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May 23, 2012
Santigold's Gold Standard
Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album
Blogs
April 13, 2012
10 No-Brainer Rock Legends Never Nominated For The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Sick Of It All (16) Battles Talking Heads (8) As SOTC's March Madness Takes A Trip To CBGB
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. Two CBGB staples from two different scenes, Talking Heads and Sick Of It All get in the Round of 32's pit as we try to det ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
March Madness: Will LCD Soundsystem (9) Lose Their Edge Against The Talking Heads (8)?
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2012
Live: Cults Shimmy Into The Spotlight At Webster Hall
Cults w/Delicate Steve, Dirty Fences Webster Hall Thursday, January 19 Better than: Surfing the Hype Machine. Cults might be one of those bands that seemed to be birthed entirely on the Internet, but give them some credit: Even now, some 18 months after launching their debut EP on Bandcamp, there ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Download: Esque's Bubbly World Party "Bones To Be"
Julia Von Der HeideBrooklyn fourpiece Esque play Afro-Latin soul-pop, an unlikely combo of Joy Division melodies, bubbling Latin rhythms and the cheery smash-up feel of Talking Heads' Naked. Their website basically lays it out: "It's a waste of time to play only one kind of music when, you kn ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011
The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Oscar Winners
MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Earlier today, we counted down the best music videos directed by people who took home (or, more likely, left at the podium) the Razzies' "Golden Raspberry" award for worst director. ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2011
TIME MACHINE
Go back to when Soho was cool
Voice Choices
April 27, 2011
Gary Lucas's Gods & Monsters
Go back to when Soho was cool
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Week in Review: Top Train-Wreck Bloggers
Presenting... burger-core. Pic by Puja Patel.In the week we spent holed up in Sound of the City headquarters preparing Pazz & Jop results, we still found time to report back from shows by former Talking Heads members Tom Tom Club, former Deee-Lite member, Lady Miss Kier, former the Pack membe ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
The Ten Worst Moments On Girl Talk's All Day
Greg Gillis in Williamsburg, summer of 2009. Photo by Sam Horine.By now you've heard All Day, the fifth full length LP from Pittsburg's Greg Gillis--or, as he's known on chaotic, fan-filled stages around the world, Girl Talk. The record was released to minimal fanfare, at the low price of fre ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 6, 2010
Tom Tom Club
Greg Gillis in Williamsburg, summer of 2009. Photo by Sam Horine.By now you've heard All Day, the fifth full length LP from Pittsburg's Greg Gillis--or, as he's known on chaotic, fan-filled stages around the world, Girl Talk. The record was released to minimal fanfare, at the low price of fre ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 22, 2010
Born Ruffians+Winter Gloves+First Rate People
Greg Gillis in Williamsburg, summer of 2009. Photo by Sam Horine.By now you've heard All Day, the fifth full length LP from Pittsburg's Greg Gillis--or, as he's known on chaotic, fan-filled stages around the world, Girl Talk. The record was released to minimal fanfare, at the low price of fre ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010
Dan Black
Greg Gillis in Williamsburg, summer of 2009. Photo by Sam Horine.By now you've heard All Day, the fifth full length LP from Pittsburg's Greg Gillis--or, as he's known on chaotic, fan-filled stages around the world, Girl Talk. The record was released to minimal fanfare, at the low price of fre ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Week in Review: Uniformly Awful
In yr face. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
More Songs About Treason And Pork: Here Are Eight Talking Heads Tracks That'd Also Work Great In Political-Campaign Ads
We've been here before. So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without a ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
David Byrne Is Suing Florida Governor Charlie Crist For A Million Bucks
Per Billboard comes the latest "politician swipes a pop song for a campaign ad; pop star recoils in horror" tale -- these are always a delight, even though the epic John McCain/Jackson Browne battle of 2008/9 was supposed to settle this question once and for all in the artists' favor. But no, Char ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Video: Kyp Malone Covers Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place" On Our Show
Here we have the TV on the Radio luminary tackling what he acknowledges is many folks' favorite Talking Heads song -- an underrated first-dance-at-your-wedding number, really -- in a characteristically yelp-y, jittery, anxiety-ridden style (those high notes are tough). But the result, as captured ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Live: The Hirsute And Bombastic Local Natives At Bowery Ballroom
Not kidding about the hirsute thing. PIcs by Santiago Felipe.Local Natives Bowery Ballroom Thursday, May 6 Your eyes are drawn immediately to the one dude's mustache, a prime accordion-playing/fire-flower-acquiring/bowling-pin-juggling/olde-tyme-bathing-suit-wearing juggernaut, a prof ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 4, 2010
Local Natives
