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1. Faking it

Our guide to the latest costume jewelry designs

2. Hollywood's unwedded bliss list

Celeb couples who stick together without making it official

Sonic Youth: underground icons, the epitome of downtown cool…Starbucks synergists? Yep, the legendary rockers have made a deal with the frothy devil for their latest release, a compilation called "Hits Are For Squares," with tracks chosen by musicians and celebrities. Weird? Sure. But nobody is...

4. Albert Hammond Jr. / Mercury Lounge

Albert Hammond Jr. guitar work is an art unto itself—the compressed, bluesified solos (masterfully on The Strokes’ magnum opus cut “Take It Or Leave It”) and the skin tight rhythm holding much of the band’s three albums together makes Hammond Jr. one of the more underrated musicians of...

5. Proud to be an American (restaurant). Or not.

As July 4 approaches, bringing memories of family picnics, apple pie and crushing hangovers of years past, we were inspired to scour NYC looking for restaurants and bars brave enough to portend their “American-ness” right in their name (see: Bar Americain, Sage American Kitchen, American Girl...

6. The Hold Steady / McCarren Park Pool

Boys and girls in America may have a sad time together, as the Kerouac-inspired Hold Steady lyric goes, but that's not the case at their shows. Brooklyn’s best “party band” has built a formidable following based largely on their spectacularly spirited live shows and unique melding of classic...

7. Snap Judgment: Devo

Despite the fact that many of the members are pushing 60, New Wave pioneers Devo played a crisp, relatively abridged, set at the McCarren Park Pool—to the naked ear the band’s perfectly synced versions of “That’s Good,” “Jocko Homo” and “Gates of Steel” could have been pulled...

8. Love as Laughter / Beauty Bar

For over ten years, Brooklyn’s own Love as Laughter has been putting out a steady stream of ‘60s garage rock and idiosyncratic pop that has long earned the admiration of the indie rock set. To celebrate the release of their sixth album “Holy,” the band played an acoustic set at Beauty Bar....

The skinny on the stinky on Smith Street

9. Stinky Bklyn Cheese Eating Contest

Fromage fanatics sliced their way through Stinky Bklyn’s second annual Brooklyn Cheese Eating Contest, held along Smith Street.

10. The Academy's newest members

Borat voting for Hollywood's top prize? See who else might join him...

11. Secret gardens

Pssssst! Binge and booze out back at these hidden outdoor retreats.

12. The Ting Tings / Bowery Ballroom

This British duo became something of an overnight sensation thanks to the inclusion of their single “Shut Up and Let Me Go” in one of those inescapable iPod commercials. The song gives you a pretty good idea of what the British duo is about: danceable, new wave-influenced pop. (Think...

13. Vampire Weekend / Central Park Summerstage

Only a group of Ivy Leaguers would pen songs referencing grammar usage and rapper Lil' Jon. The Columbia grads of NYC's Vampire Weekend are such a band, but thankfully they never come off as pretentious. Their winning blend of upbeat indie pop, world music (with a hefty debt to Paul Simon's...

14. Mötley Crüe: the good, the bad, the really tight trousers

A Motley gallery of images from three decades of rock 'n' roll mayhem

15. Grilled!: 2008 James Beard Awards

Thomas Keller, Wylie Dufresne and a ‘Top Chef’ villain pick questions out of our sauce pan

16. Snap Judgment: Bravo A-List Awards

On the red carpet with cable’s most fabulous (and frightening) reality stars

17. 2008 summer outdoor concert guide

Get tan (and early-onset tinnitus) at these standout shows.

18. Rilo Kiley / Terminal 5

Jenny Lewis may be every indie fanboy's wet dream, but the potty mouthed singer is getting more mainstream by the minute. After the success of her solo album, Rilo Kiley was well-positioned for its major-label bow, "Under the Blacklight," and despite some critical hiccups—not everyone loved the...

19. Mates of State / Mercury Lounge

Playing an early bird show at Mercury Lounge, Mates of States (Kori Gardner, Jason Hammel, a keyboard, drums), showcased cuts from their new album, “Re-Arrange Us.” We’d like to think that the band made it home for dinner—they live in Connecticut with their two uber-cute kids.

Chefs pull a question out of our sauce pan, and answer it no matter what

20. Grilled!: Taste of the Nation 2008

Spontaneous, quote-worthy combustion from chefs David Burke, Spike Mendelsohn, Sam Mason, Michael Anthony and many more

21. 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...

22. Snap Judgment: Jammy Awards

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

Talking first cars and civic duty with Panic at the Disco and their diehard fans

23. Snap Judgment: Honda Civic Tour

The line to enter Roseland Ballroom wrapped nearly three city blocks, slinking along the front, side and gritty nether of the Midtown theater. It was over 30 minutes before doors and even an impromptu Paris Hilton appearance—entering David Letterman’s 53rd Street studio—couldn’t lure the...

24. 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,...

25. Mother's Day gift guide

Our top picks for gifting right this May 11

26. 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!

27. Snap Judgment: ‘Thriller’ night

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

28. Tribeca Film Festival: Opening night

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

29. 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.

30. 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...

31. 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...

32. 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.”

33. 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.

34. Shoe party

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

35. Snap Judgment: Haggis cart

New Yorkers discover Scotland's national dish.

36. 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

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

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

38. 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.

39. Snap Judgment: New York Pizza Show

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

40. New restaurants

Check out the hottest restaurant openings

41. Inside: The Rusty Knot

42. 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...

43. 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...

44. Snap Judgment: Speak Up!

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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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.

48. The politics of style

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

49. 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).

50. 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.

51. NYC Concert Photos

Were you at the show? These guys were closer!

52. Oscar's highs and lows

Memorable moments from Hollywood's biggest night

53. Oscar red carpet: hits and misses

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

54. 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,...

55. 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...

56. 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...

57. Snap Judgment: Westminster Dog Show

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

58. 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...

59. 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’...

60. 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.

61. Snap Judgment: The Pizza Shop

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

62. 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...

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. 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.

66. 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,...

67. 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.

68. 2008 Oscar nominees

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

69. 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!...

70. 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.

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

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

72. 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.

73. 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.

74. Crappy restaurant names 2007

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

75. 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...

76. Metromix New York 2007 CMJ Showcase

Look who got freaky at the rock show

77. 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...