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May 1, 2012
Q&A: JD Samson of MEN on Playing Occupy Wall Street on May Day
JD Samson and MEN are helping to close down today's May Day events with a free concert at 7 p.m. at 2 Broadway in the Financial District. We sat down with Samson on a sun-dappled stoop recently to talk about the show, what Occupy Wall Street means to her, and her band's upcoming album. Village Voic ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
This Weekend In New York: Guerilla Toss Weird Out, Cloud Becomes Your Hand Role-Play, And Quintron Turns Brooklyn Into A Swamp
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Ain't it grand when some sensory input makes you feel like you're on Mars, even though you're totally sober? We devoted this weekend to the weirder side of the New York mus ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
Yoko Ono (6) And Leiber & Stoller (11) Go Head To Heads In SOTC's March Madness
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—continues to chug along, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. This morning's first match puts the a ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010
No.Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 29, 2010
Bowieball
No.Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Striped-Jumpsuit Prisoners No Longer Acceptable Setup/Cleanup Crew For Coney Island Shows
Here is one problem, at least, the Jelly Pool Parties don't have: They didn't just lose their cheap supply of chain-gang labor. Per The Brooklyn Paper comes news that whatever trash you left behind at last week's B-52s show at Coney Island was picked up by a prison inmate. Striped jumpsuit an ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 11, 2010
B-52s+Belinda Carlisle
Here is one problem, at least, the Jelly Pool Parties don't have: They didn't just lose their cheap supply of chain-gang labor. Per The Brooklyn Paper comes news that whatever trash you left behind at last week's B-52s show at Coney Island was picked up by a prison inmate. Striped jumpsuit an ... More >>
Music
July 13, 2010
The Endtables Emerge At Last
As do Tin Huey, Pistol Whip, and myriad other unjustly forgotten early-indie innovators
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010
The B-52s
As do Tin Huey, Pistol Whip, and myriad other unjustly forgotten early-indie innovators
Theater
May 11, 2010
The Lo-Fi, Sci-Fi Song for a Future Generation
As do Tin Huey, Pistol Whip, and myriad other unjustly forgotten early-indie innovators
Music
May 11, 2010
Colt Ford, Renaissance Man
Meet country rap's 300-pound, ex-golf-pro, road-dawg sensation
Music
October 20, 2009
Vince Aletti's Disco Diaries
A new book celebrates a mid-'70s scene's surprising diversity in real-time
Voice Choices
September 29, 2009
The Coathangers
A new book celebrates a mid-'70s scene's surprising diversity in real-time
Blogs
August 21, 2009
Week in Review: There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock
Sam HorineIn the week a Brooklyn indie-rock band either did or didn't kick a puppy in Prospect Park (sweat-soaked August news cycle, we see you), we amused ourselves making Rick Ross "Yo Mamma" jokes and watching rap panic take New York as 50 Cent did, and then didn't, shoot your grandmother. ... More >>
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August 19, 2009
Last Night's B-52s Show at Governors Island Did Not End Particularly Well
Start at about 4:15 here to see the B-52's attempt, unsuccessfully, to make it all the way through "Roam" at an ill-fated Governors Island show last night, which began in the wake of probably the hottest day of the summer and ended with a fusillade of hella cinematic lightning that sent the band f ... More >>
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August 3, 2009
Radio Shack Becomes "The Shack" to "Friends"
Radio Shack, the place we visit for signal splitters and batteries and which also sells phones, TV gear, and even radios, now says "Our Friends Call Us The Shack." Sales at the chain are down, and maybe they think this will make people think of "Love Shack" by the B-52s, and want to hang out there. ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
If You Could Only Listen To One Song...
Let's play make believe and say your Ipod was stuck on one tune for the rest of your days and there was no way your eardrums could escape the sound of it, even if they ran away. In other words, you'd be forced to hear this one ditty blasting in your ears through eternity and beyond, so you'd bette ... More >>
Books
June 17, 2009
Lit Seen: A Heavy Rotation Playlist
Pink air! Origami irony! Writers on the albums (and songs) that shaped them.
Blogs
June 17, 2009
The Black Eyed Peas Steamroll the Charts
The Black Eyed Peas, whose The E.N.D. is completely successful as a work of bonkers zeitgeist, if not as an actual record--although SOTC officially pretty much fucks with about 60% of it--sold an astonishing 304,000 copies its first week out. Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, the Dirty Projector ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2009
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Dirty Projectors
Art-rock lobsters tote an Excel spreadsheet to Central Park. Rain ensues.
Voice Choices
March 11, 2009
IN THE GROOVE
Excepter and pals welcome spring
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
DO THE MESS AROUND
The B-52's keep the party crunk, '00s-style
Music
October 9, 2007
Pylon's Gyrate Plus
Gravity's angels, barnstorming again
Music
August 14, 2007
Architecture in Helsinki's Places Like This
Playful pop that's a touch too unhinged and bleepy for its own good
Art
August 14, 2007
Slouching Toward Gotham
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
Music
July 31, 2007
Salt & Samovar's Old Joy New Joy
Bucolic Brooklynites craft odes to joy and unavoidable misery
Music
May 22, 2007
The Clutters Don't Believe a Word
Boppy quartet constructs a man-made Rockaway Beach in Tennessee
NYC Life
September 12, 2006
Fashion Weak
Tales of fatigue, confusion, and humility from the runways and celeb-choked after-parties
Music
September 20, 2005
Craft and Lies
From Senegal to Austin T-X clear evidence of cooperation between or among principals
Columns
April 26, 2005
Out of Here
Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R
People
February 8, 2005
Hot Spot
Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R
Music
August 31, 2004
Inter-Century Freundschaft
Where the fuck is for example the Z100, gangsta-rock, and Merina-Senegalese fusion?
Music
July 13, 2004
Beach Noise
Indie guitar bands and their fans ride the love roller coaster
News
July 6, 2004
All the Young Dance Whores
Franz Ferdinand's big queer hit takes straight guys where even Bowie feared to tread
NYC Life
January 13, 2004
Party Politics
Franz Ferdinand's big queer hit takes straight guys where even Bowie feared to tread
Music
November 25, 2003
Turkey Shoot 2003
Putatively musical sounds from hunger, for the fan of the future in a very disastrous year
Music
August 19, 2003
Saving Grace Under Pressure
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
NYC Life
August 12, 2003
Get a Little Closer at a Lounge Fit for a King—and a Pauper
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
NYC Life
June 24, 2003
Listings
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
NYC Life
June 3, 2003
Listings
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
Music
April 8, 2003
Music
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
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September 24, 2002
Jammed for All Time
The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
Music
August 13, 2002
Alt Is Long
The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
Music
March 12, 2002
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
Music
November 6, 2001
Music
The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
Music
October 23, 2001
Going Down Easy
The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
NYC Life
February 27, 2001
Live and Erect
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
Music
August 15, 2000
Rip Her to Shreds
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
Music
August 15, 2000
Getting Them Straight
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
Long Island Voice
September 28, 1999
The Long Island Music Coalition
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