Last week we told you about the heat Lower East Side clubs like The DL were taking from members of a year-old neighborhood group called LES Dwellers. The group opposes new liquor licenses in their neighborhood, particularly in the few blocks of what ...
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For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Monday, 10/21: Fiona Apple + Blake Mills Beacon Theatre Monday & Tuesday, 8:00 p.m., $39.50-$65 When singer-songwriters Fiona Apple ?and Blake Mills a...
Better Than: Everything else. It doesn't take long to get chills at a Pearl Jam concert. As soon as the lights drop there's this roar, the sound of some 17- or 18,000 people not just cheering, but screaming. It's a roar that's particularly deafening...
Like great electronic album artists before him such as the Chemical Brothers, Future Sound of London, and Underworld, Daniel Avery has crafted a coherent, confident and ambitious album. And like the best work of those bands, his Drone Logic (out this...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 10/18: Father John Misty + Kate Berlant Town Hall 8 p.m., $30/$35 Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tilllman has been touring the bejezus out...
I was 11. I wasn't much of a music fan as a kid, but something clicked in early 1994. I started hanging out with friends who liked music more. We'd ride our bikes to the mall and browse the CD racks at a music store calledThe Wall. If we were lucky, ...
From left: Jason Caddell, Travis Morrison, Eric Axelson, Joe Easley. About three-fourths of the way through our phone interview, Travis Morrison admits he's hungover. "We had a housewarming party last night," says the charismatic frontman for re...
If you look closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment Scott Ian realized people know him as "that guy on VH1 with the beard." Look, the '80s are back in style in every way, and that's totally cool. It means pop music is more bearable than it's be...
Traditionally, raves are a place where people can be free to wear whatever they want. That's great! Except, not really, because they also make horrible fashion mistakes acceptable. And so you see Rastafarian colors mixed with nipple pasties mixed wit...
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs We've still got a couple of months before it's time to avoid Times Square like the plague while ringing in 2014, and yet we've already had a year's worth of memorable musical moments (and then some). Ensemble tribute...
"Rick [Rubin, founder of Def American] was looking for bands that were not the conventional rock band....contrary to what the major labels were signing," Danzig explains over the phone. With their sleeveless t-shirts, black clothes leather jackets ...
We love Lorde, aka Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor. OK so maybe we don't always love Lorde. But we are always interested in what the 16-year-old Kiwi has to say. Here are some things she's said, mostly from various video interviews, about her peers...
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Lucius is NYC's Best Indie Band It's out! This year's Best Of Issue is, if we say so ourselves, the best. It features (rough count here) 1,000,000 write ups about the unknown or undeniable things that make our city great. Here, we run down some of...
Swarms of bands are currently taking over the most hipster corners of our city. From the Lower East Side to Williamsburg, a variety of acts are in town for 2013's CMJ Music Marathon performing from morning until deep in the evening at a variety of co...
Full list of conference panels here. See also: What I Learned At the CMJ Panels: Not MuchTwerked Out: Digital Age Minstrels Tuesday October 15th, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 802 Shorin, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 As hip...
Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. CJ Fly is an integral part of the Brooklyn-based Pro Era rap movement. Following in the footsteps of Joey Bad...
The tech world and the joke world come together this week, like a remake of The Social Network with a DVD commentary track of fart noises. Social sharing mecca Reddit hosts its regular standup show Wednesday, TED talk-inspired goof "Slideshow" is on ...
It's that time of the year again: South By Southwest's mean, jealous sister to the North, CMJ, is upon us. There's little sunshine, no margaritas, no tacos and yet, the thing can be a blast! Musicians and writers and industry folk from all over the p...
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