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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

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Pazz & Jop: The Comments

Get Trippy Mane: Your Flawless Christmas Light Touring Soundtrack

Now that Christmas is over and the presents are all unwrapped, you have no excuse but to switch off the computer, get up, wrestle on a cardigan and a sweater vest, grab your smart phone, and hit the streets. Vacate. Go. Get out, and look at some Christmas lights. Because, look, your hood didn't risk ... More >>

Damien Jurado Will Take Your Breakfast Food Related Question Now

Earlier this year, Seattle's Damien Jurado issued his tenth full-length album, Maraqopa, continuing his evolution from spectral, introspective folk whisperer to bold, ambitious, genre-splicing troubadour. It's his second album -- following 2010's Saint Bartlett -- helmed by fellow musician/bard Rich ... More >>

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Q&A: Lotus Plaza's Lockett Pundt On Deerhunter's Musical Chemistry, His Recent Engagement, And Why "Black Buzz" Is The Best Song He's Ever Written

The titles of Lotus Plaza's two albums reveal a lot about the project's shifting aesthetics. 2009's The Floodlight Collective (Kranky) was a light-saturation exercise in an extremely literal sense, a suffocating gush of effects pedal-generated and otherwise so outsized that it was impossible to tell ... More >>

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UPTOWN GIRL

We're not in Romania anymore

Q&A: Laetitia Sadier On Life After Stereolab, The Genius Of Joseph Losey, And Growing Up With The Smiths

​ The voice is both plaintive and bright; beguiling and stark. It knocks around a quiet range of expression, yet it sings directly—of Marx, erotic transgression, and "the Dinosaur law." And it might have cheekily soundtracked a Volkswagen commercial or two. The voice belongs to Laetitia ... More >>

Laetitia Sadier

Can A Professional Music Critic Name All Nine Members of the Wu-Tang Clan?

​If there's one common complaint we hear as rock critics, it's "I could totally do your job." First off--shhh, don't tell anyone! Secondly, "jobs" traditionally pay better than this, so we'll gladly go Parent Trap with you in a heartbeat. Either way, we decided to get some measurable data o ... More >>

Live: Twin Sister Host A Very Chill Christmas Party At The Live With Animals Gallery

Christmas cheer thankfully trumps the show's . . . intimacy. Pics by Chris, more below.​Twin Sister/Blair/John K. Friday, December 17 Live With Animals Gallery Better Than: Taking Back Sunday's Extremely Emo Hanukkah Join us as ethereal indie-rock crew Twin Sister hosts the best really aweso ... More >>

A Sunny Day in Glasgow

SWEET SLUMBER

D.C. punks bask in their global vision

The Raw Revelations of Fire in My Bones

A DIY gospel comp offers three discs of ferocious testimony even nonbelievers can believe in

CMJ Live: Sleepwalking With Broadcast And The Atlas Sound

Fuquan7777Broadcast get all shy. CREDIT​Broadcast/The Atlas Sound (Le) Poisson Rouge Tuesday, October 20 Two trippy, languid, insular headphone bands -- best appreciated in private, while wearing a Snuggie and high on mushrooms -- offered back to back at a crowded CMJ show, with pristine soun ... More >>

Atlantic Avenue Gets a New Cafe

From Brooklyn comes word of a new cafe on Atlantic Avenue: Loretta's, a diminutive place near the corner of Bond Street, looks "like the inside of a Stereolab album cover" and is now serving homemade croissants and Ozzie's coffee. And it's got a patio outside that's perfect, as the ladies might sing ... More >>

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Interview: Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier

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Predictable But Pristine Pop From Stereolab

Hugs and Kisses #36: David Cronenberg's Wife, The Pack A.D., Navvy

Common's Simple Denominator

His avant instincts dulled, the Man of the People gives the people what they want

Deerhunter and the Klaxons Straddle the Noise-Pop Divide

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Ratatat: Electronica Will Never Die

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Live: Stereolab, Pleasant But Boring

Loops Live

Atmosphere triumphs over drama for pinko bastards once again

Searching For the Next Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Pay To Play

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

What Are Words Worth?

Deflatable dolls critique consumer culture in bargain store

Ablaze at All Angles

Retro-futurists recover from their loss, recharge their glow

Maserati Does 185

Lost My Apartment, Now I Can't Spell

Folk the Pain Away

Friends of Kimya and Adam Call Antifolk What They Want

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Soul's Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)

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Chopping Timbre

The Art of the Indie-Rock Remix

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Why Jingles Died and Licensed Pop Rules