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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

Wavves+FIDLAR+Cheatahs

MTV Accessorizes Itself With Music On I Just Want My Pants Back

I Just Want My Pants Back protagonist Jason Strider—a receptionist and aspiring music journalist who appears to live alone in a one-bedroom apartment despite claiming to have just $100 to his name—doesn't remember what sex tastes like because it's been six whole weeks since his last enco ... More >>

Helmet

TALKIN' ABOUT TONIGHT

Fucked Up's name says it all

Wavves

Live: Guided By Voices Reconfigure Time And Space

Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>

COASTAL COOL

Although East is still better, amirite?

Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

Abraham Inc. At Le Poisson Rouge Is Your First Canceled Show Of The Day, And Probably Not The Last

We wouldn't want the accordion player to injure himself​Perhaps you were unaware that famed James Brown trombonist cohort Fred Wesley has recently been dallying in a "klezmer funk" band called Abraham Inc.; your unfamiliarity will last a little longer, alas, as their scheduled gig at Le Poisso ... More >>

10 Halloween Costume Ideas For Music Nerds

​Halloween is nearly upon us. You don't have a costume yet, because you're a music nerd. We are here to help. Abandon your half-assed Lady Gaga concept and try these practical suggestions instead.

CMJ Day Two: Phoenix! With Daft Punk! At Madison Square Garden! Holy Shit!

Phoenix/Dirty Projectors/Wavves Madison Square Garden Wednesday, October 20 Better Than: Breathing normally This year, the biggest show of CMJ had the biggest secret to keep. I postulated recently -- maybe facetiously -- that this MSG bill fulfilled every part of the psyche. Well, the rampant ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To See Phoenix At Madison Square Garden Next Week

​Oh, indeed. The gala Phoenix/Dirty Projectors/Wavves show hitting MSG Wednesday, October 20th is a big we-made-it moment for the maximalist, SOTC-beloved French pop-rockers; we think it'd be great if you got to see it in person. We have five pairs of tickets. And since is this is a bigger dea ... More >>

LO-FI IN THE BIG TIME

Three different rock bands in one unique gig

2010, The Year of Indie Pets, Example #6: Mo-Mo-Hair Dances to Wavves "So Bored"

​ Given the resounding success of last week's declaration that 2010 is the Year of the Indie Pet, it behooves us to provide you with more evidence of this Very Important Trend. Which brings us to "Chinchilla Mohair Room," a slightly confusing, slightly ridiculous blog dedicated to a furry Mo ... More >>

2010: The Year of Indie Pets

Best Coast TumblrBobb, Bethany, and Snacks It's become increasingly impossible to mention Best Coast, the three-person vehicle for noise-pop Cali-queen Bethany Cosentino, without referencing her pet Snacks. That darn cat is on the cover of her debut full-length Crazy For You, nonchalantly poised am ... More >>

Looming Disaster: Ali Koehler, Best Coast's New Drummer, Is Allergic To Cats

​Here's, courtesy the Guardian, is a wildly amusing as-told-to chat with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, who remains somewhat of an obsession for us these days, in large part due to her obsessions: namely, her cats. Lots of choice lines here, from "I'd sooner talk about my cats than my music" ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Damon Dash Resurrected, Best Coast and Wavves, Wayne Coyne, Rick Ross, and More

Dame and Tallulah. Not pictured: Sienna Miller. Photo by Raquel M. Horn.​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick profiles the post-Roc-a-Fella edition of Damon Dash as he haltingly embarks on a kinder, gentler comeback. Elsewhere, Sean Fennessey dissects the two halves of California's pre-em ... More >>

The Media T-Shirt Project!

​It's Summer, and as we all know, many businesses get slow in the summer. Media is one of these businesses, and in media, you have to diversify in order to stay afloat, or something. It's bad enough you have to concern yourself with the terrible fate of blogger burnout in this heat! But making ... More >>

Best Coast and Wavves, Sitting in a Tree

In praise of two great records from California's pre-eminent surf-fuzz power couple

Wavves+ the Smith Westerns

Live: Braving The Humidity To See Titus Andronicus, High Places, Ducktails, And More At The Northside Festival

​Titus Andronicus and Ducktails, respectively. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Whew, what a whirlwind of a weekend! The L Magazine hosted the 2nd-annual Northside Festival, a major throwdown of bands, art, film, and more bands, all packed into multiple venues across Williamsburg and Gre ... More >>

Last Night: Wavves Inspire Moshing, Crowd-Surfing, Rampant Bliss

He's doing much better now. Pics by Georgia, way more below.​Wavves/Cloud Nothings/DOM Knitting Factory Thursday, June 24 The Northside Festival opening night was a hipster frat party in which every dude (and a few dudettes) tried to out-bro the next guy. Instead of shotgunning Budweisers, though ... More >>

Wavves Afterparty At Shea Stadium Broken Up By (Justifiably) Pissed-Off Cops

​Protip: If you're ever looking to get a show shut down as fast as possible, whip a bottle at a police car. "The plan was originally for Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork, and Patrick Stickles, lead singer of the grouchy New Jersey band Titus Andronicus, to DJ at Shea Stadium from 2 a.m. un ... More >>

