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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 10/26/12

Here's a list, in no particular order, of the ten best concerts to check out this weekend. Follow us @SoundoftheCity, like us on Facebook.

Live: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Occupy Shea Stadium

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, So So Glos Shea Stadium Monday, November 21 Better than: Getting into another political argument on Tumblr. In honor of last night's benefit for the National Lawyers Guild at Shea Stadium, the letters "OWS," for "Occupy Wall Street," were haphazardly applied to the wall ... More >>

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This Weekend In New York: The Wake And Weekend Get Rained On But Not Rained Out, Ted Leo And Screaming Females Shine In The Sun

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Sweaty DIY venues are great, but even Waste Of Paint needs a break from them once in a while. Furthermore, I haven't been leaving my dark cave much lately, and my c ... More >>

Ten Years Of Free Ted Leo Shows In NYC: A Brief Retrospective

Matias Corral​ You're forgiven for wondering if the Sound Of The City is really just a gussied-up Ted Leo fansite, but we argue that's the only natural reaction to his glorious existence. Ted Leo is many things: insightful songwriter; leave-it-all-on-the-stage performer; great interview subjec ... More >>

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists To Headline 4Knots Music Festival Kickoff Show On July 9

Shawn Brackbill​In preparation for the brand-new 4Knots Music Festival on July 16, the Voice is holding a kickoff show at the South Street Seaport exactly one week before, on July 9. Headlining that free, all-ages show, which starts at 6 p.m., will be Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Leo is, of cour ... More >>

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, Tune-Yards, And Dan Deacon Lead Bonkers Our Band Could Be Your Life All-Covers Tribute Show

​This show is crazy: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life -- an exhaustive history of '80s-indie giants from Sonic Youth to Fugazi to Black Flag -- the Bowery Ballroom is hosting a one-night-only parade of modern alt. superstars covering the bands ... More >>

Be An Extra In An NYC-Shot, Tom Scharpling-Directed New Pornographers Video This Friday

Tom Scharpling "directing" Ted Leo, in June. Photo by Stelios Phili.​The last video writer/director/radio host/comedian Tom Scharpling directed in 2010 involved Ted Leo, Julie Klausner, John Hodgman, and a decoy fake musical in the spirit of Green Day's American Idiot. The clip convinced a few ... More >>

Tonight: See Ted Leo, Rob Sheffield, and Julie Klausner Tell Jokes About Music at Upright Citizens Brigade

​SOTC role model Ted Leo has had a long standing sideline in comedy, from Best Show cameos to Our Show skits, so it only makes sense that comedian John Frusciante, host of UCB's Break Up Your Band ("a live monthly discussion about the state of music past and present, what you should and should ... More >>

Titus Andronicus and the So So Glos Are Playing A Free Show at Bar Matchless Tomorrow Night

Titus Andronicus at Webster Hall last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Well, this will be great, if you can make it inside: the mighty Titus Andronicus are playing the extremely modest-sized Bar Matchless tomorrow night with the So So Glos, for free. It's a private show, but you can get in with ... More >>

The Jean Marie

The Epic Musical Ted Leo Promised Is Actually A Video For "Bottled in Cork"

"It is, hopefully, the new direction I've been seeking and a new path that I hope you'll walk with me," Ted Leo wrote Friday, in an epic post on his blog dealing, once again, with issues of sustainability, retirement, and the plight of the aging punk rocker. The new path to which he was referring ... More >>

Watch Ted Leo Perform "Little Dawn" and "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone" Live at Siren Festival

If we're being honest, we've been refreshing YouTube all week in the hopes that someone might have uploaded footage of Marissa Paternoster's obliteratingly awesome guest turn on Ted Leo's "Woke Up Near Chelsea" at Siren this past Saturday, but it seems it's time to give up hope. (How is it possibl ... More >>

Your 2010 Siren Festival MVP Is The Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster

​So much for dressing for the weather. Photos by Rebecca Smeyne​As you may have derived from weather reports, or common sense, or Twitter, or me, it was tremendously fuckin' hot Saturday afternoon in Coney Island, home of the nonetheless raucous and lively tenth-annual Siren Festival, wh ... More >>

Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?

