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March 16, 2012
Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Paul Simon (2) Takes On Slick Rick (15) As Round One Of Our Quintessential New York Musician Tournament Continues
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today we pit Garfunkel's better half Paul Simon ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
12 Tracks, Two And A Half Hours: Sound Of The City's Mixtape Of Long Rap Songs
Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting frenzied and inspired with that rapping thing he does so well. With "DoYaThing" and persistent talk about Outkast reunion rumors bedazzling u ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Here Is The 13-Minute Version Of (And Lyrics For) "DoYaThing," The Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000 Song
Apparently the release of the Converse-sponsored collaboration between Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and the fleet-tongued André 3000 wasn't the end of that song's release cycle; last night a 13-minute version of the track, with Three Stacks going bonkers about being the shit (no, reall ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Hear The Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000 Collaboration "DoYaThing"
The Converse-funded collaboration between the Damon Albarn/Jamie Hewlett futurepop collab Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and 2011 Best Supporting Player André 3000, "DoYaThing," has leaked, and it's a goodie, a wobbly bit of futureshock pop that has Albarn laying down a verse in his blas ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2012
Oddsmaker: Do Beyoncé And André 3000 Have Enough Swagu To Beat Kanye And His Dozens Of Friends At The Grammys?
The Grammys created the awkwardly named Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category ten years ago, around the time Ja Rule's various "thug love" duets were dominating the airwaves. The award recognized a growing sector of popular music that didn't quite fit into the preexisting rap, R&B or pop song ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
André 3000, Most Valuable Supporting Player
The erstwhile OutKast member has a great year without a single starring role
Blogs
January 17, 2012
The 39th Pazz And Jop Poll Is Live
Hooray and huzzah, the Pazz & Jop poll, calculated from the ballots of 700 critics around the globe, is up and running and ready for your perusal. Congratulations to Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, whose w h o k i l l walked away with the albums poll; and Adele, whose inescapable yet compelling even o ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Ke$ha Works Both Sides Of The Pop Aisle
This morning brought the release of "Sleazy 2.0 (Get Sleazier)," the all-star remix of Ke$ha's Dr. Luke/Bangladesh banger about men who are a bit too impressed with their wealth "Sleazy"; the new version contains the quietly gut-punching verse that Andre 3000 added to the original remix, as w ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Hey, Bono, Here Are Five Songs You Might Want To Consider For This "Song Lyrics Of Literary Excellence" Contest You're Judging
The New England branch of the literary society PEN has announced that it's bestowing its inaugural award for outstanding achievement in song lyrics in February (hat tip: Dave Bry/Maud Newton). Lyrics from all stripes of popular music can, of course, be utterly banal, but they can also employ ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Radio Hits One: Playing Armchair A&R With The Singles From 2011's Biggest And Best Albums
The two big formats that have long ruled over popular music are the single and the album. They have a great duality between them: the song and the collection; the sliver and the whole; the appetizer and the main course. Albums are the full-length format long considered pop music's ultimate a ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Live: Pill Arrives In New York, Only To Wonder Where New York Is
Pill w/Jon Connor, AP, Nina B, Kasanova S.O.B.'s Thursday, November 17 Better than: Subway delays. Like, who enjoys that? Two years ago, on the strength of the bubble-cooking anthem "Trap Goin' Ham," Pill was inescapable during CMJ week, a pop-up at every show. XXL picked him as one of its top 10 ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Lloyd's "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" Video Might Be Cleaned Up, But There's Still A Pussy In There
Lloyd's "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" originally landed earlier this summer, and in its initial form it was a thrillingly ribald breakup anthem, with Lloyd wailing about how his lover's "pussy done changed" once things started to sour between the two of them. Of course, such profligate us ... More >>
Music
July 6, 2011
Lloyd: Expletives Embraced
He works blue, yet retains his loverman status on King of Hearts
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Lloyd's "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" Is Gleeful, Profane, And Completely Great
Next week King of Hearts, the new album by Atlanta R&B crooner Lloyd, comes out after what seems like a really really long time since he provided the hook to the near-chart-topper "BedRock." (Early 2010 wasn't that long ago in real terms, I know.) Last night "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading
Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Beyoncé's "Party" Is Cool, Collected, And Andre 3000-Assisted
Beyoncé's 4 has been slowly revealing itself to the world in advance of its June 28 release date, and the latest track to leak is "Party," a sumptuous Kanye West and Consequence production with a wistful, syllable-bending assist from André 3000. "Party" flips the expectations put forth by ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Lil Wayne's Tour To Get A Silky Smooth Assist From Lloyd
