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Titus Andronicus Are Not the Taliban: Sorting Out the Long, Twisted History of the Band

Titus Andronicus draw more from hip-hop culture more than you think. Songwriter, bandleader and Wu-Tang Clan fan Patrick Stickles' lyrics are deeply post-modern and full of hypertext links to everything from The Velvet Underground to Albert Camus to Curb Your Enthusiasm. And like any hustler with a ... More >>

The Power of Negative Thinking

For Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles, everything is meaning less

WICKED GAME

Murder awaits at the Public

ALL ABOARD

4Knots returns to the South Street Seaport

This Week In The Voice: Micachu's Twisted Pop Shapes; YG Parties; Amy Klein Moves On To Leda

In this week's Village Voice, out now: I peek into the twisted pop world crafted by the British genius Mica Levi; Nick Murray talks to the rapper YG about "ratchet music," the new brand of party hip-hop that he's bringing to S.O.B.'s tonight; and Eric Sundermann chats with former Titus Andronicus gu ... More >>

Live: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Occupy Shea Stadium

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, So So Glos Shea Stadium Monday, November 21 Better than: Getting into another political argument on Tumblr. In honor of last night's benefit for the National Lawyers Guild at Shea Stadium, the letters "OWS," for "Occupy Wall Street," were haphazardly applied to the wall ... More >>

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, And The So So Glos Are Playing An Occupy Wall Street Benefit At Shea Stadium Tonight

If you aren't doing anything this evening, perhaps you'd like to catch this hot bill that's playing tonight at Shea Stadium: Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, and the So So Glos. The show, which was announced last night, will benefit the National Lawyer's Guild, who's working with people in need of legal a ... More >>

Amy Klein Bids Farewell To Titus Andronicus

Ben Lozovsky​"I just got back from my last tour with the band Titus Andronicus," writes Amy Klein in her gratitude-filled blog post announcing her departure from the band. The post goes on to say that no, there was no big fight or drama-filled rock and roll story that fueled her split; she's j ... More >>

WHO’S THE BOSS?

Permanent Wave celebrates Halloween with a night of covers

TALKIN' ABOUT TONIGHT

Fucked Up's name says it all

Live: Titus Andronicus And The Black Angels Cap Off The 4Knots Fest

Willie DavisThe Black Angels. ​ 4Knots Music Festival: Titus Andronicus, The Black Angels Saturday, June 16 South Street Seaport Better than: Your average punk band/psych band combo. Titus Andronicus didn't make headlining this festival any easier for Austin's The Black Angels. The Texas nat ... More >>

Live From The Pit: Titus Andronicus Find Joy In The Seemingly Bleak

Willie Davis​4Knots Music Festival: Titus Andronicus Pier 17, South Street Seaport Saturday, July 16 Better than: Shakespeare. After a race through the New York City subway system, I charged triumphantly out onto the waterfront as Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus sang the slow opening ly ... More >>

Announcing The Set Times For Today's 4Knots Music Festival

​Doors for the Village Voice-sponsored 4Knots Music Festival—happening at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport—open in about an hour, and if you want to plan your afternoon, we have set times for all the bands on the bill, as well as the DJs spinning in the 4Knots Indoor Lounge (loc ... More >>

Mr. Dream Added To 4Knots Lineup; Yeasayer, Dan Deacon To DJ The Indoor Lounge

​The first annual 4Knots Music Festival—free, at South Street Seaport—takes place on July 16; Mr. Dream will perform at the all-day show at Pier 17. In addition to the day's roster of bands—which also includes The Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Davila 666, Oberhofer, and Ele ... More >>

Titus Andronicus, Obits, And Eleanor Friedberger Round Out The 4Knots Music Festival Lineup

​We're about five and a half weeks out from the first annual 4Knots Music Festival, which is happening on July 16 at South Street Seaport. And today (hooray!) we can announce the free show's other three bands: battle-flag-wavers Titus Andronicus, nervy rockers Obits, and velvet-voiced Fiery Fu ... More >>

