Blogs
May 29, 2013On Monday night, I had the privilege of watching James Murphy salvage an interview that, in lesser hands, probably would have gone down in flames. Mostly, the interviewer seemed to suffer from poor posture (perhaps he should watch this dry-mouthed TED talk on the power of body language) and lack of ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 30, 2013Make way for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Film
November 28, 2012Voice Choices
November 14, 2012Voice Choices
September 19, 2012Everything you ever wanted to know about Will Oldham
Blogs
September 9, 2012David Pajo is one hell of a jack-of-all-trades guitarist. In the early '90s, Pajo revolutionized minimalist post-punk sonics with the crucial Kentucky outfit Slint, helped birth the post-rock aesthetic in Tortoise, collabbed with ex-Slinters in loopy dance new wavers King Kong and palled around in p ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012Film
April 27, 2011Voice Choices
April 20, 2011Will Oldham reads from Rudy Wurlitzer’s re-released novel
Film
March 30, 2011Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks
Blogs
December 9, 2010
The day before, at Yo La Tengo's show at Maxwell's.
Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang
Town Hall
Wednesday, December 9
Better than: Any other band wearing both pajamas and black suits in the course of one night.
"Are you deceiving me?" went the first line of the tonight's six-piece opening ban ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2010Voice Choices
November 24, 2010Wait . . . we meant ‘too pricey’
Blogs
September 29, 2010Or, playing a show, anyway--"reuniting" may be something of a misnomer, given the fact that the band told Pitchfork's Matt LeMay, back in 2006, that they'd never really broken up. "We never really became popular until we became more and more inactive," guitarist Clay Tarver told LeMay. "Had w ... More >>
Film
September 15, 2010Voice Choices
July 6, 2010Voice Choices
May 18, 2010Blogs
April 2, 2010photos by Emily Nemens
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
April 1
Monster Island
Todd Patrick's back from Mexico, and last night our fearless local promoter hosted two very intimate, very sold-out, back-to-back shows for Will Oldham--touring on behalf of his Bonnie "Prince" Billy alter-ego--in Williamsburg's s ... More >>
Dance
March 24, 2010Voice Choices
March 24, 2010Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and the Cairo Gang wash up on Monster Island
Blogs
November 24, 2009Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions?
This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2009The latest on Chris Knox, the New Zealand songwriter and Flying Nun affiliate who suffered a debilitating stroke in June: He's at home, as he has been for some time. It seems he's making music again, as Tall Dwarfs, though he's not yet speaking--"He wanted me to do an edit of a song loop down ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2009Music
May 20, 2009Tales of (very minor) stardom with the anti-folk/comic-book luminary
Blogs
May 19, 2009Jason Molina once made spooky, indelibly lonely music as Songs: Ohia--enormously sad, occasionally gospel-inflected compositions that pillaged country and Hank Williams and Will Oldham but didn't quite sound like anything but themselves. Then, sometime around 2003, he formed the Magnolia Electric Co ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 6, 2009Will Oldham is feeling a little friendlier these days
Blogs
March 18, 2009
When you think about out-of-control parents and coaches in little-league sports, you probably think of the suburbs. But right here in the city, there are sixth-graders playing 12 months a year, with sponsors like Nike, signing bonuses -- and out-of-control parents and coaches. This is Elite Youth ... More >>
Music
March 18, 2009A deft, deeply enigmatic folkie stays weird even when he gets accessible
Blogs
March 13, 2009Photo of Armory Show goofiness by Rebecca Smeyne
In the week Will Oldham said getting cum out of a 13-year-old boy was "easy as hell," we watched Michael Steele throw the final bon mot into the bonfire of his own political career. Revlon somehow had the nerve to ask if Rihanna was an "appropriate s ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2009"[Beware] was like getting cum out of a thirteen-year-old boy: easy as hell."
Having a conversation with Will Oldham in an isolated corner-room in the Algonquin Hotel is a more pleasant experience than one might believe, if judged by his muted, frequently melancholy songs. But in person, Oldham d ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 4, 2009Blogs
November 26, 2008Voice Choices
August 19, 2008Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow
NYC Life
May 13, 2008Voice Choices
May 13, 2008Zach Galifianakis tests your indie-rock IQ
Voice Choices
May 13, 2008Blogs
November 29, 2007Blogs
November 22, 2007Blogs
July 24, 2007Film
December 26, 2006Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot
Music
December 5, 2006Chavez: Reformed, reissued, resurgent
Film
September 12, 2006Indie road movie takes an adventure out of time
Music
November 22, 2005David Berman shambles again, as leaves fall on the Pavement
Music
March 23, 2004NYC Life
December 30, 2003Juke Joints and Alpine Lodges
Music
February 26, 2002Music
June 19, 2001Music
December 26, 2000Music
August 1, 2000Music
February 22, 2000- More >>
