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1. Snap Judgment: Jammy Awards

Catching up with Grace Potter, Chali 2na, Chevy Chase and jam fans at the annual long-form music gala

2. Breaking the Band / Webster Hall

The Tribeca Film Festival is not just about film, but the uncovering of “emerging” artists like The Hold Steady, The Virgins, The Republic Tigers and Bad Veins. They played the closing night party at Webster Hall, a gig curated by “The O.C.” music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas. Apparently,...

3. Mother's Day gift guide

Our top picks for gifting right this May 11

4. Summer movies

Batman, Indy, and more fight for your cash in the season’s top films

Groovin’ ghouls bust out the moves at downtown’s zombie disco. Aaaaaaowwww!

5. Snap Judgment: ‘Thriller’ night

Groovin’ ghouls bust out the moves at downtown’s zombie disco. Aaaaowww!

6. Tribeca Film Festival: Opening night

Hits and misses from the Tribeca Film Festival's red carpet

7. She & Him / Webster Hall

She is Zooey Deschanel, impossibly doe-eyed indie-film ingénue; he (or "him" in the duo's grammatically challenged parlance) is M. Ward, low-key indie troubadour.

8. Silent Rave / Union Square

At 6:17 p.m. on Friday, April 18, 2008, a few thousand kids arrived at Union Square, plugged in to their iPods and rocked out to the beat of their own drums. The Silent Rave, a take-off of a similar event in London, had no agenda. This was simply dancing for the sake of dancing. Missed out? The...

9. The Gossip / Webster Hall

She appeared nude on the cover of the NME in all her considerable glory, fat rolls intact, and she delights in stripping at shows. What kind of rock star is Beth Ditto trying to be? The trio called the Gossip (and referred to as a "sound + politics unit" on their website) are a fiercely...

10. Hot Chip / Terminal 5

Over and over and over and over we hear about Hot Chip. The British outfit's electro-grooves have won over everyone, from critics and bloggers to bands looking for a hot remix, mostly via their acclaimed 2006 breakout, "The Warning." Two years later, having found the time to stop remixing others'...

“This is like a really overpaid dress rehearsal.”

11. Gnarls Barkley / Highline Ballroom

Rocking pressed Big Band tuxedos and an even bigger band (two keyboards, percussion, organs, guitar, various beat machines), Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green tuned up for Gnarls’ upcoming world tour during a loose show at Highline Ballroom.

12. Shoe party

Socialites, singers and the shoe-obsessed celebrate the Shane & Shawn store opening

13. Snap Judgment: Haggis cart

New Yorkers discover Scotland's national dish.

14. The Dodos / Mercury Lounge

On The Dodos’ sophomore album, "Visiter," singer/multi-instrumentalist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber sound like they've been hanging in the same jungle as Animal Collective—the nervous, insistent drums are at least half the appeal here, serving as the thunder to the stormy art-folk...

The new New Kids: higher hairlines and better clothes

15. Not-So-New Kids...um, Men on the Block

They're back, minus the white jeans and high-top fades

16. Beach House / Bowery Ballroom

The brother-sister tandem in Beach House continue to make chilling out an art. Rough day? Late on rent? Worried about taxes? Much like a massage or a yoga class this show at Bowery gave us a Zen-type buzz.

17. Snap Judgment: New York Pizza Show

Is NYC pie the best? Don’t ask a room full of pizza pros (many from Chicago).

18. New restaurants

Check out the hottest restaurant openings

19. Inside: The Rusty Knot

20. Crystal Castles + Team Robespierre / Mercury Lounge

Crystal Castles is a circa-1983 Atari game. Crystal Castles is also a 2008 video game version of a band, making noisy, bleepy songs with tons of keyboards, one of which actually has a video-game chip implanted in it. Team Robespierre plays loud, shouty dance punk and are on the cusp of breaking...

21. The Raveonettes / Maxwell's

The Raveonettes got sort of buried in the wave of big rock acts making headlines in the early oh-ohs, garnering the critical equivalent of a nod and a smile. But with their third album, "Lust Lust Lust," the Danish duo is poised to break out for real. Their sound is a hypnotic blend of early...

22. Snap Judgment: Speak Up!

Moby, Lou Reed and Antony Hagerty tell us why the war ain’t so rocking

23. Snap Judgment: Spitzer's Corner

Our Luv Guv has everyone in the city talking, including the patrons at Spitzer's Corner, a bustling restaurant/bar on Rivington Street

24. Snap Judgment: Plug Awards 2008

The 2008 Plug Awards hit Terminal 5 with performances by Nick Cave, St. Vincent, Dizzee Rascal, José González, The Forms, Bates For Lashes, White Denim and DiVinci

25. Snap Judgment: Justice + Chromeo / Theater at MSG

We hit up MSG to find out if MySpace is still cool and just why everybody is feeling those chain-smoking Parisians.

26. The politics of style

Our top picks for supporting the candidate of your choice in style

27. Snap Judgment: Blind Melon reunion

12 years after the death of frontman Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon united at Hiro Ballroom. Jam-grunge lives (at least for an evening).

28. KRS-One + Common + Q-Tip + Grandmaster Flash / Element

At the launch of Smirnoff’s Signature Mix Series at Element, hip-hop heroes KRS-One, Common, Q-Tip and Grandmaster Flash played their classic cuts, in between passing the…vodka.

29. NYC Concert Photos

Were you at the show? These guys were closer!

30. Oscar's highs and lows

Memorable moments from Hollywood's biggest night

31. Oscar red carpet: hits and misses

The looks we loved, the ones we hated and those dreaded in-betweens

32. Be Your Own Pet / Mercury Lounge

When we caught young Nashville punks Be Your Own Pet back in November, the show could only be described as a beautiful disaster. While the actual music was rushed and mostly unintelligible, the loopy performance put on by lead fireplug Jemina Pearl was a masochistic wonder. As the gig progressed,...