Not kidding about the hirsute thing. PIcs by Santiago Felipe.Local Natives Bowery Ballroom Thursday, May 6 Your eyes are drawn immediately to the one dude's mustache, a prime accordion-playing/fire-flower-acquiring/bowling-pin-juggling/olde-tyme-bathing-suit-wearing juggernaut, a prof ... More >>
Music
April 13, 2010
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Pay Homage to Imelda Marcos
Not kidding about the hirsute thing. PIcs by Santiago Felipe.Local Natives Bowery Ballroom Thursday, May 6 Your eyes are drawn immediately to the one dude's mustache, a prime accordion-playing/fire-flower-acquiring/bowling-pin-juggling/olde-tyme-bathing-suit-wearing juggernaut, a prof ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Tonight! The Babies, Best Coast, Bitters, Dr. Dog, MiniBoone, Mariachi El Bronx, And Suckers
Marielle Solan Look, it's MiniBoone! And free Monopoly money!Get past the silly concept of an indie supergroup and go see the Babies (Cassie from the Vivian Girls and some dude from Woods) at the Knitting Factory. Expect uppity Vivian Girls sass, but with discernible lyrics and a healthy lowe ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
"A Writer At Pitchfork Critically Said I'd Collaborate For A Bag Of Doritos": David Byrne On Writing Songs With St. Vincent, Fatboy Slim, Brian Eno, And Others
You get one guess which Pitchfork writer. Fascinating post on DB's journal/blog on songwriting alchemy, how much everyone hates writing words, his own personal workspace ("Serial numbers and security codes for software are pinned to the wall, along with a Tammy Wynette poster"), and so forth. Evid ... More >>
Books
December 15, 2009
The Best Books of 2009
Vikings, asses, and LSD—Voice writers pick their favorite books of the year
Books
August 25, 2009
Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens
On the improbable return of the rock-star novel
Blogs
July 2, 2009
Bones' Beat: Destroy All Monsters at Printed Matter
Any even slightly exhibitionistic art student knows the ground rules to starting a band: do some serious hanging out, pick a name, make a noise, and bring that noise with supreme gusto to a group of people in a basement or a cafeteria. It's simple and satisfying. Perhaps one in five art school ban ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 24, 2009
I'm In You
Any even slightly exhibitionistic art student knows the ground rules to starting a band: do some serious hanging out, pick a name, make a noise, and bring that noise with supreme gusto to a group of people in a basement or a cafeteria. It's simple and satisfying. Perhaps one in five art school ban ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2009
Live: David Byrne Regales, Like, 10 Million People at Prospect Park
Just keep your eye on the glowing white rectangle. CREDIT David Byrne Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Monday, June 8 A lesson we forget every winter and relearn every summer is how nuts New Yorkers are when it comes to free outdoor shows -- and how many New Yorkers there are. Prospect Park i ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Afrobeat, Modernist Jazz, and the Steadily Improving Amanda Palmer
The Daily News reports that tonight's Femi Kuti gig has been cancelled. But if you can't delay your fix, the Knitting Factory's New York AfroBeat Festival will otherwise continue as planned. Catch clarinetist Oran Etkin's free-form jazz at the early show, or Wunmigirl's African breakbeats late. D ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2009
SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE
David Byrne plays a free concert in Prospect Park
Voice Choices
February 18, 2009
BYRNE AFTER READING
Because he's released a book and done everything else, too
Voice Choices
May 20, 2008
SMOKE SCREEN
White Williams really means it
News
August 28, 2007
Magical Musical Piss House
CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal
Film
July 31, 2007
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire
1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!
Art
November 14, 2006
Camp Followers
1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!
Music
August 8, 2006
Open-Road Rock Nostalgia Goes Awkwardly Disco
1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!
News
July 25, 2006
Letters
1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!
Music
February 28, 2006
Music
1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!
Music
December 13, 2005
Kiss the Sky
Austin indie band effortlessly achieve completeness the sixth time out
Specials
October 18, 2005
2003
Austin indie band effortlessly achieve completeness the sixth time out
Music
October 4, 2005
Another Good Kick
Thrift-shop-dapper Scottish new wave revival standard bearers approach the perfect beat
Music
September 13, 2005
The Hordes of Flatbush
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
Film
June 21, 2005
Ch-ch-ch-changes
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
Theater
March 8, 2005
Skewering the 'Rockatrocious' Pundit Biz From the Inside
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
People
February 8, 2005
Hot Spot
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
NYC Life
September 21, 2004
Culture Club: Surveying the Current Creative Landscape
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
NYC Life
February 17, 2004
And the Winner Is . . .
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
NYC Life
April 9, 2002
Listings
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
News
March 12, 2002
Punks in the Hall
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
News
October 9, 2001
Manifest Destiny
The Return of the Dictators
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