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Q&A: Jonathan Toubin On His Record Collection, Moving To New York In The '90s, And Wanting To Make Culture

Some DJs are quiet, let-the-music-do-the-talking types, but not Jonathan Toubin. Interviewed for this week's Voice profile, the 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty host was enthusiastic and opinionated, generating a novella's worth of transcript. More highlights from our conversation are below, as Toub ... More >>

Q&A: Liars' Angus Andrew On Basketball, Experimenting With Electronics, And How Visiting New York Is Disorienting

The globe-hopping music deconstructionist wonders in Liars revolutionized and jumpstarted the stagnant Brooklyn scene in the early 2000s with a bass-thumping, clatter-soaked dance-punk behemoth (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top). Then they switched things up, and founders An ... More >>

U2 Gets Lost In The Sorta-Ironic, Definitely Opportunistic "Discotheque"

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Portraits Of South By Southwest: La Sera, Santigold, Blood Orange, And The Men

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This week, we packed up our paint and headed down to Austin for the annual hurricane of musical adventure that is South By Southwest. I feel both like I just got to the jam ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z and Kanye Bring The Throne To The Decidedly Un-Regal Izod Center

Jay-Z/Kanye West Izod Center Saturday, November 5 Better than: New Jersey's usual offerings. "I hear the show is a big fucking deal! I hear you disappearing and things, running around the fucking venue, coming in from behind the people, singing those hit tunes... Dudes is wiggling their foot from ... More >>

Matt Pinfield And 120 Minutes Return To TV; Will The Audience Follow?

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Back when he was a music-obsessed teenager growing up on Long Island, and long before he started the influential music website Stereogum, Scott Lapatine never missed an episode o ... More >>

Tracking a Teenage Mutant Ninja in Hanna

GBH's Decade of Decadence

The monster-party duo reminisce about their various Manhattan misadventures

Live: Hot Chip's Robo-Soul Delirium

Ultra Lite

Miami's DJ extravaganza migrates north, again

Sign on the Dotted Void

Peppy Songs With Hooks and Beats—the New Underground Craze!

CMJ Musicfest 2002

A Bit of a Dag

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Nation

Hit Me Big Beat One More Time

Don't Go Chasing Wonderwalls

The 1999 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll

Motorbooty Techno

'The New Yorker' Sells Out

Writer John Seabrook Lives to Tell the Tale

Moonwalk To Afrika

Consumer Guide

African Connection

Consumer Guide

Back To Which Garden?

The Squabbling Spawn of Woodstock

Letters

Windmills of Her Mind

Letters

Doing It Live

Drum'n'Bass—With Drums and Basses

Upstart Start-Ups