Altamont

Four-Color Revolution

Protest that got your hands dirty

'The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film'

A beggar's banquet of Rolling Stones films

100 & Single: fun., Gotye, M83, EDM, And The Beginning Of The Hot 100's Spotify Years

How do you know when you're at the dawn of a new pop era? It's not like someone sends a memo. Sure, occasionally there's a well-timed cultural event that offers a hint—the disastrous Altamont festival in December 1969, which signaled that the flower-power dream was over, or Comiskey Park's Di ... More >>

Six New York Acts That The Mets Should Consider For Future Post-Game Concerts

As the baseball season nears, the announcements of the season's schedule of promotions steadily increases, and over the weekend the Mets announced that for their 50th anniversary they'd be throwing a three-show postgame concert series in 2012. The lineup: the hesher-pop outfit REO Speedwagon (June 1 ... More >>

Occupy Goes Home

The movement takes back foreclosed houses after leaving the park

A Very Occupy Wall Street Halloween

WarmSleepyOccupy BRAINS!​On Halloween, Occupy Wall Street got scary. That's certainly been the consensus of the Zuccotti Park press corps, which is more or less universally reporting a dark new trend to the occupation: the park's growing population of the drunk, the violent, and the mentally ... More >>

What Does East Village Resistance to Occupy Tompkins Square Park Mean for the East Village?

John Penley, by Paul DeRienzo​For about a week now, there have been plans to occupy Tompkins Square Park, led largely by East Villager John Penley, who has a Facebook page set up for the event, which was scheduled to begin on Saturday with a noontime picnic. In the wake of last night's announc ... More >>

'Douchebag' Principal, Oppressive School System Beat Teen Blogger Again in Court

​Avery Doninger, at the age of 16, wrote on her blog that her school's administrators were "douchebags" because they were messing with an upcoming battle of the bands called Jamfest, and she urged her readers to bombard Superintendent Paula Schwartz with emails and calls "to piss her off more. ... More >>

Taavo Somer May Do the Hippie Hippie Shake in Williamsburg

Dine with us.​After months of semi-hushed rumor mongering about Taavo Somer's South Williamsburg outpost of Freeman's, Eater has it that the restaurant, located on South 2nd Street and Wythe Avenue, will be "some kind of hippie place." Whether it will be an Altamont kind of hippie place or Woo ... More >>

Rolling Stones Make Post-Altamont Return to NYC

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 30 Oh, the dazzle of it all By Patrick Carr The Stones were magnificent. Everybody thought so. Thank Christ. Report on the Stones ploughing their own multi-multi-million dollar Suez Canal of rock 'n' roll, ... More >>

Photos: Japanther (And/Or Their Crazed Fans) Shut Down Night One Of The Rock And Roll Circus at Lincoln Center

Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

Live: Odd Future Make Their Absurd New York Debut at the Studio at Webster Hall

Odd Future The Studio at Webster Hall Monday, November 8 Better Than: Steve Harvey. Since everybody wants a piece of Los Angeles rap collective Odd Future, let's go ahead and carve off ours. Not the moment, about halfway through the show, when pack leader Tyler the Creator took a break from stag ... More >>

Maysles Brothers Release 'Gimme Shelter,' One Year After Altamont

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 19, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 47 Scenes By Howard Smith IT WAS A LONG WAY from Woodstock to Altamont. Knowing upfront what happened at Altamont gave a grim undertow to "Gimme Shelter," the Maysles Brothers' documentary about the Ston ... More >>

Woodstock Hangover: Ripping Off Rock Festivals

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 30, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 31 Rip-offs and revival By Don Heckman Summer rock festivals. Hippie capitalists. Rip-offs. Exploitation of the "rock community." Not exactly the kind of year anyone expected after the good vibes of Woodstoc ... More >>

No Age's Dean Spunt on How His Band's Rainbow Logo Became a New Punk-Rock Icon

"The idea was to have a visual identity before the band even started, before the music started. It kind of worked because people would be like, 'Dude, what is this? What is No Age?'" Radiohead's Colin Greenwood wearing the No Age "Classic" in January 2008 Dean Spunt's first band was a punk-rock ou ... More >>

In the Wake of Altamont: Who Hired the Hell's Angels?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62 Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday by Grover Lewis SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>

ALTAMONT: An Eyewitness Account of the 'Day of the Angels'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 11, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 61 Day of the Angels: Let It Bleed! by Grover Lewis ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY, Alameda County, California -- All across the scalded brown hills looming above this seedy, out-at-the-elbows drag strip located 50 ... More >>

Dennis Hopper, Soundtrack Savant: The Unacknowledged Music Savvy Behind Easy Rider, Out of the Blue, and Colors

​In the aftermath of Dennis Hopper's death this past Saturday (J. Hoberman's obit is here), tributes to the actor didn't even try to construct an easy narrative out of his chaotic life. How could they? Hopper was many things at once: the actor who pushed the "method" style way past its breakin ... More >>

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Taking Woodstock Recycles 60's Tropes

Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

Williamsburg's The Shank, an "After-Hours Club of Unprecedented Size and Bravado," Commemorated in this Week's New York Press

Nate "Igor" Smith In this week's New York Press, there's an enormously long feature chronicling the ignominious rise and fall of Williamsburg's short-lived after-hours space, the Shank. As someone who pulled a few all-nighters loitering around that mud-bucket of an early morning hideaway this past ... More >>

Barneys Unveils Hippie Christmas Windows

Game Rebellion Party for Their Right to Fight

Brooklyn crew's furious rap-rock taps a new, fresh vein of gangsta militancy

Things I Learned Watching Shine a Light

Shine a Light: Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again

Club Midway on Avenue B: Reopened, Padlocks Off

Nixonian Tumult Remembered in Chicago 10

The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom

Conceptualist Lawrence Weiner's Whitney Retrospective

Reveals the limitations of a vaunted conceptualist

Songs of Free Love and Hate

Glorious moping, whether over Altamont or poor album sales

Film at 11

Maysles focuses on turning Harlem kids into auteurs

'Following Sean'

Ids of Clay

Blood Monument

Artist Sam Durant's "Proposal" is pointed without being preachy, heartrending but not mawkish

Dead Bassist Recounts the Surreal Musicality of a Long, Strange Trip

Girls, Boys, DJs, Bands, Girls, Boys, Palms, Ferns, Fish!

Perfect Picnics

Grab some eats, spread a tablecloth, and get lost in the landscape

Todavia Tres Hombres

On my way down to Mexico, there was trouble on the rise

Music

Theater

Music

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Target Practice

The Low (Cost) Road to Fashion

Eviction Notice

Reverend Clarence Norman Sr. Signs to Sell Home for Mentally Disabled

The Bird Is the Word

A Ministry of Neglect

State Shuts Down Adult Home Run by Reverend Clarence Norman Sr.

Music

Hungry and Weird

Bummertime Blues

R.O.C.K. in the USA