Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Related Search

Blogs
December 30, 2011
Holler! The Ten Loudest, Shoutiest Rappers
Waka Flocka Flame is the sort of of hip-hop artist who doesn't so much rap or flow as he shouts his ass off. It's a formula that imbues the Atlanta-based rapper's songs with a boisterous, visceral appeal—and one that he's looking to continue with the release of his second studio album, ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Live: Chris Webby Packs Irving Plaza, Scowls While Doing So
Chris Webby Irving Plaza Thursday, December 29 Better than: A Republican debate. Chris Webby has "203" inked across his right side, a gothic "Connecticut" burned into the skin beneath his neck. There are the scattered images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mario Brothers and Transformers a ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
53 More Great Songs From 2011
Every day we're... ahh forget it.Earlier today, Maura offered a list of the 47 songs on her "2011 Awesomeness" Spotify playlist; to complement that, here are the 53 songs from my less cleverly named playlist, "2011." As is the usually the case with these mega-lists, I compiled mine a bit haph ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 28, 2011
HOMETOWN HERO
Class is in session  at Brooklyn’s Southpaw
Voice Choices
December 28, 2011
INTERNATIONAL LOVE
Pitbull thinks locally and raps globally  at Roseland Ballroom
Blogs
January 3, 2012
100 & Single: LMFAO's Pair Of Chart-Toppers Suggest Stardom, Guarantee Nothing
The national star-making machinery only begins to take you seriously when you command the field more than once. Just like, say, GOP presidential candidates, pop acts can't chart one strong number and assume dominance is permanently theirs. They've got to come back on top, week after week, sur ... More >>
News
January 4, 2012
Education Supplement: A CUNY Professor Proposes a Bailout for Starving Arts Students
Up-against-the-wall MFAS
Voice Choices
December 28, 2011
RHYME WITHOUT REASON
Two poetry extravaganzas
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Radio Hits One: Foster The People, Cage The Elephant Lead The Charge Of New "The" Bands
Back around 2001, a Transatlantic cabal of music critics led a media hype machine declaring that rock was "back." To further this thesis, it grouped together a disparate set of bands offering variations on the stripped-down "garage rock" template who were often cheekily referred to as the "Th ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Rick Ross Gets Larger Than Life On Rich Forever
When will Rick Ross stop improving? All bets are currently off, because right now—as in right this very moment, in the immediate aftermath of Rich Forever—Rick Ross is the best rapper alive. Not too long ago, he was arguably the worst. Lots of other rappers have made The Leap from ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2012
Elton John's Husband Trashes Madonna For Golden Globe Win And Speech!
Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
Roy Ayers
Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.
Voice Choices
January 11, 2012
The Daily Show Live: Stand-Up Comedy from The Daily Show's Staff
Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.
Music
January 18, 2012
Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.
Blogs
January 18, 2012
Q&A: Scarcity Of Tanks' Matthew Wascovich On Not Being A Poet, Cleveland Punk, SST Records, And Releasing Two New Albums On The Same Day
Scarcity of Tanks, live in Brooklyn in 2007.Bottomless songwriting pit machinist Bob Pollard has some friendly in-state competition from fellow Ohio native and Scarcity Of Tanks guru Matthew Wascovich. The Clevo skater/sporto/wordsmith/punk dude—the lone constant in SOT's revolving univ ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop 2011: Nick Minichino On Funkmaster Flex's ALL-CAPS Premiere Of Jay-Z And Kanye West's "Otis"
To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. This is from Nick Minichino, who voted specifically for Funkmaster Flex's premiere of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Otis" this summer. That was the driving force of i ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
The O'Jays
To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. This is from Nick Minichino, who voted specifically for Funkmaster Flex's premiere of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Otis" this summer. That was the driving force of i ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Q&A: Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott On Boston Punk, Singing Drummers, Volcano Suns And Kustomized
In a recent convo with Sound of the City, Sebadoh/Dino Jr icon and ex-Amherst punker Lou Barlow waxed nostalgic for Boston's music scene, both snickering at the hardcore simpletons brutalizing innocents in the pit and in awe of American underground rock trailblazers like Mission of Burma. Ala ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 28, 2011
TRACKING DEVICE
New works from around the world
Voice Choices
January 11, 2012
BLAST OFF
Head into ‘Deep Space’ with François K.
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
My Brightest Diamond
Head into ‘Deep Space’ with François K.
Voice Choices
January 11, 2012
LIT WITS
Put those nonreaders to shame
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Etta James, R.I.P.
Etta James used to tell a story about meeting Billie Holiday in which Holiday told her—fatherless wild child to fatherless wild child—not to let the bad men and drugs that were going to come her way destroy her. Something about that brief conversation must've stuck, because despit ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
My Final Oscar Nomination Predictions!
The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
There Are Only Two Nominees For Best Original Song At This Year's Oscars
A few years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences switched up the rules for Best Original Song, making the hurdles a track had to clear in order to get nominated a little more difficult and introducing the possibility that no songs at all would be nominated during a particular ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Q&A: Too $hort On Not Getting A Lot Of Love In New York, His Aversion To Mixtapes, And Working With Biggie
