

With TV Ghost, Pink Reason, City Center, Coconuts, Zac Davis, Slither, Halflings, God Willing, Evenings, Fluorescent Vibes, Best Hits.
By Nate Dorr
What happens when the Silent Barn accidentally double-books? Skipped acts? Shortened sets? Bills forced to move or reschedule outright? Thankfully none of these things, practice has demonstrated. Last Saturday night, through rapid turnover on two stages, the …


In which our correspondent reports in on Monday morning about what you can look forward to the next time No Age lands in Brooklyn on a Monday night.
By Armin Rosen
Market Hotel is a natural habitat of sorts for Titus Andronicus. It’s the only venue where I’ve ever seen them …


Photos by Joe Perez
Spank Rock was a no show. The party went on….


Words by Will Deitz
Photos by Will Deitz and Nadim Damluji
The enthusiasm for Girl Talk shows among the initiated has always been somewhere in the vicinity of stratospheric, and the number of initiated has continually grown in the year and a half since Gregg Gillis quit his day job. House parties became college concerts, and college concerts …

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Thu Nov 20, 2008
Last week Sleep When Dead threw a Showpaper Benefit in which Spank Rock was slated to headline, but did not, to the chagrin of the many eager attendees awaiting his set. Show organizer Joe Ahearn offered his take on the Spank …

Wed Nov 19, 2008
Beach House and The Walkmen on the same ticket?! We’ll be bold reporters and call this the first MUST-SEE tour of 2009, mostly because its happening in the first month.
We have already given you plenty of reasons to devote your ears to Beach House and The Walkmen this year. …

Wed Nov 19, 2008
Ludacris seems to be living by the age old proverb “It’s not what you know, its who you roll out with.”
Ludacris has managed to recapture my eyes and ears as of late with a roll in the latest Guy Ritchie film Rock n Rolla and a Premier beat on …

Tue Nov 18, 2008
Live without dead time on Tuesday with MIVOS Quartet, Girl Talk, Prefuse 73, Subtle, Secret Machines, Tall Firs, Dragons of Zynth, Peter and the Wolf.
Sans Temps Morts is Nate Dorr’s daily New York City events guide.
Recommended::
FREE classical: MIVOS Quartet at Manhattan School of Music, Miller Recital Hall, 120 W. Claremont Ave at Seminary row (W. 122). 7:30pm.
The MIVOS …

Tue Nov 18, 2008
The Good Feeling Music of Dent May is pleasant, charming, catchy, and this fuzzy feeling in my gut is not provoking any gag reflexes.
You can hate on guys like Zach Condon of Beirut or Jens Lekman for their super sweet indie crooning, but at some point, your stodgy convictions will cave …

Tue Nov 18, 2008
We called Black Milk’s Popular Demand one of our favorites albums of 2007. Here’s a video off Black Milk’s Tronic, in all its up-pitched glory.

Mon Nov 17, 2008
Live without dead time on Monday with Extreme Violence, Smarts, Stupid Party, Little Joy, Tiger City, Eagles of Death Metal….

Sat Nov 15, 2008
Live without dead time this weekend with Talibam!, Shoot Her! the Jurassic Park Play, Yeasayer, Ponytail, Vaz, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Girl Talk, Royal Bangs.
Sans Temps Morts is Nate Dorr’s daily New York City events guide.
Saturday, 15 November ::
And here is easily the most interesting avant/jazz bill of the week. Call it the Talibam-successfully-returned-from-Europe Celebration:
Talibam!, …

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A brief glimpse of People. The band, that is.
By Nate Dorr
“This is a song. These are the lyrics that I am singing. I play the guitar. My name is Mary. The drummer’s name is Kevin. He plays six ply drums. They are Yamaha birch woods. They have a dry tone. They have single ply heads. …

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