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F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs

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 unfortunate—artists on both sides of the aisl ... More >>

fractured bones/let’s get lost Feels the Byte of Technology

Eric Dyer joins Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark at the Performing Garage

Behold the Pot of Gold that is Beyond the Black Rainbow

Hits of the '70s, '80s, and today

Allan Stone's "World in a Box": Cornell's Buddies

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 >>

Live: Kanye West's Big And Loud And Secret Show

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 >>

Jimi Hendrix Finishes His Electric Lady Studio on 8th Street

​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 >>

Jay-Z's Ten Most Shameful Rock and Roll Moments

​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 >>

The Award For "Widest Disparity In Quality Between Two Musical Performances On The Same Episode Of Saturday Night Live" Goes To Jay-Z

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.

Fassbinder's Sci-Fi World on a Wire at MOMA

The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!

"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 >>

Village Voice Critics Choose Best Films of 1965

​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 >>

Godard's Made in U.S.A. Shown in U.S.A., Finally

The director's least-seen noir plot-scrambler gets another run here

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni

Crazy Covers Curated by Very Special Guest DJ Colleen

Seeing and Nothingness

A must-see retrospective celebrates the work of a modernist master

Matrix Reloaded

New sensation: Clover's second book of poems takes on post–9-11 society—and contemporary poetry

Road to Dystopia

Brave new worlds from We to V: A brief history of political future shocks

Sweaty Bottoms Hit Rock Bottom in New Winterbottom

Blue Monday: Hartley Sci-Fi Lacks F/X and Affect

Listings

FCS reaches critical mass, yielding No Rest for the Brave

Enter the Dragon Lady

After a six-year absence, Tarantino plunges once again into a cinematic hall of mirrors

Sim City

Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

Invisible Cities

His Life to Live

Wrestling With the Legacy of Cinematic Colossus Jean-Luc Godard

On Beyond Bob

Hot S**t for Teacher

Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

East Is West: Berlin Goes Planet Hollywood

Achtung Baby

A Piece of the Resistance

A Visionary’s Version of Tomorrowland

Once Upon a Time …

Synthpop Flocks Like Seagulls

Everybody Wang Chung Again

Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of

Film Previews

A rundown of the season's movies— handpicked for their potential wondrousness or probable woefulness.