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Announcing the 2013 CBGB Festival

After its initial success this past summer, CBGB Festival will return to New York City next spring from May 15 to 19. The 2012 version was so much fun that it plans to do the only logical thing: Expand. See Also: - Live: Mamma Mia! Superchunk Bring The Heat To Times Square - Live: Guided By Voices ... More >>

Q&A: Will Schwartz Of Imperial Teen On Being Into Unrest, Sharing A Band With A Dude From Faith No More And How Living In Brooklyn Ruined His Songwriting

Since the mid-Nineties, Imperial Teen has crafted an infectious, hard-to-shake boy-meets-girl candy-pop jangle. Formed by Faith No More keys-master Roddy Bottum and NYU grad/pop maven Will Schwartz with ex-punk rockers Lynn Truell and Jone Stebbins, they quickly scored a major-label deal during the ... More >>

Live: Mamma Mia! Superchunk Bring The Heat To Times Square

Superchunk, Duff McKagan's Loaded, Upper West, Zulu Wave Times Square Saturday, July 7 Better than: The matinee showing of Sister Act. Originally slated to play a headlining gig at Beekman Beer Garden as part of the CBGB Festival, word went out early last week that Superchunk instead would play ... More >>

How To Enjoy An Outdoor Concert On A Potentially 100-Degree Day Without Dying Of Heatstroke Or Sunburn

Tomorrow is a big day for outdoor live music in New York City! The CBGB Festival is throwing a free show in Times Square with Superchunk, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Hold Steady, and Seattle Weekly columnist Duff McKagan's Loaded; it's also sponsoring the SummerStage show at Central Park with Guid ... More >>

Superchunk's "Crossed Wires" Video Wins The Internet For The Afternoon

All one can really say about Superchunk's clip for "Crossed Wires" without massive spoilers is a brief outline of its concept: Laura Ballance attaches video camera to kitty's collar and lets it run free, hilarity ensues. (OK, I can say one other thing without spoilage: It's much better than Phil Col ... More >>

GOOD FOLK

The Mountain Goats continue their uphill climb

The Dual Citizenship of Jon Wurster

From Superchunk to WFMU, his forays into both music and comedy inspire us all

This Week in the Voice: Geisha for a Month

​This week in the Voice, Victoria Bekiempis writes of her month-long experience as a geisha in Midtown. Infiltrating this world of sake and karaoke, she discovers more about the men who visit the club than the persona she becomes. "It takes about three weeks for the customers to warm up to you ... More >>

Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City

Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>

Announcing the 2011 Village Voice and Frank 151 SXSW Party, Featuring the Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, and More

Rocky Business at the Mercury Lounge last week. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​With three weeks to go and counting, we figured we might as well make it official: please join us in welcoming the 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, presented in concert with Frank 151, and starring the Wu-Tang Clan, Fish ... More >>

Q&A: East River Pipe On His Sweet Merge Records Deal, Not Falling Off The Wagon, And How Working At Home Depot Is The Shit

"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara Powers​As the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>

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Zach Baron's Top 10 Albums of 2010

Guess who? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Alright, let's do this, before I change my mind. With apologies to The-Dream, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo, Kylesa, Swans, Zola Jesus, Marnie Stern, and all other vestiges of my punk rock past, and especially you Nicki Minaj, who missed both of my lists this year. ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.​Dear fellow illumin ... More >>

ON THE JOB

Three great comics have Xmas covered

Bright Eyes Playing Radio City Music Hall In March, To Celebrate Their New Record

​You may regard Conor Oberst and his ongoing Bright Eyes concern as emblematic of a pasty, Paste-addled strain of whiny indie rock, but as such they can still be wildly entertaining: Last time I saw him, Oberst was kicking the crap out of a toy piano (with help from Dave Rawlings!) onstage at ... 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 >>

So Chavez Is Apparently Reuniting at the Parkside Lounge Tonight

​Or, playing a show, anyway--"reuniting" may be something of a misnomer, given the fact that the band told Pitchfork's Matt LeMay, back in 2006, that they'd never really broken up. "We never really became popular until we became more and more inactive," guitarist Clay Tarver told LeMay. "Had w ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Week in Review: Quarantine the Past

Later, dude. Photo by Rob Harvilla​In the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>

Download Live NYC Sets From Pavement And Superchunk

Put this memory on your iPhone forever. We just enjoyed a killer weekend of shows for indie-rock nostalgia (or not) types: Pavement's glorious return to NYC you saw coming from a long way off, of course; Superchunk's equally glorious resurgence, maybe not so much. Thanks to NYC Taper, you can peru ... More >>

