SOTC March Madness

SOTC's March Madness: Welcome To The Lightning Round Of 16

By Maura Johnston Mon., Mar. 26 2012 at 12:00 PM
Categories: A Tribe Called Quest, Alicia Keys, Bette Midler, John Coltrane, Laura Nyro, Norah Jones, Rakim, SOTC March Madness, Wu-Tang

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John Coltrane is the only No. 1 seed remaining in the tournament.
This week, our search for New York's quintessential post-1955 musician is about to get hectic, with the winner crowned as the calendar flips to April on Saturday night. (A rundown of all the matches so far is here.) So for the Round of 16 matchups—four of which will happen today, four tomorrow—we're going to dispense with the punditry and get to the voting. The combatants, which hail from the Uptown and Brooklyn quadrants: John Coltrane and Bette Midler; Alicia Keys and Laura Nyro; A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang Clan; and Rakim and Norah Jones. Ballot below. Please note that you have to vote in all four races in order for your vote to count.

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SOTC March Madness

SOTC's March Madness Pits Thelonious Monk (2) Against Norah Jones (10) In The Round Of 32

By Mike Barthel Tue., Mar. 20 2012 at 1:00 PM
Categories: Norah Jones, SOTC March Madness, Thelonious Monk

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​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here.

Monk handily dispatched TV On The Radio, and he now moves on to face a surprisingly ascendant Norah Jones, who pitched off No. 7 seed Laurie Anderson. Can her jazz-pop fusion eject another giant of American art music from the tournament?

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SOTC March Madness

Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up

By Maura Johnston Fri., Mar. 16 2012 at 3:45 PM
Categories: Laurie Anderson, Norah Jones, SOTC March Madness

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​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full, updated bracket is here.) Taking a cue from our neighbors at the Curbed Network, we're going to have a power hour—new polls every 15 minutes until 4 p.m., at which point we'll reveal more results. Our final matchup of the hour pits Laurie Anderson against Norah Jones. Check out the arguments in favor of each below, and vote at Facebook for the musician that you think should move on to the next round.

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Chart Talk

100 & Single: Lady Gaga Gets Ready To Join The Million-Weeker Club

By Chris Molanphy Fri., May 27 2011 at 4:00 PM
Categories: 'N Sync, 50 Cent, Britney Spears, Chart Talk, Chris Molanphy, Eminem, Featured, Garth Brooks, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Limp Bizkit, Norah Jones, Public Enemy, Taylor Swift, The Backstreet Boys, The Beatles, Usher, Whitney Houston

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The phrase "the calm before the storm" appears in virtually every chart-related story this week. That's because the latest edition of the Billboard 200, which covers sales from the week ending May 22, is topped by Adele's 21. That album is No. 1 for the ninth and (presumably) final week before Lady Gaga's monster Born This Way makes its foregone chart-crushing debut.

But, come on now... "calm"? For chart-watchers, industryites and Gaga fans, I'd say the storm is already happening.

A meta-discussion has been raging all week around just how many copies Gaga's album will sell in week one, and whether all of the downloads she's racking up should count. Amazon's jaw-dropping decision to sell Born This Way for the unprecedented full-album price of 99 cents has not only engendered controversy—so much that Billboard's editor felt compelled to respond to some angry Britney Spears fans—it's rocket-fueled Gaga's sales.

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Lists

The 10 Best Remixes By Ad-Rock

By Phillip Mlynar Wed., Apr. 27 2011 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Beastie Boys, Beck, Bosco Delrey, Fatboy Slim, Featured, Lady Sovereign, Lists, M.I.A., Matisyahu, Mexican Institute of Sound, Norah Jones, Rammstein, Rival Schools

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The Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 comes out Tuesday. But beyond the trio's newest collection of raffish rap japes, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz--the Beastie who isn't going gray and who isn't rumored to be related to Saved By The Bell's Screech Powers--has been steadily carving out a niche for himself as the unthreatening hip-hop figure to approach when an artist wants to swaddle a song in a classic coat of downtown New York chic. His latest effort, an electronically muted tweaking of fellow New Yorkers Rival Schools' "69 Guns," is a fine prompt to delve into ten of his most varied remix jaunts.

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Last Night

Live: Norah Jones Survives A Downpour, Inaugurates Celebrate Brooklyn! 2010 At Prospect Park

By Rob Harvilla Thu., Jun. 10 2010 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Featured, Harvilla, Last Night, Live, Norah Jones, Prospect Park

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She's up there somewhere. Pic from @cvbryant
Norah Jones
Prospect Park Bandshell
Wednesday, June 9

"Let's go get wet!" announces Norah Jones, accepting some sort of award during the mercifully be-tented Celebrate Brooklyn! pre-show gala minutes before taking the Prospect Park Bandshell stage on a soggy, dreary, increasingly chilly, not-quite-a-torrential-downpour-but-close-enough sort of evening, an unfortunate circumstance a CB! bigwig encourages us to regard "in the spirit of Woodstock." Always game, Norah lights her piano on fire and roars through an electrifying "Come Away With Me."

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Featured

Why Norah Jones Can't Have Windows in Brooklyn

By Zach Baron Mon., Nov. 16 2009 at 11:30 AM
Categories: Dept. of BKLYN Minutiae, Featured, Norah Jones, Real Estate

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Ever wondered why those brownstones down in Cobble Hill never have windows on their weirdly smooth brick sidewalls, even though it seems like a total wasted opportunity to easily engineer a whole lot more precious urban sunlight? Allow Norah Jones, her irate pop star-hating neighbors, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission to explain the answer to you. It involves "dangerous precedents." [NYP]

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