MORRISSEY

Stop me if you've heard this one before - curtains up, thunderous applause, mopey jams, clothing thrown and torn, exit stage left. For five nights this past week, this is exactly what you got during Morrissey's triumphant return to New York City. Forget about the canceled Madison Square Garden gig, and let's not talk about the $65 Hammerstein tickets being reduced to $22 a week before the shows. Overestimating your drawing power is something every major musician deals with as the sunset years start to swell, and 2007 has been a watershed year of sorts for Morrissey. Cancelled and rescheduled shows were announced like clockwork this year, and as they mounted up, fans started to surmise about poor ticket sales being the culprit and not the throat infections the press was pushing. The Richard Burton/James Dean set backdrops don't exactly argue against the whole thing being an oldies act, either. But on Sunday, as he closed out his epic Hammerstein Ballroom residency, Morrissey seemed eager, almost determined, to live up to his own grandeur. FULL REVIEW

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Justice unofficially closed out this year's CMJ festival on Saturday as three thousand dance-hungry people sold out the new Terminal 5 for the first of two Justice shows. New venues in New York seem to be popping up like kebab stands all of a sudden; I feel like every show I go to lately has a fresh plaster job on the venue's drywall. Not that I'm complaining, because most of these places have their charms. Terminal 5 feels like the Thunderdome of music halls-lots of steel and a vertical layout (3 floors!) makes it a great place for either a pro wrestling cage-match or a Judas Priest video. It seemed perfect to see Justice there, with their ten thousand Marshall amps and five hundred cigarettes. FULL REVIEW

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SETLIST FROM B+W 9.26

Hallogallo NEU
Heard It Through The Grapevine THE SLITS
Genius Of Love TOM TOM CLUB
The 15th WIRE
Shut The Fuck Up THE COATHANGERS
Mirage SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Action Plan X-WIFE
Outdoor Miner WIRE
Love Astronaut MURDER MYSTERY
Lovers Who Uncover THE LITTLE ONES
Nothing Left BUZZCOCKS
Speedway MORRISSEY
Big New Prinz THE FALL
Neat Neat Neat THE DAMNED
Parking Lot THE COATHANGERS
In A Mess KLEENEX
This Is A Foxy World TOM TOM CLUB
The Sound Of You X-WIFE
The Pyramid LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
Running Up That Hill (PURPLE CRUSH remix) KATE BUSH
Dis-Moi PROTOTYPES
Go Get VIVIANS
Crimewave CRYSTAL CASTLES
So Electric LIFELIKE

1990s

Is the late 1970s/early 1980s post-punk revival still relevant? It was certainly refreshing to see lean, snotty rock 'n' roll back on the scene in the early 2000s, when it seemed like all anyone wanted to listen to were The Strokes and bands that sounded like The Strokes. Get a good look (bed heads, tattered Chucks), get a scrappy lo-fi pop sound (make sure to reference Television, Gang Of Four, The Fall), and wait for the labels to start the bidding war. In fact, here we are in 2007 and record labels are still scrambling to find the next big thing in the genre. Well, it seems like the party's not over yet for the sons of Richard Hell, and if anything, everything lately is starting to become more danceable. It's about time for 1990s, yeah? MORE

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Fresh off not winning the Mercury Prize (which is basically like winning the Mercury Prize, ie. Damon Albarn), Natasha Khan hit the Bowery Ballroom stage last night with her all-female band. There were sequin-string headbands, leopard jumpsuits, black suede boots. Everything you need for a night of classy-trashy occult fun . . . MORE