New York Times

64% of epidemiologists won't go to a concert for over a year amid coronavirus

”These are some of the highest-risk activities and probably attract more risk-embracing people,” one epidemiologist told The New York Times.

De Blasio doubles down on defending NYPD: "Police have shown a lot of restraint"

”I have seen overwhelmingly peaceful protest being respected by the NYPD,” de Blasio insisted in an appearance on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, despite video evidence overwhelmingly suggesting otherwise.

NY Times says Hootie & the Blowfish is underrated

You’ve heard that ”Sublime Is Cool Again,” but did you hear that Hootie & the Blowfish is a ”Great American Rock Band (Yes, Really)”? That’s the headline of Jon Caramanica’s new New York Times article on the band…

The New York Times posts Top 10 Albums and Songs of 2012

Kendrick Lamar at Terminal 5, Sept 2012 (more by Julie Schnabel) Venerable newspaper The New York Times have published their Top 10 songs and albums of the year, broken out by specific writers…

Laura Marling LP streaming (get ready for her upcoming tour)

Laura Marling @ Housing Works in June (more by Amanda Hatfield) As previously announced, UK songstress Laura Marling is set to release her third LP A Creature I Don’t Know on September 13th via Ribbon Music/Domino Records, and around that time she’ll be visiting the United States for a tour that hits Chicago’s Lincoln Hall on September 22nd…

NY Times issues (small) M.I.A. story correction

Editors’ Note: June 3, 2010 The cover article in The Times Magazine on Sunday profiled the singer and political activist M.I.A. While discussing her efforts to draw attention to the civil war in her home country, Sri Lanka, she was quoted as saying: “I wasn’t trying to be like Bono…

see Leslie Feist talk about her exploding career

Feist is big. See her talk about it with Jon Pareles on January 12th in NYC. Tickets are on sale. Many other 2008 “New York Times Arts and Leisure Week” are on sale too (the shows that disappeared after I posted them last time)…