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1:00 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Live: Kreayshawn Lets V-Nasty Steal Her Show At The Highline Ballroom
By Jeff Rosenthal
Kreayshawn Highline Ballroom Thursday, August 18 Better than: no other concert I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot. Maybe Kreayshawn is hip-hop's Andy Kaufman, a high-concept satirist pu... More >>

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12:00 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Here Is A Glossy Pop Cover Of The Cro-Mags' "Malfunction"
By Maura Johnston
The New York pop outfit Lavalette has among its members New York hardcore stalwart Mike Dijan, so perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising that its first single is a cover of the 1986 track "Malfu... More >>

Sound of the City

11:00 am
Aug. 19, 2011
Is It Time To Re-Reconsider The Guilty Pleasure?
By Nick Murray
In general conversation, the guilty pleasure is a simple enough concept: it describes something you might like but, well, feel guilty about liking, presumably because it isn't otherwise up to ... More >>

Sound of the City

10:00 am
Aug. 19, 2011
Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"
By Al Shipley
On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempti... More >>

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9:00 am
Aug. 19, 2011
The Weeknd Put Out A Mixtape Called Thursday Last Night
By Maura Johnston
Late last night the Canadian R&B; outfit The Weeknd (a.k.a. Drake pal Abel Tesfaye) released its second mixtape. Called Thursday, its release is clogging the official site's servers, although Goo... More >>

Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Aug. 18, 2011
The Black Eyed Peas' Rained-Out Central Park Show Has Been Rescheduled For September
By Maura Johnston
Because it never rains in early autumn in New York, and because the Black Eyed Peas' much-hullabalooed hiatus is apparently ending for real when they play the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las ... More >>

Sound of the City

1:00 pm
Aug. 18, 2011
Sports Vs. Sounds: The Staff Of The Classical Runs Down The Best Post-Punk Sports Songs
By Harry Siegel
During my discussion with the fellows behind The Classical, the forthcoming sports site named after the Mark E. Smith composition that reportedly cost the band a recording deal with Motown thanks... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Aug. 18, 2011
Live: TV On The Radio Pop Up In The Sky
By Nick Murray
TV on the Radio Billboard at the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Sts. Wednesday, August 17 Better than: "Not a concert," said someone standing next to me. Two days ago Maura forwarded me a... More >>

Sound of the City

10:00 am
Aug. 18, 2011
Live: Black Moon Bring Enta Da Stage To Southpaw
By Jonah Flicker
Black Moon Southpaw Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Funkmaster Flex's 2007 Fourth of July weekend '90s marathon mix. 1993 was a very good year for hip-hop. Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief, L... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Aug. 18, 2011
How To Successfully Mimic Beyoncé's Dance Moves: A Sound Of The City Guide
By Francesca Stabile
During Beyoncé's Sunday night show at Roseland a friend pointed out to me that B's signature dance moves help her songs become megahits. I'd like to take it a bit further, and say that easy to m... More >>

Sound of the City

8:30 am
Aug. 18, 2011
Live: J. Cole Outlines His Game Plan For Cole World
By Sowmya Krishnamurthy
J. Cole (album preview) Roc The Mic Studios Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Waiting until September 27. Despite the stringent security measures implemented at the splashy preview of Jay-Z an... More >>

Sound of the City

8:00 am
Aug. 18, 2011
Download: Forest Fire's Moody, Expansive "Future Shadows"
By Christopher Weingarten
New York "cosmic Americana" crew Forest Fire would rather float in space than frolic in the woods; their music is a churning, twang-gazer swirl of moody hums, guitar divebombs and black angel dub... More >>

Sound of the City

4:41 pm
Aug. 17, 2011
Turquoise Jeep's Yung Humma Releases Another Banger (Or Should We Say Smanger)
By Nick Murray
After Yung Humma teamed up with labelmate Flynt Flo$$y to release "Lemme Smang It"—a smash/bang fusion of awkward rhymes, a minimalist beat from the reclusive Tummiscratch, and gif-ready ... More >>

Sound of the City

1:52 pm
Aug. 17, 2011
Remembering Jesse Waters, the 24-Year-Old Found Dead at the Gathering of the Juggalos
By Camille Dodero
His name was Jesse, but he went by Scarab or Drake. He was 24, stood five-feet, nine-inches tall, and had reddish-brown shoulder-length hair. He'd driven to the 12th annual Gathering of the ... More >>

Sound of the City

1:30 pm
Aug. 17, 2011
This New Lenny Kravitz Song Is Completely OK Until Drake Horns In On It
By Maura Johnston
When I hear the name "Lenny Kravitz" I instantly think his retro grabs, songs that are at their best expertly crafted and can flow seamlessly into the hits from its era, or at their worst somet... More >>

