Suns at Brooklyn Bowl. To quote one of the latter's tunes, "Kenya dig it?" Hol ... More >>

NOT TURNING OFF

Spoon rock Radio City Music Hall

HONEYBEAR BITE

Blues upstarts offer some bad romance

Video: Spoon's Britt Daniel Does "Written In Reverse" At Sound Fix

I am somewhat obsessed with this song, magnificently unhinged highlight of Spoon's new Transference, delivered here solo acoustic, which robs the tune of its volatile bounce but allows you to focus on Daniels' nonetheless still magnificently unhinged voice. Primal screaming in record stores is on ... More >>

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

Video: Spoon Doing "Written In Reverse," Sounding As Gleefully Angry As Conan Feels

Whatever you think of Spoon's beyond-skeletal Transference, this titanically hostile piano-banger is the jam, particular when Britt Daniel screams it with such abandon. A fine guest and sentiment for this trying time in Conan's life. Spoon of course is playing tomorrow night at Mercury Lounge, but ... More >>

Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke????, Pavement, Etc

​Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>

White Rabbits

NOT TURNING OFF

Line up now for Britt Daniel

This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More

Spoon, doing less with less. Photo by Autumn De Wilde​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old head extremist drummer) Weasel Walter. In Boo ... More >>

The Ghost of Spoon Lingers

On the defiantly skeletal Transference, which only a recession could love

At Last, the Answer to the "Which Jawbreaker Song Would the Hold Steady Put on a Mixtape?" Question

​It's "Fireman." Our guess would've been "Bad Scene Everybody's Fault," but what do we know? That's a "mixtape shirt" up there, by the way, customized and signed by the Hold Steady's Tad Kubler, currently on auction (via Insound) to benefit 826NYC. There's also an Of Montreal one; further edit ... More >>

CMJ: The xx Play the Apple Store

Different locale, same concept. As Camille pointed out, this year's CMJ is pretty devoid of marquee acts; there are no gigantic queues for Spoon, the Shins, the Knife, or the like. What we do have is a compounded hysteria for the zygotes that would be second or third tier in other years but, in t ... More >>

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."

Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>

White Rabbits on Recording With Spoon's Britt Daniel, Opening for the Pogues, and Playing Basketball With the Walkmen

"I just like seeing our press releases verbatim on blogs. That's just my favorite." Think they'll play inside this rig tonight at the Bowery Ballroom? Brooklyn's White Rabbits were known for two things when they first emerged in 2007: the ska/soul affectations of their sure-footed debut, Fort Nigh ... More >>

LET'S DANCE

What Spoon would sound like as a DIY disco act

Fitter, Happier

Spoon throw in a horn or two but still trim the Anglophilic fat

Noise from the Front

For the week of December 27, 2006–January 2, 2007

Listening in Real Time

Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

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Be Your Own Potter

Reassured scenesters navigate two make-believe worlds

Impeding the Stampede

Britt Daniel's Austin indie heroes resort to adoration-averse post-hoopla ambivalence

New Yorkers Disguise Covert Flyover Pop in Brit-Hipster Trappings

Letters

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

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No Slack, Motherfucker

Music

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Total Systems Failure