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The 10 Best Male Rappers of All Time

Since the birth of hip-hop, male rappers have been bringing their unique viewpoint to the art of rhyme. Today, we're shining some long overdue light on their important contributions to rap. We're proud to present our list of the 10 finest male rappers, from the smoking-hot hardbodies to the true lyr ... More >>

This Week in Pop Videos: Robin Thicke! 50 Cent! Lil Wayne! More!

A look at the week's hottest pop clips, including the frolicsome ribaldry of Robin Thicke, the mansion malaise of 50 Cent and the insufferable wackness of Somethingorother Yacht Idiots.

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 20 - 11

Any list of the Greatest New York Rap Albums of All Time is, essentially, a list of simply the Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. The genre was invented here, after all, and over the years -- from early days to Golden Age and onward-- the city's hip-hop history has been an embarrassment of riches. Fas ... More >>

The Lady GaGa Approved Dirty Pearls Want To Be Rock's First Gang "Since Guns N' Roses"

It's two-for-one happy hour at Motor City on the Lower East Side, and three-fifths of New York rabble rousers the Dirty Pearls quaff cheap suds to a soundtrack of the Heartbreakers, the Ramones and the New York Dolls. The Dirty Pearls fit right in with such musical brethren of the '70s, as well as ... More >>

Monster Magnet's "Space Lord": Is It Rock and Rap's Missing Link?

Tomorrow, stoner-rock heroes Monster Magnet come to the Music Hall of Williamsburg to play their debut album Spine of God in its entirety. As career-making as that album was, talk of looking back on the group's legacy calls to mind their biggest hit, 1998's "Space Lord." While the song has since be ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie And Countrified Pop Tunes

After Kelly Clarkson went to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart last year with the Jason Aldean duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," I wondered hopefully if the Texas-born pop star would finally go country with her next album. So I was a little disappointed a few months later, when she debuted the bla ... More >>

Mica Levi's Tweaked Take on Pop

Imagine the shapes

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

Bad Magic Is a Good Trick at Philly Live Arts

Plus, the Improbable Theatre punches in

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 >>

You're More Likely to Fall Up in an Elevator Than Down: Findings from the Elevator Museum

Esther Zuckerman​A series of metal plates covers one of the four interior walls of the Elevator Historical Society's newly opened museum in Long Island City. Placed in the center of the leftmost panel is founder and curator Patrick Carrajat's first acquisition, a small silver cover for an elev ... More >>

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

American Idol: No Judging, Please, We're Only Being Paid Gobs Of Money To Do So

Michael Becker/FOX​Hey, remember when enough people would get voted off American Idol and the show would go down to a much saner 60-minute running time? That was nice. Now, with only five people left, we still get a 90-minute show, with all the contestants singing twice. Maybe Fox is just dete ... More >>

Download: Seabrook Power Plant's Bonkers Banjo Shredfest "Lamborghini Helicopter"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​The demented power trio Seabrook Power Plant crosses many boundaries -- math-metal, art-prog, jazz, bluegrass -- but one thing remains deliriously constant: This dude can shred. The demented, frazzl ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

American Idol Season 10, Los Angeles: How Do You Get To Work?

Stop grinning, bro. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​The other night, a crippling snowstorm hit Chicago, way more crippling than the sad little Snowpocalypses you East Coast whiners are heroically enduring. It knocked out my cable, and no cable means no American Idol, since I'm not smart enough ... More >>

Welcome to the World's Most Fabulous Garage Sale: A Look at Tavern on the Green's Auction Preview

Relics of better, more mirrored times, these disco balls can be yours for the starting bid of $1,000.​ The woman, swaddled in ankle-length furs and trailing two sullen pre-teens in her considerable wake, bustled up to the reservationist's lectern in Tavern on the Green's entry way. "We want t ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over reason, we pleaded to our editors at the Village Voice to let us publish the No. 1 entry as one of t ... More >>

Stryper, Resurrected

Christian metal's finest (and yellow-and-blackest) foot-soldiers re-enlist

American Idol Top 3: Hometown Heroes Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Danny Gokey Choose Their Own Adventures

Michael Becker/ FOXAdam Lambert has his own parade in San Diego "Let's rock!" says Ryan Seacrest, as he ushers in the 300th episode of American Idol. He then explains how this week, we are privy to footage of the Top 3 boys returning to their hometowns to have underwear thrown at them by teen girls ... More >>

Cat Power's Live Karaoke at the Apollo

On Chan Marshall's oddly prolonged, possibly unhealthy cover-song fixation

The New AC/DC Record Passes Our Scientific Test

Good luck getting it. It's for those about to shop at Wal-Mart . . .

Things I Learned Watching Shine a Light

Hugs and Kisses #28: Everett True's Notes to Himself

The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Crime Mob

Gwen Stefani is Crazy

Generally Inhospitable Hospital

Supreme discomfort (and love, and togetherness) fills the racks of the East Village's finest noise-rock palace

Heading South

Revolver evolves the Winter Music Conference; MisShapes invade Miami

Preview: Ghostface Killah's New Album Fishscale

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Status Ain't Hood's History of White Rappers

Grandiose and Ascetic

Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

Download: Garage, Glam, Punk, or Metal?

Avant-Gardist Makes the Most of Eclecticism, Passion, and Restraint

Rap-Metal in the Winter Sky, and 99 Dead Problems Go By

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Seminal speedmetal thrashers, despised by their own fans, seek and find psychiatric help

But It's Really Good Sex

Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection

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I Said Ignoramus, Not Dummie

Tween-Pop Suppressed!

Five-Girl Armies and Finnish Martians Fall Through the Cracks

Cold Turkeys

2001 Gets Better

Gimme Three Stepsisters

Cocaine Yes, Cobain No

Immigrant Songs

The Memory of All That

Dendy Serves Rum and Cock at the 'Altogether Different Festival'

'Alternative ' Soul: Progress in Design?

New Color For The Knicks?

Diva-lution