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April 10, 2013A new literary festival is here
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April 10, 2013Thurston Moore performs live to Street
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April 5, 2013These concerts are all certified "Best of Weekend" by the mayor's office. We bring them to you by court order.
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April 1, 2013Support live music: A HANDY GUIDE.
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March 27, 2013Blogs
September 13, 2012Tom Carter Benefit: Chelsea Light Moving, Steve Gunn, White Out
285 Kent
Wednesday, September 12
Better than: Wishing this week's Sonic Youth communiqué was a tour announcement.
It's been almost a year since Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore called it quits. The split, of course, has stalled Sonic Yo ... More >>
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June 13, 2012Pound as if your life depends on it
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May 7, 2012Thurston Moore/John Zorn Duo
St. Mark's Church
Friday, May 4
Better than: Bumming about MCA alone.
Free improvisation always has religious overtones—the major free-jazzers of the '60s acknowledged this with album titles like Ascension and Spiritual Unity—so there is hardly a better spa ... More >>
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February 1, 2012Thurston Moore shows off his folky side
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile
Williamsburg Waterfront
Friday, August 12
Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify.
Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>
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August 18, 2010How many bands can Thurston Moore be in?
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July 8, 2010
L Magazine's repeatedly endorsed these lo-fi monsters, having them play more than anyone else at last month's Northside Festival, getting the official Conklin must-see nod, and doling out an Honorable Mention in their annual 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear series. And with good reason. The foursome's ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
OK, we take it all back--this is cutest, most awesome free improv set ever. Just look at the tiny children tottering around, pressing buttons, turning knobs, and manhandling guitars! Some of them can't even properly stand up yet! The looming spectre of aging yuppie bad-parent hipsterism passed ove ... More >>
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February 16, 2010Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>
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February 16, 2010Blogs
February 2, 2010Leslie "The Opportunity" Feist
This isn't the dumbest way we've ever spent an hour in the workplace, but it's certainly up there. The most idiotically laughable meme of the past few days goes to Jerzify Yourself, the inevitable Jersey Shore personal-transformation site in the glute vein of such pop ... More >>
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January 14, 2010Last September's Between My Head and the Sky was Yoko Ono's first record as Plastic Ono Band since 1973's Feeling the Space. John Lennon produced the first; his son Sean handled the second, and now comes word that the Plastic Ono Band will once again perform as well. So far, it's just two dat ... More >>
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December 15, 2009Blogs
October 5, 2009--Oops. Not much came of Method Man allegedly shooting a fan in the face with an air gun, or a friend in the leg with a BB, but evading those $32,799 in income taxes over three years landed the Staten Island rapper at the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse this morning. "Taxes are the burden th ... More >>
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September 2, 2009Pretty much every human on planet Earth would look as punk as Thurston Moore does when sandwiched between Gossip Girl's two crispiest male leads. But he still looks punk as fuck. This by way of Sonic Youth's appearance on the episode airing on October 12--Moore's second cameo on the show, if ... More >>
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August 14, 2009--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>
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August 11, 2009Blogs
June 26, 2009The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>
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April 29, 2009Blogs
January 22, 2009Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley.
Psychic Ills will not rouse a large enough massive to encourage a large scale war of words, but there's a small, pitched battle drawn between those who are underwhelmed by their slow-boiling new collection on ... More >>
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September 15, 2008Voice Choices
September 10, 2008Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
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September 3, 2008Big names in rock celebrate the beloved Jazzmaster
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September 3, 2008The perfect place to meet that special bibliophile
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August 19, 2008The photos are dirtier than ever
Music
June 17, 2008Lydia Lunch deigns to viciously insult her adoring fans once again
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April 30, 2008Music
April 8, 2008Downtown innovators like White Out fight for survival in a brave, disquieting new world
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April 1, 2008More long-past-teenage riots
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October 17, 2007Music
September 11, 2007Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow
Music
January 16, 2007The monthlong Independents festival turns Gowanus into a home-grown experimental mecca
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December 19, 2006Touring the frustrating but frequently brilliant Sonic Youth archives
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May 30, 2006The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks
Columns
July 19, 2005Screens
June 28, 2005Music
June 7, 2005From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes
Specials
August 17, 2004Film
August 19, 2003Whole Intellects Disgorged in Total Recall for Seven Days and Nights in Downtown Howl
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July 18, 2000Music
June 6, 2000Music
May 12, 1998Sonic Youth in Occupied America
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