Thee Oh Sees

Williamsburg's Dead Herring Goes Out In Style On Last Night, Will Reopen Soon In New Location

This past Saturday, Williamsburg's Dead Herring house closed its doors after six years of throwing quality rock shows, dance parties, craft fairs, and other assorted fun times. As one of the last remaining DIY spaces located in Williamsburg proper (or "prime Williamsburg," as their landlord likely c ... More >>

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

S.F.'s Sic Alps Scrubbed the Noise, But Still Want to Freak You Out

"I'm kind of like Ron Swanson -- I fucking hate paperwork." Mike Donovan, figurehead of San Francisco rock band Sic Alps, is grinning in the kitchen of his ground-floor apartment, explaining what he likes about driving a cab for a living. Along with the fact that Donovan usually works only a couple ... More >>

Waste of Paint: King Tuff Goes Retro, Pissed Jeans Get Pissed Off, Slug Guts Spook, and Sky Ferreira Charms

Illustrations by Debbie Allen CMJ is great. It's got all the stressful clusterfuckery of SXSW, but with none of the late night hot tub parties or surprise Kanye West performances! It brings a ton of acts to town all at once, and you can't really get mad at that. In honor of this grand industry tra ... More >>

Waste of Paint: K-Holes, Thee Oh Sees, and Ty Segall - The Well - 9/22/2012

By Jamie Peck Illustrations by Debbie Allen This weekend, we took advantage of Bushwick's ever-advancing gentrification to see a bill of relatively big bands---K-Holes, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall---without going more than ten blocks from our house. We got rained on a little in the process, but the stup ... More >>

Frank Ocean, Hannibal Buress, Lee Ranaldo - All Tomorrow's Parties - 9/21 -9/23

Better than: That cousin of yours who has fantastic taste and knows he has fantastic taste coming to your house and playing you fantastic music and showing you a great time, and every so often you catch him looking at you in a condescending way and you want to enjoy yourself less but you just can't ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/21/12

In no particular order, here are ten can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit up villagevoice.com/concerts. See Also: - All Tomorrow's Parties Preview: Founder Barry Hogan on the Festival's Move to New York City - Fear of a Talibam! Planet - ... More >>

Venerated Festival All Tomorrow's Parties Comes to New York City

Good taste wins

WHEN FRIDAY COMES AROUND

All Tomorrow’s Parties curate your weekend of shows

Tickets To The Afghan Whigs ATP Go On Sale Monday; Louis CK (!), The Make-Up (!!), Scrawl, The Roots, Mark Lanegan On The Bill

Tickets for the 2012 iteration of All Tomorrow's Parties' I'll Be Your Mirror Festival—happening September 21-23 in Asbury Park, and headlined by the reformed Afghan Whigs—go on sale on Monday morning, and the festival has released a partial list of who's scheduled to play the three-day ... More >>

Q&A: Jim Carroll Of Unicycle Loves You On The Nature Of Failure, The Fifth Element, And Paying Tribute To Sonic Youth

Anthony Dixon​Chicago's Unicycle Loves You is unabashedly a noise-pop band, but not in the (mo-fi) sense that Sisters, Japanther, Railcars, or early No Age jams are noise-pop. Rather, singer/guitarist Jim Carroll, singer/bassist Nicole Vitale, and drummer J.T. Baker author lo-fi indie-pop bang ... More >>

Live: Unknown Mortal Orchestra Make A Name For Themselves At Glasslands

Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/Man/Miracle, Blouse, and Hospitality Glasslands Thursday, September 15 Better than: The cab ride from the West Village to Williamsburg. "Let me introduce you to my friends," Unknown Mortal Orchestra lead singer Ruban Nielson told the full house at Glasslands on Thursda ... More >>

X-Ray Eyeballs

This Weekend In New York: Reading Rainbow, Xray Eyeballs, Crystal Ark, And Thee Oh Sees

​ 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 past weekend, Debbie and I finally reached our limit of how many shows we could attend and actually "see" over the course of three hours. Shit was like flippin ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

Take A "Bruise Cruise" To The Bahamas With The Vivian Girls

​Finally, the take-a-cruise-with-a-rock-band phenomenon trickles down to the Jelly Pool Party set: Mark your calendars for February 25-28, 2011, whereupon a "Bruise Cruise" sets sail from Florida to the Bahamas with the Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, and, yes, the Vivian Girls aboard for your liste ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

The Gories+Jimmy Ohio

Live: Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, and So Cow Maintain Peace and Order at the South Street Seaport

​John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees, pick in mouth. All photos by Georgia Kral.​Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, and So Cow South Street Seaport Friday, July 16 Well, it wasn't a Drake show: Friday's free South Street Seaport indie-garage line-up--Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, So Cow--had a noti ... More >>

Thee Oh Sees+Golden Triangle

Download: Translations, "The Wanderer"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Reverb-soaked New York art-crooners Translations are a lazy Sunday dream, tempering their drizzly indie-pop with the subtle shades of classic r&b. Drums rattle drearily and bass lines groove silkily ... 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 >>

Todd P Announces the (More or Less) Full Lineup For His MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music In Mexico

​Let's just take one more moment to wonder here at a mountainside festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with a ticket that will run you a cool $30 for three days, 75 bands, a bunch of visual artists, and a shuttle running from SXSW in Austin across the border three times a day. That's about as real a ... More >>

Todd P's Mexico Fest, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, Is Fully Confirmed; Tickets On Sale Now

​There had been speculation about this show going all the way back to December. Privately, Todd P began confirming it this week. And now comes the official announcement about one of the more ridiculous bits of derring-do ever attempted by a local DIY promoter: an outdoor, two stage, three day ... More >>

The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

If You Missed a Band at Siren, Have No Fear, They Just Might Be Coming Back

Nate "Igor" SmithJapandroids Now that Siren Festival is over, the sundry bands who played the Voice's Coney Island hotdogging extravaganza can announce their next New York shows without worrying about your proscratinated attendance. So if you did, perchance, miss an act you meant to see--either beca ... More >>

Photos from the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival, Starring Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, and Woods

all photos by Rebecca Smeyne The two-day festival put on by Woodsist and Captured Tracks, the imprint of Blank Dogs' Mike Sniper that lives underneath Williamsburg's Academy Records, took place Friday and Saturday of this weekend. Originally set for the 979 Broadway Backyard in Bushwick, Friday's ... More >>

DIY DAYS

Two plucky local labels join forces for one fest

News Roundup: Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival, Beck, RIAA, Sean Lennon Hates Springsteen

--The full lineup to Brooklyn's "Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival" has been announced. Organized by Blank Dogs Mike Sniper's label, the shows will be at Broadway Backyard July 3rd and 4th. The lineup includes Woods, Kurt Vile, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Psychedelic Horseshit, Blank Dogs, and Crys ... More >>

Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

A Place To Bury Strangers, Thee Oh Sees, Tiny Masters of Today Added to This Year's Siren Festival

From last year's Siren Fest Hey! Siren Festival! Coney Island! Free concert! Thrown by this paper! All-ages! Nine hours long! Hot dogs! (Not free!) Bands! (Which are!) Beach! Sand! Skeeball! (Rain or) Shine! Naked people! Oysters! Rollercoaster! Motion sickness! Enthusiasm! Exclamation points! New ... More >>

Thee Oh Sees+Excepter+Catatonic Youth+Pink Skull

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights