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Steve Albini Has a Food Blog

Steve Albini, not cooking food.​Steve Albini is one of the music world's most renowned and prolific recording engineers: he's made his mark on an estimated 1,500-2,000 albums from the likes of Nirvana, the Pixies, Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Low, Joanna Newsom, and Jarvis Cocker. He's also ... More >>

The Mighty Wurlitzer: Films From Another Hollywood

Steve Albini, not cooking food.​Steve Albini is one of the music world's most renowned and prolific recording engineers: he's made his mark on an estimated 1,500-2,000 albums from the likes of Nirvana, the Pixies, Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Low, Joanna Newsom, and Jarvis Cocker. He's also ... More >>

OLD JOY

Will Oldham reads from Rudy Wurlitzer’s re-released novel

Spring Arts Guide: Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier and More

Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks

Live: Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang Play Dress-Up at Town Hall

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 >>

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang

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 >>

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY IS PRICELESS

Wait . . . we meant ‘too pricey’

So Chavez Is Apparently Reuniting at the Parkside Lounge Tonight

​Or, 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 >>

The Rich Cultural History of Louisville (Yes, Louisville) in Music Makes a City

​Or, 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 >>

Coliseum

​Or, 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 >>

Arbouretum+Pontiak

​Or, 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 >>

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Performed Last Night in the Monster Island Basement and It Was Awesome

photos 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 >>

Spring Guide: Choreographer Faye Driscoll Turns Dance Theater Workshop into a Mad House

photos 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 >>

INDIE CASTAWAYS

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and the Cairo Gang wash up on Monster Island

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two 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 >>

Hear the Chris Knox Tribute Record

​The 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 >>

Phosphorescent

​The 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 >>

Jeffrey Lewis Can't Lose

Tales of (very minor) stardom with the anti-folk/comic-book luminary

On the Magnolia Electric Co.'s Fleeting New Single "It's Made Me Cry"

Jason 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 >>

PRINCE CHARMING

Will Oldham is feeling a little friendlier these days

This Week in the Voice

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 >>

The Brilliant Disguises of Will Oldham

A deft, deeply enigmatic folkie stays weird even when he gets accessible

Week in Review: A Couple of Guys Who Look Like T-Mobile Salesmen, Krumping

Photo 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 >>

Interview: Will Oldham on His New Album Beware

"[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 >>

Dufus+Jeff Lewis

"[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 >>

A Thanksgiving Playlist

"[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 >>

NEW THINGS & NEW TIDINGS

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

Possibly 4th Street 16: Alabama 3 a/k/a A3

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

Our Favorite Writers Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL?

Zach Galifianakis tests your indie-rock IQ

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Zach Galifianakis tests your indie-rock IQ

Baby Dee's Safe Inside the Day

Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual

Will Oldham Finds Blissful Surrender in Danzig and R. Kelly

Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual

Provincializm by William Bowers: Bodies of Water

Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual

Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Happy Days Are Here Again

Chavez: Reformed, reissued, resurgent

North by Northwest

Indie road movie takes an adventure out of time

Autumn Sonata

David Berman shambles again, as leaves fall on the Pavement

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David Berman shambles again, as leaves fall on the Pavement

Music in Brooklyn

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Urban Organics

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The Long Haul

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Where the Action Isn’t

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Rocky Mountain Warhol

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No No Depression

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