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Why Does Spotify Keep Ripping People Off?

By Emily Lundquist Ten dollars a month is a small price to pay for practically every piece of recorded music except The Beatles. Which is why, late last year, I signed up for Spotify. Only two months in, however, I was out, and feeling like I'd been ripped off. Turns out I'm not the only one. See ... More >>

Three Reasons Why Old Records Are Bigger Than Ever

Deep catalog diving

"Beware The Spectre Of Polyphony": Seven Innovations That Have Been Accused Of Killing Music

People have been concerned for a very long time with what's killing music. The current boogeyman is undoubtedly Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software that can both sweeten off-key voices and create new vocal effects. Some have long protested its ubiquity: It will kill real vocals! Live performanc ... More >>

Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School

Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that he's never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, "I probably suck at this." Bada$$'s lack of experience at early-'8 ... More >>

Live: L'Arc-En-Ciel Land At Madison Square Garden

L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Brooklyn on Film

​This week in the Voice, out today: James Hughes talks to director Walter Hill, whose early work, The Warriors, kicks off the Brooklyn Close-Up series at BAM on Halloween, followed by a screening of "his most underappreciated and airtight film," The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal, at MOMA on Nov ... More >>

TECH SAVVY

Mike Daisey takes a bite out of Apple

Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere Tells Us About His Latest Experiment, Favorite Pranks, and Future Plans

On July 16, more than 3,500 New Yorkers converged on Battery Park City, iPods in hand, to take part in the 8th annual MP3 Experiment hosted by Improv Everywhere. Yesterday, we spoke with Improv Everywhere founder, Charlie Todd, about his group of pranksters and this latest experiment, which divided ... More >>

VINYL MANIA

Pick a record shop and have a party

L'Artiste--A New Reason to Visit the Arrondissement of Astoria

Think 'Borough Continental'

Ivy Baldwin, DD Dorvillier, and Alain Buffard Explore the Art World, Technology, and the Exposed Body

Peggy Guggenheim, strange eroticism, and a little Goethe for you

Anamanaguchi Post Das Racist Remix, Promise To Release the Scott Pilgrim Video Game Soundtrack Somehow

Ryder RippsPoor ladyOne detail that didn't emerge during our long conversation with Brooklyn chiptune composers Anamanaguchi, regarding their wish-fulfilling project of scoring the Scott Pilgrim videogame, was whether or not the band planned to release the tracks separately. So we wrote guitarist/NE ... More >>

ROCK ON

Mike Todaro's Power Balladz

The MTA Is Now Selling the Random Crap You Left on the Subway

​Yesterday, NYC Transit started tweeting about all kinds of goodies -- including a divine 5" black and white Coby TV that probably weighs more than your flatscreen -- that have been left behind on trains and are now up for grabs. "All those iPods, cameras, jewelry and more is waiting for your ... More >>

Barack Obama Hates the iPod, iPad, Xbox; Probably Tumblr, Votes From Young People

​The problem with talking shit about young people and the technology they use is that then they use it. They use these technologies to spread Old Man ignorance and laugh at the empty words and remix them, mash them up or juxtapose them with pictures of cats. Young people, or the plugged-in, ma ... More >>

"It Has To Do With Eating Fucking DIRT, Not Graduating From A Liberal Arts College": Weasel Walter Holds Forth On No Wave, Grudgingly Lets You Listen To No New York

Pic by Nondor Nevai​Brash, beloved experimental/jazz/noise/etc. drummer Weasel Walter, who moved to Brooklyn not too long ago to "fuck shit up," has a fine mini-essay on discovering No Wave in the mid-'80s, and the herculean, charmingly antiquated methods (libraries! mail-order! record stores! ... More >>

A New Gay Nightlife Website!

​Antitwink.com is your one-stop shopping mall for gay club invites, cute-guy photo galleries, and insider commentary. Go there instead of the parties--or even in addition to them. You won't be carded.

Meet the Amateur DJs Who Are Putting You Out of Work, Professional DJs

Harley Viera-Newton, eating your lunch​Today in manufactured outrage: DJs who aren't really DJs, DJing for money. "DJing is the ultimate side gig for hip young New Yorkers," is the tagline for this W piece: "But not everyone's happy about it." Is it fair that models, actresses, and artists, e. ... More >>

iZap! iPhones, iPod May Give "Quick Electrical Shock"

We don't know what they expect us to do about it, but here it is: Apple reportedly cautions that if you use an iPod or iPhone in very dry climates, you may experience "a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your ear buds." The shock is compared to that received when you rub your feet on a ... More >>

The Mentalists Use iPhone Apps to Cover MGMT's "Kids," Prove Being MGMT Is Easy

Just hope they paid the licensing fee All-girl British foursome the Mentalists figured out how to cover MGMT's "Kids" using only iPod/iTouch applications, so they put on crazy eye make-up and giant necklaces, and recorded a live version for YouTube. The resultant video succeeds not in interpretive ... More >>

MOMA Art Festoons Atlantic/Pacific Subway Station

Subway service sucks and will soon get more expensive, but at least at the Atlantic and Pacific subway stops in Brooklyn it will be, briefly, prettier. The MTA is sticking reproductions of Museum of Modern Art masterpieces to the walls, columns, and turnstiles as a MOMA promotion. "24 hours a day, ... More >>

NOUVELLE/ANCIENNE

Toumani Diabaté's kora fusion bridges the gap

Dirty Blonde: Subway Calamity, and the Return of the '90s

Bring a book—and your cargo pants

Voice Choice: A Day in Dig Nation

Beach House's Devotion

Joke ripped off from Robin Hood: Men in Tights redacted

Burning the Future: Coal in America

Your inconvenient truth du jour

Downtown Theater News Update

Soho Rep's new play ground

How to Reappear Completely

Radiohead's triumphant coup is a victory more cultural than musical

Jam-Bands Should Hire Rappers More Often

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

An enchanted afternoon with Hiromi, Japanese prog-jazz big-shot extraordinaire

Numbers by Painting

Recommendations

Music

Acquired Tastes

A quickspin through New York nightlife's trendsetting hall of fame

Expectations Too Narrow

Pity the Shins, a good band now plagued by ubiquitous claims of greatness

Rainer Maria Breaks Up

Dust Devils

The romance of the secondhand store

Subdued Psych-Rockers Can Still Cause Hearing Loss

Rock Star Supernova: Fish in a Barrel

Celebrity Spin

Rock Stars Are Not DJs—But DJs Are Rock Stars

Small Change

Down and out: For post-Boomers, the personal is never political

Heads Are Back!

A look at this season's fakest New Yorkers

Dance

Harvest-Folk Dropout Gets Back to the Grid

American Splenda

Non-terrorist chatter captured here: 'Is that your cell phone ringing?' 'Julie, those are birds'

The Rebound of Internet Radio

Music

Mixed Mulatto

Melting ZZ and Jay-Z and all kinds of purple haze into the pot

Making a List

And We All Shine On

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