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March 29, 2012
VOTE NOW: Should The Velvet Underground Or The Wu-Tang Clan Advance To SOTC's March Madness Final?
As March comes to a close, so does our month-ish-long battle royale between 64 New York musicians, all of whom were put in the mix to decide which one best embodied the spirit of the city. Each of the divisions—Uptown, Queens, Downtown, and Brooklyn—has now crowned a winner, and for our ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
SOTC's March Madness: Welcome To The Lightning Round Of 16
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 ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
A Tribe Called Quest (8) Take On The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (9) As SOTC's March Madness Keeps It Rollin'
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—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. This time out, we return to the Brooklyn division wi ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Push It Along: Six Songs That Incorporate The Coos And Cries Of Infants
Not very many hours after Beyoncé gave birth to their daughter Blue Ivy Carter, Jay-Z commemorated the occasion in song. "Glory" sounds humbled and relieved, and soft enough to bear some marks; at certain points, Jay's voice almost seems to quaver. He goes from revealing a past miscarriage to shari ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Holler! The Ten Loudest, Shoutiest Rappers
Waka Flocka Flame is the sort of of hip-hop artist who doesn't so much rap or flow as he shouts his ass off. It's a formula that imbues the Atlanta-based rapper's songs with a boisterous, visceral appeal—and one that he's looking to continue with the release of his second studio album, Triple ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
The 10 Most Overplayed Party Jams
This should probably not be how you do it.It's a common dilemma of the booty club: You're buzzing off the overpriced drinks, two-stepping with the opposite sex. The lighting is right and you're getting closer and closer to each other... and then DJ Lack-of-Direction throws on some bullshit. Y ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Live: Black Moon Bring Enta Da Stage To Southpaw
Black Moon Southpaw Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Funkmaster Flex's 2007 Fourth of July weekend '90s marathon mix. 1993 was a very good year for hip-hop. Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief, Lords of the Underground, and the under-recognized Rumpletilskinz all made their debuts, while Cypress Hil ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Strained Vibes, Excellent Scenario in Beats, Rhymes & Life
Michael Rapaport’s A Tribe Called Quest documentary eclipses the surrounding drama
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July 6, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Mata and Moreno's Other Incident
This week in the Voice, Graham Rayman brings light to another case involving Kenneth Moreno, Franklin Mata, and a young, intoxicated woman. Just a few months before the alleged rape for which they were acquitted, the two were accused of being verbally abusive to a woman, refusing to take her ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources
Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
2010: The Year In Music Photos
The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Lauryn Hill
The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Q-Tip Is Pissed Off About The A Tribe Called Quest Documentary
So Sundance 2011, set to invade Utah in January, has announced a lineup that includes, in the documentary category, competing with such works as The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Page One: A year inside the New York Times, and BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer's Journey (ooooh), a long-rumored film ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers
These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Live: Biz Markie Regales A Bunch Of Ad-Agency People, And Why Not
The maddest man of all. Pics by Chris, more below.Ad Week is over, but you'd never know it from the glut of agency parties happening constantly around town. If it's a weeknight and you're looking for something to do, just talk to your closest ad buddy, because chances are they can break you i ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
Detroit Producer Black Milk's Top Ten Albums Of the Last Decade
"I don't hear anything else out there like my record." So says a confident Black Milk, the Detroit hip-hop producer who's struck 2010's boldest titular move to date by electing to call his fifth solo project Album Of The Year (out today). With his gritty-yet-soulful beats, Black Milk is often ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Rock The Bells, New Orleans Bounce, And Michael Jackson Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife
We're going to recommend you avoid Manhattan this weekend. Thanks to NYU and Columbia, every 20-year-old within a ten-mile radius will either be moving back into their dorms or celebrating the end of summer with one last cityside hurrah. Instead, take Friday night off and keep yourself in the ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
MS. HILL RETURNS
Or, at least, we hope so
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June 29, 2010
The Choice Is His: Black Sheep's Dres Picks The Five Best Bar Mitzvah/Sweet 16-Rocking Hip-Hop Classics Of All Time
Dres still loves "The Humpty Dance," just like the rest of us.Few hip-hop songs rival the mass-anthemic appeal of Black Sheep's "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)." A tweaked incarnation of an album track on M.C. Dres and producer Mista Lawnge's 1991 debut A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, it endeare ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
The Hip-Hop/Jazz Crossover Strategy Guide
Revive Da Live brings in both crowds . . . very, very carefully
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January 22, 2010
Week in Review: DIY Snitchin
We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 26: Beastie Boys, "In A World Gone Mad"
F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Everyone in our generation will never forget where they were when they heard about the greatest tragedy to ever occur on American soil: The Beastie Boys forgot how to rap.
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October 21, 2009
CMJ: Meet Invincible, Detroit's Next Great (Female) Rapper And Tuesday-Night MVP
Matt SonzalaInvincible (right) and Waajeed to the rescue.Invincible/Senor Kaos/DJ Spinna Public Assembly Tuesday, October 20 There's a few things you can count on at an "underground" hip-hop show with absolute, painful certainty: an overwhelming number of guys in city-reppin' fitted caps, mu ... More >>
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July 17, 2009
Q-Tip's Memoir to Elaborate on Industry Rule 4,080 and Perhaps List the Other 4,079
So Q-Tip is writing a book, called Industry Rules, that will elaborate on the music-biz hostility informing the A Tribe Called Quest great's most famous line (one assumes that record-company people, however few of them are left at this point, nonetheless remain pretty shady), balanced with more pers ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 21, 2009
Lykke Li+Wildbirds & Peacedrums
So Q-Tip is writing a book, called Industry Rules, that will elaborate on the music-biz hostility informing the A Tribe Called Quest great's most famous line (one assumes that record-company people, however few of them are left at this point, nonetheless remain pretty shady), balanced with more pers ... More >>
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November 5, 2008
Q-Tip Emerges Triumphant in The Renaissance
The award tour resumes after a decade or so in the wilderness
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October 22, 2008
CMJ: Lykke Li at Bowery Ballroom
The award tour resumes after a decade or so in the wilderness
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October 17, 2008
Best New Dance Floor: Santos' Party House
The award tour resumes after a decade or so in the wilderness
Music
October 8, 2008
VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last at Hip-Hop Honors
The channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies
Music
August 5, 2008
A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells
The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia
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July 29, 2008
More Articulate, Politically Charged Flame-Throwing from Immortal Technique
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July 29, 2008
THROWBACKS AND BACKPACKS
Rap gets its own Lollapalooza
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May 20, 2008
Kidz in the Hall Tonight at S.O.B.'s
Rap gets its own Lollapalooza
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March 11, 2008
WAKE UP!
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
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December 10, 2007
Interview: Lupe Fiasco
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
Music
December 4, 2007
Enter the 37th Chamber
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November 6, 2007
Lupe Fiasco's Self-Defeating Tendencies
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October 5, 2007
Last Night: The VH1 Hip Hop Honors
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August 30, 2007
Status Ain't Hood Interviews Q-Tip
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October 23, 2006
Vendy Awards: Poor Dosa Man, Always a Bridesmaid
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December 30, 2003
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April 9, 2002
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January 25, 2000
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December 14, 1999
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November 2, 1999
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November 3, 1998
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