L Magazine's Elaborate, Somewhat Intimidating Northside Festival Starts Tonight

​Anyone seeking a four-day crash course in Brooklyn Rock (both from BK and of it, I guess) is hereby advised to delved deep into the Northside Festival, which packs hundreds of bands into multiple venues across the sweetest of boroughs, starting tonight with a raft of shows, led perhaps by the ... More >>

2010 Northside Festival Lineup Announced!

​And it looks like our buddies at L Magazine have outdone themselves: Titus Andronicus, Liars, Fucked Up, High Places, Les Savy Fav, Polvo, Twin Sister, and Wavves are just a handful of the hundreds of bands they've got lined up to play this thing. Northside happens June 24-27 in a variety of ... More >>

Tonight! Gogol Bordello, Zach Hill, Class Actress, MNDR, And Keepaway

"Mixed with alcohol, it seems to be a remedy for just about anything," says Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz on the topic of music. This is especially true with his own stuff: GB mash traditional gypsy paraphernalia (accordion, violin, Borat accent) with inebriated, smash-bottle-on-head punk fe ... More >>

Lollapalooza Lineup Announced in Full

​Featuring the odd return of 1995, in the persons of Soundgarden and Green Day, modern arena-rock surrogates the Strokes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix, the National, and the Black Keys, and who else but Lady Gaga? Music is a befuddling tapestry in which Cypress Hill will always have a home. Comp ... More >>

Fang Island+Anamanaguchi

LISTEN UP

Preview the Armory Show with the Walkmen

Tonight! Plastic Ono Band (For Real This Time), Wavves, Lightspeed Champion, and Bear Hands

​Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>

Princeton+Phil & the Osophers+Ice Palace

BEACH BOYS

Get all lo-fi and sandy with Real Estate

New Wavves, Pt II: "Hula Hoop"

We'd be remiss if we failed to post the new Wavves song up on Terror Eyes today. The Zach Hill saga continues: first "Cool Jumper," the emphatically jumped-up premiere of Nathan Williams's new two-piece configuration, and now "Hula Hoop," which is unfinished, apparently, not that America would nec ... More >>

Talk to the Blog: Terminal Boredom's Rich Kroneiss on Haterism, Psychedelic Horseshit, and the "Indie Establishment" Oxymoron

Terminal Boredom began as a small webzine where garage rock aficionados critiqued new (preferably vinyl) releases. The site eventually added a messageboard, which soon attracted a wider arena of amateur opinionators who vented on everything from haircuts to shitty day jobs. It's also the place whe ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

New Wavves: "Cool Jumper"

​ Nathan Williams's MySpace seems to indicate that Wavves have picked up a new, fulltime member--Zach Hill, who I guess we can stop identifying as a member of Hella, since he's also a member of every other band, ever. Anyway, Hill is up there, as far as ridiculous, bestial rock drummers go, a ... More >>

News Roundup: Pearl Jam, Wavves, Green Day, Dr. Dog

​--Pearl Jam have put together an online scavenger hunt to promote upcoming album Backspacer. The band has placed nine images (designed by political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow) thoughout the internet (view one here). If you find all nine images, Eddie Vedder will play a private acoustic concert i ... More >>

Live: Wavves Totally Avoid Meltdowns, Further Injuries at Bowery Ballroom

CREDITTotally inaccurate depiction of this show, thankfully/alas Wavves/Woods Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, July 15 I feel bad for feeling slightly disappointed that nothing remotely disastrous happened here. Nathan Williams bounded onstage, his freshly broken wrist gingerly wrapped but still capable ... More >>

Tonight! Kronos, Man Man, Lovvers

The Kronos Quartet's latest effort, the Middle Eastern-themed Floodplain, was "inspired by the idea that areas prone to devastating flooding will experience creative rebirth after a catastrophe," which is great news for New Orleans residents with exclusive access to an ark. The famed "new music" e ... More >>

Lovvers

SURF'S UP (IN ARMS)

We're drowning in POPO's happy confusion

New Wavves Video: "No Hope Kids"

Wavves have a new video out, for Wavvves standout track "No Hope Kids." The basic material will be familiar to anyone who watched the "Daytripping with Wavves" segment on Pitchfork, or to anyone who's seen any footage of Nathan Williams, ever: he's walking around some bleached-out urban wasteland, ... More >>

Download and/or Watch the Video for Woods' "To Clean"

Brooklyn's Woods, who put out records on Woodsist alongside the similiarly lo-fi Vivian Girls, Wavves, et al, have a new video out for "To Clean," an ace, Flying Nun-reminiscent track off their newest, April's Songs of Shame. The video is sort of needlessly epileptic/terrifying, but there's someth ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

The Wavves Deleted Apology Debacle: In Defense of Nathan Williams

So, you're Nathan Williams of Wavves. You just played a pretty disastrous show that Pitchfork, in full TMZ mode, called "a meltdown". What do you do? Well, you cancel your next bunch of shows, and then the next day, post an apology on your personal blog...before deleting it a few hours later. Very ... More >>

Thee Oh Sees+Excepter+Catatonic Youth+Pink Skull