Let's be honest: summer isn't funny. Relaxation? Happy folks on beaches? Beautiful people in swimwear, flaunting their lack of body shame? Urgh. Thank God it's officially over and New York comedy fans can get back to what they do best: laughing at hu...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 9/2: Fool's Gold Day Off NY Williamsburg Park 2pm, free with RSVP Captured Tracks isn't the only Brooklyn-based record label capitalizing on ...
[UPDATE: Today's Electric Zoo has been canceled after two reportedly die of drug overdose.] Two questions, ladies. 1) Do you have an ass? 2) Can you twerk so hard you could churn butter with it? If you're a YES on both, Diplo needs your help. This...
Orrin Evans These are the best jazz shows in NYC in September. Orrin Evans Pianist Orrin Evans of Philadelphia recently co-founded the artist collective Likemind, and for six nights at Jazz Standard (Sept. 3-8) he'll give a good idea of its bre...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 8/30: Bat for Lashes + Barbarian Webster Hall 8pm, $30 A few days before Natasha Khan, the woman behind Bat for Lashes' temperamental and ...
It took a few years, a jail sentence and turning down a scholarship to figure out what he was put on earth to do, but hey, Rich Homie Quan is here. Future, Migos and Trinidad James now have a new rapper to contend with for the "Fastest Thing Rising O...
you could hear the hearts of aging punks across New York and New Jersey breaking. The only reason to ever go to Hoboken had ceased to exist, its 35 years of live music memories now just that. It gave up the ghost on Wed., July 31st. Cause of death: r...
Guess who's back? Back again? Shady's back, as you can probably tell from the onslaught of media ever since those two surprise commercials aired during last Sunday's Video Music Awards. Eminem is preparing a sequel to his Marshall Mathers LP,MMLP2, a...
[Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.] J57 holds it down as part of the Brown Bag AllStars crew, but earlier this week he released a full-length pro...
At 10 years old, Captured Tracks founder and owner Mike Sniper was already doing business at the lunch table. "There was this kid who was really into heavy metal, and my sister gave me all her heavy metal tapes because she was getting into other stuf...
The fallout from Miley Cyrus' performance at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards has run the gamut from discomfort to laughter to accusations of racism and sexism. But only the Parents Television Council demands legislation result from her tasteles...
Dylan during the Self Portrait/New Morning era By Bob Ruggiero Bob Dylan Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 Columbia/Legacy "What is this shit?" It is the most famous review opening line in all of rock journalism. And...
Jordan Smith was literally born to shred. "Ever since I was born, the only thing I've wanted to do is play electric guitar," the frontman for Nashville six-piece Diarrhea Planet tells me over the phone from Los Angeles before heading out for some pre...
"The world has changed, not us!" insists Pedro Winter, aka Busy P, head of the aggressively cool electro label Ed Banger, at the dawn of his company's tenth year. The French upstart, founded by Winter in 2003, blossomed slowly by launching scuffed, d...
But then they did. Instead of featuring ass and titties, the new commercials transform the Beats Pill into angst-filled animated alien-like figures. It's difficult to decide which strategy is less creepy and more convincing. So let us take a look at ...
Don't just lump them in with "dream pop." Duo Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman of the band Pure Bathing Culture pull from a much more massive and diverse collection of artists and genres as influences on their recently released and first full leng...
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Just before Miley destroyed the world by dancing lasciviously with sad bears, the stars of Sunday's VMAs trotted their fit and happy haunches down the red carpet in front of a thirsty press corps eager to ask them who they were wearing and snap pics ...
Braids Better Than: Huffing Ether while reading old Facebook messages. Braids straight up tricked us. In 2010, when the Canadian cloud-rock quartet properly debuted in America, they were the toast of CMJ, playing at least one notable show at Cake...
[Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.] J-Zone has taken a break from his self-imposed exile from the rap world to ready his new album, Peter Pan Syn...
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