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The Ten Best Concerts in NYC This Week, 4/29/13

Kim Gordon, ?uestlove, Andrew Bird and Andrew W.K. walk into a Masonic Temple ... these are the 10 best shows in NYC this week.

Our 20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

We covered a lot of music ground in 2012. You loved all of it. But some stories were more read than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year. Thanks for reading. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Country Alb ... More >>

Our 20 Most Popular Stories of 2012, 10 - 1

We've covered a lot of music ground in 2012. And you loved all of it. But you read some stories more than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year, from 10 - 1. (20 - 11 here.) The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten B ... More >>

Cyndi Lauper and Friends

The Blonds Make A Splash For Fashion Week

As always, the Fashion Week place to be was the Blonds show at Milk Studios, where a glitzy crowd thrilled to the array of bouncy bodices laced with stars, beads, flowers, and other adorable adornments. The models tended to look like walking chandeliers, strutting lipstick tubes, and other enviable ... More >>

Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

An Education in Abuse

Midyear Report: 12 for '12

A dozen of the best singles from the year so far

A Brief Overview Of The Seven (!) Music Festivals Happening In The New York Area This Weekend

Summer might not semi-officially start until next weekend, but our fair city is getting a head start on jamming the schedule with as much music as possible. This weekend there are at least seven multi-musician extravaganzas happening in New York and New Jersey. Which one is most right for you? Our h ... More >>

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

100 & Single: The Erratic Chart Fortunes Of TV-Crowned Idols, From Kelly To Scotty

​Scotty McCreery—winner of the 10th edition of American Idol, and owner of the new No. 1 title on Billboard's album chart, Clear as Day—sets a handful of chart records this week that certainly sound impressive. As Billboard reports, McCreery is the first country act to debut at No ... More >>

Live: Flying Back In Time With Sam Sparro

​Sam Sparro w/Nomi Ruiz (DJ set) Dominion NY Monday, October 3 Better than: Jack Sparrow's last few bloated outings. If Sam Sparro's sophomore album Return To Paradise mirrored the 1998 film of the same name, then Sparro would certainly be Joaquin Phoenix's imprisoned mad genius—albeit ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40

​ When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>

The Voice: The Dominance Of Javier, The Rise Of Vicci

via RickeyVicci Martinez performs "Dog Days Are Over."​I wish Game of Thrones was still on. It isn't. But hey, The Voice is still on! On last week's show, it seemed pretty obvious which four singers would make it through and which ones wouldn't. On Team Cee Lo, for instance, it was absolutely ... More >>

The Voice: Blake Shelton Is Unimpressed, Xtina Likes To "Woo"

​A week into The Voice, and some problems are starting to materialize. During backstage interviews, Carson Daly doesn't just stand there; he hovers. I can't imagine ever feeling comfortable around that guy. Christina Aguilera's mentoring style, right now, seems to be limited to raising both he ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: The Kids Honor People Who Are A Bazillion Years Old

Michael Becker/FOXC'mon, dude, you probably never even had detention. ​ Gwen Stefani was on this week's American Idol because somebody paid somebody so she could hawk the clothing line that she apparently still has. But this wasn't Ska Week or New Wave Week or Neptunes Week, as awesome as eve ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 30 through April 5, 2011

Do You Follow Any Celebs on Twitter?

​Lord knows I do.Part of the fun of the whole thing is that you can chase, I mean follow, anyone you want! (It's not like Facebook, where both parties have to approve of the relationship. Twitter is so much easier for those with stars in their eyes! You just click and follow!) On Twitter, I' ... More >>

American Idol Season 10, Top 11: The Freaky Rictus Smile of Thia Megia

This person has no idea what Motown is. Photo courtesy Michael Becker/ FOX. ​Since last we spoke, Karen Rodriguez has gone back to MySpaceLand, Steven Tyler's wardrobe has grown impressively more absurd, and Jacob Lusk has bodied the fuck out of Heart's "Alone." I missed the last week of Ameri ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: Separating The Nobodies From The Assholes

