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In Remembrance of Kurt Cobain: The Most Unique Nirvana Covers

Nineteen years ago today fans around the world got news Nirvana's Kurt Cobain had taken his own life in his Seattle home. As the years have passed, fans, peers, and friends of the musician and his pioneering grunge band have paid their respects through covering the band's material. Here now, from P ... More >>

Fast-Food Japan Is All Yours on One Midtown Block

Modernist Kicks: Swissted's Mike Joyce Discusses The Inspirations For 10 Of His Gig Poster Makeovers

​In 1978, the Sex Pistols would have hocked snot at the idea of being associated with prim layouts and orderly type. Sublime's signature colors were not purple, pink, red, and gray; The Replacements had no ties to concentric squares. Dr. Know and Gorilla Biscuits never put pinwheels anywhere i ... More >>

Live: Miranda Lambert Gets Sassy At The Izod Center

Miranda Lambert w/Chris Young, Jerrod Niemann Izod Center Saturday, January 28 Better than: Being a good girl. At around 9 p.m. on Saturday, the lights went down at the Izod Center and Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)" began blaring from the speakers. Loretta Lynn's image came up on the screens ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part I: Was 2011 The Worst Year For Music Ever?

A number one song from 2011. Not really helping the year's case, this.​Welcome to the 2011 edition of the Sound of the City Year-End Critic Roundtable, an epistolary back-and-forth about the year in music between five observers of the medium: Tom Ewing; Eric Harvey; Nick Murray; Katherine St. ... More >>

Saves the Day

MASTER OF PUPPPETS

Remembering the genius of Jim Henson

Live: Lykke Li Puts A Spell On Central Park

Lykke Li Central Park Summerstage Monday, August 1 Better than: Throwing out love incantations at home. The title of Lykke Li's second album, Wounded Rhymes, implies sullen dwelling on past offenses, but the record itself is much more peeved than those two words imply. It opens with the barnburn ... More >>

Live: Sharpless And Humbert Humbert Go All In At 285 Kent

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PINKERTON PRIDE

Getchoo nostalgia here!

Meet The One Man In New York Who Successfully Bought Tickets To Kanye West's Show at the Bowery Ballroom

Many tried but few succeeded when, at 11:58 a.m. or 11:59 a.m., we all started frantically hitting our refresh buttons, typing Captchas in as fast as we could, and generally doing everything in our power to get into tonight's "private" Kanye West show at the Bowery Ballroom. None of it worked, so ... More >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

Weezer's Pinkerton/Blue Album Tour Is Coming To Roseland In December

​The concept: Weezer spend two nights in each city, two sets per night, the second set both times consisting of "greatest hits" (I'm quoting here, not scare-quoting) and tunes from their new Hurley, which is evidently not disastrous, and begins with the song "Memories," as in "Memories/Make me ... More >>

A Photographic History of 'Hipsters' on MTV

​On Friday, Crushable and Guest of a Guest noticed an MTV casting call on Craigslist. "Do you own skinny jeans, old school chucks, cabbie hat, the 70's vest, an ironic t shirt or hat, a fitted sweater, flannel shirt, or chunky lens-less glasses?" it reads. "Do you drink PBR, have an ironic mus ... More >>

Aria, Pinkerton, and Enoteca on Court Bring Different Things to the Table

Need More Hurley? Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (Jorge Garcia) From Lost Stars in Hardee's, Jack in the Box, and Mr. Clucks Commercials

On Tuesday, August 24, one week from today, the sixth and final season of Lost will be released to the public. In commemoration of that milestone (and also the release of the Weezer album entitled Hurley), we offer actor Jorge Garcia in one of his earliest performances -- in a 1998 Hardee's commer ... More >>

Against Me! Make Their Blue Album

White Crosses revels in the suddenly anomalous thrills of power chords

Surveying the Dr. Luke Moment: A Critical Look At Lazers, Glitter, and the Un-Sexing of America's Pop Stars

On May 7, Katy Perry debuted "California Gurls," the first single from her forthcoming album, Teenage Dream. It was a cleverly-engineered, synchronized piece of pop craft--a classic no-chances move--and it had to be: there were things riding on this song. Things like the viability of Perry as a bo ... More >>

PRETTY WOMAN

Oh, the things teens do for money

Titus Andronicus Get That Sinking Feeling

Download Shellshag's "Resilient Bastard", From Next Month's Rumors In Disguise on Don Giovanni Records

