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Waste of Paint: K-Holes, Thee Oh Sees, and Ty Segall - The Well - 9/22/2012

By Jamie Peck Illustrations by Debbie Allen This weekend, we took advantage of Bushwick's ever-advancing gentrification to see a bill of relatively big bands---K-Holes, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall---without going more than ten blocks from our house. We got rained on a little in the process, but the stup ... More >>

Midyear Report: 12 for '12

A dozen of the best singles from the year so far

Live: Young Magic Hypnotize At Cameo Gallery

Young Magic w/SoftSpot, Co La Cameo Gallery Friday, April 6 Better than: '60s nostalgia. Over the past three years, artists such as Caribou, Phantogram, and Tame Impala have merged their already-existing musical sensibilities with psychedlia, creating music that attempts to bring its audience into ... More >>

New York's Crackdown on Brooklyn DIY Spaces

Longest Day Of The Year Made More Tolerable By Free Concerts Outside

John Luther Adams' Inuksuit gets its NYC outdoor premiere at 5 p.m. at Morningside Park.​City advisory: If you were too lazy (or too experimental-music hungover from the Bang On A Can Marathon) to get out to Central Park this morning at 5 a.m. to play Yoko Ono's "Secret Piece," do not be too u ... More >>

Francis Alys Moves Dunes, Waves Gun, and Enjoys a Little Narco-Tourism

Enter sandman

A Musical Guide to Japan Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Featuring Thrill Jockey and Rebecca Black

​"I've been inspired by Japan for many years and have a true love, appreciation and respect for the Japanese people and their culture," said early American-adopter and purveyor of Japan's Harajuku girl style, Gwen Stefani. "The disaster in Japan is beyond heartbreaking and I want to do anythin ... More >>

Photos: Japanther (And/Or Their Crazed Fans) Shut Down Night One Of The Rock And Roll Circus at Lincoln Center

Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

Sissy Spacek Was a Pop Singer! (Music Below)

​ We all know Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and the co-star of this year's gritty rural drama Get Low. But in 1968, she called herself Rainbo and sang a pop ditty titled, "John, You Went Too Far This Time"--a hallucinogenic screed against Beatle John Lennon and ... More >>

LIFE OF LENNON

They say it's your birthday . . .

"Thank You So Much For Making Art That Is Freaking Me Out": Stereogum Hosts A Fiery CocoRosie Symposium

Possibly a polarizing band, yes​So friend-of-SOTC Brandon Stosuy noticed, in the critical ether, a distinct air of either bizarre indifference or outright hostility to outré avant-pop sister act CocoRosie, from their latest record, May's Grey Oceans, on down. In response, he convened a panel ... More >>

Download: Holly Miranda Tears Up Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" At Bowery Ballroom

Pic by Sterling Taylor​The mighty NYC Taper was present at Brooklyn dream-pop ingenue (and expert record-sneaker) Holly Miranda's pretty fantastic Wednesday-night Bowery Ballroom show, and was kind enough to pass along an MP3 of the set's highlight, a blistering, stupendous cover of the Etta J ... More >>

Week in Review: I Sweat Nonsense

Ever feel like Sid Vicious is just kinda watching you? Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we made Jay-Z's signature gas face at the bunch of hacks and pretenders posing as Guns N' Roses until dudes got the hell out of town, we also posted rants about everything from LMFAO not punching Mitt Romne ... More >>

Robert Christgau Remembers John Lennon, Redux

"In 1971, I wrote something about John and Yoko that they liked a lot, and to show their appreciation they invited me and my girlfriend Dominique to John's 31st birthday party--in Syracuse, where a Yoko Ono retrospective had been mounted. I've never been one to hobnob with the stars, but who could ... More >>

Robert Palmer's Daughter Delves into his Past in The Hand of Fatima

A Message From Yoko Ono

​Yoko Ono, widow of the best Beatle, John Lennon, and legendary shriek-singer of "Walking on Thin Ice," is still radiating positivity after all these years. I'll never forget when, ages ago, I reviewed one of Yoko's albums and said the only good thing about it was the gurgling sound provided ... More >>

Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery; 'Portraits: In Pursuit of Likeness' at International Print Center; James Cohan Gallery's 'White Noise'

Bones' Beat: Chelsea Summer Season Begins with Your Gold Teeth II at Marianne Boesky

courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery The discreet jiggle that comes with the New York art world's switch to summer hours--Monday to Friday instead of Tuesday to Saturday--acts as a blunt industry-wide signal: the people who buy and sell art at a high level have checked out until September. Some are cha ... More >>

News Roundup: Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival, Beck, RIAA, Sean Lennon Hates Springsteen

--The full lineup to Brooklyn's "Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival" has been announced. Organized by Blank Dogs Mike Sniper's label, the shows will be at Broadway Backyard July 3rd and 4th. The lineup includes Woods, Kurt Vile, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Psychedelic Horseshit, Blank Dogs, and Crys ... More >>

ENDURANCE TEST

A rare screening of one very long concert

John Lennon Show at Rock Annex: Death Clothes, Ono Phone, Stiller Memories

Lots of coverage today for the upcoming "John Lennon: The New York City Years" show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho. Yoko Ono's been publicizing it, and adds a personal touch with a piece of her own, "Telephone," in which annex-goers are encouraged to answer a ringing telephone -- an ... More >>

DUELING PIANOS

New compositions take on Iraq

The Unforbidden City: 'Street Art, Street Life'

The Bronx Museum captures the urban vibe—just don't look for any graffiti art

'Looking at Music' and Philip Guston at the MoMA; 'Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting' at the Met

Looking at Music

MIX MASTERS

From Captain Beefheart videos to Yoko Ono puzzlers

Live: Gang Gang Dance, High Places, Conspiracies at Southpaw

A Moveable Beast

Beware the hair-dryer throne! The Art Parade returns for its third year.

Horoscope

Maysles Archives

Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

Obsessive Guide to Saturday Night Live Needs You

Hard Hit

Seven not-so-silent partners create a ruckus

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

Don't Let Me Down: Paying Homage to a Working Class Hero

Rack Focus

Swinging Sheffield Couple Smacks Up Bitches

1997 Iranian Wonder Is Simple as a Knife Edge Yet Endlessly Entertaining

Reassessing an Artist 'Too Preposterous for New York'

REMS Meet BPMS

A pair of local outfits aim their world-noise dreams at DJs

Over It!

Politicking With Michael Stipe; Hanging With The Hansons; Slash In Soho

Listings

NY Mirror

If We Lost It All

Cities Die. Should New York Be the First to Clone Itself?

Music

Sylvia’s Mother’s Grandkids

Bringing Down the House

A Historical Art Space Falls to the Disney of Downtown, NYU

Knitting at Home

Fame Fatale

Letters

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments