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Perhaps you recall local rap group Das Racist's disastrous-cum-triumphant stand at Cameo Gallery back in early February, when the duo "performed" the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique by alternately... Continue reading "Watch Das Racist Tear the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" To Tiny Bloody Pieces on Our Show at Santos Party House" >

Well this is just glorious. (And way better than that other version of the song we've stumbled over recently.) A little background on these guys here, website here. Their faces are the best part... Continue reading "Live From Staten Island, Here's The PS22 Chorus Doing Phoenix's "Lizstomania"" >

In part because, technically speaking, there is literally no competition. There Is No Competition 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's original from DJ Drama and Brooklyn firebrand Fabolous, is... Continue reading "Please Welcome the Best Mixtape (So Far) of 2010: Fabolous, There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service)" >

That amazing Free Energy LP that we spent most of last year and a good part of this year so far going on and on and on about? You can finally hear it, at Spinner. Philadelphia's/DFA's finest. We'd... Continue reading "Stream Free Energy's Stuck on Nothing (Finally)" >

Probably should've known that the Surfer Blood bill at the Market Hotel on Saturday night was going to be sold way the hell out, especially when even Luke's Lobster in the East Village was playi... Continue reading "875 People Were at the Market Hotel for Surfer Blood on Saturday?!?" >

Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "... Continue reading "Raising the Babies Song Count to Three: "Breakin the Law"" >

This is the epic, leaving-New-Jersey-and-already -sorta-regretting-it album opener from The Monitor, the new Titus Andronicus record that you'll be hearing quite a lot about soon. It's civil war-t... Continue reading "Download: Titus Andronicus, "A More Perfect Union"" >

We've said perilously little about The Monitor, the absurdly good and startlingly ambitious record from New Jersey's Titus Andronicus, in part because it's taking XL a while to put the record o... Continue reading "On The Majestic Trailer for Titus Andronicus's The Monitor" >

A worthy successor to "How to Rob," if not "Second Round Knock Out," even if you hate laughing. Over five minutes formerly Brooklynite and world-beating comedian Aziz Ansari goes in on everyone f... Continue reading "Hear Aziz Ansari and Dave Sitek's Bravura Rap Attack "AAAAAAAANGRY (with eight A's)"" >

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Blake Schwarzenbach's forgetters played the Bowery Ballroom about a week and a half ago, but prior to that, their big winter event was a tour--called Too Small to Fail, after one of their bette... Continue reading "Watch forgetters Play Live in Gainsville" >

Anytime you have to explain to your national television audience a), what the iPhone app Shazam does, b) the out-of-state origins of the University of Washington's KEXP, c) who the band Neon In... Continue reading "Here Is The Completely Charming Though Utterly Ineffective Neon Indian Bit Jimmy Fallon Did in His Opening Monologue Last Night" >

Head to Pitchfork now and bask in this shit. I have been waiting for this song's release for 11 months, since I first heard it at SXSW 2009 (sorry about the photo), wherein my JM obsession began. ... Continue reading "On Janelle Monae's Incredible "Tightrope," Which Finally Exists In Physical Form, And Which You Should Hear Immediately, And Not Just Because Big Boi Is Involved " >

Judging from all the adulatory nods around the internet today, it's obvious how well Saturday Night Live's Crisis of Conformity bit--in which Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Ashton Kutcher, and Dave G... Continue reading "Saluting Saturday Night Live's Sublime Tribute to '80s Hardcore" >

We'd be remiss if we didn't point out that Spinner was streaming the entire new Charlotte Gainsbourg album today. Only a week ago, she played her first live show, literally ever, at the Bell House... Continue reading "Stream Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM" >

South Florida doom outfit Floor released almost nothing in their four or five year run in the mid-nineties; a quick early aughts reformation and the release of Floor (2002) and the lost 1994 LP D... Continue reading "Oh Hey, Floor Reunion!" >

Yeah, um, we had sort of vowed to quit with the various Kanye West year-end/decade-end acceptances speeches, each magical snowflake being unique in its own right and all that, but then we finally ... Continue reading ""When Everybody Puts on the Craziest Outfits Ever, Put on Your Favorite Old Band of Outsiders Dinner Jacket and Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul"" >

Well, not really, but the above is a surprisingly touching and randomly detailed picture of a specific moment in time for Kanye West. That moment? The making of The College Dropout, his 2004 debut... Continue reading "The Decade In Music According to Kanye West" >

In what has become a happy ritual for local Mountain Goats fans, the urban bootlegger and all-around live-show ninja nyctaper has posted a high quality version of the band's Webster Hall show on T... Continue reading "Download the Mountain Goats' December 1 Webster Hall Set " >

The Brutalist Bricks, hm. That Ted Leo just gave his forthcoming record on Matador a name that could have easily graced the cover of a Mission of Burma LP, circa 1983, is probably a good sign. So ... Continue reading "Ted Leo's New Record Has A Name and a First Single: "Even Heroes Have to Die"" >

Here we have the peculiar and awesome spectacle of a band that normally can't sell out even the Mercury Lounge playing to an audience of tens of thousands on national television. Hot Snakes and ... Continue reading "Jimmy Fallon Had Obits on His Show Last Night" >