33. Yeasayer + MGMT / Music Hall of Williamsburg

Buzz-spreaders have had no trouble hailing Yeasayer as the new awesome thing, and with good reason this time. The Brooklyn quartet fashions an intoxicating, yet serious, blend of pop, art-rock, drone, psych, world music and who knows what else that had the Music Hall of Williamsburg crowd clapping...

34. X Your Ex

Who needs a significant other? Plenty of single New Yorkers (and, admittedly, a few couples) ventured to Le Royale on Thursday night for the Metromix/AM New York "X Your Ex" Valentine's party, featuring the DJ skills of the Scissor Sisters' Paddy Boom, a performance by the red hot pop/burlesque...

35. Snap Judgment: Westminster Dog Show

We went backstage at the kennel Club's annual show to see what those bitches (and studs) go through

36. Foals + Team Robespierre / Bowery Ballroom

Foals skittery beats and shouty vocals recall the heyday of dance-punk, but with more of an emphasis on techno than anything else (despite the members' math-rock background). No matter: all that coltish energy set young arms and legs akimbo at Bowery Ballroom. Metromix favorites Team Robespierre...

37. Nada Surf + Illinois / Bowery Ballroom

To some Nada Surf is one of those "whatever happened to?" bands—you may remember MTV breakout hit "Popular"? Well, that novelty hit was never quite equaled on the charts, but the band has grown into a mature pop band, one with a strong and loyal following (especially in frontman Matthew Caws’...

38. Liars + No Age / Warsaw

Liars have spent the last few years trying to get as far away as possible from the then-trendy dance-punk of the early ‘00s that brought them to hipster fame, embracing an experimental approach that culminated in a dissonant, tuneless concept album.

39. Snap Judgment: The Pizza Shop

Booze-fueled musings about the shiny new East Village slice factory

40. Barack Rock / Bowery Ballroom

It certainly wasn't an official Obama party...at least if you measured the night by the amount of swearing involved. "I like to shave my bush into a little heart," said Barack Rock co-host (and Stella/The State member) Michael Ian Black, describing his perfect winter day. Odd profanity aside, the...

41. Joanna Newsom and The Brooklyn Philharmonic / BAM

Singer, poet and classically trained harpist Joanna Newsom made her BAM debut at the Howard Gilman Opera House.

42. The Teenagers / Mercury Lounge

Love them? Loathe them? Who are them? Star Magazine-obsessed (and French) twenty-somethings The Teenagers are one of the most debated blog bands at the moment and made their North America debut at Mercury Lounge.

43. The Cool Kids, Kid Sister, Kanye West / Hayden Planetarium

Chicago's The Cool Kids and Kid Sister each played slim sets at Hayden Planetarium at The Museum of Natural History. Longtime supporter Kanye West showed up…to support.

44. Neurosis and Mastodon / Brooklyn Masonic Temple

The Brooklyn Masonic Temple, in Ft. Greene, was built in 1909 and has hosted a number of fraternal organizations over the years, as well as various weddings, meetings and birthday parties. But for (probably) the first time, the Temple hosted a full-on metal show featuring scene vets Neurosis,...

45. Super Furry Animals / Maxwell's

Welsh collective Super Furry Animals played a rare club show at Hoboken’s historic black box Maxwell’s. Apparently frontman Gruff Rhys really has a keen affection for space travel. Holy F*ck opened.

46. 2008 Oscar nominees

'Juno' lands four, 'No Country' racks up eight--see what else scored

47. SPIN best of 2007 concert

Long one of our favorite music glossies (we forgive that Beyoncé cover), SPIN got us extra excited in 2007 with their smart cover picks—Punk ’77 retrospective; Bruce vs. Win Butler—and gutsy year-end album list. Ok, Marines dodging RPGs in Sadr City is gutsy. We’ll call putting Against Me!...

48. Editors, Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV

Editors are pretty damn big these days, commanding $34 at one of New York’s bigger, and might be say "challenged," venues Terminal 5. The Birmingham gloom rockers played with Louis XIV and Hot Hot Heat—whose frontman Steve Bays never has a bad hair day.

49. Snap Judgment: 'Juno' soundtrack release show with Kimya Dawson

Before Kimya Dawson played songs from the movie fans (and Dawson) answered our questions

50. Fiery Furnaces / Maxwell's

Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger are some of Brooklyn’s more prolific siblings, having released an album a year for the past, well, several. Their recent release, “Widow City,” is a funky, rambling affair, played extensively at Maxwell’s.

51. Joy to the World Wide Web 2007

White Williams, The Rapture and Santogold (featuring Diplo!) helped us toast the holidays (and the Internet) at the first-annual Metromix New York Joy to the World Wide Web, held at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

52. Crappy restaurant names 2007

BarFry, P*ong, Bobo. What are they thinking?

53. Snap Judgment: 2007 mtvU Woodie Awards

We hit the red carpet at the 2007 mtvU Woodie Awards, held November 8th at Roseland, with one mission: To get some of the presenters, nominees and performers to reflect on their college-aged activities. Think house parties and funneling beer, not cramming for midterms. Interviews: RJD2, Metro...

54. Metromix New York 2007 CMJ Showcase

Look who got freaky at the rock show

55. Snap Judgment: Naked Ping Pong

We stopped by a loft in Tribeca (487 Greenwich St. 5th Fl.) for the weekly Naked Ping Pong party, a Friday evening gathering of hardcore table tennis players, curious fratboy-types and models. $20 gets you in (a fee that includes three drink tickets), with a $10 surcharge to play in the...