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May 25, 2012
100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album
I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
Presenting The Elite Eight: John Coltrane, Alicia Keys, Blondie, Neil Diamond, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Wu-Tang Clan, And Rakim
After three weeks of feverish clicking and arguing, the final eight contenders in our search for the quintessential New York musician have been finalized. Representing the Uptown division are No. 1 seed John Coltrane and No. 14 seed Alicia Keys; No. 12 seed Blondie will have it out with No. 3 seed N ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
VOTE NOW For The Elite Eight: Coltrane vs. Keys; Blondie vs. Diamond; SY vs. VU; Wu-Tang vs. Rakim
After three weeks of feverish clicking and arguing, the final eight contenders in our search for the quintessential New York musician have been finalized—you can peruse the bracket here—and it's time for you to vote. Representing the Uptown division are No. 1 seed John Coltrane and No. 1 ... 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 23, 2012
SOTC's March Madness: The Quintessential New York Musician Tournament
Sound of the City's monthlong tournament to determine the quintessential New York City musician (since 1955, the year of the Village Voice's founding) is taking over our site all March. The full schedule and results (as of March 23) below; you can also follow along with our bracket.
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March 19, 2012
Leiber & Stoller (11) Take Alicia Keys (14) To School In The Second Round Of SOTC's March Madness
Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week. Keep up with all the action here. Both these acts scored upset victories in the first round of the Uptown bracket, with pioneering rock'n'roll songwriters Leiber & Stoller trouncing the sixth-seeded ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Alicia Keys (14) Takes On Tito Puente (3) In Sound Of The City's Search For The Quintessential New York Musician
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—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today's first match pits "Empire State Of Mind" ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Live: Jay-Z Takes Over Carnegie Hall
Jay-Z Carnegie Hall Monday, February 6 Better than: Slacking off. The age-old question about how one might get to Carnegie Hall rattled in my brain as I headed uptown last night, en route to Jay-Z's first of two performances at the hallowed Midtown space. "Practice" is the cheeky answer that peo ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 2, 2011
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Jay-Z Carnegie Hall Monday, February 6 Better than: Slacking off. The age-old question about how one might get to Carnegie Hall rattled in my brain as I headed uptown last night, en route to Jay-Z's first of two performances at the hallowed Midtown space. "Practice" is the cheeky answer that peo ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Get To Know Door Personality/Performer Thorgy Thor
The self-made creation known as Thorgy Thor is up for a whole batch of Glammy Awards for nightlife excellence, prompting this golden little chat of ours. Hi, Thorgy. Which Glammy award would you most like to win? "I was nominated for six awards, if you include Best Nightlife Weekly Event ( ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
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 >>
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July 11, 2011
What The Lineup For Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Music Festival Says About Radio Formats In 2011
Lady Gaga.Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2011
Alicia Keys
Lady Gaga.Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
American Idol, Season 10, Top 12 Women: The Glut Of Interchangeable Blonde Chicks
Julie Zorrilla has been downgraded from "molten hot" to "ridiculously fly." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.Here's something Steven Tyler said on TV tonight: "After Monday and Tuesday, even the week says WTF!" This was after Pia Toscana's show-closing, triumphant, r&b-ified take on "I'll Stand by ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2011
Ice Cube
Julie Zorrilla has been downgraded from "molten hot" to "ridiculously fly." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.Here's something Steven Tyler said on TV tonight: "After Monday and Tuesday, even the week says WTF!" This was after Pia Toscana's show-closing, triumphant, r&b-ified take on "I'll Stand by ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Here's a Cool Video Portrait of Greenpoint's Lomzynianka
Lomzynianka Final from elizabeth leitzell on Vimeo. Food Curated's Liza de Guia isn't the local food scene's only documentarian: our intrepid freelancer Keith Wagstaff and his friend Elizabeth Leitzell have collaborated on a nifty photo and video essay about Lomzynianka, a Polish restaurant in Gree ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Who's Coming Out on May 5?
via WikipediaOn his boyculture blog, Matthew Rettenmund helps narrow down just who it might be who's supposedly coming out on the cover of People on May 5. Signs point to a female musician, but Queen Latifah is no longer considered to be the one. (She's mainly an actress these days, don't ya ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
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 >>
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April 21, 2010
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 >>
Music
January 19, 2010
Jay-Z's 'Empire' Strikes Back at Last
His first #1 song is his first Pazz & Jop chart-topper as well. Go Yankees.
