Amy Winehouse

Free Will Astrology: February 1-7, 2012

The Spotlight Shines on Adele's Heartbreak

Suffering from realness

My "Year In Review": NYC Became Fun City Again!

In my breathlessly enchanting cover story looking back at 2011, I decide that New York became "Fun City" again thanks to the double-dipping economic crisis that had everyone taking the stick out of their asses and riding it to the streets for protest marches, bonding experiences, and general camarad ... More >>

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom

via VH1​VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>

The Saddest Celebrity Deaths of 2011

​Who will you miss the most? *Elizabeth Taylor. A legend, a goddess, an activist. *Steve Jobs. Ditto, except for the goddess bit.

Animal Drink Coasters at Broadway Panhandler, Gift Suggestion #5

​Aren't they unspeakably cute? -- and they protect the finish on your fine furniture, too. Drink coasters are something of a retro-phenomenon. While our moms had several sets with different themes in neat stacks under the bar -- to protect her good finish from dad's sloppy drinking habits -- ... More >>

Amy Winehouse's Top Ten Hip-Hop Collaborations

​Rappers loved Amy Winehouse. The British warbler might not have collaborated with rap chaps to the extent that Mary J Blige has, but when she passed away earlier this year she did so leaving behind a discernible trail of hip-hop goodies. And the songs suggest there was a genuine bond and shar ... More >>

Live: Salaam Remi Immortalizes Amy Winehouse With Lioness: Hidden Treasures

by Kathy Iandoli ​Amy Winehouse (Lioness: Hidden Treasures listening session) Quad Recording Studios Wednesday, November 16 Better than: Thinking Back to Black was Amy's final opus. Amy Winehouse's career was punctuated with demons that detracted from her music, while simultaneously contri ... More >>

The Amy Winehouse/Nas Collaboration "Like Smoke" Has Leaked

​The posthumous collection of previously unreleased Amy Winehouse tracks Lioness: Hidden Treasures comes out next month, and today "Like Smoke"&0151;a track where Nas rhymes and Winehouse sings over a crisp, Salaam Remi-produced beat—premiered on Hot 97. The musical bed is apparently fro ... More >>

How To Avoid Alkies And Druggies!

I'm running from you drunks and druggies as fast as I can.

Behind the Music: Hitting All the Wrong Notes in The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll

I'm running from you drunks and druggies as fast as I can.

Live: Gregory Porter Sings A Song For Amy Winehouse At The Blue Note

​ Gregory Porter The Blue Note Monday, July 25 Better than: Most hackneyed Amy Winehouse tributes people are going to put together over the next couple of days. The publicist wanted to make it clear that despite a tribute to Amy Winehouse being teased on The Blue Note's website, Gregory Port ... More >>

Amy Winehouse Found Dead; Overdose Suspected [Breaking]

​ We're hearing reports that R&B singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her North London home. The suspected cause is an alcohol or drug overdose. The singer had long been known to struggle with substance abuse issues. We'll update when more information comes through; if you have a tip, ... More >>

Amy Winehouse, R.I.P.

​British soul singer Amy Winehouse was found dead this morning in her London flat. Even those people who followed pop music on a cursory basis were probably familiar with Winehouse, or at least her troubles; dubbed (almost too easily) "Wino" by the tabloids both in her homeland and around the ... More >>

The Five Best Pop Songs To Lip-Sync To

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Toots & the Maytals

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Wanda Jackson

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Corinne Bailey Rae

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Kate Nash+Supercute!

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Amy Winehouse To Do a Fashion Line

​It's been too long since we've heard from Amy Winehouse, the chanteuse who delighted us with Frank, Back to Black, "Rehab" etc. Now Winehouse is back, with a clothing line. She will collaborate with couturier Fred Perry on a "17 piece clothing and accessories collection," reports People. "It' ... More >>

VV Brown

​It's been too long since we've heard from Amy Winehouse, the chanteuse who delighted us with Frank, Back to Black, "Rehab" etc. Now Winehouse is back, with a clothing line. She will collaborate with couturier Fred Perry on a "17 piece clothing and accessories collection," reports People. "It' ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily fund ... More >>

'Q-Tip Presents: Long Live the King! A Birthday Celebration for Michael Jackson'

​ Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily fund ... More >>

If You Could Only Listen To One Song...

Let's play make believe and say your Ipod was stuck on one tune for the rest of your days and there was no way your eardrums could escape the sound of it, even if they ran away. In other words, you'd be forced to hear this one ditty blasting in your ears through eternity and beyond, so you'd bette ... More >>

Lady Sovereign

Let's play make believe and say your Ipod was stuck on one tune for the rest of your days and there was no way your eardrums could escape the sound of it, even if they ran away. In other words, you'd be forced to hear this one ditty blasting in your ears through eternity and beyond, so you'd bette ... More >>

Here We Go Again: M.I.A. Baby Name Now Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, For Today, Anyway

Screenshot via Le Crouton Belchiere Studios, "A studio with a Christian Worldview" Here we go again. The powers that be, and TMZ, report that the Ickitt calumny is finally over: Call M.I.A.'s kid Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, according to a birth certificate TMZ is allegedly holding (look at it here ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide to the Daktaris

Before the Daptone empire, there was a Nigerian Afrobeat crew that did not exist

Daptone Records Robbed, Imperiling Rod Stewart Sessions

Daptone Records, the Bushwick analog recording mecca used by Amy Winehouse and the Dap-Kings, got robbed last night, reports Brooklyn Vegan. The haul is impressive: Fender amps, computers, turntables, phone and modem equipment, mics, turntables -- even their Baldwin organ was "tossed and is probably ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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Amy Winehouse Nude, Makes Friends

Everyone's favorite chanteuse Amy Winehouse has been on a long post-rehab vacation, which What Would Tyler Durden Do has been tirelessly chronicling. Previous reports showed her annoying her fellow St. Lucia resort guests; one source said, "She grabs guests' drinks and runs off, like a squirrel wit ... More >>

My Palin And Winehouse Pix, For Those Who Blinked

Some of you have the sneaky habit of going away for Christmas and not clicking on my column, which this time was a saucily insightful year-in-review essay accompanied by a spread of moi photographed as various oddballs from '08 (Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Heath Ledger, and Amy Winehouse). So I ... More >>

Musto's Year in Review

The year in pictures—pictures of me!

Slow Nudes Day

The year in pictures—pictures of me!

WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND MOST?

Raphael Saadiq ponders neo-soul at the crossroads

Hugs and Kisses #47: Amy Winehouse, Australia, Rehab, Etc

Raphael Saadiq ponders neo-soul at the crossroads

The Amy Winehouse Collection

Raphael Saadiq ponders neo-soul at the crossroads

Stephin Merritt On Why He Only Dresses in Brown

Raphael Saadiq ponders neo-soul at the crossroads

A Heaping Pile of Salacious Blind Items!

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

No More Crack House for Winehouse

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

Bye, Heath. I Wish You Hadn't Quit Us!

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

This Year's Grammy Nominations: Fucking Insane

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

Hugs and Kisses #19: Everett True Frightens a Crowd, Discovers Amy Winehouse

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

Winehouse Rules

Amy channels Ronnie Spector's high hair and Cleopatra eyes

Monumentally sleazy '70s funk, unearthed and still unhinged

Betty Davis's Betty Davis and They Say I'm Different

Remix King Spins Through His Rolodex

Mark Ronson's Version

Idols Friendly and Faux

My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.

Splendour in the Crass

Spring load with punk psychopaths and cheerleader cherrybombs

All Hail the Ronette From Hell

Dazzling soul savior triumphs despite being painted with the crazy brush