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February 15, 2013Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
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February 15, 2013This week, Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah have been performing alongside a cardboard cutout of their singer, Jens Kidman, whose fearsome voice was completely annihilated by the flu. (Don't worry, he's recovering.) Whether he'll join his bandmates onstage tonight at the Roseland Ballroom re ... More >>
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February 4, 2013These are the best metal shows in NYC this month.
See also: The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012
Voice Choices
January 30, 2013Blogs
May 4, 2012Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celebrating the release of Dream Seeds (Northern Spy) in his typical, adverse fashion: on a bill with bl ... More >>
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October 26, 2011Blogs
October 17, 2011Benjamin LozovskyThe Creators Project
October 15-16
Better than: A representative of the Intel Corporation laboriously explaining to me the superiority of their microprocessors.
If you're suspicious that The Creators Project is all just a way for the Vice Empire to class up its image beyo ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011Lustmord caps off the Unsound Festival
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March 2, 2011Life after Sleater-Kinney includes a comedy sideline and a new not-supergroup
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010Rock stars can do more than just rock
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May 28, 2010
Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>
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May 28, 2010In yr face. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>
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May 27, 2010"But hopefully they'll end up waking up one day, open up that bottle of wine and go, 'Holy shit. He's right,' and give me a nod rather than drop to their knees."
With mindless celebrities attaching their name to any vanity project that comes their way--Cadmium-laced Miley Cyrus bracelets pri ... More >>
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May 18, 2010Tool frontman takes on a new side project
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May 14, 2010This week in food blogs ...
Grub Street found out what President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi ate at the $15,000-a-plate Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner at the St. Regis.
Eater learned firsthand just how hard it is to get into Provocateur without a reservation ... even ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2010Voice Choices
April 6, 2010Can a Tool artist get even darker?
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March 9, 2010Blogs
August 10, 2009--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>
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August 3, 2009
I wore straight-up hiking boots to this motherfucker, clunky and impenetrable, and sloshed invincibly across acres of gushy, foul-smelling New Jersey mud like a hovercraft, like a Range Rover, like God moving across the face of the waters. The mud is what we'll all remember about APW, first broug ... More >>
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August 2, 2009
The goal for day two of All Point West, at least in the eyes of the promoters, was to make you forget that just 24 hours ago, you or someone you know got drenched. And probably complained about it, or warned you to stay away. So they cut a deal: if you bought a Friday ticket, you could come back S ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Big gigantic music festivals featuring people with names that even those living deep in the Amazon forests or on the wild, wild plains of New Zealand have heard of tend to suck up most of the cultural airspace when they come to town--All Points West being no exception here. But this is an ex ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 28, 2009Like Coachella, and just a ferry ride away
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July 27, 2009
Despite a free Polvo/Obits show on Friday at the South Street Seaport and a dreamy sounding Saturday show in Prospect Park at which Dean & Britta will be performing their scores to Andy Warhol's screen tests, this week and weekend in NYC belongs to All Points West. On Saturday, APW announce ... More >>
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July 23, 2009Indeed. Earlier this week came the terrible news of Adam Yauch's cancer diagnosis and the subsequent cancellation of all upcoming Beastie Boys tour dates -- including their opening-night headlining spot at next week's All Points West festival in Jersey City. Their replacement: Jay-Z, making "his U.S ... More >>
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July 21, 2009As we get closer to next weekend's three-day All Points West fete (and we mourn the terrible news that forced the Beastie Boys' cancellation), we're* finding it easier to admit that the band we're most eagerly anticipating is, yes, Coldplay. Yes, more than Tool. Shocking, we know. Perhaps this styli ... More >>
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June 17, 2009One of New York's great anti-pop heroines wields her influence
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June 15, 2009As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city (and, this week, in Jersey). Sign up for it here!
Herring & Aquavit Festival
Russ & Daughters
June 17, 6-9 pm
Sample a world of herring, including herring with mustard and dill, curr ... More >>
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October 16, 2007Emo "elder" statesmen are dependably accessible, or not
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December 12, 2006How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying
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September 12, 2006Support for alleged "subliterate kid metal for morons" arises from an unlikely source
NYC Life
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July 26, 2005What does the collar on a summer shirt signify? Interpretations go neck and neck.
Music
June 28, 2005Getting funky in time signatures an abacus can't compute
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May 24, 2005Three-woman desert session mines metal's shifting sands
Music
January 14, 2003Mama's Got a Litterbox, Daddy Never Sleeps at Night
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November 12, 2002Music
March 26, 2002From Bauhaus to Our House
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December 11, 2001Music
September 18, 2001The End of Frivolity as We Know It
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August 21, 2001There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face
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January 19, 1999How Jungle Is--and Isn't--the 'New Jazz'
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