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F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs
Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. Their effects on pop music weren’t as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfortunate—artists on both sides of the aisle manned their battlestations and put forth […]
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Neon Marshmallow Bring the Noise
“We really do think about this nonstop. All day. Wake up, go to sleep thinking about this,” says 30-year-old Matthew Kimmel, co-curator of Neon Marshmallow, the three-day experimental music orgy set to vibrate the mortar from the walls of Brooklyn’s Public Assembly this weekend. Assembling the 20-artist bill was a labor of love for scene-boosters […]
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Anthrax and Joey Belladonna Keep It In the Family
Anthrax’s tenth album, Worship Music, should rightfully be seen as a triumph. Its 11 apocalypse-gazing, zombie-gouging tracks pick up where 1990’s Persistence Of Time left off—the staccato stomp, caffeinated chug and skywalking screams that made the Jams®-shorted hooligans NYC’s most famous metal exports. The day after Worship Music‘s national release, Anthrax will enjoy a victory […]
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F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs
Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. Their effects on pop music weren’t as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfortunate—artists on both sides of the aisle manned their battlestations and put forth […]
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Elks
Local sludgonauts Elks are a gunk-caked rumble in the Cape Canaveral parking lot: the orc-stomping gallop of High On Fire, the sky-fucking twin-leads of Iron Maiden, and an asphalt-scraping guitar tone straight from Brooklyn’s puke-drowned gutters. Tonight is the release party for their long-awaited debut EP, Destined For The Sun (courtesy Tee Pee Records, natch), […]
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Jozef van Wissem
An afternoon performance showcases NYC-via-Holland picker Jozef Van Wissem, easily the world’s hippest lutist. This rising talent has plucked (haw!) the instrument from its Ren Faire stigmas in order to create a pastoral, meditative world that owes equal parts to John Fahey shimmer, Steve Reich minimalism and the field recording techniques of Fennesz. With Christopher […]