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Kathleen Hanna Puts the '90s Behind Her to Run Fast

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 6/17/13

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The End of the Lower East Side's Last Great Rehearsal Space

Shit music in 17 keys

Composer David Earl Buddin Can Totally Relate to Lindsay Lohan

In 2012, the Voice doled out honors to David Earl Buddin, tabbing him New York's Best Composer for very good reason: he's a beer-swillin', chain-smokin', gloriously prolific pioneer of electronic music and ringleader of the honky tonkin' trio of high rolling drunkards, American Liberty League. As ... More >>

The Making of Mykki Blanco

Michael Quattlebaum Jr. takes rap beyond pronouns

Sequin-Wearing, Beyoncé-Obsessed GANG Play Nice With Everyone

Picking up the phone at her South Philly home, GANG singer Amanda Damron says, sternly, that I've interrupted her while she was watching the Beyoncé documentary on HBO. There's a brief, awkward silence, then she bursts into laughter. "It's OK, I probably know everything that's in it, I'm obsessed ... More >>

Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/14/12

Here are the best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Live: Squeeze Turn Lemons Into Lemonade At The NYCB Theater

Squeeze / The B-52's NYCB Theater at Westbury Sunday, July 15 Better than: Writing in a diary. Last night the British pop band Squeeze took the slowly rotating stage at Long Island's NYCB Theater at Westbury (a.k.a. Westbury Music Fair) to their debut single "Take Me I'm Yours," a grand proclamat ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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The Endtables Emerge At Last

As do Tin Huey, Pistol Whip, and myriad other unjustly forgotten early-indie innovators

The B-52s

The Lo-Fi, Sci-Fi Song for a Future Generation

Colt Ford, Renaissance Man

Meet country rap's 300-pound, ex-golf-pro, road-dawg sensation

The Coathangers

Week in Review: There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock

Sam Horine​In 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Lit Seen: A Heavy Rotation Playlist

Pink air! Origami irony! Writers on the albums (and songs) that shaped them.

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 >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Dirty Projectors

Art-rock lobsters tote an Excel spreadsheet to Central Park. Rain ensues.

IN THE GROOVE

Excepter and pals welcome spring

DO THE MESS AROUND

The B-52's keep the party crunk, '00s-style

Pylon's Gyrate Plus

Gravity's angels, barnstorming again

Architecture in Helsinki's Places Like This

Playful pop that's a touch too unhinged and bleepy for its own good

Slouching Toward Gotham

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Salt & Samovar's Old Joy New Joy

Bucolic Brooklynites craft odes to joy and unavoidable misery

The Clutters Don't Believe a Word

Boppy quartet constructs a man-made Rockaway Beach in Tennessee

Fashion Weak

Tales of fatigue, confusion, and humility from the runways and celeb-choked after-parties

Craft and Lies

From Senegal to Austin T-X clear evidence of cooperation between or among principals

Out of Here

Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R

Hot Spot

Beach Noise

Indie guitar bands and their fans ride the love roller coaster

Party Politics

Saving Grace Under Pressure

Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred

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