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Shellshag have been playing mucky, minimal punk throughout Brooklyn and beyond for over a decade, touring all the time and putting out records under the radar. Rumors In Disguise, their t ... More >>

Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts

Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>

GET UN-INNOCUOUS

Free Energy bring the good stuff

Matt and Kim Play Universal Studios, Frolic in the Original Back to the Future Delorean

Erin Broadley It's been impossible to keep up with the recent adventures of Matt & Kim: guesting on Jimmy Kimmel, winning the Breakthrough Video VMA for their cold-weather streaking parade "Lessons Learned," greasing the stage for spider-suited Weezer on Halloween (with Kim costumed as Edie Sedgwic ... More >>

CMJ: Surfer Blood at the Cake Shop; Free Energy, the Golden Filter, and Cold Cave at Webster Hall's Studio

You'll never be this young again. Surfer Blood photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​You feel sorry for Surfer Blood, you really do. It's CMJ Tuesday, there's some invisible wheel turning, and when you walk into the basement of Cake Shop at 4:30pm on a sunny afternoon you all of a sudden know where the arr ... More >>

O Rasp, All Ye Faithful: Bob Dylan's Christmas Album

Zimmerman's Christmas: mildly enjoyable, tremendously strange

Good Morning, Matt and Diddy-Headed Kim

That right there is a candid photo posted to the official Matt & Kim Twitter yesterday. Matt's rocking a new pair of horn-rimmed specs and Kim's rocking a new head. Perhaps the real Diddy will make a guest appearance when our hometown heroes open for Weezer this Halloween at Hammerstein? One can o ... More >>

Spike Jonze Gets His Long-Overdue MOMA Retrospective

Pump up the Arcade Fire

News Roundup: Radiohead, Weezer, Brooklyn Book Festival, Them Crooked Vultures, The Verve

​--A new Radiohead track was mysteriously posted at the fan site Atease yesterday. "These Are My Twisted Words" is a two-minute number that may just well be the sing-along anthem of the summer. Just kidding. It's an eerie, echoey five-and-a-half minutes of noise and Thom Yorke's vocals don't e ... More >>

Week in Review: I Have a Blog, This is What Happens.

Rebecca SmeyneThese Are Powers' Pat getting his temperature taken in China​ In the week leading up to All Points Wet (har har), vandals insulted the word "gay" in describing Coldplay, we came up with suggestions for a Beastie Boys tribute on Friday at All Points West, and there were plenty of ... More >>

News Roundup: Monsters of Folk, Weezer, Merce Cunningham

​--The Monsters of Folk will hit the road this fall. The band, consisting of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, alongside M. Ward and My Morning Jacket's Jim James (got that?), will perform as a band, switching off instruments and vocal duties. They'll play New York twice: November 6 at ... More >>

BMI Sues Ludlow Venue Pianos

via LarimdaME's photostreamThe cramped, randomly-booked LES venue Pianos was apparently served with papers earlier this week indicating that BMI and a "collection of labels and artists" were suing the club for playing, without license, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" and, of course, "Final Countdown," ... More >>

News Roundup: R. Kelly, MGMT, Yo La Tengo, New Releases

--R. Kelly, who still wants to have sex with every woman in the world, has been keeping a low profile as of late. But that's changing. The R&B singer has announced Untitled, his first album in two years. Kelly explained to MTV News, "I wanted to mix it up a little. I want whoever listens to the ... More >>

Age, Beauty Before Youth at Grammys

Despite myriad concessions to modishness and a Twitter feed, it was a Steely Dan sort of year at the Grammys as Robert Plant and Alison Krause's Raising Sand won five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ("Please Read the Letter"), and awards in the Country and Contemporary Folk ... More >>

Home Team Round-Up: These Are Powers, 50 Cent, Animal Collective (Of Course)

Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Alia Raza did the above video for Violens, a band that plays soft-heeled indie pop that is not in any way Lansing-Dreiden light, despite the band's frontman being first and foremost a member of that collecti ... More >>

The Newfound Joy of a Native Ohioan

Interview: Rivers Cuomo of Weezer

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

We Are Scientists' Brain Thrust Mastery

Hey, bring back the goofy drummer

Violent Emo Dudes Grow Up, Go Insane

Yellow Fever

They got it bad, and that ain't good.

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Philly-not-U.K. bumpkin-pop act wants to see you crunk

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

Keep Your Self Alive

Narcissistic brothers of white whine try to regain our interest

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