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December 23, 2009
Susan Boyle Now Making a Run at Taylor Swift for 2009's #1 in Sales
Because we just couldn't look at that Boyle record againYes that's right America, you've purchased a whopping 2,465,000 copies of Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream in just four short weeks. How close is that to Taylor Swift, industry darling and seemingly uncontested 2009 sales titan? Pretty cl ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Tonight! Mountain Goats, Alicia Keys, Russian Circles, And Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
If you listen to only one biblical-themed rock record this year, it's gotta be the Mountain Goats' The Life of the World to Come, explored by SOTC's own Zach Baron here and featured tonight as the Goats take Webster Hall with Final Fantasy. Note: Frontman John Darnielle's fans can be pretty i ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Goodnight, Giant Magazine
The bi-monthly music and culture mag will take a bow with its final issue, which has Alicia Keys on the cover, on December 15th. Its run lasted 33 issues, according to AllHipHop.com. Founded in 2004, it was always a slightly quixotic venture, with a hard to pinpoint readership and identity--m ... More >>
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November 18, 2008
Does the Wonky Jack White/Alicia Keys Bond Theme Sound Any Better in Context?
The bi-monthly music and culture mag will take a bow with its final issue, which has Alicia Keys on the cover, on December 15th. Its run lasted 33 issues, according to AllHipHop.com. Founded in 2004, it was always a slightly quixotic venture, with a hard to pinpoint readership and identity--m ... More >>
Music
July 16, 2008
Nas's Untitled
More controversial than it is enjoyable, but it's enough of both
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June 25, 2008
The BET Awards: A Running Diary
More controversial than it is enjoyable, but it's enough of both
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June 2, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam, Again
More controversial than it is enjoyable, but it's enough of both
Blogs
May 30, 2008
Hot 97's Summer Jam: A Preview
More controversial than it is enjoyable, but it's enough of both
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
SUNDAY | 6.1
More controversial than it is enjoyable, but it's enough of both
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
THE TAKEOVER
Time for Summer Jam
Blogs
February 11, 2008
The Grammys' Award-Winning Moments
Time for Summer Jam
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February 11, 2008
The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary
Time for Summer Jam
Blogs
January 3, 2008
The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles
Time for Summer Jam
Blogs
January 2, 2008
Fuck a Blog: Alicia Keys on Dick Clark
Time for Summer Jam
Music
November 20, 2007
Extensions of a Woman
Alicia Keys is still a few albums away from her masterpiece. She'll get there.
Blogs
July 9, 2007
NBC's Live Earth Special: A Running Diary
Alicia Keys is still a few albums away from her masterpiece. She'll get there.
Music
August 15, 2006
Get Busy Living
The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety
Blogs
July 27, 2006
Alicia Keys Ruins Everything
The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety
Music
March 21, 2006
Slightly Grey Feisty Females Strut Their Sassiest Stuff
The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety
Music
February 22, 2005
Music
The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety
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August 24, 2004
VMT&A's
Who and what went down at the MTV Video Awards
Music
December 30, 2003
MLK Fever
Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back
Music
December 30, 2003
Singing School
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Columns
March 4, 2003
NY Mirror
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Music
September 10, 2002
Keeping Up With the Jones
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
NYC Life
May 7, 2002
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Music
April 9, 2002
Less Is More
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Columns
March 19, 2002
NY Mirror
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Music
September 11, 2001
Minstrels All
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
Music
August 28, 2001
Music
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
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