Our sources tell us this girl is "molten hot." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.​Last night's show ended with a cliffhanger: We didn't know, as it faded out, whether Jennifer Lopez would be able to continue judging, or whether the strain of eliminating good kids was just too much. As the show return ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: Bring On The Tourette Syndrome Guy

Better keep that censor button handy. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.​I don't think I've ever been more excited about an American Idol contestant than I am about James Durbin. It's not because of his voice, though his very Adam Lambert-y turbo-yowl could be entertaining in the context of the show. ... More >>

Was Margaret Cho Too Gay for Dancing With The Stars?

Talking with the stand-up rebel, followed by a heavy dose of—remember this?—nostalgia

Gay Pride's Here! And I'm So Ashamed!

We're asking, so tell us: What about our civil rights?

American Idol Season 9, Idol Gives Back: Shut The Fuck Up, Alicia Keys

I don't want to be too cynical about "Idol Gives Back", the big annual charity-drive American Idol episode, because God knows the thing does more good with ten minutes of on-air banalities than I will ever do with anything in my life. But every year now, the thing is just sitting in the middle of ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results

Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell​ Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 11 Results

Michael Becker /FOXWho Won't Be on the Idol Tour?​9:04pm. I'm contemplating life right now, and the course it takes when in one day you can go from interviewing Johnny Rotten to live-blogging about the 11 remaining contestants of American Idol snapping and lipsynching "Wake Me Up Before You Go ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Top 12 vs. the Rolling Stones: Siobhan Magnus Turns Into An Awesome Goblin; Tim Urban Carnival Cruises Through "Under My Thumb"

Siobhan Magnus, unleashing her inner goblin. Credit: Michael Becker/ FOX. ​Top 12 week is where the real American Idol competition supposedly starts. Everyone's worked out their jitters, most of the no-chancers have been cut, and the singers finally have to start submitting to theme weeks, ide ... More >>

The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2009

Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!

Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun

Susan Boyle Is the New Eminem

​And so the 2009 Taylor Swift Memorial Award for single-handedly saving the record industry goes to Susan Boyle, who last week sold north of 700,000 copies of her debut, I Dreamed a Dream. Boyle easily racked up the year's best sales week and the runner-up, Eminem's 600K-selling Relapse, ain't ... More >>

BOW TO BOWIE

Celebrate the many faces of David Robert Jones

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via DPixel. It was a short week but a merry one, with or without a vodka infused turkey. Now that Thanksgiving has been properly ruined, thanks to the diabolical War on Thanksgiving, and Black Friday has passed without fatalities, we descend into Xmas, which has apparently been mad ... More >>

The French Meryl Streep Speaks About Her Craft!

Musical chairs with nuns and a Jew.

Out Magazine Responds To Adam Lambert's Response!

​Let's recap: Out magazine blew the whistle on Adam Lambert's handlers for various demands they made so that he wouldn't come across "too gay" in the magazine. Lambert fired back with remarks on ew.com saying the mag had crossed the line. And now, here's Out's response to the response: "We' ... More >>

Update on Adam Lambert's Semi-Closety Marketing: A Letter About The Letter

​Yesterday's post detailing Aaron Hicklin's editor's letter in Out magazine about the namby-pamby management of Adam Lambert raised a firestorm of response, the Claymates--sorry, "Glamberts"--rising in force to defend their man, no matter what sexuality-cloaking steps his handlers might take i ... More >>

A Gay Bravo Show About Tops?

Remember Greg Scarnici, the white guy who did the hilarious Aretha Franklin homage which I posted on this blog after the inauguration? No? Well, now he's done a parody of Top Chef as if it were a gay Bravo show called Top Top!

Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply

So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is

Free Will Astrology: June 17 through 23

Grizzly Bear Are Top Ten Material: Take That, Montgomery Gentry

The first week sales figures are in for Grizzly Bear, the scrappy, very well-exposed Brooklyn native sons whose Veckatimest seems to be the most all-around well-liked record of the year so far, certain critics at the Times notwithstanding. The band's sold 33,000 copies of their third studio album (n ... More >>

How Long Before The Inevitable Adam Lambert-Susan Boyle Duet?

