News / Tours
Radiohead Updates List »
Here is the latest list of Radiohead tour dates, updated 02/22/2012 via TKOL Part [...]
- Adele Gives Brit Awards’...
- Blur to Close the Olympics
- Listen: The Enemy — “Gimme...
- tUnE-yArDs Announced 2012 Tour Dates
- Watch: Odd Future —...
- Depeche Mode To Release New Album By...
- Paul McCartney Added To Concerts For...
- Noel Gallagher to Collaborate with...
- Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon Debut...
- School of Seven Bells Performs on Late...
Previews
TV on the Radio on the »
TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene @ Williamsburg Waterfront | 09/08 | 5:30pm | $39.50 (Get Tickets) | [...]
Metal Night with Japanese »
Also Tonight: Metal Night with Japanese Live Painter Bosshiko featuring Midnight Idols, Skelator, and [...]
Das Racist To Host Show »
In preparation for the release of their proper debut album, Relax, Das Racist are peddling their own [...]
Top Stories
The Home Row Keyed – February 21, 2012
Yesterday, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, I learned that Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock was the first United States television series to be broadcast in the former Soviet Union. That was in 1989. This is 2012, and here's what I've been listening to for the past seven [...]
Live Review: Damien Jurado, Gold Leaves, Bryan John Appleby at The Neptune Theater
Damien Jurado at the Maraqopa album release show at The Neptune Theater (All photos by Bebe Besch) Friday night, Seattle and Damien Jurado celebrated each other. The Neptune hosted as Damien Jurado took to the stage to debut Maraqopa in its entirety where he played through each song in order as they appear on the album with a few extra songs [...]
Pop Cult – February 16, 2012
Weekly column featuring knee-jerk reactions (the best kind) to pop culture happenings all over the world. Who Wants Plastic Surgery? / Jeremy Lin’s Taipei personality. Illustration from BusinessInsider.com Baek Ah Yeon – Haru Haru (Big Bang) – B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonlBvGdsMg K-Pop Star is Korea’s version of American [...]
Whitney Houston: Funeral to Stream Online; Reports of Heavy Drinking Days Before Her Death
Whitney Houston's funeral will take place Saturday February 18, 2012 at 12pm EST at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church. According to NME, The Associated Press have made a deal with the late singer's publicist, Kristen Foster, to have the ceremony filmed and broadcast online, with the event also set to be made available to broadcasters via [...]
Listen: Portishead’s Geoff Barrow Samples Radiohead on New Hip-Hop LP
Fuzzface is the name under which Geoff Barrow (sound-mixing mastermind and instrumentalist for Portishead) has begun tackling his new project, Quakers, which is a crew that has 35 contributing members working their way towards a hip-hop album release. As we previously reported, the new album is set to be released this spring, and the offering, [...]
Adele Announces Plans to Return to the Studio
Adele's music career is on fire lately, after sweeping the Grammy Awards with six wins last week and continuing to sell millions of albums. Thus, it was a huge surprise when the media was abuzz yesterday after the British singing sensation was quoted in the U.S. edition of Vogue to have said she would be taking "four or five years" off to focus [...]
The Beach Boys Announce 2012 Tour Dates
The Beach Boys announced in December that they were reuniting for their 50-Year anniversary. Today, they've unveiled tour dates! Check them out below: Beach Boys 2012 April 24 - Tucson, Ariz. @ Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater 26 - Grand Prairie, Texas @ Verizon Theatre 27 - New Orleans, La. @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 28 [...]
Jennifer Hudson Covers “I Will Always Love You”; Whitney Houston Gives Her Feedback (2010 BET Honors)
Warning: You might cry your eyes out when you see this. The nation is shaken by the passing of Whitney Houston. It's a sobering thought to wonder, "if Whitney knew how her death would leave such a gaping space in the music community, would she have changed the way she lived her life?" As she was ravaged by self-abuse in her later years, leaving [...]
A Dummy’s Guide to Korean Pop
On the eve of January 31st, the nine-piece K-pop group Girls’ Generation made their national television debut as David Letterman’s musical guest. The studio’s stage could barely contain the group’s performance, which, by K-Pop’s standards, was light on spectacle. And though the physical size of the set was small, Girls’ Generation, and [...]
Break Time With SSG
("Jeremy deVine (Temporary Residence, LTD) Discusses Jerry Fuchs' Life, Death, and the Aftermath for Maserati" - By Nikki Benson) Download
("Taste Romance" - By Nikki Benson) Download
("Shabazz Palaces" - By Nikki Benson) Download
Album Reviews
Liam The Younger – »
Score: 7.8/10.0 Underwater Peoples A Learning Computer Liam The Younger Liam The Younger is the solo project of [...]
Damon and Naomi with Ghost »
Score: 8.5/10 Drag City Records Damon And Naomi As two-thirds of the groundbreaking shoegaze act Galaxie 500, [...]
The Unthanks – Diversions »
Score: 7.3/10 Rabble Rouser EMI The Unthanks If the names Rachel Unthank, Becky Unthank, Robert Wyatt, and Antony [...]
New Music
Download: Uncle »
It’s very possible you haven’t heard of Uncle Roman’s Jetboat. The band name may be new to the music world, but the [...]
- Listen: The Enemy — “Gimme...
- Download: Xiu Xiu – “Beauty...
- Listen: Rihanna feat. Chris Brown...
- Watch: Odd Future —...
- Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon Debut...
- Miike Snow ‘Happy to You’...
- New Tenacious D Videos!
- Watch: The Cranberries Live on Rolling...
- Listen: The Invisible —...
- Listen: Diplo – “Express...
Features
Pop Cult – »
Weekly column featuring knee-jerk reactions (the best kind) to pop culture happenings all over the world. Who Wants [...]
- A Dummy’s Guide to Korean Pop
- The Home Row Keyed – February 14,...
- Pop Cult – February 13, 2012
- Rediscovering: Marcy Playground
- The Home Row Keyed – February 7,...
- Artist Spotlight & Interview:...
- The Home Row Keyed – January 31,...
- January: In Review
- Listen to This: Zola Jesus –...
- SSGtv: Ben Fisher
Local Spotlights
Download: Uncle Roman’s »
It’s very possible you haven’t heard of Uncle Roman’s Jetboat. The band name may be new to the music world, but the members are anything but. [Read More]
Off Topic
Song of the Day: »
R.I.P. Etta James. Thank you for the timeless love songs--in love, and out of love. [...]
Song of the Day: »
Today we visit the SSG Music vault of Helladopeness for a comedic Song of the Day. [...]
Concert Reviews
The Loom at Joe’s Pub »
Brooklyn’s The Loom has more going for it than just the expertly-maintained beards of its three male band members. In fact, it’s the two women in the group that provide the much-needed distinction from other so-called “neo-folk” outfits roaming indie music’s [Read More]