Sound of the City

1:00 pm
Aug. 17, 2011
Q&A; With Dave Segedy Of The Awesome Indie-Rock Revivalists Sleeping Bag, Plus The New Video For "Slime"
By Maura Johnston
One of my favorite debut efforts of the year is the self-titled album by Sleeping Bag, a three-piece out of Bloomington who craft hooky, low-end-heavy rock that sounds like it could have been lif... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Aug. 17, 2011
Live: Hoodie Allen Fills Webster Hall to the Brim, Drinks It In
By Jeff Rosenthal
Hoodie Allen Webster Hall Tuesday, August 16 Better than: Waiting in line outside of the frathouse bathroom. When I was in college, people would party to music by Lil' Jon. (Yes, I'm old.) The... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Aug. 17, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Kenny Chesney And Beyoncé Achieve Intimacy, Kelly Rowland Breaks Out, Resident Advisor Throws A Party
By Maura Johnston
This week in the Village Voice, on newsstands now: I look at the intimacy achieved at shows by Kenny Chesney (at left, with Zac Brown) and Beyoncé; Puja Patel on Resident Advisor's 10th-anniversa... More >>

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12:00 am
Aug. 17, 2011
Kenny Chesney and Beyonce Pull Their Audiences Close
By Maura Johnston
To call a concert "intimate" is one of the best forms of praise in the music lexicon, implying as it does a rare bond between performer and... More >>

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12:00 am
Aug. 17, 2011
Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That
By Mikael Wood
Kelly Rowland was on the phone the other day from London, where she's currently sifting through Britain's amateur-vocalist population as a judge... More >>

Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Aug. 16, 2011
Five Artists Who Should Cover Beyoncé At Some Point In The Near Future (And The Songs They Should Tackle)
By Francesca Stabile
In honor of Beyoncé's four-night run at Roseland, which continues with a sold-out show tonight, Sound of the City is celebrating the singer with a series of features. While she's a singular artis... More >>

Sound of the City

3:00 pm
Aug. 16, 2011
Lady Gaga's "Yo And I" Video: Ten Pounds Of NEBRASKAAAAAAAA! In A Five-Pound Sack Of Corn
By Maura Johnston
The video for "Yo And I," the big, gooshy ballad on Lady Gaga's Born This Way, has leaked two days in advance of its scheduled Thursday premiere on MTV and Logo. The clip was shot in Nebraska�... More >>

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Kenny Chesney and Beyonce Pull Their Audiences Close Kenny Chesney and Beyonce Pull Their Audiences Close
By Maura Johnston

To call a concert "intimate" is one of the best forms of praise in the music lexicon, implying as it does a rare bond between performer and audience member. It's… More >>

Resident Advisor, Under Wraps Resident Advisor, Under Wraps
By Puja Patel

In 1991 Brooklyn-based house DJ Todd Terry released his dance classic "House Is a Feeling." The track borrowed its title proclamation from spoken-word poet Chuck Roberts, who famously encapsulated the… More >>

Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That
By Mikael Wood

Kelly Rowland was on the phone the other day from London, where she's currently sifting through Britain's amateur-vocalist population as a judge on season 8 of The X Factor. That's… More >>

Machine Gun Kelly Is Quick with the Tongue Machine Gun Kelly Is Quick with the Tongue
By Phillip Mlynar

Bad Boy Records on a summer's afternoon: A gangly, tattooed white kid from Cleveland who calls himself Machine Gun Kelly is flushed from having just signed a recording contract with… More >>

The Brooklyn Underground Pushes Forward, Looks Back The Brooklyn Underground Pushes Forward, Looks Back
By Nick Murray

Consider the towering drum riff that opens The Ronettes' 1963 chart-topper "Be My Baby," reappropriated in a self-consciously retro fashion by The Jesus and Mary Chain on their 1985 game-changing… More >>

Toxic Shock Toxic Shock
By Maura Johnston

Even those people going into a Britney Spears show cold, like some Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer-type who had been put into the deep freeze sometime before 1996, would know that she… More >>

Matt Pinfield, The Believer Matt Pinfield, The Believer
By Michael Tedder

By 1993, Matt Pinfield had been a DJ at the Asbury Park radio station WHTG, one of the first commercial alternative stations in the country, for nearly a decade. He… More >>

Cave Bears Cut Up the Country's Culture Cave Bears Cut Up the Country's Culture
By Ray Cummings

There are no laws against castrating children's standards live in concert, nothing preventing anyone from schlepping onstage to disembowel "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" by way of dinky synthesizer presets, feral… More >>

Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest
By Dan Weiss

Archers of Loaf announced themselves with "Web in Front," a two-minute wiseass anthem considered to be one of indie rock's finest songs. Its key line is not the oft-quoted "All… More >>


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