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Stephin Merritt

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Live: Yann Tiersen Gets Playful At Irving Plaza

    Yann Tiersen Irving Plaza Friday, April 27 Better than: Most of the Philip Glass and Stephin Merritt music I've heard. Skyline, Yann Tiersen's seventh studio album, is only the second album of his current deal with Anti- and, like 2010's Dust Lane, it pioneers sonic territory structurally differen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    VOTE NOW: Should The Velvet Underground Or The Wu-Tang Clan Advance To SOTC's March Madness Final?

    As March comes to a close, so does our month-ish-long battle royale between 64 New York musicians, all of whom were put in the mix to decide which one best embodied the spirit of the city. Each of the divisions—Uptown, Queens, Downtown, and Brooklyn—has now crowned a winner, and for our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    SOTC's March Madness: The Quintessential New York Musician Tournament

    Sound of the City's monthlong tournament to determine the quintessential New York City musician (since 1955, the year of the Village Voice's founding) is taking over our site all March. The full schedule and results (as of March 23) below; you can also follow along with our bracket.

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Patti Smith (11) Battles Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) For Downtown Supremacy

    Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Last time around Patti Smith showed John Zorn who has the power, and Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground got all "Venus In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Going Back To Wellsville: Six Great Musical Moments From The Adventures Of Pete & Pete

    Like a defiant cannonball splash disturbing the tranquility of an adult swim, the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete lives on. Over three seasons between 1993 and 1996, the show followed the adventures of two brothers each named Pete Wrigley, their parents, their friends, and the entir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

    Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Q&A: Director Kerthy Fix on Her Endearing Film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour

    DVD cover We are on the cusp of a riot-grrrl resurgence, or so we hope. Early last year, NYU's Fales Library announced that the institution had acquired Kathleen Hanna's 1989-1996 papers. Then in the fall, news of a Hanna documentary spread, with activist/poet/Sister Spit staple Sini Anderson at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    The 6 Best Things You Can Bid On From WFMU's Benefit Auction

    Inside the WFMU archives.​It's fundraising time again for awesome local freeform radio station WFMU, and rather than do another fall marathon, music festival, record fair, or art benefit, the station has organized an online auction, with all proceeds going to support the beloved and increasing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Live: Superchunk Are Just Great at Bowery

    At Other Music on Sunday Superchunk Bowery Ballroom Saturday, September 18 Better than: The entire genre of chillwave. Let's start with "Driveway to Driveway," the first song of Superchunk's first of two encores this Saturday night, and overwhelmingly triumphant for a onetime landmine that seem ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 18, 2010

    The 2009–2010 Off-Broadway Season Winners

    At Other Music on Sunday Superchunk Bowery Ballroom Saturday, September 18 Better than: The entire genre of chillwave. Let's start with "Driveway to Driveway," the first song of Superchunk's first of two encores this Saturday night, and overwhelmingly triumphant for a onetime landmine that seem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Hear the Chris Knox Tribute Record

    ​The latest on Chris Knox, the New Zealand songwriter and Flying Nun affiliate who suffered a debilitating stroke in June: He's at home, as he has been for some time. It seems he's making music again, as Tall Dwarfs, though he's not yet speaking--"He wanted me to do an edit of a song loop down ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 18, 2009

    Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar

    ​The latest on Chris Knox, the New Zealand songwriter and Flying Nun affiliate who suffered a debilitating stroke in June: He's at home, as he has been for some time. It seems he's making music again, as Tall Dwarfs, though he's not yet speaking--"He wanted me to do an edit of a song loop down ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

    photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    MLK Day Special: A Pretty Sunset, "Got MLK?" MP3

    photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2007

    Flyer of the Week: Best Thing Ever's Bathroom DVD Premiere

    photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

  • Music

    September 5, 2006

    Comfort Music

    (Or, Some Songs That Won't Really Make It All Better, But Might Help Get You Through the Next Hour)

  • Music

    July 25, 2006

    Part 2: Stuff You've Probably Never Heard Before Or Should Hear More of...

    (Or, Some Songs That Won't Really Make It All Better, But Might Help Get You Through the Next Hour)

  • Music

    July 11, 2006

    "Music for Torching!" The Summer Barbecue Special

    Special guest: "Handsome" Jim Bentley, BBQ master

  • Music

    May 30, 2006

    Gypsy Road, Take Me Home

    Beirut's gorgeous Balkan hymns light ukuleles and MP3 blogs aflame

  • NYC Life

    January 24, 2006

    Green Afternoon

    It was funded right before the crash. The owner jumped off the building.

  • Music

    October 18, 2005

    Christians and Heathens

    Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2005

    The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Singles Since July

    Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

  • NYC Life

    April 26, 2005

    Theater

    Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

  • Music

    March 1, 2005

    As an Enigma's Mystery Disappears, What's Left to Retain Our Interest?

    Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

  • Books

    November 30, 2004

    Books

    Our 27 favorite books of the year

  • Music

    November 23, 2004

    Candypentagram

    Fake Finnish goths make fake metal for the love of it and you

  • News

    September 7, 2004

    Music for the Masses

    Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

  • Music

    May 11, 2004

    Anti-Gravitational Boots

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

  • Music

    March 9, 2004

    Edges of the Groove

    Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    A Little Faster This Time

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

  • Music

    January 27, 2004

    God Bless the Child

    Cabaret wunderkind waves jock-hipster kryptonite at all of NPR's left-leaning quirksters

  • Music

    December 30, 2003

    MLK Fever

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Theater

    July 22, 2003

    Family Feud(al) Obligations

    Two Clans Dis Function; Two Directors Make It Work

  • Music

    July 1, 2003

    Make the Charts

    Mailbox Synthpop as Piano and Voice Recital

  • Dance

    February 18, 2003

    Good Things in Black Boxes

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • Music

    December 3, 2002

    Music

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • Music

    August 20, 2002

    Take the Long Way Home

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • Music

    June 18, 2002

    Crash Into Me

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • Film

    January 8, 2002

    Citizen Park

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • NYC Life

    July 3, 2001

    Listings

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • Music

    January 30, 2001

    Music

    Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

  • News

    April 25, 2000

    Hasid Jazz?

    Orthodox, conservative, or reformed, klezmer's back and marching

  • Home

    February 15, 2000

    Flak On Both Sides

    Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

  • Home

    February 15, 2000

    Thirdhand News

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

  • Music

    June 16, 1998

    Conjugal Visit

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

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