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The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month (Jazz Appreciation Month Edition)

These are the 10 best jazz shows in New York this month. (Here for more on Jazz Appreciation Month.)

Umami Defined Via a Hot Dog

This frankfurter, Dish #13 in our countdown, was designed to showcase umami flavor. Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. Umami is a term thrown around a lot late ... More >>

Live: Nü Sensae Work Out Their Demons At Death By Audio

Nü Sensae, Psychic Blood, the Dreebs Death By Audio Monday, August 20 Better than: The last horror movie you shelled out double the price of this show to see. What little there is to cyber-stalk of Nü Sensae's offstage life would suggest that they're a trio of upbeat, probably hilarious Vancouv ... More >>

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

The main virtual hall​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Cubic Zirconia, Mux Mool, And Teen Daze Plug In At Cake Shop

Cubic Zirconia. ​CMJ Day Two: Gospel Music, Cloud Nothings, Widowspeak, Cubic Zirconia, Mux Mool, Teen Daze Better than: Walking around in the drizzle-cum-actual rain without an umbrella. Gospel Music had the best T-shirt of the day at Cake Shop yesterday afternoon—maybe of CMJ, perio ... More >>

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

New Amsterdam Market is Having an Oysterpalooza!

flickr/Allerina & Glen MacLartyShuck 'em!​Get ready for some shucking and slurping: It's going to be an oysterpalooza on Saturday, April 9 at New Amsterdam Market!

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs

Q&A: Black Mountain's Stephen McBean on the Evolution of His "Psychedelic" Band

photo by Steve GullickFar right: Stephen McBean Vancouver's Black Mountain are usually considered two things: 1) a musical collective spearheaded by guitarist/vocalist Stephen McBean; 2) heir apparent to some vague Black Sabbath torch. While the former isn't necessarily true--they've settled down a ... More >>

Electric Zoo, Fat Beats, And The Parked Food Truck Festival Headline Your (Long!) Weekend In Nightlife

​Ah, Labor Day weekend. Your last chance to wear white pants and white sandals (though my best friend tells me they're awful all year round). As for your weekend partying, skip the beach -- summer isn't over until the 22nd, so you still have time. Instead, welcome back NYC's nightlife and stay ... More >>

R.I.P. You Say Party! We Say Die! Drummer Devon Clifford

Wretched news from Vancouver, where You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford collapsed onstage during a show Friday night. He died early Sunday morning. The cause of death was a "massive brain hemorrhage," reports The Canadian Press. The 30-year-old drummer "loved his family, loved his ba ... More >>

The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak

​For two years, the Twitter account @diditleak was the secret weapon of online listeners and music critics alike. In real time, the account, which ultimately garnered over 11,500 followers, announced whenever a digital copy of a particularly desirable record first hit the Internet. For that it ... More >>

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll

Seth Rogen's Porn Admissions

 Requiem For a Paper Bag is a new book Found magazine put together with various notables discussing their favorite found objects. I did a piece for it about a plug-in Joe camel I grabbed off the street and after a lot of screaming, I finally found the check they owed me in the mail! Anyway, t ... More >>

Darcy James Argue's Metal Machine Music

The long-awaited 'steampunk big band' emerges at last

ON THE REZ

Tales of an Urban Indian at the Public

From baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the deadliest beanball war -- Jews vs. Arabs

The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

POP Montreal Day 1: Winter Gloves, Vetiver, The Clips, Woodhands, An Orgy of Keytar

The Most Fabulous Destinations in the World

Hotter and Faster at McWhorter Barbecue

Ribs, chicken, and cops in Newark's Ironbound

Giuliani "Advises" Pillmaker Banned by FDA, Opposes Needle Program

Interview With a Vampire Stalker: Bedbug Registrar Talks

All Points West Day 1: Grizzly Bear, The New Pornographers, The Go! Team

Daily Flog 8/1/08: Bush aides, Williamsburg hipsters under attack!

Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy For So Many?

Welcome to Hollywooster

Michel Gonry: Make Your Own Epic

Black Mountain's In the Future

Lite-cosmos jams for the willfully disoriented

Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .

Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

Horoscope

'Everything's Gone Green'

Visions of Light Boxes

Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

The Year in Pop Culture Shame!

Spanker's Delight

Booty whackers unleash their greatest hits

'Deck the Halls'

Life of Pi

Comfortably number: An update of Microserfs, without the spiritual ache

'Dirty'

She Is 'The L Word'

Talking with Ilene Chaiken, producer of the world's only lesbian soap opera

Leo DiCaprio: Alien Seductor? So Says Director Jang Jun-Hwan.

The Kindest Cut

Eight books, 65 bucks—big old commitment, no kidding

NY Mirror

Sad Songs Say So Much

Prosthetics and Process: A Shooting Journal

Guys and Dolls

Noise in Babeland

Ride Hard, Die Hard

Under-the-Table-Again Rock

Father Figures

Rebirth of a Nation

Peace and Resistance

Hot S**t for Teacher

Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

Sidewalk Politics

Graffiti Campaign Demands 'No More Prisons'

The Terrorist Campaign Against Abortion

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Big Fat Problem

AIDS Drugs Cause Scary Side Effects--And Spark Interest in New Treatment Strategies