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Q&A: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles On "Practical Righteousness," The Replacements' Goof Songs, And His Band's Our Band Concert Set

​Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles named his band after one of Shakespeare's most violent, least regarded plays. He writes songs named "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'." His band's most recent album uses the Civil War as a metaphor for political and persona ... More >>

Watch Titus Andronicus' Jersey Travelogue "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future"

​It's true, as Titus Andronicus frontman states in the prelude to his band's video for "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future", that New Jersey has taken a bit of a beating, reputation-wise, over the past year or so, thanks in large part to the many reality-TV depictions of the Garden St ... More >>

Tonight: See Village Voice Music Editor Maura Johnston, Punk Hero Amy Andronicus, and More Read About Music at Housing Works

​OK, well, soon-to-be music editor anyway--our pal Maura Johnston, who starts here in just one more short week, will be at the Housing Works Bookstore tonight, reading words with SOTC buddies Amy Klein (a/k/a the formidable punk presence that is Titus Andronicus's Amy Andronicus), It's the Rea ... More >>

Q&A: Amy Klein, a/k/a Amy Andronicus, On Her Many Side Projects, And Why "Feminism" Is A Dirty Word

"I think empowerment is very sexy and cool, and there's no reason you can't believe that." ​Amy Klein is a busy woman. Her most high-profile gig is playing guitar for Thomas-Paine-for-the-Twitter-Generation art-punks Titus Andronicus, but she makes a diverse plethora of music on her own. Her ... More >>

Northside Festival Announces Initial Lineup, Starring Beirut, Deer Tick, Twin Sister, And Delicate Steve

​The L Magazine's Northside Festival is perhaps the city's finest home-grown music festival, now in its third year of ramming as many bands/artists/filmmakers as possible into the Greenpoint/Williamsburg nexus: "Elaborate and somewhat intimidating" is the way we've described it in the past. Th ... More >>

Stream Titus Andronicus Siren Amy Klein's I Know What You Want, And See Her Tonight At Glasslands

​During a recent Mercury Lounge invasion by majestic New Jersey angst-punk deities Titus Andronicus, we grew to greatly appreciate the presence of guitarist/violinist/backup vocalist Amy Klein, a bouncing, gleeful antidote to all that hyper-masculine self-recrimination. That someone in this ba ... More >>

Live: Titus Andronicus Get In Touch With Their Feminine Sides At Mercury Lounge

Amy Andronicus, lighter than air. Pics by Willie Davis, more below.​Titus Andronicus/Care Bears on Fire Mercury Lounge Thursday, February 10 Consider Amy Andronicus, née Klein, she of magnificent New Jersey punk-rockers Titus Andronicus, and an awfully cheering sight up there onstage, surrou ... More >>

Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys

​"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>

Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"

Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dude​So TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>

Titus Andronicus Bassist Ian Graetzer Leaves the Band

At Death By Audio, via MySpace​Well, this is kind of a bummer--Titus Andronicus founding member and bassist Ian Graetzer has played his last show with the band. In a typically effusive post on the New Jersey punk juggernaut's blog, frontman Patrick Stickles explains it has something to do with ... More >>

JERSEY BOYS

Start the year with a kick in the teeth

Watch Titus Andronicus Perform "Four Score and Seven" at Glasslands Last Night

Well, it's probably time to admit to ourselves that it was a mistake to skip this one. Though they'll headline Webster Hall a month from now (after doing the same thing at the Bowery Ballroom back in March), last night brought the rousing sight of Jersey punk heroes Titus Andronicus playing the hu ... More >>

We Made It, Sad People of New Jersey! Watch Titus Andronicus Perform on Fallon

It's been a real good week for the indie zeitgeist, that weird feeling of we made it!, even if we don't necessarily know who "we" are. The Arcade Fire sold out Madison Square Garden twice. The Suburbs has a shot at being the #1 record in the country next week. And Titus Andronicus, ragged New Jers ... More >>

