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The Music Slut began posting five years ago, and to celebrate, the localish pop blog invited some of its favorite bands to play to a captive audience on the Marco Polo Cruise boat Half Moon. And ... Continue reading "Last Night We Were Literally on a Boat With Keepaway, Javelin, and a Newly Five-Year-Old Music Slut" >

Fresh off a triumphant coronation at our very own Siren Festival a few weeks back, the indefatigable Ted Leo is doing yet another free show, this very Sunday at Brooklyn Bowl, with Darlings and A... Continue reading "Ted Leo, Great American Hero, Is Playing Brooklyn Bowl This Sunday" >

Hey, look, it's another Kickstarter campaign! Local bikini-bashers Frankie and the Outs would like your aid in acquiring a tour van for their fall tour. Not just any van, but more specifically,... Continue reading "Frankie and the Outs Want You To Buy Them a Van" >

• Frankie Rose and the Outs - Little Brown Haired Girls

Friday night in Manhattan, Webster Hall is the place to be. It's the year of dubstep, apparently, and U.K. duo Nero headline an especially solid lineup for tonight's Girls and Boys, along with L.A... Continue reading "The Martinez Brothers, Animal Collective (DJ-ing), And Afrika Bambaataa (Probably) Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife" >

Fitting, somehow, that SOTC old pal and bedroom r&b crooner How To Dress Well would announce his return to New York a day after his idol Kanye West made his triumphant return to America's hearts a... Continue reading "How To Dress Well Announce New York Show" >

Here's, courtesy the Guardian, is a wildly amusing as-told-to chat with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, who remains somewhat of an obsession for us these days, in large part due to her obsessions:... Continue reading "Looming Disaster: Ali Koehler, Best Coast's New Drummer, Is Allergic To Cats" >

Another time at MSG Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Buddy Guy Madison Square Garden July 28, 2010 Tom Petty looks like an anorexic monkey, and his voice is so nasal it makes Bob Dylan sound like ... Continue reading "Live: Tom Petty Looks Like Anorexic Monkey, Sounds Like a Champ at Madison Square Garden" >

Even as we write this, Kanye West is cruising through New York in a Maybach, listening to Andre Rieu's recording of the "William Tell Overture," talking about the genius of classical music and th... Continue reading "The Best Tweets of Kanye West's First 24 Hours on Twitter" >

Let's take a moment from our regularly scheduled programming to notify you about something we tangentially cover here at Sound of the City, that I've personally deemed very, very important. Spec... Continue reading "Tracy Morgan Filming His First HBO Special at the Apollo This September--and You Can Attend (For a Small Fee)" >

The familiar conceit of this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine article "Sissy Bounce: New Orleans's Gender-Bending Rap," goes something like this: There are some gay rappers in New Orleans. Ra... Continue reading "So Just How Homophobic Is Rap In 2010?" >

After a five-hour jaunt through various LES watering holes, downing beers and knocking back shots while grilling guttural-throated bawler/guitarist Chris Spencer of Herculean noise-rock face ri... Continue reading "Q&A: Barhopping with Unsane's Chris Spencer, Who Made Us Puke. Literally." >

King of Hearts, the long-awaited posthumous solo debut from Def Jux rapper-producer Camu Tao (who died of cancer in 2008), is finally coming out August 17. To whet your appetite, the label's offer... Continue reading "Download A Free El-P + Camu Tao EP, Forever Frozen In Television Time" >

Exciting times for Kanye West, eh? First came video of his Twitter-dissing freestyle at Facebook headquarters, a video whose release was immediately followed by his, uh, starting an official Kan... Continue reading "Kanye West. Performing At Twitter HQ. Oh Yes." >

It's been a rough summer season for JellyNYC, the promoters responsible for the Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Parties and various and sundry other events around town. First the New York City Park... Continue reading "JellyNYC Is Not Having a Very Good Week" >

"I feel a huge connection to Scott Pilgrim: we all grew up playing in bands, we all grew up with the John Hughes-esque emotional drama drowning our lives. So basically, all I had to do was write m... Continue reading "Interview: Anamanaguchi on Scoring the Scott Pilgrim Videogame" >

Rap fans are now (perhaps overly) familiar with the plastic nature of reality as it appears to Miami rapper Rick Ross. So while Ross spent yesterday afternoon and evening gleefully proclaiming... Continue reading "Rick Ross Momentarily Thinks He's Eminem, Is Quickly Disabused" >

The full lineup for "Channeling Chilton," per City Winery's site, is a beast, full of friends, admirers, and longtime cohorts, including Big Star drummer Jody Stephens, now the last remaining memb... Continue reading "Yo La Tengo, Ronnie Spector, And Other Big-Shots Are Doing An Alex Chilton/Big Star Tribute At City Winery Tonight" >

In this week's Village Voice, Michael D. Ayers revisits the rock 'n' roll grandeur of Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space as the band prepares to perform the album at Ra... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, the Return of Sons of Bazerk, and More" >

The National Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, July 27 It's great fun, actually, to watch National frontman Matt Berninger get steadily more and more intense during his 90-or-so minutes onstage... Continue reading "Live: The National Salute The Dead Geese Of Prospect Park" >

Yesterday, Kanye West traveled to tech world, baffling a crowd of cellphone-toting Facebook employees by performing in their Palo Alto cafeteria, a cappella, in a sharp suit and matching scarf. ... Continue reading "Kanye West Performs at Facebook, Disses Twitter" >