This Week's Voice: M.I.A., Ted Leo, Marissa Paternoster, Early Indie Reissues, and More

Ted Leo, blowing a vuvuzela. Photo by Mark Hewko.​In this week's Village Voice, we get ready for Siren Festival by talking to Ted Leo about the rumors of his impending retirement (not true!), while Rob Harvilla attempts to sort through former Siren headliner M.I.A.'s new Maya, Chuck Eddy round ... More >>

The Fake Retirement of Ted Leo

Rumors aside, the mod-punk icon still gives a fuck. Maybe too much of one.

Here's Your Siren Festival 2010 Hourly Schedule

​ Not that there's not other things to talk about (The-Dream!), but we figure this is essential to your Saturday plan of attack. I might suggest that if SOTC were in charge Ted Leo would be both headlining and playing his own special commemorative stage, but this'll all work out just fine, I ... More >>

Live From Yesterday's Ted Leo Video Shoot at the Bell House

​ In the "top secret" filming location of Ted Leo's music video for "Bottled in Cork," I am waiting to choke a punk-rocking goon with my polka-dot ascot. Director Tom Scharpling sent a casting call two days prior, instructing fans to attend the shoot wearing nothing but their "finest theater- ... More >>

This Afternoon's "Top Secret" Ted Leo Video Shoot Is. . . at The Bell House

Rob Hatch Miller's TwitPic Only love for these guys, but we were admittedly excited about the prospect of the "top secret" video location for Ted Leo's "Bottled in Cork" to be a dingy Bed-Stuy loft, or the Party Expo space (maybe part of that TBA?), or Damon Dash's basement (we know, it's booked), ... More >>

The L Magazine Asks The Tough Questions, e.g., Can You Wear Shorts Onstage?

Another of Ted Leo's questionable looks, courtesy this person.​Kudos to the L crew for whipping up one of the more entertaining (and informative!) multiple-artist Q&A gambits in recent memory: "It's 95 degrees. It's humid. You're playing an outdoor show. Shorts on stage: Yes or no?" Don't act ... More >>

New Siren Festival Additions!: The Night Marchers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Earl Greyhound, Wye Oak, and Screaming Females

​If the ace, tenth-anniversary themed line-up of our very own Siren Festival--featuring Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem--wasn't convincing you, how about some new additions? San Diego ex-Hot Snakes guitar slingers The Night Marchers, the tiny firebra ... More >>

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

2010 River to River Festival, Featuring Free Energy, Best Coast, Antibalas, YACHT, Bear in Heaven, and More, Announced

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Music Sales Are In Free Fall Right Now, and That Fact Still Matters

Can this man get Ted Leo paid?​This week's album chart is topped by Justin Bieber, with the Canadian idol's My World 2.0 bubbling back into the No. 1 slot despite a 65% sales drop from the previous week. World moved 102,000 copies, enough to best last week's No. 1, Usher's Raymond Vs. Raymond, ... More >>

This Weekend! Ted Leo, Screaming Females, Sundelles, Arms, Sea Monsters, MiniBoone, The Trombone Festival, Doveman, Mirror/Dash, Wild Babies, Twin Sister, and Balún

TedLeo.comTed Leo loves popcorn more than you​Everyone's favorite "goddamn American hero," Ted Leo, will be chord-chugging tonight at the Fillmore with Screaming Females. Though if you've been offended by his karaoke criticism, you can always check out mindlessly ecstatic lo-fiers the Sundelle ... More >>

Hear "American Slang," Title Track Off The New Gaslight Anthem Record

​Sounds like these guys have been listening to a little Ted Leo, huh? Head to their MySpace now for your first taste of American Slang, out in June, and from the sounds of it another fine, yearning slice of Jersey-boy anthemia. (There's a tune called "The Queen of Lower Chelsea," though, so cl ... More >>

Instant Co-Sign: Ted Leo Covering Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"