What with Nicki Minaj having gone and signed herself away to Britney Spears' tour this summer, Lil Wayne needed some new opening acts for the next leg of his I Am Still Music Tour. Enter--along with Keri Hilson, Rick Ross, and, uh, the Far East Movement--Lloyd, the sweet-voiced Atlanta croone ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Curren$y And The Alchemist Get Chilly On "Covert Coup"
The New Orleans-based Curren$y is a weed rapper, which means his job is to make something usually associated with directionless demotivation seem badass. The art of weed rapping is the art of bragging about surpassing low expectations, and there are a couple ways to do this: the current big m ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.comWith sincere apologies to Chuck Eddy, my two favorite records of the year also produced my two favorite singles: funny how that happens. And though ten songs increasingly feels like about forty too few, especially when Dr. Luke is working, ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers
These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
The 10 Best Posse Cuts of 2010 (So Far)
Posse cuts are like friendlier versions of the WWE's Royal Rumble -- a platform designed to showcase all of the stars in the game, both up-and-coming and certified. Think back to the Main Source's 1991 "Live At The Barbecue," featuring Akinyele, Joe Fatal, and the debut of a rapper named Nas, ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Live: Of Montreal, Janelle Monae, and a Pair of Manpigs Take Over Terminal 5
all photos by Rebecca SmeyneThe new King and Queen of the misfit teens. Of Montreal, Janelle Monae Terminal 5 Saturday, September 18 Better than: Any music currently being made by actual teenage girls. In a characteristically intellectual/saucy dis on his new album False Priest, Of Montreal fron ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl
Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play itBig Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Big Boi Is Guest-Starring On East Village Radio Right Now
Here's your proof. CREDITFresh off his triumphant show at Brooklyn Bowl last night and set to play NYU's mystery concert (with, uh, Dr. Dog) tonight, Big Boi is spending the afternoon at First and First on East Village Radio.
Blogs
August 4, 2010
The Escalade Is the Most-Stolen Car, But Whose Would You Jack?
In the choice between going big or going home, if you're stealing a car, you've already opted to go pretty big. With that in mind, it's not surprising that car thieves don't chintz -- they go straight for the Cadillac Escalade SUV, the most likely vehicle to be stolen, according to an insuran ... More >>
Music
July 6, 2010
Big Boi Is Not Too Artsy
After endless clashes and delays, the OutKast rapper's triumphant solo album emerges at last
Blogs
May 24, 2010
Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos
Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
B.o.B Fulfills His Destiny, Goes #1
Not to brag or anything, but Sean Fennessey pretty much called this exact turn of events a full month ago. The success of The Adventures of Bobby Ray, which sold 84,000 copies out of the gate, was a phenomenon long in the making--follow, if you care to, his team's careful set of decisions, fr ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2009
Go Ham or Die Trying: Pill's Calm Path to Mixtape Stardom
Not to brag or anything, but Sean Fennessey pretty much called this exact turn of events a full month ago. The success of The Adventures of Bobby Ray, which sold 84,000 copies out of the gate, was a phenomenon long in the making--follow, if you care to, his team's careful set of decisions, fr ... More >>
Film
November 27, 2007
Revolver
Not to brag or anything, but Sean Fennessey pretty much called this exact turn of events a full month ago. The success of The Adventures of Bobby Ray, which sold 84,000 copies out of the gate, was a phenomenon long in the making--follow, if you care to, his team's careful set of decisions, fr ... More >>
NYC Life
August 29, 2006
Fergie Is a Man
And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards
Film
August 15, 2006
About a Boi
OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South
Film
August 9, 2005
Fraternity Rank: Simpatico Siblings, Shoddy Script
OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South
NYC Life
August 2, 2005
Quite Sporting, Eh?
The wild, untamed, rock-star style of . . . golfers
News
August 31, 2004
The Waiting Game
City keeps hundreds in jail too long, chilling protests and angering families
News
August 24, 2004
Guantanamo on the Hudson
Judge orders immediate release of 470 protesters
Music
May 25, 2004
Nashville Catches Up
A pair of country goofballs boogaloo down Broadway with their rappin' buttload of friends
News
April 13, 2004
Rap, Rage, REDvolution
As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country
Music
March 23, 2004
Weirdo Beardcore
All Music Guide genre entry, just in case they ever need one
Music
February 10, 2004
The Review of Norah
For as it was not necessarily prophesied by Karl Rove and Stanley Crouch, so it shall be
Home
February 3, 2004
On Da Corner Worldwide
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
Music
October 21, 2003
Rousing Constituencies
Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes
Music
September 30, 2003
Love and Crunk
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
Music
May 13, 2003
Bhangra Over Bombs Over Baghdad
Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists
Music
July 30, 2002
No Jagged Edges
Neo-Soul Men Take the Emery Board to Their Heroes
Music
January 1, 2002
So Stank, So Clean
Neo-Soul Men Take the Emery Board to Their Heroes
Home
February 13, 2001
Top 10 Plus
City Kids and Voodoo Stank You Can’t Leave Behind
Music
December 12, 2000
Erykah in Stanklove
City Kids and Voodoo Stank You Can’t Leave Behind
Music
October 31, 2000
Fathership Connection
Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common
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