"They tell me to get my old ass off the mic, but every time my old ass gets on stage I put on a hell of a show!" So promises Too $hort, the godfather of Bay Area hip-hop who'll be hitting Brooklyn this Thursday and Friday for shows at the Knitting Factory. The back-to-back gigs mark $hort Dog ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Live: Lamb Of God Build Their Wall Of Death At Irving Plaza
Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 11, 2012
'Where's the Band?'
Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012
BEEN GONE
Kelly Clarkson returns to New York
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012
VOCAL VISIONARY
La MaMa welcomes Meredith Monk
Blogs
January 30, 2012
100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"
Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled ... More >>
Columns
February 1, 2012
Why I Hate Theater! Appalling!
Read my column now or see the musical later
Voice Choices
January 25, 2012
CAN'T DENY IT
Fab takes the funeral service  to Long Island's NYCB Theatre
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012
Megadeath+Motörhead+Volbeat
Fab takes the funeral service  to Long Island's NYCB Theatre
Blogs
February 2, 2012
Download: Homeboy Sandman's Interstellar Voyage "The Miracle"
Homeboy Sandman is a spiraling autumn of light from Queens, a rapper whose flow at once sounds like a metaphysical brain drain and a physically fit slice of verbal gymnastics. With a career built on battle competitions, hosting nights at the Nuyorican Poets Café and some guerilla F train fly ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Radio Hits One: Flo Rida's Accidental Posthumous Tribute To Etta James
The late Etta James remained an active recording artist right up to the end, releasing her final album, The Dreamer, just two months before her death on January 20. But she hadn't been on a Billboard singles chart since the '70s, when a cover of Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart" from her 19 ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Giants Ticker-Tape Parade Tomorrow; Go to Mayor's Twitter Right Now to Grab Ticket
We heard many of you screaming about the Giants on the streets and in bars last night -- but only 500 of you lucky fans will get to celebrate tomorrow afternoon at City Hall. For the rest of you, though, there's a parade! Late last night, the mayor's office announced plans for football festi ... More >>
Theater
February 8, 2012
Look Back in Anger: Surly to Bed
John Osborne's British classic faces an American audience again
Voice Choices
February 1, 2012
THE UNDERGROUND
Explore the early works of Amos Poe
Blogs
February 8, 2012
The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order
53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will The Grammys Declare Sum 41 To Be More Metal Than Megadeth And Mastodon?
The 54th Grammy Awards mark the combination of the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance awards into the single category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, which is why Mastodon and Sum 41 are up for the same award. Historically, the metal category has been one of the most conf ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
It's Adele vs. Gaga At The Grammys Sunday
And that's good because it'll take some of the heat off Gaga vs. Madonna. But who do you think will win the Grammy for Album of The Year?
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Should The Grammys Just Give The Album Of The Year Award To Adele Now?
For the last twenty years, the award for Album of the Year, the biggest Grammy honor of them all, has tended to go to two types of people: young women and old men. Female solo artists under 30 (Lauryn Hill, Taylor Swift) and male veterans over 40 (Tony Bennett, U2) have dominated the category ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Best Country Solo Performance, Where Ludacris's Stamp Of Approval Makes A Difference
As part of this year's larger reduction in genre-specific awards, 2012 will see the country portion of the Grammys streamlined to just four categories: Best Solo Performance (which swallows Male and Female Vocal Performance), Best Duo/Group Performance (which swallows Best Duo/Group Vocal Per ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide
Maybe it's all that misguided Year of the Woman chatter that dominated year-end roundups, or the slow, agonizing creep of Fashion Week, or the coming apocalypse, but hoo boy has there been a lot of terrible writing about female musicians in the past few weeks. The latest offender is the New Y ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 1, 2012
RUN THIS TOWN
Jay-Z takes the stage at Carnegie Hall
Blogs
February 11, 2012
Whitney Houston, R.I.P.
Whitney Houston, the big-voiced belter who dominated radio in the 1980s and '90s and whose cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Hot 100, passed away tonight at the Beverly Hilton, where Clive Davis's annual pre-Grammy party was about to take place. ... 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 >>
Voice Choices
February 1, 2012
Anthrax
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 >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Live: Jose James Brings The Love To Harlem
Nicole BattleJose James Harlem Stage Gatehouse Saturday, February 11 Better than: Ever. What better way to see in the pre-Valentine's Day weekend, a warm-up for the designated 24 hours our culture sets aside for Love, than to enjoy the supple outpourings of Jose James? For two nights last w ... More >>
More >>

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

Free Appitizer

Cafe Rakka

38 Ave B btw 3rd & 4
new york, NY 10003
25% Off Dinner

Toscano's

1544 2nd ave
new york, NY 10028

More Popular Coupons »

Browse Voice Nation

Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Blogs

News

Voice Choices

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Blogs

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Blogs

Columns

Voice Choices

Voice Choices

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Theater

Voice Choices

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Blogs

Blogs

Voice Choices

Blogs

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

Now Click This