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50 items by Jonah Weiner

  • Down There

    Down There | ALBUM REVIEW

    If indie rock has become a noisier place lately — higher on gurgles and buzzes, fog banks of reverb and distortion-steeped yelps — Animal Collective deserve credit. Their gift, though, is for crafting noise into something pretty,...

    October 26, 2010 12:00 AM ET
  • "Home"

    "Home" | SONG REVIEW

    Art-rock gorgeousness from a newcomer to watch: Witchy woman Cameron Mesirow lays wind-swept vocals over a plinking marimba riff, then ups the drama with a flood of synths and an epically pining refrain. RS Album...

    October 5, 2010 3:14 PM ET
  • "I Could Be Wrong"

    "I Could Be Wrong" | SONG REVIEW

    On this magnificently cheesy synth-pop jam, indie rock's reigning Columbia grad (Vampire Weekend's Koenig) duets with electro-funk's reigning Columbia Ph.D. candidate (Chromeo's Dave 1), singing in falsetto about a mind-game-playing hottie. The real scene-stealer, though, is the...

    September 30, 2010 3:06 PM ET
  • Ring

    Ring | ALBUM REVIEW

    The debut from L.A.'s Glasser (born Cameron Mesirow) begins with a magic trick. The opening "Apply" kicks off with a lumbering beat that's weighed down further by a groaning synth — but then the vocals hit, and...

    September 28, 2010 12:00 AM ET
  • The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted

    The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted | ALBUM REVIEW

    This Atlanta mush mouth serves up hip-hop comfort food: rich synth beats; laid-back cadences; songs that find a gloriously low concept and stick to it ("Making Love to the Money," about all the different ways Gucci tries...

    September 27, 2010 4:55 PM ET
  • Jay-Z, Eminem Stage Massive, Star-Studded NY Shows

    Jay-Z, Eminem Stage Massive, Star-Studded NY Shows | ARTICLE

    Eminem and Jay-Z are the two biggest (living) names in rap, and for the first of their two co-headlining shows at Yankee Stadium, on Monday, all the chatter you hear these days about the death of the...

    September 15, 2010 7:10 PM ET
  • D'Angelo Hits Studio With Producer Mark Ronson

    D'Angelo Hits Studio With Producer Mark Ronson | ARTICLE

    Is D’Angelo’s James River the neo-soul Chinese Democracy? The follow-up to 2000’s multi-platinum Voodoo has been under construction for years. Billboard reports that producer Mark Ronson is going into the studio with the reclusive...

    August 30, 2010 1:16 PM ET
  • Flaming Lips Wrap All Tomorrow's Parties After Sets By No Age, Boris

    Flaming Lips Wrap All Tomorrow's Parties After Sets By No Age, Boris | ARTICLE

    The third and final day of All Tomorrow's Parties New York started with a mighty bang that didn't stop banging for an hour and a half: The Japanese noise troupe Boredoms dominated the early afternoon with their...

    September 14, 2009 12:18 PM ET
  • Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Sufjan Stevens Bring Lullabies and Assaults to All Tomorrow's Parties

    Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Sufjan Stevens Bring Lullabies and Assaults to All Tomorrow's Parties | ARTICLE

    At music festivals, a 1 p.m. performance is typically a ghost town — it's the snoring hour, the sleeping-off-alcohol hour, or for the especially ambitious attendee, the getting-breakfast-and-ruing-last-night's-ungodly-levels-of-beer-intake hour. So when Sufjan Stevens took the stage to a...

    September 13, 2009 12:41 PM ET
  • The Feelies, Dirty Three With Nick Cave Revisit Classic Albums at All Tomorrow's Parties

    The Feelies, Dirty Three With Nick Cave Revisit Classic Albums at All Tomorrow's Parties | ARTICLE

    Now in its second year, the upstate New York installment of the U.K. concert series All Tomorrow's Parties prides itself on being unlike other festivals. There is no corporate sponsorship, there is no $5 water for sale,...

    September 12, 2009 12:26 PM ET