Christian LessenichAs the attached editorial reminds us, both Adam Lambert and Susan Boyle were supposed to win their respective televised talent contests, but both were sent packing (Boyle, sadly enough, to a hospital, where they can detox the fame right out of her while scrubbing the f-word out of ... More >>

American Idol Top 5 Results: Matt Giraud Penalized for Trying to Sing Like Megan Joy

Michael Becker / FOX.The final five In the totally overblown intro (sorry, that's like complaining that a cow moos), Ryan Seacrest seems to insinuate that there will be a shocker of a cast-off tonight. That can only mean it's Adam Lambert, because any of the others are expected to go at some point. ... More >>

American Idol Top 7 Results: The Live-Blog

Michael Becker / FOXWho's going home tonight? See into the future, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Idol fans; this is the Eastern Daylight live-blog, in which I dutifully tell you exactly what happens to Lil Rounds' stony, bitter visage as she's vengefully cast off for spitting in the face of movie- ... More >>

American Idol Top 8 Results: No Future in Sight for Scott MacIntyre

Frank Micelotta / FOXBye, Scott! When "Year You Were Born" is an Idol episode theme, anything should happen, but last night's predictable mess yielded just one surprise: Simon Cowell's standing ovation for the swishiest contestant in history and new Bill O'Reilly foe, Adam Lambert. So, which boring ... More >>

American Idol Top 10 Results: The Live-Blog

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 10! Ray Mickshaw /FOXWow, this is ridiculous. Last night's Motown show was another rough one. As Season 8 shapes up to have some of the worst singing we've ever seen on this show--and that's saying a lot--I'm not hopefu ... More >>

American Idol Results: Kanye West Performs "Heartless," Adam Lambert Safe, Paula's Boobs Look Incredible!

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 13! Ray Mickshaw / FOX¡Adios, Jorge! There's a new Idol rule, the judges can make a unanimous decision to save one cast-off one time only--and only up until the Top 5. This is to avoid future J-Hud and Daughtry early b ... More >>

American Idol Semifinals Round 3: Blind Guy Sucks, Jorge Loses his Rican Charm, and Kara Picks Up a Blaccent

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: Actual talent in the third round of semi-finals! all photos by Michael Becker / FoxNathaniel Marshall Tonight was a toughie. After two pretty lousy rounds, the last 12 semifinalists actually contained some talent--and another ... More >>

American Idol Semi-Finals Results 2: Goodbye Norman Gentle, Hello Adam Lambert!

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. Oh noes, Norman Gentle didn't make it? Michael Becker/FOXKris Allen, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert Another results night begins with more recapping, more group singing (Ne-Yo's "Closer"), more interviewing. Ryan starts with Nick: If you d ... More >>

American Idol Semi-Finals 2: Norman Gentle in a Tux, Adam Lambert Shoots Rainbows, and Attack of the Duffy Clones

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: Woo woo, the second round of semi-finals! all photos Michael Becker / FOXNick Mitchell as Norman Gentle It's Round Two of semi-finals, and this 12 consists of a welder, a bartender, a font designer, and Norman Gentle. Simon s ... More >>

American Idol First Results: Danny Gokey Advances! But Nooo. . . Tatiana's Sent Home?

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for Season Eight. Today: results from the first round of semi-finals! Poor widower Danny Gokey advances! I'd been waiting all day for the first results show of the season, because an entire hour of fluff, recaps, dramatic musings by Ryan, and group singing ... More >>

American Idol Week 2: Diverse is the New Gay and Judge Kara Becomes a Biatch!

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. Last week's season premiere followed the adventures of Bikini Girl and Blind Guy, and the eternal flaming hotness of Kara DioGuardi, the newest judge. More auditions this week. Dean Anthony Bradford, who suffers from Spasming Facial Hors ... More >>