Less Artist More Condo’s crappy sound and Zagat-rated ambiance are a refreshing contradiction in terms. But don’t try to make sense of what Drunkdriver or Extra Life just played.
By Nate Dorr
Just when you thought that all the real action had been pushed out of downtown Manhattan, suddenly here’s the diagnosis and prescription: the West Village’s Les Artists …
By Nate Dorr
Sunday nights at Death by Audio are not necessarily a winding down of one week, or an easing into the next. Often, they are just a few moments Brooklyn’s unending whirl of activity. Last week, a bill assembled by manic, hazardously lo-fi folk purveyor Ric Leichtung and prolific SF punk/psych/garage/free-noise force …
By Will Deitz
Seeing Hot Chip play at the Metro is kind of like seeing John McCain hold a town hall meeting in Provo: this is their home turf. This is where they are meant to perform. The thousand-person, bi-level dancehall-with-stage that is the Metro played host to Hot Chip on Sunday in their second tour since …
Scott Sturgeon, Star Fucking Hipsters, and the NYPD squared off for a classic rematch.
By Alex Nathanson
On Saturday, the Star Fucking Hipsters played their album release show in Tompkins Square Park to a small crowd of people who braved the crappy weather.
As has been the case recently, the show was only allowed to reach to 80 …
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Fri Oct 10, 2008
Download a new mixtape from Belief, the best producer you never knew you’d already heard.
Belief may seem like a new name, but he’s lended his production to some of hip hop’s finest including as Murs, Talib Kweli, Wordswoth and C-Rayz Walz. He also released an album in 2006 called Dedication you have …
Thu Oct 9, 2008
Axolotl (ash-ill-lote-ill) is a kind of salamander from Mexico. It’s also Karl Bauer’s moniker for a one-man noise machine since 2002.
While the means to making his crunchy, tautly layered experiments for Axolotl are constantly evolving, today Karl Bauer achieves his ends with a viola, an “early nineties children’s electronic drum kit,” a vocoder, a Moog (when he’s …
Thu Oct 9, 2008
Regular photo contributor Sam Horine’s work featured.
Sam Horine’s handed us over countless photo essays on the danker side of Brooklyn and is surrounding environs. A few examples:
ELBOW TOE
Mike Nelson’s Psychic Vacuum
Chinatown Rooftops
The Batcave
Factory Fresh’s Quality of Life exhibition on Friday showcases his work along with that of Jake Dobkin, Luna Park and Street Stars …
Wed Oct 8, 2008
Ticketmaster Tapes releases a Lil Boosie mixtape, and you might actually like it.
I believe Boosie to be one of the south’s best rappers out today. People hate on him, but put the time in to understand this guy and you’ll receive countless hard-assed tracks in return. Check out this new mixtape from Ticketmaster Tapes and try …
Wed Oct 8, 2008
When keeping it real goes to the head of a white rapper from Ohio who’s still gassed up from 2002 hype.
If you don’t know, now you know. Member of the defunct Mhz Crew of Columbus Ohio (a collective that included Rjd2) and former Eastern Conference Records recording artist Copywrite has had a rough career since backpack-punchline-internet-rap became …
Wed Oct 8, 2008
Sans Temps Morts is Nate Dorr’s weekly New York City events guide. This week with Ava Luna, Krallice, Yellow Fever, Daniel Francis Doyle, Noveller, the Beets, Vivian Girls, Dinowalrus, Love Is All, Paranoid Critical Revolution.
Seeing as Myspace is now owned in part by major labels Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI (that new music player didn’t just come …
Tue Oct 7, 2008
You heard it here first.
Tue Oct 7, 2008
Grails, Thursday, Wino, Envy, and last but certainly not least, Young Widows.
Instead of pretending I didn’t get his all in one email and proceeding to mete out these songs over the course of a few posts, I will say that I am always a fan of Temporary Residence releases, and that I got a whole bunch of …
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Chris Nieratko, the former MTV Jackass star and published author (Vice Books, Skinema), worded off for us for our regular 500 Words feature.
Like every other red blooded American, my favorite musical talents are Elvis, Ghostface and Morrissey. And Slayer: you can’t forget Slayer. I think one of the main reasons I care so deeply about Slayer is …
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