Ever since Clarence Clemons died last summer, E-Street band aficionados have wondered who The Boss might recruit to fill his big shoes for future E-Street band tours. Now that they have just such a massive world tour lined-up for this spring, Springsteen has made his decision: Clemons' nephew Jake Clemons will "share the saxophone role" with longtime collaborator Eddie Manion. more ›

As Leonard Cohen once kind of sang, "We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky/and lost among the subway crowds I try to sing the Super Mario Bros. Theme song." It might have just been a fantasy back in 1968, but Gypsy Joe Trane is making Cohen's dream come true: below, watch a video of Trane performing the theme to Super Mario Brothers on an uptown R-train recently. As the video uploader put it, "This was one of the most entertaining rides I've had on the R. I like subway performers and these guys had the best approach I've seen: just stand and jam for many stops." Let's just hope that the pro-Koopa Troopas lobby doesn't get wind of this. more ›

On Sunday, those who don't care about sports or advertising are going to feel like Will Smith in I am Legend with all the zombies huddled en masse in front of 54-inch plasma screens, devouring chicken wings. For those who think football sucks, America's annual Bread & Circus extravaganza presents a perfect opportunity to take advantage of a relatively empty city. To that end, click on the photos for five fun alternatives to the stupid Super Bowl. more ›

Adorable Icelandic siren Bjork appeared on Stephen Colbert last night in anticipation of her 10-date NYC residency. The two discussed a bit about time travel, the interactive iPad component of her recent album Biophilia ("Why sully music with something as ugly as science?"), and her belief in (and respect for) the elves. Somehow despite her hyperspatial-Euclidean fizziness, Colbert didn't once mention the red brillo beehive-like wig elephant in the room. Below, check out the interview as well as an iPad-aided performance of "Cosmogony." more ›

Yesterday, thousands of Bruce BROOOOOOCE Springsteen fans were blinded by the cold cruel light when they logged onto Ticketmaster to purchase tickets to one of The Boss' five NY/NJ area shows. Instead, they were met point blank with a "Your wait time is 15 minutes" message, left feeling like they were on the outside looking in. It turns out all those fans were kept from getting tickets because of scalpers—and as Springsteen himself once said, "Well, sir, I guess there's just a meanness in this world." more ›

Following a series of adoring festival appearances around Europe and Australia last year, the best Britpop band not named Blur will make their first U.S. appearance since 1998 at Radio City Music Hall this spring! Pulp, who broke up in 2002 and reunited in 2011, will play Radio City on April 11th, along with a handful of other U.S. dates. And between Occupy Wall Street and stories of fat cat frat parties, what better time to break out into a sweaty singalong of the classic "Common People." more ›

With his political career in a permanent holding pattern, Bruce Brooooooce Springsteen is getting back to what he does best. On March 6th, he'll release his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, which is said to be his angriest yet. Below, listen to the first single, "We Take Care Of Our Own." more ›

It's been about nine months since LCD Soundsystem threw a week-long party in NYC and bid goodnight to all the real life emotional teenagers with a confetti-laden farewell show at MSG. While James Murphy has vowed not to resurrect the band name again, they will live once more in the form of a new documentary, Shut Up And Play The Hits. Check out the trailer below! more ›

It seems that reports of the constitution-shaking power of the Ron Paul Nation have been greatly overestimated. Last week, Clarkson tweeted about her love for Ron Paul, pledging to vote for him if he wins the Republican presidential nomination. The Ron Paul Nation, who are nothing if not fiercely loyal, then began buying her album on iTunes and at Amazon, claiming to have boosted her album sales "by 600 percent.” But in reality, it seems they boosted her sales to the tune of a 40 percent sales drop. more ›

