Show Review: Night Manager and Reading Rainbow at Cameo Gallery, 9/16
Cameo Gallery is the best venue.
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Built to Spill: We’re on a Boat
There are a few things you have to take into consideration if you ever find yourself going to see a band like Built to Spill on a yacht, as I did last Thursday.
Watch Yeasayer’s Bizarre Video For “Madder Red,” Starring Veronica Mars?
How was Kristen Bell able to snuggle and look concerned for the disgusting thing in this video for four minutes?
Track Review: Small Black, “Photojournalist”
Brooklyn natives Small Black debut the first single from their upcoming record, “New Chain.” Small Black’s “Photojournalist” is pretty, sure. Unfortunately, the laborious attention paid to “prettiness” and what it’s supposed to mean is what makes the track so boring. The song itself is skillfully done, utilizing trickling synthesizers and blissed-out technological tweaks that deserve [...]
Jens Lekman’s “The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love” Track Review
Jens Lekman is considered by many to be something of a Swedish Morrissey. Don’t run screaming — it’s a good thing.
Track Review: Frankie Rose And The Outs, “Little Brown Haired Girls”
On “Little Brown Haired Girls,” Frankie Rose has found her most winning incarnation.
Joanna Newsom and Robin Peckinold Of Fleet Foxes Cover White Trash Anthem
On Tuesday, the folk darlings covered “Picture” by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow and cemented the theory that Joanna Newsom should stay far away from country vocals.
Siren Fest 2010: Sunburn, Nathan's, And A Whole Lot Of Good Music
Siren Festival sure knows how to keep a girl running around, and when you have eight stitches in your ankle, as I do, then that’s not always the easiest thing in the world. Despite my limited mobility, I was able to catch some great sets by the seaside yesterday…but not before devouring some seriously delicious [...]
Rhinestones And Raging At The Semi Precious Weapons/Lady Gaga Afterparty
Following the sold-out Lady Gaga show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the VIP crowd reconvened at Good Units for a very outre afterparty. The night kicked off with a performance by Prudence, who endeared himself to the crowd with unpretentious jams and cute, owlish glasses. At about 1 AM, Semi Precious Weapons took the [...]
Desaparecidos To Reunite To Protest Immigration Laws
Desaparecidos, last seen around the year 2002, are getting together once again to protest a law passing in Fremont, Nebraska that is very similar to Arizona’s SB1070. They’re playing a festival in a suburb of Omaha alongside Cursive, Lullaby for the Working Class, and that other Conor Oberst project, Bright Eyes. The proceeds for both [...]
M.I.A.'s New Album Now Streaming On MySpace
If you’re one of the folks who didn’t turn on M.I.A after her now-infamous New York Times interview, you can listen to her new album, /\/\/\Y/\, in its entirety on her MySpace. Be careful, though – the page itself is loaded with enough throbbing animation and wiggly graphics to make an epileptic do the watusi.
My Twitter Is A Day Old And I Already Fucking Hate It
Last week, I was talking to some new acquaintances at a party. Our conversation turned to Twitter, which seems more or less unavoidable lately. I feel as though I’m always having to throw around the phrases “social media,” “shrinking attention span,” and so on. The simple fact that I have the same conversation with so [...]
Stephen Hawking Talks Smack In The Battle Between Science And Religion
Stephen Hawking gave an amazing (albeit very short) interview to ABC’s “World News Tonight” last week. The high points included a cool dismissal of religion’s potential to provide more truthful answers than science. Hawking had this to say: “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based [...]
Golden Girls: Five Elderly Singers Who Deserve The Betty White Treatment
Betty White has become a Golden Girl in more than one sense of the word, which is to say that her recent career relaunch has confirmed her status as America’s most beloved octogenarian. She gets tons of press, she has a new television show, Hot in Cleveland, debuting this month, and she has been quoted [...]
Japanese Porn Star Giving WWII Reparations (AKA Blow Jobs) to Chinese Men
Apparently, Japanese adult-film star Anri Suzuki was very affected after writing a college term paper on the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. So affected, in fact, that she decided to give back the best way she knew how: having sex with Chinese students. I think I can best sum up her moral [...]
Interview: Local Natives on David Byrne, Performing in Barns, and Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles"
When I met Local Natives before one of their shows at Bowery Ballroom in May, its members were “running on no sleep, fumes, and coffee,” according to Kelcey Ayer, who sings and plays keyboards, percussion, and guitar in the band. After playing at the Bowery in New York the night before, they had traveled to [...]
Rest In Peace, Rue McClanahan
Everyone knows that annoying breed of girl who will designate corresponding Sex and the City characters to her friends. “I’m a Carrie, and Mitzi’s a Samantha,” and so on and barf and so forth. My friends and I never did this. Instead, in a similarly annoying but slightly more elderly-inspired way, we picked which Golden [...]
Dick of the Week: M.I.A.
M.I.A. (or Maya, or /\/\/\Y/\, or 8====D), you dick! Over the course of the past year or so, M.I.A. has been many things: political pundit, designer of weird, geometric leggings, pregnant, champion against the ginger race — you get the picture. Recently, she’s done many things in what appears to be part of another personal [...]
Track Review: "Shower Curtain" – The Dardys
“Shower Curtain,” the newest single by LES mainstays The Dardys, is now streaming on their MySpace. It’s a pop song with some serious, quiet charm – as well as the source of one of the best origin stories that I’ve heard recently. Band member Jimmy Keithly stayed the night at fellow Dardy David Heffernan’s apartment [...]
Safe Sex, Bro! Ed Hardy Launches Line Of Condoms
Making fun of Ed Hardy bothers me in the same way that skewering hipsters and Juggalos does. It’s like shooting poorly-dressed fish in a barrel. I think the brand is actively encouraging the hate, because nothing else could really explain the energy drinks, the exhaustive line of car accessories, and now, the condoms. We might [...]
