Warped Tour

Paramore Kitten - Hammerstein Ballroom - 5/16/13

Paramore Kitten Hammerstein Ballroom 5/16/13 Better Than: Anything J.J. Abrams has done in 2013 Before seeing Paramore tonight, I went to the movies with my best friend. We're both huge sci-fi/fantasy dweebs, so we, of course, had seen the new Star Trek movie on its opening day. The movie was ... More >>

Q&A: Braid's Bob Nanna On Frame And Canvas, The Meaning Of "Emo," And Making People Appreciate Weird Time Signatures

The rock subgenre known as "emo"—or at least a watered-down version of it—got kind of big in the early 2000s. But before then, a slew of bands were crafting post-hardcore with twisting time signatures, dynamic shifts in tempo and loudness, and alternatingly sung/screamed vocals. Braid wa ... More >>

Scenes From Warped Tour's "Reverse Daycare": Blazing Saddles, Air Conditioning, And Parents' Memories Of Concerts Past

The Reverse Daycare tent at the Vans Warped Tour resembles nothing so much as a really relaxed waiting room. While away the hours in a bazaar armchair while your daughter (always a daughter) treks from stage to stage, occasionally texting you or stopping by the air-conditioned tent and asking the se ... More >>

Live: Pop-Punk Rises (And Crowdsurfs) Again At The Warped Tour

Warped Tour: Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Every time I Die, Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, and others. Nassau Coliseum Saturday, July 21 Better than: Last year. A few images: • The weather was beautiful; this year there was wind. Sunlight gently cascaded onto the grounds and sometimes r ... More >>

'Vans Warped Tour'

Welcome To The House Of Vans: The Shoe Company's Greenpoint Venue Returns For Year Two

Last year, the concert promoter Sean Carlson put on what was perhaps his most successful event. He had been organizing shows around his native Los Angeles under the name FYF—including his marquee event, FYF Fest—since 2004, when he was 18. As part of the 2011 incarnation of FYF Fest, Car ... More >>

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

Less Than Jake

Pazz & Jop 2011 Comments: Raves and Rants

Making cases for the great and the grating

Live: Hoodie Allen Fills Webster Hall to the Brim, Drinks It In

Hoodie Allen Webster Hall Tuesday, August 16 Better than: Waiting in line outside of the frathouse bathroom. When I was in college, people would party to music by Lil' Jon. (Yes, I'm old.) They said his catchphrases, as learned through Dave Chappelle DVDs. (Like I said: old.) They danced to his s ... More >>

Yelawolf Lords Over The VIP Section On "Hard White (Up In The Club)"

​ The fleet-tongued Alabama MC Yelawolf has been making the rounds on the Warped Tour in advance of his major-label debut Radioactive, which comes out next month, and last night that album's first single leaked. "Hard White (Up In The Club)" is a flip of the club-jam with Yela using the settin ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

Billy Idol

'VANS Warped Tour'

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Dillinger Escape Plan

Motion City Soundtrack

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 20: Gym Class Heroes, "Taxi Driver"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Since emo already ruined rock music for a generation, why not just take rap too?

Jennifer's Body Eats Men, Forces Awkward Teen Dialogue

FOREVER THE SICKEST KID

Cage kicks off his tour with a record-release party in Brooklyn

RECREATED, NOT SEDATED

The punks of Sunset Boulevard return

Week in Review: M.I.A. Is A Great Artist, and We Wish Her Well

David WentworthThis really happened. In the week we went to fashion week, Kanye appeared pretty much everywhere. Justin Timberlake was in the building, too--right next to the chia pets. We interviewed director Richard Foreman, who kinda hates Shakespeare, and Thursday, who admit to sort of being d ... More >>

Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly

"We always just wanted to be Fugazi, but people saw us otherwise." Thursday: Geoff Rickly is the one in the middle It's been almost a decade since Thursday released their breakout record Full Collapse, the album that launched the "post-hardcore" band into a major label contract with Island Records ... More >>

Fall Out Boy, No Doubt Headline Bamboozle 2009

Celebrating the Tentative Dawn of a Brave New Era with Fucked Up

It's morning in America, and midnight in Bushwick

Live: Jemina Pearl at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Photos by John Burlage Jemina Pearl Music Hall of Williamsburg Saturday, January 17 Jemina Pearl is one of the few world-class rock 'n rollers right now, especially if you factor in her age or breed--that is, riot grrrls, or riot anyone, who want the world and have the confidence, wit and sound t ... More >>

With Folie a Deuz, Fall Out Boy Keep Their Sellout Streak Going

(And good for them)

10 Questions for Katy Perry, Who Is Definitely Not, Like, Strung Out and Doing Centerfolds

GET PUNK’D

Where loud and fast still rules

The Futureheads's This Is Not the World

New label, same old infectious optimism

In an Octopus's Garden with Panic at the Disco

Goofy, Ambitious Ska Duets Benefit From Your Inattention

Emo Goes Crazy

Blackened Meatloaf

MCR's valedictorian sonic bombast soothes detention sufferers nationwide

Out of Step, Out of Time

Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore

Saturday 8/5

Security Joan

Rock 'n' roll nostalgia loves Ms. Jett right back

The Bamboozle Festival and the Emo Takeover

Live: The Greatest Wedding Band Ever

Showbiz Kids

Emo-metal extravaganza opts for spectacle over substance

Nobody Shows Up to Two-Day Alt-Rock Fest

Punkaroni

The lifestyles and deathstyles of the rich and shameless

Send Mascara

Deliciously debauched Duran fans not glam enough live

Music

Man Your Battle Stations

Conceptually inclined emo kids' seriously absurd prog-metal fantasies hit the big time

Garage Daze

Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

Fuck Emo Let's Fight

Sensitive Young Boys Learn How to Scream and Slam

Sk8ter Bois

Music

The Outsiders

Skateboarders bring their half-pipe dreams to New Jersey's city of last resort