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1. Bonde Do Role / Bowery Ballroom

The group you may have once seen pumping out Brazilian funk and hipster-hop was slightly different this time around when they rolled through Bowery Ballroom. After emcee Marina Ribatski left the band last year, the remaining members set up a reality show and the end result was new members Laura...

2. F'ed Up / Knitting Factory

A typical Fucked Up song is equal parts old-school oi/hardcore (Black Flag is a frequent, and not incorrect, comparison) and experimental jam. And, thanks to shirtless, often bloodied vocalist Pink Eyes, the Canadian band's live show is one you may not forget.

3. Bamboozle 2008

The Bamboozle Festival can't necessarily be pegged as a punk festival. Held on May 3 and 4 at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, the 'boozle featured dozens of Warped-friendly acts (Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line, Say Anything, Panic at the Disco), as well as a few off-beat choices, including "...

4. Snap Judgment: Jammy Awards

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

5. 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,...

6. 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.

7. 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...

8. 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.”

9. 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.

10. 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...

11. 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.

12. 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...

13. 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...

14. Snap Judgment: Speak Up!

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

These bands made some noise in Austin...and they're coming to New York

15. SXSW in NYC

Ten bands that made a splash in Austin last week, and playing in NYC soon

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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).

19. 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.

20. NYC Concert Photos

Were you at the show? These guys were closer!

21. 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,...

22. 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...

23. Bonnaroo 2008 lineup

Check out who is playing Manchester, Tenn., June 12-15

24. 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.

25. 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’...

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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,...

30. 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.

31. 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!...

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. Albert Hall Project

The Royal Albert Hall Project concert kicked off the 2008 New York Guitar Festival while honoring Bob Dylan’s storied May 17, 1966 performance. Performing their own arrangements of Dylan’s songs (in sequence from the original show) was Laura Cantrell, Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian),...

35. 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.

A sneak peak at new albums from Missy, Usher, Coldplay and more

36. 2008 music preview

New albums from U2, Moby, Gnarls Barkley and (maybe) Dr. Dre

37. 2007: the year in music

A fond look back at the biggest, best and worst of '07

38. 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...

39. 2007 J.A.M. Awards

On November 29, hip-hop’s elite paid tribute to the memory of Jam Master Jay with a benefit concert at Hammerstein Ballroom. Presenters and performers at the 2007 J.A.M. Awards included: Snoop Dogg, Marley Marl, Mobb Deep, De La Soul, Dead Prez, Papoose, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Everlast, DJ Muggs, DMC,...