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And That's It, Everyone
In honor of our bonkers Free Will Astrology horoscope today--"Your story is taking a hotter and more cosmically comical turn. The splendor and the rot are all mixed up." (?!!)--we are aban...
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Here Is Something From Terrible Records to Listen to As You Continue to Not Work
Any mix that has "For Want Of" and the Promise Ring on it has our vote. New from Chris Taylor's Terrible Records, who sure picked a nice day to release a mixtape. Elsewhere in TR news? A sh...
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John Mayer Is #1; 50 Cent Is Definitely Not
The lady-lonely John Mayer, the man with the audacity to tell the New York Times, on the record, "I should be fucking more girls," has America's #1 record this week. His Battle Studies, whi...
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F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s
Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. It's super-cute t...
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Announcement: F2K, Wherein The 50 Worst Songs Of The Past Decade Are Listed And Thus Shamed, Is Now A Sound Of The City Enterprise
Dewey eats Truman! SOTC is happy to announce that starting Monday, November 30, we'll be running the remaining 30 entries in F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, a profoundly hostile sympo...
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First the Street Sign, Now the Documentary: 2 Turntables and a Microphone: The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay
The street sign in Hollis, the Broadway show, and now the death doc. The angle here does appear to be particularly valedictory, pro forma declarations of love and respect by Jeezy, Ja, et ...
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New Vaguely NSFW Yeasayer Video: "Ambling Alp"
Not exactly porno, but maybe there was something weird about having just watched this at my mother's breakfast table. (It's the holidays!) Last week's website was indeed an apt preview, al...
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This Week's Voice: Rihanna, BlakRoc, Palin's Going Rogue, The Road, the Future of La MaMa, and More
In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b; ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer G...
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The Ballad of M.I.A. and Ben Bronfman
"Their love affair began in December 2007, a few days before New Year's" reports the Observer. They met at the home of a guy who worked the door at the Beatrice, and were engaged four mont...
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Phoenix Secret Show in NYC Next Week
These mischievous Frenchman have played their quote unquote final 2009 show in New York four or five times at this point, and the overall Phoenix saturation level--Animal Collective remixes...
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A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve
NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at ...
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Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash
Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash
blogs.villagevoice.com — Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be... sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who ma... (more) Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than ...

Two Years Later, LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" Makes It To the Screen
For a song that was described by an awful lot of people as "cinematic" when it came out two years ago, it sure took a long time for someone to actually put James Murphy's "All My Friends" ...
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Sam Sifton Is A Lil Wayne Kind of Guy
Seems like this would've been a great opportunity for a "Mixing Up the Medicine" reference there at the end, but we'll still take it. [NYT, via Made Up Memories] ...
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Yes in My Backyard: Download/Watch the Sundelles' "Keep It To Yourself"
blogs.villagevoice.com — Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn's... Sundelles write the kind of enormous pop songs that want to liberate themselves f... (more) Yes in My Backyard: Download/Watch the Sundelles' "Keep ...

Here Is A Mix Compiled by Mary Pearson, of High Places and Transformation Surprise
Courtesy of the always excellent No Conclusion blog. The theme is "music that inspires my solo music by process and intent. This is the kind of stuff I listen to when my inspiration well is...
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Tonight! Thurston, Jimmy, Julian, or Wiz.
Somewhat of a slow night, unless you're in for the Pixies at Hammerstein (featuring Jay Reatard!) or Sonic Youth at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (featuring, uh, Talk Normal!). Jimmy Buffe...
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Photos: Blowfly and GZA at Princeton
All you need to know about this past Thursday's bonkers GZA/Blowfly double-bill in a Princeton cafeteria is right here in these photos. Blowfly, flipping you off. Blowfly, grabbing his ju...
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Diddy's Birthday Party Cost Three Million Dollars
According to the New York Post, anyway. Commenters there make the eminently reasonable suggestion sponsors likely picked up a huge piece of the tab, which is very possible. Either way, let'...
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New Video: Major Lazer, "Keep It Goin' Louder"
So, roll call: Diplo, check. Skerrit Bwoy, check. Ricky Blaze, check. Nina Sky, check. Zombie tranny dancers, check. Switch...strangely absent (??). This is actually Major Lazer's second p...
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