 | Here's the LCD Soundsystem presale-ticket line you're glad you weren't in. Pic by Francesca Stabile. | | | | | In a sad moment for New York’s doughy, reflective thirtysomethings, dance-therapy crew LCD Soundsystem announced their last show ever. Tell Daft Punk to go home, splash some water on the Drunk Girls, and find your edge on the coat rack, because this party is over. The final blowout will be happening at Madison Square Garden (!) on April 2 because, hey, where can they go beyond that, besides maybe playing the saddest Super Bowl halftime show ever? Says frontmensch James Murphy: “We are retiring from the game. Gettin' out. Movin' on. But for just one more night, we will be playing with friends and family for nearly three hours—playing stuff we've never played before and going out with a bang. We'd love it if people all came in white. Or black. Or black and white. And come ready to have fun, please. If it's a funeral, let's have the best funeral ever!” Plus Liquid Liquid is opening! Tickets went on sale on Wednesday, and there were freezing cold lines around the block at Mercury Lounge and interminable waits on Ticketmaster! This is happening, isn’t it? And on the subject of local art-rock heroes, TV on the Radio have descended Cookie Mountain and announced that they are returning with a new record! Apparently Dave Sitek has found five minutes from his new gig pounding out “Mountain Song” with Jane’s Addiction (really!) to put together the thing that will probably win Pazz & Jop 2011 (as long as James Murphy stays retired and Kanye stays preoccupied). Their fourth album, Nine Types of Light , is due this spring, complete with a Radio City Music Hall show in April. Get your best “Dancing Choose” ready (or, if you’re attending the Radio City show, your most comfortable sitting pants).  Good news, procrastinators: That show you were too lazy to buy tickets for is getting a fantastic encore. The Lil Wayne/Nicki Minaj/Rick Ross monster bill at Nassau Coliseum is getting a second night, thus fudging up all your best guesses for surprise appearances and cameos. And that PJ Harvey show at Terminal 5? Well that’s sold out, but lets all wish real hard for an encore there, too, OK? In case you missed Prince’s last show in his triumphant run at MSG on February 7, let us clue you in on the water-cooler talk: Dude totally kicked Kim Kardashian off the stage. He invited her up to dance, and she just sort of stood there doing that fake “I’m so embarrassed” stare that reality stars have perfected as a fake humbleness. She says she was nervous, which seems pretty silly to us after the entire universe has seen her do way, way more intimate things with pop stars. Anyway, he kicked her off the stage. The Los Angeles Times described Prince as “practically flinging her back down the stairs. The Washington Post said it was a little more like “booted.” But we just say, “LOL.” |  | | [ WHAT'S NEW ON SOUND OF THE CITY ] | | | | Did you have a good time on Sunday stuffing your face with Last Call Jalapeno Popper Doritos and watching the Super Bowl halftime show in a drunken stupor? Do you perhaps recall four shrill, glowing, neon, Tron-looking people descending from the rafters? That was the Black Eyed Peas, and many people seem to think that performance was “crappy.” But not our Rob Harvilla, who find their young tackiness charming and their neon presence to be 400 degrees of Fergielicious. And as for furry top hat that played a guitar solo? “The mere presence of Slash is just depressing anymore—the dude is just permanently for hire , available to any menace-lacking pop star on earth who needs quick, innocuous shorthand for Dangerous Rock-Star Attitude.” Whatever, dude, pass the guac. Read his full defense of the Peas here: Read more > | | Rap blogs can keep Kat Stacks, we’ll take the cat Snacks. The adorable kitty has graced photo after photo and rapidly become indie rock’s most famous non-keyboard-playing feline, but how often does Best Coast’s Bethany Consentino mention her stupid cat, anyway? Our own Phil Stelios crunched some hard numbers to find out just how many times she mentions her favorite things—boys, love, summer, weed, cats—and how often critics like constantly pointing these things out all creepy-like. There’s line graphs. We are so glad we hired this guy. Check all the weedy summery catty cat cat charts here: Read more > | | Noise-rock diehard Colin Langenus is an ever-shifting enigma—his Zappacore sludgers USAISAMONSTER just released their posthumous last record, his Afrominimalism churners the CSC Funk Band have an album coming out on Fat Beats, and his country-rock ensemble the Colin L. Orchestra is too weird for words. There’s also something called Bongladesh. We are so happy to count this man as part of our fair city, so we had Justin Farrar sit down for a long Q&A about the future of this once impossibly dread-headed wildman. He says he’s going for “psychedelic yacht-rock,” and you can sign us right up: Read more > | | Our local MP3 column is all dejected about losing $1,000 on the Super Bowl—someone should have told us that the Pottsville Maroons haven’t been a team since 1928. Help us cheer up with some free music. Start off with the new one from the long-absent Psychic Paramount, a blast of psych, doom-metal, Kraut, and lots of other stuff . . . OK, we can’t really describe it, but it’s definitely the best local record we’ve heard so far in 2011. If that’s a little gnarly, have a sleepy snack from Julianna Barwick, whose one-woman loop-pedal choirs have picked up in lushness and dreaminess on her Asthmatic Kitty debut. Check out the rad tunes we found in our couch cushions after the Super Bowl party! Read more > |  | | --------------------------------------------
> THIS WEEKEND
| | Autobrennt Presents Slow Hands+Bea Tricks
Fri., February 11, 10:00pm Bea Tricks embraces a clumsy pun on Be at Risk, drawing on the last 35 years of musical innovation to shake things ... Read more > 'The Either/Orchestra 25th Anniversary'
Fri., February 11, 6:00pm The New York edition of this dependably marvelous Boston big band's 25th anniversary celebration augments their formidable lineup with keyboardist John Medeski, ... Read more > Blk|Market Membership Presents Guido Schneider+Jonas Kopp
Sat., February 12, 10:00pm Guido Schneider doesn't bother to harness as much swing as some of the other artists on Steve Bug's Poker Flat label. His ... Read more > Donny McCaslin Quartet
Sat., February 12, 9:00pm, Sat., February 12, 10:30pm This man rules his horn like a despot, demanding that it deliver a steady flow of sounds from bottom-bred honks to top-wrung ... Read more >
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> PLAN AHEAD
| | Baths+Braids+Star Slinger
Sat., February 12, 9:00pm Read more > Wild Nothing+Abe Vigoda+Minks
Sun., February 13, 8:00pm Read more > | | Tickets Now On Sale!
Tue., March 29
Tuesday, March 29th at the Armory on Lexington and 25th Street. Featuring 50+ handpicked restaurants from Robert Sietsema's Counter Culture and Fork in the Road, along with complimentary craft beer pairings, wine and liquor beverages. Visit choiceeats.villagevoice.com for more information. Read more > | | |
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