Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. Their effects on pop music weren't as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfortunateartists on both sides of the aisl ... More >>
Eric Dyer joins Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark at the Performing Garage
Hits of the '70s, '80s, and today
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 >>
Kanye West w/Pusha T, CyHi Da Prince, Mr. Hudson, Big Sean, and Kid Cudi Skylight One Hanson Thursday, June 9 Better than: Not being let in. Thunder shook Brooklyn, drops of rain fell, and over a thousand people took refuge in Skylight One Hanson, inside the old Williamsburg Savings Bank, for a m ... More >>
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 25, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 26 Scenes By Howard Smith WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio was first announced, costs were cheerfully estimated at $350,000 to convert the old square dance premises of the Village ... More >>
Yesterday, it was announced that Jay-Z would be joining U2 on the band's five-date tour of Australia come November. It makes sense: in addition to commingling at the top of the Forbes 2010 Music Earners List, Jay-Z and U2 have performed together before--more than once, in fact. (Never forget ... More >>
So this "Betty White on Saturday Night Live" thing -- a rousing success, no? The "Depends" joke you knew was coming was pretty great anyway, right? And then there was Jay-Z, giving one fantastic performance and one fantastically awful one. Dude's got range.
"We rob banks."Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 13, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 13 Film Critics Choose Their Favorites for 1965 By Jonas Mekas Once more we are playing the Best Movies of the Year game. The usual answer this year is that even the best ones are hardly worth listing a ... More >>
The director's least-seen noir plot-scrambler gets another run here
Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni
A must-see retrospective celebrates the work of a modernist master
New sensation: Clover's second book of poems takes on post9-11 societyand contemporary poetry
Brave new worlds from We to V: A brief history of political future shocks
After a six-year absence, Tarantino plunges once again into a cinematic hall of mirrors
Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel
Wrestling With the Legacy of Cinematic Colossus Jean-Luc Godard
Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home
Achtung Baby
Once Upon a Time
Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of
A rundown of the season's movies handpicked for their potential wondrousness or probable woefulness.
