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November 7, 2011
100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records
Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Always Exciting, Sometimes Difficult Climb Back To The Top Of The Charts
Following up a hit song, especially a big chart-topping hit, can be one of the best moments in a pop act's career. But it's also one of the most difficult; you could be Katy Perry, scoring five No. 1s in a row, or you could be Daniel Powter, who missed the Hot 100 entirely with the follow-up to "Bad ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Live: LMFAO Cause Panda-Monium At Pier 36
LMFAO w/Swizz Beatz Pier 36 Thursday, August 11 Better than: Watching the new episode of Jersey Shore. It was a beautiful coincidence that LMFAO, holders of the No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 for most of the summer of 2011, headlined the trade publication's end-of-summer blowout at Pier ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Live: Cults Flirt With The Crowd At Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Benjamin Lozovsky Cults Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, June 9 Better than: Getting struck by lightning while waiting out the Black Eyed Peas rain delay. It wasn't until midway through Cults' homecoming show, when Madeline Follin fervently swayed and sashayed along with "You Know What ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes
Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Farewell Teena Marie, Dead at 54
Her songs were part of the DNA of both rap and anyone who grew up in the '80s, she was powerful enough to hold down her end of a long musical relationship with a man no less freaky than Rick James, and she took a legendarily goofy guitar-pose photo. Teena Marie called herself the "Ivory Queen ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2010
Live: Diddy Holds Forth on Biggie, Mary (The Biblical One), and His Own Ambition at 92Y Tribeca
Shout-out to all the Scorpios in the house. Pics by Ken Goodman.The question: "What's your favorite non-hip-hop pursuit?" Diddy's answer, after a meaningful, somewhat bewildered pause: "happiness."
Music
January 19, 2010
Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death
What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him
Blogs
July 7, 2009
Live Blogging the Michael Jackson Memorial
Live Video streaming by Ustream For all the lovely grace notes, homages, and eulogies that have flowed from any number of erudite and compassionate individuals in the wake of Michael Jackson's untimely death at the young age of 50, a celebrity's death is not over in American until the huge, gaudy, ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
MJ in LA Update
Latifah said, "I'm here to represent millions of fans who loved Michael... all of you." She reads a Maya Angelou poem, "We had him," composed for the occasion: "Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing/Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer win ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
Jackson Memorial Worthy of a Master Showman
The Michael Jackson all-star memorial concert at the Staples Center was so riveting I expected Michael to pop out of the shiny, silver coffin and do one last moonwalk. Janet and LaToya really turned it out fashionwise (and dignity-wise); old-time Motown legends like Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, and S ... More >>
News
July 1, 2009
Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror
Black America's eulogies for the King of Pop also let us resurrect his best self
Blogs
June 26, 2009
From the Voice Archives: Robert Christgau on the Mass Culture Spectacle of Michael Jackson in 1984
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009
From the Voice Archives: Greg Tate on Michael Jackson in 1987
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Greg Tate on what's wrong with Michael Jackson in 1987. It ran side by side with a piece on the same topic by Guy Trebay. I'm White! By Greg Tate September 22, 1987 There are other ways to read Michael Jackson's blanched skin and di ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2009
Ow American Idol Top 10: Scott is Still Cheesy, Adam Gets Sensitive, Allison Shows Her Fuck Side
Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 10! all photos by Michael Becker / FOXAdam Lambert, slicked back hair It feels like months have gone by since I last watched Idol. That's because we were pre-empted Tuesday for one reason or another. It's all a bit diso ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2008
Levi Stubbs: Mourning the Voice of Little Shop of Horrors
Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 10! all photos by Michael Becker / FOXAdam Lambert, slicked back hair It feels like months have gone by since I last watched Idol. That's because we were pre-empted Tuesday for one reason or another. It's all a bit diso ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2006
Things I Learned Watching Dreamgirls
Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 10! all photos by Michael Becker / FOXAdam Lambert, slicked back hair It feels like months have gone by since I last watched Idol. That's because we were pre-empted Tuesday for one reason or another. It's all a bit diso ... More >>
Film
December 5, 2006
Dream Works
But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it, as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model
News
January 6, 2004
Latin Swing's Last Lion
Johnny Pacheco Returns To The New York His Salsa Once Changed
Music
December 10, 2002
Wearing the Melancholy
This Dungeon's for Hire, Even If We're Just Dancing in the Darkwave
Film
November 12, 2002
It's a Sin
This Dungeon's for Hire, Even If We're Just Dancing in the Darkwave
News
March 27, 2001
The 'Bad Boy Curse'
The Perils of Hanging With Puffy
Music
February 1, 2000
Reverse Crossover
The Perils of Hanging With Puffy

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