As you may have derived from weather reports, or common sense, or Twitter, or me, it was tremendously fuckin' hot Saturday afternoon in Coney Island, home of the nonetheless raucous and lively te... Continue reading "Your 2010 Siren Festival MVP Is The Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster" >
In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of pa... Continue reading "Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn" >
Yesterday brought the news that a former "high-fashion model" by the name of Ann Kirsten Kennis was suing Vampire Weekend for using a 1983 photograph of her on the cover of their most recent album... Continue reading "Vampire Weekend Cover Model Ann Kirsten Kennis Speaks (Through Her Lawyer)" >
Of all the things we here at Sound of the City emphatically endorse--Janelle Monae, the Mountain Goats, Matt & Kim, Ohio sports teams, responsible reporting of M.I.A.'s Tamil Tigers Tweets--t... Continue reading "Photos: Monotonix at the Siren Pre-Party" >
Quick favor. Let's all keep this link a secret from Rush Limbaugh, and Michelle Malkin, and all the other bloviating right-wingers our next-door neighbor Roy Edroso rounds up every week. Becau... Continue reading "Video Premiere: "Mind Ride" From JEFF The Brotherhood, Who Play the Williamsburg Waterfront on Sunday" >
Please enjoy Live at Nuremberg, a free full-length live album from Calexico, perhaps America's finest border-crossing indie-rock band, who're playing City Winery Monday and Tuesday of next week an... Continue reading "Calexico Release Free Downloadable Live Album, Invade City Winery Next Week " >
New York rap fans have a very complicated relationship with Rick Ross, due to the Southern thing, the prison-guard thing, the he-once-released-a-song-called -"Money Make Me Come" thing. During Didd... Continue reading "Rick Ross' New Teflon Don Is Streaming In Full On His MySpace" >
I will admit to being pretty super excited to learn that deathless heavy-metal icons Iron Maiden (who we love around here, as you may have heard) were suddenly taking public shots at Jay-Z's favo... Continue reading "Iron Maiden Did Not Diss Grizzly Bear, Which Is Too Bad, Really" >
Ten years ago, the Village Voice staged its first-ever Siren Music Festival. On Saturday, we're celebrating the anniversary by welcoming back some SOTC favorites like Matt & Kim and Ted Leo to t... Continue reading "Photos: Siren Festival Highlights, 2001-2009" >
TMZ with the scoop! Her name is Kirsten Kennis, the photo was taken in 1983, and now she's suing the band for two million large for using it, citing a forged release the band failed to authenticat... Continue reading "Vampire Weekend Sued By Unwitting Contra Cover Model" >
The Vivian Girls. The Backstreet Boys. Both bands are on tour this summer; both have a penchant for wobbly harmony; both have experienced relatively recent line-up changes. For some, these coincid... Continue reading "The Backstreet Boys vs. The Vivian Girls: An Intellectual Summit" >
Love u Chris... Pitchfork is having a good week. Yesterday, our pal Jon Caramanica wrote a piece in the New York Times suggesting the website had pretty much fully arrived as a "hegemon of taste... Continue reading "The Best #p4kfestpickuplines So Far" >
This weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to t... Continue reading "Ted Leo: The Extra Long, Occasionally Meandering, Entirely Unexpurgated Interview " >
If you read only one M.I.A. review this week, make it Rich Four Four's mind-bending collage of 40 of them, a painstaking line-by-line distillation of the Internet hive mind that took way more time... Continue reading "This M.I.A. Review Collage Is Required Reading" >
Beach Fossils/Small Black Mercury Lounge Wednesday, July 14 These last two weeks have been pretty exciting for Brooklyn's Beach Fossils: first, their bassist threw his low-end ax off a boat at ... Continue reading "Last Night: Beach Fossils Say Goodbye To Guitarist Chris Burke at the Mercury Lounge" >
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Brooklyn avant-metal crew Cleanteeth are a fascinating mush of at least a dozen colors of abrasive. ... Continue reading "Download: Cleanteeth, "Collision Specialist"" >
Here we have a flier recently encountered in Park Slope. Perhaps you are familiar with MiniBoone, the upstart indie-rockers laying ruin to the NYC music scene and, in their idle moments, teaching ... Continue reading "For Sale: Guitar Lessons From A Voice-Cosigned Indie-Rocker (Or, MiniBoone Has Apparently Fallen On Hard Times)" >
So we griped about lousy NYC band names. You took to the comments section and did the same. We decided to crown one, definitive winner. But then we waffled on this point (sorry) and put it to a vo... Continue reading "The Worst Band Name In New York: Finally, We Have A Winner" >
BV's got the first available track from Castle Talk, the latest from agreeably scuzzy New Brunswick scuzz-rockers Screaming Females, one of the finest acts to grace the stage at this weekend's Sir... Continue reading "Download: Screaming Females' "I Don't Mind It," Coming Soon To A Siren Festival Near You" >
"Oh my God, you're a Nick Rhodes girl," says Rob Sheffield, referring to Duran Duran's keyboardist. Earlier in the evening, we'd wrapped an interview about Sheffield's new book, Talking to Girls ... Continue reading "Q&A: Author Rob Sheffield on His New Book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran" >
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