Ron Paul is appreciative of all the supporters he can get, whether they are racist or Gothamist readers or...Kelly Clarkson? Shocking many of her fans, the former American Idol winner tweeted yesterday that she loves Ron Paul, and plans to vote for him if he wins the Republican presidential nomination—and then fellow pop star Michelle Branch chimed in that she too supported Paul! What's next, you're going to tell us that Selena Gomez is a fan of the work of Harmony Korine? more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] It seems like nothing has been going right for the formerly Hasidic Jewish reggae performer Matisyahu ever since he shaved his locks. Matisyahu showed off his new look at the 6th annual Festival of Light Hanukkah Tour this week at Music Hall of Williamsburg. But according to Paper Magazine photographer Rebecca Smeyne, it wasn't all huge disco dreidels and giant menorahs: she claims Matisyahu kicked her in the face and broke her camera's expensive flash during Wednesday night's sold out show. more ›

NYC is certainly not lacking in Rock and Roll walking tours—it's easy for fans to visit Strawberry Fields or Electric Ladyland, to see where Sid Vicious overdosed or where the cover of Physical Graffiti was shot. But what about all those other mythical locations? How can one get to Desolation Row or Shady Lane? Thanks to a cool new music street map, you'll have no problem finding Positively 4th Street via 10th Avenue Freeze-Out. more ›

Last night the second incarnation of the Brooklyn Night Bazaar kicked off in the belly of the cavernous warehouses of 149 Kent as food vendors, artisans, and musicians began a three-night competition for the attention spans of Brooklynites. more ›

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long for a Beach Boys reunion featuring fractured genius Brian Wilson and the few living members (but alas, no John Stamos)? Well we are older now, and we don't have to wait much longer: to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band's first single, Brian Wilson and those living original members have bandied together for a 50-show tour and reunion album next year. Check out a clip of them re-recording "Do It Again" below. more ›

As an adult, we have the right to complain about how no one is making any good music anymore. Of course, plenty of people are, but nothing beats the bands that you pine nostalgically for because they don't exist anymore. So excuse us while we revisit another era of live music in NYC. We started this series out with Apes & Androids, the #1 band we miss, and now in no order whatsoever, we'll move along. Up next: The Fever. more ›

Around 3 p.m. this afternoon, David Crosby and Graham Nash will perform at... guess where? Zuccotti Park! The hottest venue in town these days. The legendary musicians and longtime activists will play an acoustic set, featuring protest songs, near the corner of Cedar Street and Broadway, according to a spokesman at OWS. The band's publicist has also confirmed (it's always good to confirm these things with people attached to the band). more ›

Lindsey Buckingham is best known as the singer/guitarist of Fleetwood Mac, steering the band through the highs of the era-defining soft pop of "Rumours" and its more experimental, weirder sister album "Tusk" in the late '70s. Buckingham has also had a varied solo career, providing the theme "Holiday Road" to "National Lampoon's Vacation," and recording this year's "Seeds We Sow" entirely on his own. This Friday, Buckingham will speak at the 92nd Street Y about his long career—we spoke to him about his friendship with Brian Wilson, the legacy of Tusk, tinkering in the studio, his kids perception of him, and Fleetwood Mac's plans for next year. more ›

In 1966, a 24-year-old Brian Wilson began work on the song "Good Vibrations." It took him over seven months to complete it, but it became one of the centerpieces of the Beach Boys would-be followup album to their landmark "Pet Sounds". Originally titled "Dumb Angel," the album that eventually became known as "Smile" was to be Wilson's "teenage symphony to God," and a grand survey of popular American music influenced conceptually by the work of George Gershwin. But between the challenging material, heavy drug use, and inter-band fighting, the project came to a screeching halt in an incomplete form, and left Wilson in a fractured and insecure mental state. more ›

Folk legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined in with Occupy Wall Street protesters last night for a march on the Upper West Side. Approximately a thousand people took part in the march down Broadway from Symphony Space to Columbus Circle, mixing popular OWS chants ("We are the 99 percent") with protests songs (including "We Shall Overcome") all along the way. The 92-year-old Seeger was accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram and bluesman Guy Davis. Below, check out several videos of Seeger, Guthrie and all the other marchers singing in the streets: more ›