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Raven's John Gallagher Once Locked Lars Ulrich In a Bathroom

In the early- to mid-80s, Raven--who play Saint Vitus on Sunday--and their "athletic rock" were essential to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Known for their wild live shows, they opened for the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden before joining Metallica's first major American tour in 1983. ... More >>

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

Publishers Fight Back Against Schoolbook Piracy

Textbook torrents

Q&A: Danielle Henderson, Author of Feminist Ryan Gosling : Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude

Despite launching a website featuring Ryan Gosling that became an overnight hit, and recently publishing a book filled with Gosling's broodingly sexy photos, Danielle Henderson is not a Ryan Gosling fan-girl. The New York native is actually a graduate student in women and gender studies at the Unive ... More >>

Is Luka Magnotta, Canadian Porn Actor and Murder-Dismembering Suspect, a Scientologist?

As the world tries to hunt down porn actor and murder suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta, Canada's National Post today pointed out something interesting -- Magnotta, 29, apparently converted to Scientology a few years ago. Activists over at WhyWeProtest.net, naturally, were on to this months ago, when Mag ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Drake, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, And The Era Of The Hit Bonus Track

Superstar pals and Young Money labelmates Lil Wayne and Drake released two of the biggest albums of 2011—Tha Carter IV and Take Care—and both are still spinning off hits well into 2012. But a look at the singles charts reveals something odd: the biggest current hits off both albums aren' ... More >>

Will An Army Of Beyoncés Save "Run The World (Girls)" From Chart Oblivion?

​Last night's Billboard Music Awards handed out popularity-contest trophies to the likes of Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry, all of whom were rewarded for the copious amounts of radio play and sales they racked up in recent months. But the evening's real winner was probably Beyoncé, who ... More >>

Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

Gawker Refuses to Post Correction on WikiLeaks DNS Screw-Up, Trades Threats With Company Asking For Apology

​The last week's political and media hoopla over the latest WikiLeaks document dump has had the internet going nuts. Things got so wild online that Julian Assange's official website spent hours over the span of a few days crashed after a series of DDOS attacks. Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks off ... More >>

Kanye West and Nicki Minaj Just Sold A Bunch Of Records

Last Tuesday night, Kanye West stood on a Bowery Ballroom stage and did the numbers: "To do an album right after the year that I had, and after all the 'Your career is over!' and 'Die, nigger, die!' and 'You'll never make music again!' And to come back and to do 100,000 the first day, digital alon ... More >>

The Craziest Black Friday Moments of All Time

Avoid this at all costs​Everyone knows the Friday after Thanksgiving is the "best time" to buy gifts for the holidays (can't beat a $3 toaster!) but it seems that people just keep upping the crazy ante in such a way that makes us want to stay the hell away. Like the two women in Florida who st ... More >>

What Will James Jay Lee's Psychotic Rampage Do to Daniel Quinn's Book Ishmael?

​Reported Discovery Channel environmental rampage-r James Jay Lee listed as a favorite book on his MySpace page and quoted extensively on his demands note from Daniel Quinn's 1992 philosophical novel Ishmael. If you went to college in America over the last 18 years, you've likely met someone r ... More >>

Can the Kindle and Its Ilk Ease Textbook Inflation?

And are they ready for prime time?

Welcome Back, Courtney Love

The return of 'Hole' whether you like it or not, you little suck shits

So Was Lil Wayne's Rebirth a Modest Success Or a Total Commercial Failure? Maura Johnston Reads the Charts

"Billboard's 'Tastemakers' chart is the one we should all paying attention to, don't you think?"​This week's Billboard 200 is headed once again by Lady Antebellum, the milquetoast country trio whose second album Need You Now moved 481,000 copies in its debut week, and 209,000 copies in the sal ... More >>

Clip Job: LSD in Churches by 1984 -- Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 10, 1964, Vol. X, No. 8An Interview with Timothy LearyBy John WilcockTimothy Leary and Richard Alpert, former Harvard professors, have been experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs (mainly LSD and psilocybin) for 4 1/2 years. They main ... More >>

Books in the Hood

When LaVerne Harris decided to open a bookstore in the South Bronx two years ago, she knew she it wasn't going to be easy.The area is known for a lot of different things -- urban blight, crime, poverty -- and a healthy book culture wasn't one of them.But Harris, a 61-year-old primary school teacher ... More >>

Bruni's Memoir Has an Amazing Cover

Frank Bruni's book doesn't come out till August, but Eat me Daily has scored the cover, and their sources say that Bruni basically hasn't changed much. There's a definite resemblance to the picture of him on the right. (There are several pictures of Bruni on the interwebs, so I'm not showing anyo ... More >>

David Chang on Foie Gras

Eater has a very thoughtful piece by David Chang about serving foie gras in his restaurants. Apparently, an activist stopped by Ko to tell Chang that his group would start to picket the restaurant if he didn't stop serving the liver. Chang has been to Hudson Valley Foie Gras farm, (so have I) and fe ... More >>

"Off With Those Pants": Bill O'Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Those Who Trespass audiobook Author: Bill O'Reilly Publisher: Random House Audio Date: 2001, though the ... More >>

Letters 11.12.08

Ten Favorite Moments From the Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams

Letters

Shopping with The Secret

Buy what you want! The universe will pay your bills

Don't Look Now

The war on terror percolates through Jonathan Raban's topical novel

The Iron Sheik

A soft-rock titan unveils a brilliant exit strategy: Broadway

Metallica Finally Gives In to the iTunes Empire

Outward Is Heavenward

Presenting gospel's modern sounds in praise and worship

CORRECTION: Ann Coulter's Sale Figures

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

Aide spent a quarter of a million dollars on food, fun, and travel

The Value of Vintage

Grandma's old swizzle sticks are worth big bucks

The Literary Olympics

At the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young author made the scene—Herodotus!

This Genteel Racket

Can't sell your book? Maybe your agent hasn't even read it—and never will

The Culture of Death

Who Will Decide When You Should Die?

I'm In Love With My Walls

More Trip-Hop (Or Not) About Buildings and Atmosphere

Tween-Pop Suppressed!

Five-Girl Armies and Finnish Martians Fall Through the Cracks

God Only Knows My Butt

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

How a Politically Tied Aide Spent a Quarter of a Million Dollars on Food, Fun, and Travel

Kitties Rule, Boys Drool

20 Years of Erotic Lit

The Girls’ Guide to Humping and Fisting

Radio Free Internet

A Low-Fi Guide to Online Radio

Physician, Reveal Thyself

Top Medical Journal Admits to Lax Conflict Policy

The Most Dangerous Writer In America

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys

Jam Bands Discover Dance Music

Music

Love and Loss Online

eeeee-Bay

'Some dubious motive or initiative'?

At the Interactive Music XPO, mp3 everywhere but no SDMI

Machine Age

Wandering Minstrel