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Steven Thrasher

Philip Glass is still a neighborhood staple More >>

An East Village Voice
Philip Glass is still a neighborhood staple More >>
Bjork Gets Pedagogical
The class act returns to New York More >>
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Lana Del Rey just wants to be loved More >>
"Stupid Hoe"
Nicki Minaj masters the art of the diss video More >>

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6:25 pm
Feb. 3, 2012

The Top 9 Things Overheard Outside Last Night's Secret Skrillex Show

By Nick Murray

As you may have by now heard, last night, as part of his weeklong New York takeover, dubstep phenom Skrillex played a show so secret that even he didn't know its whereabouts. Nevertheless, Voic... More >>

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6:00 pm
Feb. 3, 2012

Live: Elijah Wood DJs While Bon Iver Stays In His Corner At The Woolworth Building

By Puja Patel

Elijah Wood The Wooly Thursday, February 2 Better Than: Reading about Bon Iver on the internet today. After attending a party called Macaulay Culkin's iPod two months ago, during which I watc... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Feb. 3, 2012

Q&A: NARC's Nicky Smith On Working Alone, Writer's Block, And Korn's Badass Guitar Tone

By Ray Cummings

Mister Hands, the debut album from NARC, is the sound of Balimore's Nicky Smith bisecting and pinning to cork several the electric guitar's sonic flavors: the panning-stereo patty-cake blare of ... More >>

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10:00 am
Feb. 3, 2012

Q&A: Hospitality's Amber Papini On Competing with NYC Noise-Rock, Signing with Merge, And The Red Hook Scene

By Brad Cohan

As the Billyburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint underground overloads itself with crude art-noize slop, the clean-cut, pop-obsessive whizzes in the Red Hook-based Hospitality are quite the welcome anomaly. ... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 3, 2012

M.I.A. Drives The Action In The "Bad Girls" Video

By Maura Johnston

In other "M.I.A. in a video" news, this morning also marked the premiere of the clip for "Bad Girls," a fleshed-out-by-Danja version of a track from her ViCKi LEEKZ mixtape. In the clip, Maya str... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Feb. 3, 2012

Madonna Surrounds Herself With Her Past, Football Players, And M.I.A. And Nicki Minaj In "Give Me All Your Luvin'"

By Maura Johnston

The video for "Give Me All Your Lovin'," the first single from Madonna's MDNA, premiered in full this morning, and there is something vaguely... jeans-commercialish about the way the song sounds?... More >>

Sound of the City

8:30 am
Feb. 3, 2012

MTV Accessorizes Itself With Music On I Just Want My Pants Back

By Kate Richardson

I Just Want My Pants Back protagonist Jason Strider�a receptionist and aspiring music journalist who appears to live alone in a one-bedroom apartment despite claiming to have just $100 to... More >>

Sound of the City

8:00 am
Feb. 3, 2012

Q&A: Glassbreaks Auteur dj BC On Mashing Up Philip Glass With The Beastie Boys, Kanye And The Fugees

By Steven Thrasher

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as wel... More >>

Sound of the City

2:00 pm
Feb. 2, 2012

Banned By BET? What The Alleged Censorship Of Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" Video Means

By Maura Johnston

This week the Internet lit up with the news that Nicki Minaj's eye-popping new video for her Lil Kim dis track "Stupid Hoe" had been "banned by BET," a logical follow-up to the "too hot for TV" ... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Feb. 2, 2012

Q&A: Kronos Quartet Founder David Harrington On Collaborating With Philip Glass

By Steven Thrasher

Sound of the City

11:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012

Lady Gaga's Parents' Restaurant Is Already Having Bad Romances With Critics

By Maura Johnston

Last night was the opening night for Joanne, the new Italian restaurant opened by the parents of Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta and chef Art Smith, who was recently spotted making salami waffles... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 2, 2012

Six Songs That I Might Be OK With Waking Up To Every Morning If I Was Trapped In A Groundhog Day-Like Purgatorial Existence

By Maura Johnston

Today is Groundhog Day, and while rodents on the East Coast are split on whether or not 2012 will actually see something resembling winter around these parts, one thing's for sure: People will p... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Feb. 2, 2012

Download: Homeboy Sandman's Interstellar Voyage "The Miracle"

By Christopher Weingarten

Homeboy Sandman is a spiraling autumn of light from Queens, a rapper whose flow at once sounds like a metaphysical brain drain and a physically fit slice of verbal gymnastics. With a career built... More >>

Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2012

Bushwick's Party Xpo To Reopen as Renovated XPO 929

By Camille Dodero

Party Xpo, an uncommonly resilient DIY space nestled under the J/M/Z tracks, has magically withstood two years of logistical hassles. After opening in January 2010 with a typically cantankero... More >>

Sound of the City

2:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2012

Seven Classic Clips From The Soul Train Archives

By Maura Johnston

This morning, Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius was found dead from an apparent suicide at age 75, and the outpouring of grief and nostalgia was probably best summed up by the Roots' ues... More >>

Sound of the City

1:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2012

Live: How Exciting Were The Premieres Of Arvo P?rt And Philip Glass's New Works? Someone Fainted!

By Steven Thrasher

American Composers Orchestra Carnegie Hall Tuesday, January 31 Better than: A date with Justin Bieber for a 13-year-old girl. Last night at Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra ("th... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2012

Don Cornelius, R.I.P.

By Michaelangelo Matos

What must it have been like to be under the sway of Don Cornelius back when he was a salesman? Damn hard to resist, most likely. Cornelius was a salesman before he was a DJ, a DJ before he was a... More >>

Sound of the City

11:00 am
Feb. 1, 2012

R. Kelly Goes Back To Basics With "Share My Love"

By Maura Johnston

R. Kelly's 2010 throwback album Love Letter was one of my favorite records of that year, full of romance and and aesthetics that grabbed from Sam Cooke, late-night smooth-jazz playlists. ("Taxi ... More >>

Sound of the City

8:00 am
Feb. 1, 2012

This Week In The Voice: Philip Glass Turns 75; Lana Del Rey At Long Last Debuts; Bjúrk Takes New York To School

By Maura Johnston

The cover of this week's Village Voice is occupied by the famed composer Philip Glass, who turned 75 this week and whose birthday will be celebrated with a series of events taking place through... More >>

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12:00 am
Feb. 1, 2012

Björk Gets Pedagogical

By Seth Colter Walls

Please don't misunderstand Björk. While she might be returning to New York for her first concerts here since 2007 with a residency of... More >>

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12:00 am
Feb. 1, 2012

Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

By By Steven Thrasher, Photograph by Steve Pyke

"I'm not down in Florida playing golf. I'm still in the East Village. Things haven't changed that much for me." That's how composer Philip Glass... More >>

Sound of the City

1:00 pm
Jan. 31, 2012

Live: Ed Sheeran Rubs Elbows With The Crowd At Mercury Lounge

By Maura Johnston

Ed Sheeran Mercury Lounge Monday, January 30 Better than: Finding a Sugababes album in the 99-cent bin. British pop stars have had something of a rough go when trying to break America, despi... More >>

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Lana Del Rey Just Wants to Be Loved

By Maura Johnston

"Feet don't fail me now," Lana Del Rey groans as her debut album, Born To Die (Interscope), ushers itself in with a flourish of strings and sampled moans. It's a… More >>

Björk Gets Pedagogical

By Seth Colter Walls

Please don't misunderstand Björk. While she might be returning to New York for her first concerts here since 2007 with a residency of conceptual dates premised on her eco-obsessed recent… More >>

Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

By By Steven Thrasher, Photograph by Steve Pyke

"I'm not down in Florida playing golf. I'm still in the East Village. Things haven't changed that much for me." That's how composer Philip Glass minimizes turning 75, a milestone that… More >>

Antony Goes Into the Light

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It's a warm autumn night in 2008, and a hundred or so patrons have been invited to venture inside a disused clock tower, hiding in plain sight among the buildings… More >>

Sing Another Song, Leonard Cohen

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Thursday night at Webster Hall, the Brooklyn act Cults celebrated a homecoming of sorts. The gloom-pop band's set included what frontwoman Madeline Follin claimed was a rare encore (assisted by… More >>

Beyonce, Nicki, and Merrill Get Optimistic

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The most ecstatic noise in Beyoncé's "Countdown" doesn't come when B flutters through the vowel-stretched "Boyyyy" at the song's outset, nor does it come from the blats of brass, nor… More >>

The Spotlight Shines on Adele's Heartbreak

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tUnE-yArds, PJ Harvey, and St. Vincent Get Physical

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Jay-Z and Kanye West Guard the Throne

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Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet

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After the dust settled, someone on Twitter suggested that maybe Lana Del Rey's marketing plan had been an accident—that "Video Games" had been meant to go first to Europe, then… More >>

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