So The Onion's got this elaborate scheme where they get 25 bands to cover 25 specific songs, their pick, first come first served, introduced by Onion staffers casually holding Starbucks cups, with the poor 25th band stuck with whatever's left. Ted Leo bats leadoff and selects, wisely as always, Te ... More >>

Hear the Great New Ted Leo Song: "Mighty Sparrow"

​Right here: Ted Leo, "Mighty Sparrow." One of the best on his newest, The Brutalist Bricks (out March 9th on Matador), in our humble opinion. He's on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the Monday of the week his record comes out, and you can apply to be in the audience if you like, though there are ... More >>

Ted Leo Is On Team Conan

​After the letter from the man himself, and his increasingly unhinged but awesomely vindictive late night monologues, let us recommend this Conan O'Brien co-sign from Ted Leo, who has reason to be grateful to the guy--O'Brien's old show hosted Leo's Pharmacists not once but twice, to date the ... More >>

Ted Leo Played At Least Six New Songs at the Bowery Last Sunday

For a show with absolutely nothing to promote, album or tour-wise, Ted Leo's show last Sunday at the Bowery sold out awful fast. Probably because you can count on one hand the amount of live acts currently playing venues like that one better than the Pharmacists. The indefatigable nyctaper comes t ... More >>

Ted Leo's New Record Has A Name and a First Single: "Even Heroes Have to Die"

​The Brutalist Bricks, hm. That Ted Leo just gave his forthcoming record on Matador a name that could have easily graced the cover of a Mission of Burma LP, circa 1983, is probably a good sign. So is "Even Heroes Have to Die," that record's first single. Upon first pass? A whole lot of melodic ... More >>

Hear the New Ted Leo Song: "One Polaroid a Day"

Ted Leo's been doing some version of the same live set for nigh on three and a half years now; his last full length record, Living with the Living, was released on the now-departed Touch & Go back in March of 2007. His shows are never less than stellar but on the eve of a new record--promised on M ... More >>

There Will Be Busta Rhymes at This Year's CMJ

​CMJ released the final lineup to the 2009 edition of the annual trial that is their festival. Since last we checked in--back when they announced the very metal additions of Pig Destroyer and, wow, Eyehategod--YACHT, Ted Leo, Hercules and Love Affair, Kyp Malone's Rain Machine, and token rap s ... More >>

Ted Leo Did In Fact Play Last Night

And there's footage to prove it. unARTigNYC have the weirdly pristine video and audio to new jam "Where Was My Brain," part of a set that started after the worst of the rain, around 7:50pm, and went on for around an hour and a half. Leo's Twitter tells the tale, as always, moving from excitement ( ... More >>

Tonight! Beach Bums and Goatwhore

We'll run art on Ted Leo when he busts out a floater.If Jack Johnson has taught us anything, it's to never, ever underestimate the sheer marketability of surfing. Obama's entire general election strategy in Hawaii revolved around a single photo-op at the deadly Sandy Beach (see below), just as Johns ... More >>

DFA Summer Mix By Jacques Renault Is Killer. That Is All.

  Not much to add here, really, besides if you want to listen to something that bears absolutely no resemblance to the grim grey repetition of opening mail and drinking half-full cans of soda and looking petulantly at the sky outside and thinking maybe somehow it won't rain during that Ted Leo ... More >>

Free Outdoor Ted Leo Show Still Happening, Despite Rain

Might want to leave those nice kicks at home though. [Ted Leo/RiverRocks]

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists+Radio 4+Extra Golden

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

Live: "Indie-Rock Karaoke" with Ted Leo and Andrew W.K.

Brief Guide to All the Wacky Shit You Missed This Weekend, Ponce

New Ted Leo: 'Rapid Response,' a Trip into Punk Rock Live Blogging

LIVING WITH THE LIVING

Pearl Jam, meet Ted Leo

Gang of New Jersey

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists mingle rampant Europhilia with "American Girl"

The War on War

Ted Leo protests on, not so we don't have to, but because most of us won't

Is This a Date?

Vague plans leave me clueless about where I stand with flirty friends

French Fries and Fruit Flies

Not Yesterday Once More

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