Van Halen

Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen Gets Down With Vegetables in the East Village

Dirty Pleasure

Former Van Halen Frontman Sammy Hagar Exits Sammy's Beach Bum Bar in Atlantic City

In happier days, a garrulous, wild-haired Sammy Hagar chatted with a reporter about an upcoming show with Sammy's Beach Bum Bar & Grill as backdrop. "Rum's the best mixer on the planet," he says, as a casino executive looks on approvingly. Beware of seemingly friendly guys in suits, Sammy! Operate ... More >>

That's My Boy

Radio Hits One: Bruce Springsteen And Mick Jagger Stop Making Pop Hits, Start Inspiring Them

It's been a busy year for Bruce Springsteen. In March, he released Wrecking Ball, his seventeenth studio album and tenth release to top the Billboard 200, and after packing in arenas across America throughout the spring, he took the E Street Band to Europe. His name is also in a top-40 entry on the ... More >>

Dead Sara Will Set Your Stereo On Fire (In A Good Way)

A few weeks ago I was perusing the Billboard Rock Songs chart, which at present shows a genre in crisis—its ranks are split between the staggering dinosaurs of the nu-metal era, a few poppier rock outfits like Gotye and fun., and a bunch of bands that sound like slight variations on the old-ti ... More >>

A Brief Overview Of The Seven (!) Music Festivals Happening In The New York Area This Weekend

Summer might not semi-officially start until next weekend, but our fair city is getting a head start on jamming the schedule with as much music as possible. This weekend there are at least seven multi-musician extravaganzas happening in New York and New Jersey. Which one is most right for you? Our h ... More >>

Live: The Darkness Return, Bringing Glam And Sweat With Them

The Darkness Irving Plaza Saturday, February 4 Better than: Your ironic love of hair metal. There's a sea of white people two-fisting 24 oz. Bud Lights the size of Pringles cans and dudes in collared shirts amusing each other with their cartoonish falsettos. Sure, glam rock may not be as popular ... More >>

Live: Frank Ocean Returns To The Bowery Ballroom For The First Time

​Frank Ocean Bowery Ballroom Sunday, November 27 Better than: Canceling an hour before showtime. This March, Frank Ocean released the free mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra on Tumblr, and it was subsequently passed around like a sex tape, picking up steam with every like, every reblog, every retweet, ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

The Five "Best" Retired Categories At The Video Music Awards

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Would you look at all that postmodernism? For a multimillion-dollar event orchestrated with the dictatorial hand of all awards shows, there's always been a certain thrilling seat-of-the-pa ... More >>

100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100

​What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>

The Best (And The Absolute Worst) Tweets From The 4Knots Music Festival

Willie DavisTitus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles (left) and Amy Klein.​You came. You danced. You sweated. And based on the tweets we saw coming out of our very first 4Knots Music Festival yesterday at the South Street Seaport, everyone had as much fun as we expected! Our favorite 140-character-o ... More >>

100 & Single: How Digital Changed The Charts, From Gwen To GoonRock

Spotify's top tracks (left) and albums on Friday, July 15.​The headline-grabbing music story of the week isn't on the Billboard charts—it's the U.S. debut of Spotify. With the streaming-music service less than 48 hours old here, it's a bit too soon to analyze what songs are getting the m ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Fame Ball Rolls On

Born This Way keeps the grand gestures coming

Q&A: Rock 'N' Roll High School Director Allan Arkush Looks Back (Plus Exclusive Photos)

Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. Bruce Frankel/courtesy Allan Arkush​ Allan Arkush has executive produced a bu ... More >>

Q & A: Come's Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw On Van Halen, Chavez, and Reunions (Including Codeine!)

​ The prospect of post-blues dirge shredders Come reforming with all four original members didn't exactly trigger an earth-shaking ruckus akin to what ensued when Guided by Voices and Dinosaur Jr schlepped their "classic" lineups on the road. But the reunion of singer/guitarist/badass Thalia ... More >>

Download: Seabrook Power Plant's Bonkers Banjo Shredfest "Lamborghini Helicopter"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​The demented power trio Seabrook Power Plant crosses many boundaries -- math-metal, art-prog, jazz, bluegrass -- but one thing remains deliriously constant: This dude can shred. The demented, frazzl ... More >>

Xocolatl de David: World's Most Expensive Caramels

​My fingers were itching to open the box and see what was inside... Fork in the Road's Lauren Shockey has already written about Meadow, the twee little shop on Hudson Street likely to be one of the foremost foodie gift destinations of the holiday season. A Portland, Oregon import, the store s ... More >>

At David Chang's Ma Peche, Good Food Battles a Terrible Room

Downtown's cult chef tries to tackle Midtown

Meet the One New York Musician Who's Never Heard a Dirty Projectors Record: Zemog El Gallo Bueno's Abraham Gomez-Delgado

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Gomez-Delgado, lower middle. ​Zemog El Gallo Bueno is an audacious, spiked-wristband to the jaw of contemporary world music--hard-rocking, hard-arting, undeniably New York. Making what Peruvian-born, ... More >>

Magical Realism and Maternalism in François Ozon's Ricky

F2K No. 29: John Mayer, "Your Body Is A Wonderland"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. "Afternoon Delight," served with a side of dorm-cafeteria sugar cereal. Sure, he's the tabloids' top Twittering troubadour right now, but back in 2001, John Mayer was just a grin-happy kid who sang about fucking shi ... More >>

Jane's Addiction's Relapse

With everyone (finally) on board, one of the last great rock bands rides again

The Old Scumbags of Mötley Crüe Nearly Burn Down Madison Square Garden

photo by David AtlasVince Neil Mötley Crüe Madison Square Garden March 16 Two slabs of pure California white trash, their retarded friend on drums, and a snake-eyed, mercenary guitarist more than a decade older than his bandmates: Mötley Crüe were a bunch of scumbags back in the '80s. Their de ... More >>

Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gets It Right, Sort Of

Letters

Mets Fan Murdered Mom After Loss: Queens DA

Sublime Frequencies

The Field turns Lionel Richie and the Mac into thundering, florid ambient triumph

The 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: A Report Card

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Escape to Baja

Hang like a celebrity in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Music

Jazz Summer 2005

screens

Got Blood? Or Seek the Original

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Hell Raiser

Listings

Turning (Japanese) Point  

And the Banned Play On

Widespread Panic Hits the Radio

Fear of Music

Paranoia Jumps Deep

It's My Party and I'll Catfight If I Want Candy

Grace Under Pressure

Hot S**t for Teacher

Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

Children of the Rose

Unholy Regional Hit, Batman!

Getting Jiggy With It

Pinstripe Destiny '98

Inside The Yankee Docudrama

The Consumer as a Fan

I'm With the Brand