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 >>

Superchunk Are Playing a Free In-Store All-Acoustic Set at Other Music on Sunday

Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. ​"Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>

Superchunk Are Not Reuniting

Rejecting nostalgia on the majestic Majesty Shredding

This Week's Voice: Jamey Johnson, Superchunk, Brandon Flowers, the Walkmen, and More

Jamey Johnson: Bon Iver, only good! Photo by James Minchin.​In this week's Village Voice, Chuck Eddy on the charms of schizophrenic stoner country guy Jamey Johnson, Jessica Hopper reviews Superchunk's excellent new Majesty Shredding, Ryan Dombal talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, an ... More >>

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Merge Thinks Your Whole Infatuation With This Arcade Fire Going #1 Thing Is "Kind of Like Sports"

This accordian kills fascists. Photo by Kim Erlandsen.​Though some of us here at SOTC may be somewhere between "agnostic" and "hater" when it comes to the all important subject of the Arcade Fire, there is one thing we can all agree on: it's been a hell of a week for the band's label, the vene ... More >>

Watch The Swell Season Cover Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two-Headed Boy"

​I've followed the Onion A.V. Club's "Undercover" series -- they picked 25 songs, and have invited 25 bands to cover them one at a time, so the first band has 25 songs to choose from, and the last has no choice at all -- just to see which tune will suffer the indignity of being the last one re ... More >>

THE DAY THE MUSIC LIVED

Mp3s take a hike!

Superchunk Talks With Us About Their Last Show Ever, Which Will Never Happen

After chatting backstage at the Village Voice Media SXSW party with Surfer Blood (who told us about their Twittering philosophy), and Pains of Being Pure at Heart (who recounted an innocently embarrassing incident involving a condom), we cornered Merge Records honchos/Superchunk leaders Mac McCaug ... More >>

The Village Voice SXSW Party Was Really Spectacular And We're Not Just Saying That Because These People Employ Us

photo by S. Taylor Not a clunker in the bunch of this year's VVM SXSW afternoon party at La Zona Rosa: Surfer Blood, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Superchunk, the xx. Surfer Blood, who'd by now lost count which number show this was, opened--and they are, as we later discovered, the nicest kids ... More >>

Hey Neat, The Daily SXSW Showcase Schedule Has Been Posted, So You Can Plan Your Itinerary If You're Going, Which, Yeah, Great, Good For You

​Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>

Announcing the Village Voice 2010 SXSW Party, Featuring Superchunk, the xx, Surfer Blood, and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Surfer Blood, doing their thing at the Cake Shop, circa CMJ. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Yeah, it's still months away, but someone has to kick SXSW season off, right? So it is with some pride and anticipation that we announce the Village Voice's 2010 SXSW party, featuring the xx, Superchunk, the ... More >>

Interview: WFMU's Tom Scharpling on His Twitter Novel, the New Scharpling and Wurster Album, and His Antipathy Towards Sleep.

"Fuel Dump is going to be like Magnolia. Or Crash. It's going to be like Magnolia meets Crash." Obligatory caption: "What I Do On The Weekends For Disposable Income." What Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling, might lack in modesty, he makes up for with his impressive ... More >>

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records On Gawker, Right Now

​Our Noise, the ace Merge Records/Superchunk oral history from author (and VV spouse) John Cook, is currently excerpted over at Gawker, where Cook, Merge co-founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, and New York's Hugo Lindgren will be discussing the book live at 1 p.m. Sample requisite "Cour ... More >>

This Weekend! Ten Reasons Why You're Going to Siren Festival

You're going to the Siren Music Festival, and here's 10 reasons why: 1. Admission is free. 2. It's your last chance to catch Frightened Rabbit in New York this summer. Frontman Scott Hutchison, noted for slopping "filthy, twisted stuff on top of really quite polished bass," sings about dismembered ... More >>

Preview the New Merge Records Book, Then Go See Superchunk Tomorrow Night

Cheating a bit here, as we peripherally know one of the dudes involved (no, not Ryan Adams), but nonetheless Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, out in September, seems to be a splendid little tome, as evinced by this snazzy-ass website, which in addition to tossing out an illustrated timeline an ... More >>

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Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

Whose Nostalgia?

No R.I.P. for the rock album just yet—Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation lives again at McCarren Pool.

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