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...
But I'm a little disappointed. Last year, EA Sports eliminated the rap-and-alternative soundtrack the game had for the last 10 years, changing to an orchestral score. The Madden soundtracks were never all that great, but they made me nostalgic. Back ...
Dear Fan, As of late, I have had the pleasure of helping my friend's band book a tour, and as excruciatingly painful as it can be, I'm doing it because I'm an aspiring booking agent. Now I'm not helping a band lucrative enough to even need an agent, ...
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Next to "baby," "love," "yeah, "ooh," and "hey," the word "fuck" might be the most ubiquitous word in the history of pop. People love to curse in their songs. It's given us hundreds of memorable hooks, and hours of litigation. It's forced countless ...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 8/26: Braids + Headaches The Glasslands Gallery 8:30 p.m., $12 These Canadian art rockers have been shaking walls with their fierce harmonies...
Labor Day is just a week away. It's your last chance to see comedians work dirtier, push envelopes harder, and tell industrial quantities of Ben Affleck/Batman jokes before "real life" resumes. Here are our picks for the best of the bunch. See also:...
Art can often be a constant process of refinement, but Cass McCombs has finally perfected his approach. This week, the 35-year-old singer-songwriter is set to release his most ambitious project to date, a sprawling two-disc album titled Big Wheel an...
This Sunday is the 30th MTV Video Music Awards. The show's come a long way from the days of Bette Midler and basic-cable bedlam--it's one of the most influential award shows on television. Youth driven channel that it is, MTV itself seldom looks bac...
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First, consider yourself lucky If you own one of the following t-shirts; then consider listing it on Etsy. These sellers are expecting mad cash for their rare band tees. Would you pay what they're asking to own one a piece of tour history? See also:...
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