The Beets+Coasting+Alex Bleeker & the Freaks

Live: Braving The Humidity To See Titus Andronicus, High Places, Ducktails, And More At The Northside Festival

​Titus Andronicus and Ducktails, respectively. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Whew, what a whirlwind of a weekend! The L Magazine hosted the 2nd-annual Northside Festival, a major throwdown of bands, art, film, and more bands, all packed into multiple venues across Williamsburg and Gre ... More >>

L Magazine's Elaborate, Somewhat Intimidating Northside Festival Starts Tonight

​Anyone seeking a four-day crash course in Brooklyn Rock (both from BK and of it, I guess) is hereby advised to delved deep into the Northside Festival, which packs hundreds of bands into multiple venues across the sweetest of boroughs, starting tonight with a raft of shows, led perhaps by the ... More >>

Die Antwoord, Mark Ronson, Interpol, and Sleigh Bells Are Playing Vice's Free Creators Project Thing

​Last time this happened, Vice blew threw $250,000 and Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles ended up with red handprints on his neck and a sad, outraged story to tell. This time, semiconductor manufacturing unit Intel will foot the bill, and it's hard to imagine crazed South African rappers Die ... More >>

2010 Northside Festival Lineup Announced!

​And it looks like our buddies at L Magazine have outdone themselves: Titus Andronicus, Liars, Fucked Up, High Places, Les Savy Fav, Polvo, Twin Sister, and Wavves are just a handful of the hundreds of bands they've got lined up to play this thing. Northside happens June 24-27 in a variety of ... More >>

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

Watch the Snowy, Civil War-Inspired Video for Titus Andronicus's "A More Perfect Union"

Lest you forget that Titus Andronicus's terrifically galvanizing The Monitor is nominally Civil War-themed, along comes the video to "A More Perfect Union" to remind you--band members past and present, dressed as flag-clad irregulars in a wintery Jersey landscape equal parts Gettysburg and my-firs ... More >>

Titus Andronicus Get That Sinking Feeling

Download: Titus Andronicus, "A More Perfect Union"

​This is the epic, leaving-New-Jersey-and-already-sorta-regretting-it album opener from The Monitor, the new Titus Andronicus record that you'll be hearing quite a lot about soon. It's civil war-themed, sorta. Also about moving to Boston, and friends. Some other stuff too. TA frontmant Patrick ... More >>

Raising the Babies Song Count to Three: "Breakin the Law"

​Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>

Live: Vampire Weekend Stage A Physically And Emotionally Grueling Blowout At United Palace Theatre

Vampire Weekend/Titus Andronicus United Palace Theatre Sunday, January 17 I personally do not see anyone wearing the $30 bright-yellow "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" scarf available at Vampire Weekend's merch table -- and believe me, I'm looking -- but later it's rumored they're completely sold out, so ... More >>

Vampire Weekend

So This Titus Andronicus Guy's Blog Post About The Vice Halloween Party Is Just About The Raddest Thing Ever

Rebecca SmeyneNot the guy from Titus Andronicus. Also not fake blood.​ We'll have more on this fete in a bit, but for right now, read every single word of this. "We are being choked and beaten and sexually assaulted, and all the while, my peers dance and snort cheap coke and photograph each o ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download Dinowalrus' "Electric Car, Gas Guitar"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Ted Gordon​Brooklyn ecstasy-noize troupe Dinowalrus crawl out of the teeny-tiny opening Animal Collective and Black Dice have made for fluttery textures, ambient suckscapes, and incoherent blare-chan ... More >>

Your Last Minute New Year's Eve

Sound of the City will resume full-force come Monday. In the meantime, find your last minute arrangements below...

The Last Jelly NYC Pool Party: Yo La Tengo and Titus Andronicus

Updated: Black Lips Tonight at the Market Hotel

'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance'