Email Author Rob Harvilla

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "On 50 Cent's Self-Help Book"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2009

  ""On Michael Jackson's 'This Is It'"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 8, 2009

  "Go See Phish at Least Once"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 5, 2008

  "A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 17, 2008

  "Ride the Plastic Lightening"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 26, 2008

  "Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print is Way More Fun than the Record Itself"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 1, 2007

  "The Fey Highwayman"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 9, 2007

  "The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 8, 2007

  "Hot Hot Heat"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published March 8, 2007

  "Hot Hot Heat"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2006

  "Spankmaster and Servant"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2006

  "Get Busy Living"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 5, 2006

  "Crazy For You, But Not That Crazy"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2005

  "Powerpop for Now People"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2005

  "The Titmaster Tommy Lee"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 20, 2005

  "Race Against Rockism"

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2008 Stories by Rob Harvilla

• Let's Avoid Neil Young's Next Record

  published December 24, 2008

  What I like to do sometimes is go to Neil Young shows and start betting pools on how long "Cortez the Killer" will last. As in, what could... More >>

• The Worst Lyrics of 2008

  published December 17, 2008

  And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness–style tournament, this year a... More >>

• Dan Deacon Builds an Army

  published December 10, 2008

  Jovial Baltimore titan Dan Deacon has made his name with a glowing green skull, a ratty Fred Flintstone T-shirt, and a joyous one-man... More >>

• Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record Itself

  published November 26, 2008

  We can all agree that Sunday's eons-delayed, punchline-defying, free-Dr.-Pepper-triggering release of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy... More >>

• More Nonsensical Digital-Heartland Anthems From The Killers

  published November 19, 2008

  You can imagine that growing up in Las Vegas would give you wildly distorted and entirely wayward ideas about what the rest of the world is... More >>

• The Pleasant Dilemma of Hamell on Trial

  published November 12, 2008

  For the seething, cynical, sarcastic, permanently embittered, militantly radicalized leftist folk singers, comedians, and folk-singer/comedians... More >>

• In Praise of Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight

  published November 5, 2008

  The best new fictional character across any medium in at least a decade is a neurotic computer-hacker cat named Roast Beef who calls everyone... More >>

• Eminem's Tragedy is Our Comedy in The Way I Am

  published November 5, 2008

  To enjoy the severely abridged version of The Way I Am, Eminem's new scrapbook/memoir, simply turn to page 122 and behold a lush,... More >>

• Reprising the Glory of They Might Be Giants' Flood

  published October 29, 2008

  The time has come to accept the disquieting but undeniable fact that the single most important song to my adolescent development was "Particle... More >>

• In Praise of Chunklet

  published October 22, 2008

  Henry H. Owings has grown tired of this bullshit notion that he hates everything. It's an understandable rumor, though. Consider... More >>

• Maxwell Returns. So Do the Giant Panties.

  published October 15, 2008

  'There are not enough panties on my stage tonight," declares Maxwell, to shrieks of near-homicidal lust. He has interrupted the intro to a song... More >>

• VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last at Hip-Hop Honors

  published October 8, 2008

  The bizarre, the chaotic, and the sublime all lined up exactly once, for 30 seconds or so, at Thursday night's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors taping... More >>

• Reprising a Classic Built to Spill Record, For Good and Ill

  published October 1, 2008

  We have come to watch haggard, hirsute, immobile, relentlessly uncharismatic men rip dispassionately through vicious, meandering,... More >>

• Solange Knowles: Crazier in Love

  published September 23, 2008

  It's awfully tempting to make rash, inflammatory statements about Solange Knowles; to contend, for example, that while big sister... More >>

• Ride the Plastic Lightning: Metallica's Death Magnetic, Guitar Hero-Style

  published September 17, 2008

  I have not yet had occasion to actually hear Metallica's totally badass new album, because I am way too busy living it, tearing off... More >>

• The Last Adult Swim, Featuring Sonic Youth

  published September 3, 2008

  McCarren Park Pool's dry spell has finally, inevitably, sadly ended. Feel free to mourn the monolithic, charmingly ugly Greenpoint spot's... More >>

• All Points West Festival: Totally Worth It

  published August 12, 2008

  I hope you took the ferry to this All Points West thing: a lovely meander down the East River, a soft breeze denoting the remarkably non-... More >>

• A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells

  published August 5, 2008

  Ah, the exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the Long Island Rail Road, whereupon we're toughing out signal-problem delays en route to... More >>

• Black Kids Giddily Rage Against the Hype Machine

  published July 29, 2008

  The dance floor, for a great many of us, I'm afraid, is an entirely metaphorical construct, as remote and sci-fi and mythical a setting for a... More >>

• Billy Joel. Shea Stadium. Let's Do This.

  published July 23, 2008

  "Oh, he doesn't look that bad." This is my thought as Billy Joel's weathered, goateed mug first alights on multiple enormous Shea... More >>

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  The Dragons of Zynth Open Siren

  published July 16, 2008

  The Dragons of Zynth will inaugurate the Voice's own Siren Festival this Saturday at the not terribly bewitching hour of 1 p.m.,... More >>

• The Trials of Jean Grae

  published July 9, 2008

  Jean Grae once had two different albums leak on the same day. That is really hard to do. This Week, the official follow-up to the brash,... More >>

• Sigur Rós: Hopelandic Springs Eternal

  published June 24, 2008

  Sigur Rós have inspired more terrible music writing than any other band in the past decade; to get the ball rolling, I'll submit some of... More >>

• Coldplay's Insurmountable Fire

  published June 17, 2008

  Your songs are too long. And you're too repetitive, and you use the same tricks too much, and big things aren't necessarily good things, and... More >>

• On Weezer's Mystifying Red Album

  published June 10, 2008

  I've had a three-second loop from the new Weezer record stuck in my head for about 48 hours now, Rivers Cuomo snarling "I don't wanna get... More >>