Bob Dylan

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Beacon Theatre - 5/20/13

Better Than: Having one foot in the grave. Imagine Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers drop a new LP, and it's just killer. Not just "killer" in that Echo or Mojo way, as in a killer document of a killer band doing what it was hatched to do. I mean in that Wildflowers or Full Moon Fever way, that damn ... More >>

H.R. of Bad Brains is Not Crazy, Insists Jamie Saft

With a monstrously flowing godlike beard, multi-instrumental guru Jamie Saft resembles a Hasidic mountain man who should be jamming on meaty blues licks with his beloved ZZ Top instead of the downtown avant-gardist and John Zorn ensemble vet for which he's known. The catch is, dude actually makes hi ... More >>

Mighty Quinn's: You've Eaten the 'Cue, Now Enjoy the Song

Quinn's gargantuan beef rib is like something an Inuit might have once wrested from the flank of a whale. Fork in the Road has reported admiriingly on the city's latest barbecue, an East Village joint called Mighty Quinn's. The place does brisket, Texas-style, and has a secondary specialty in Caro ... More >>

Waste of Paint: King Tuff Goes Retro, Pissed Jeans Get Pissed Off, Slug Guts Spook, and Sky Ferreira Charms

Illustrations by Debbie Allen CMJ is great. It's got all the stressful clusterfuckery of SXSW, but with none of the late night hot tub parties or surprise Kanye West performances! It brings a ton of acts to town all at once, and you can't really get mad at that. In honor of this grand industry tra ... More >>

The Milk Carton Kids+Brendan Hines

Live: Alvarius B Sings Songs Of Love And Spleen At Union Pool

Alvarius B w/Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett Duo Tuesday, September 4 Union Pool Better than: Getting drunk with your conspiracy-theory spewing uncle. Before his performance as the pseudonymous Alvarius B (with all the trippy venom that implies), former Sun City Girls member Alan Bishop chats p ... More >>

Which Musical Genre Was South Park Spoofing With "Tween Wave"?

​Last night's South Park was in large part about the fad/scourge of Tween Wave, a new genre that horrified parents and mobilized kids all across the country. Dubbed as such because it would be the Next Big Thing from 2009 through 2012, it made the phrase "this sounds like shit" quite literal; ... More >>

Joe Crowley, New York Congressman, Pulls a Bob Dylan Against GOP on Capitol Hill

Rep. Joe Crowley, who represents New York's 7th District, took a creative approach to attacking the GOP on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in a presentation without spoken words titled, "Speechless." Even if it's not a direct homage to Bob Dylan, it reminds us pleasantly of "Subterran ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: 10 Semi-Erudite Choices for Spring Literature

Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.

Week In Review: We'll Never Get Over The White Stripes

​We started out the week on a positive jam. Riding high off Bob Dylan Week, we spent the weekend paying tribute to all those bands who came before with Craig Finn at Music Hall of Williamsburg and trying with all our hearts to sing along while the Dismemberment Plan flailed around on stage at ... More >>

The Six Most Decisive Wins In Pazz and Jop History

Not quite​Having spent the last two weeks poring through Pazz & Jop 2010, I've learned everything from the two albums most statistically similar to a bootleg compilation of early Bob Seger (those would be Flockaveli and Ke$ha's Animal/Cannibal combo) to the number of writers who ended their co ... More >>

Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"

Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dude​So TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>

George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton: The Concert for Bangladesh

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 5, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 31 The Event wound up as a Love Feast By Don Heckman You could see it was going to be an Event almost immediately from the fact that the first 10 rows or so of Madison Square Garden had more than their usu ... More >>

Barb Jungr

SUBTERRANEAN SETLIST BLUES

A Dylan concert is amazing . . . until it isn’t

Laura Marling

Interview: Lucinda Williams on Getting Paid $250 for Her First Record, Mad Men, and Her Favorite Place in New York City

"I get nostalgic watching that show Mad Men." As a matriarch of what became known as alt-country, Lucinda Williams is 30 years and nine studio albums in to her career, with no real signs of slowing down. She's won three Grammy's, recorded with countless musicians, including Elvis Costello and Wil ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

LITTLE ITALY

Book a flight to Walter Reade

Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

New Asobi Seksu Video, O'Death Mixtape, and Tonight's Brooklyn Vs. Baltimore Show Was Moved

Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Impose is having a birthday party show on Saturday at Cake Shop. It's free if you were born in January. O'Death mixtape. Unfortunately this doesn't include yodeling diss tracks aimed at Akron/Family. On that ... More >>

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis

Pazz & Jop 2008: TV on the Radio Is #1; So Is M.I.A.

The 36th Annual Village Voice Critics' Poll, Pazz & Jop, has finally arrived, bringing with it the revenge of TV on the Radio (on Bob Dylan, among others) and of M.I.A. (on our insufficiently reverent 2007 singles poll). Read Andy Beta on TV on the Radio, Rob Harvilla on M.I.A., Estelle, and Beyo ... More >>

SCORSESE SKILLS

A celebration of Marty’s best

2008's Best Comics, Clip Art, and Pedophilia

Rev up your eyeballs as we trip through the year's best

GHOSTS OF NEW YORK

The Chelsea Hotel celebrates its 125th anniversary

Stephen Malkmus on Getting Hit By a Big Rock. . . and Badgered About the Pavement Reunion

MODERN VINTAGE

Enter the alternate universe of the Walkmen

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

'Voice' Cover Racist?

TV on the Radio guy thinks so

Pulling Dylan Out by the Roots

An otherwise sleepy tribute gets ambushed by "Machine Gun"

NY Mirror

Music

What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

Letters

Video Game Music Supervisor: Best Job Ever?

1966–1975 Peace & Protest

From the Summer of Love to Women's Lib, Gay Rights and Black Panthers

1961

Horoscope

Rituals of Getting Acquainted

With the Brit avant-garde, rust-belt saxophone, Braxton standards, Dylan standards

Books

Our 27 favorite books of the year

The Story Not the Song

Youngish protest Bobs confront reality, pitch in to help Kerry get elected and govern

After The Rehearsal

Flirting with Disaster: Discussing Days of Heaven and Dylan classics with Sam Shepard

Don't Look Back

Shelter From the Samurai

Letters

Minstrels All

Woody Guthrie's Second Life

Folksinger, Wordslinger, Start Me a Song

Yearjerker

NBC gets back to (not at) The '60s

Consumer Guide

Six of these 12 picks recast known compositions, and only two of the six are in the rock tradition. But I did find one medium-obscure alt band worth writing about. One.