Tom Petty

Fatburger, Joey Tribbiani, and the Village Voice

News that Fatburger - a California chain offering the usual gloppy, salad-topped burgers associated with that state - was planning another assault on New York City reminded me that this wasn't really the first time the fast-food-chain had made an attempt to establish itself in the metropolis. Aroun ... More >>

Ex Cops' Brian Harding Outs Bandmate Amalie Bruun Love of Black Metal

Brooklyn's ace pop stylists Ex Cops have it all: the badass moniker, the underground cred (they were 4th Street record shop institution Other Music's first signing to its fledgling label), the swanky veneer and slick, ubiquitous poptones to match. On its debut True Hallucinations, melodious ear cand ... More >>

Widowspeak's Almanac: "A Rock Band's Take on Movie Soundtracks and Country Cowboy Choirs"

"It's almost like waiting for your birthday when you're a little kid--'Oh my gosh, I can't wait for my party! I hope people come! I hope I get a ... train!'" Laughing, Molly Hamilton eases into a foldable chair in the middle of her practice space in Bushwick. After taking a swig from a half-gone Si ... More >>

Live: Daughtry Brings American Idol To The National Pastime At Citi Field

Daughtry Citi Field Friday, July 20 Better than: Johan Santana's ankle. In this hyperdistracted age, it would only seem logical that heading out to the ballpark has become an experience where any action happening on the field has competition from other forms of entertainment—fancier foods f ... More >>

Live: Miranda Lambert Gets Sassy At The Izod Center

Miranda Lambert w/Chris Young, Jerrod Niemann Izod Center Saturday, January 28 Better than: Being a good girl. At around 9 p.m. on Saturday, the lights went down at the Izod Center and Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)" began blaring from the speakers. Loretta Lynn's image came up on the screens ... More >>

Live: Guns N' Roses Reward The Patient At The Izod Center

Guns N' Roses w/Asking Alexandria Izod Center Thurdsay, November 18 Better than: Getting to sleep at a decent hour. "It's nice to be here," Axl Rose said from the Izod Center's stage at approximately midnight last night, an hour into Guns N' Roses set. "I had my doubts, too, if I'd make it." The ... More >>

Q&A: Bob Mould On See A Little Light, Blowoff, Hüsker Dü And Being "Pretty Fuckin' Out" At 51

Brendan McWeeney​When Bob Mould—ex-"miserablist" and noise-pop architect behind Amerindie rock gods Hüsker Dü and alt-pop gurus Sugar, as well as under his own name—writes in his brutally honest autobiography tour de force See A Little Light of a revelatory moment in 1998 when he ... More >>

Live: Green Day Get A Little Less Serious At The Studio At Webster Hall

by Joshua Kurp Nadia Chaudhury​Green Day The Studio at Webster Hall Thursday, October 27 Better Than: Hearing blink-182 play "Hybrid Moments" three times. "We're gonna do an older song," Billie Joe Armstrong, dressed as Jack Skellington, told the packed-tight audience at the Studio at Webst ... More >>

Blue-Collar Chroniclers Keep On Keepin' On

Eric Church and Randy Montana navigate life

Tom Hanks Ages Into Mid-Life Obsolescence in Larry Crowne

The Voice Feels The Pressure Before Its Big Finish

via Rickey​ Already, The Voice is just about over. Tomorrow, the field of four contestants gets wiped away and we get a winner. This show could've kept going for another three months or so if it followed a less fucked-up elimination schedule, but maybe NBC didn't realize they had an actual hit ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Theophilus London, Kurt Vile, And A Bit Of Possible Self-Parody

​ 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 weekend involved lots of semi-aimless wandering around the city for Debbie and me, for which we were rewarded with one strange new friend after another. It was ... More >>

Q&A: Kurt Vile on His Favorite Bob Seger Song and the Neil Young Solo That Changed His Life

​Kurt Vile is a virtuoso of self-pity. As a songwriter, he paints more shades in this particular spectrum--industrial silver, steel-blue, watery gray--than just about anyone. His newest record, Smoke Ring For My Halo, is a small masterpiece of this small subset of emotion, nailing the center o ... More >>

Live: Todd Snider Takes Us All For A Beer Run At Joe's Pub

​Todd Snider Joe's Pub Wednesday, February 4 Better Than: Any stand-up comedian you could've seen tonight Todd Snider never says "I wrote this song"; it's always "I made this up." Crucial distinction. He takes his craft too seriously to use so formal a word as "write" to describe the genesis ... More >>

Five Takeaways From The 2010 Grammy Nominations

Behold, the future of music.​The Grammy Awards are a bit of a punchline in music nerd circles, a place where, say, MGMT battles Hall & Oates for a trophy that will inevitably be won, and then dropped on the ground, by the more telegenic and industry-saving Taylor Swift. The Grammy voters hate ... More >>

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon Covered Kelly Clarkson, Credence Clearwater Revival at the Bowery Ballroom on Friday

Brian Fallon Bowery Ballroom Friday, January 15 This was a weird one--a sold-out Bowery Ballroom full of steroidally pumped up Jersey dudes singing gently along to Gaslight Anthem and Kelly Clarkson covers, then breaking into spectacular fights as Fallon rambled between songs. There's no Brian Fa ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 8: Limp Bizkit and Johnny Rzeznik, "Wish You Were Here"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. America: A Tribute To Heroes was a true television feat--put together merely 10 days after the 9-11 attacks, presented without commercials on over 35 channels, raising millions of dollars for the families of WTC vict ... More >>

Go See Phish At Least Once

Hello from Madison Square Garden, where once may be enough

On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet

The Badly Drawn Prometheus: Studies in Crap Ruins Halloween With Paint Me the Story of Frankenstein

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Paint Me the Story of Frankenstein Authors: Dennis Green (text) and Derek Fox (art) Da ... More >>

Brad Paisley Is Ready to Make Nice

A country star critics can love, with Obama-era tendencies Music Row can tolerate

Battle of the Country Hunks!

In praise of Rodney, Eric, Pat, Keith, Jason, Dierks, and the women they love for loving them

Interview: Yeasayer's Chris Keating

Howlin Rain and the Mythic Power of Chooglin'

Live: Fleet Foxes & Blitzen Trapper at the Bowery [03.29.08]

Gary Louris's Vagabonds

A folk-pop titan dresses his losers in corduroy and denim

SXSW: R.E.M., D.O.A.

Live: Tegan and Sara at Webster Hall

It Is What It Is

Yes (I'm Not There !), NYFF 45 (Blade Runner?) plays to its base (Don Rickles!), but what's so bad about that? (Redacted.)

DMX Has a Greatest-Hits Album

Gang of New Jersey

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists mingle rampant Europhilia with "American Girl"

The Vapid '70s Folk-Rock Resurgence You Did Not Request Has Arrived

Get Busy Living

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

Earphone Heads

Letters

Music

Film

Post-Pentecostal Boogie

A Rock Match for White Southerners Speaking in Tongues

Folk the Pain Away

Friends of Kimya and Adam Call Antifolk What They Want

Effective but Defective

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro

Forever Old

NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year

Dope Whites on Non-Punk

Proxy Music

Electing the Pop Star in Chief

Re-rewind the Clock

One EP Forward, Two-Step’s Back

Paradise Garbage

Cheap Thrills

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3

Sounds of Known Origin

If She Makes You Happy

A Terrible Beauty