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Vagina Panther, Foxygen, Milk Dick, etc: Why 20 Bands Playing CMJ Chose Their Name

The only thing all of the bands playing CMJ have in common aside from the fact that they're all playing CMJ is that they all have names. As they have been in the "indie" world for quite a while, animal-inspired band names are very popular this year at CMJ. The most respected animal continues to be t ... More >>

Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands. Two decades ago, L.E.S. resident Bettina Richards founded Thrill Jockey while working the rounds at ... More >>

100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album

I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>

Keepaway Add Just The Right Amount Of Sweetness To "Black Flute"

A partial list of comparisons the Brooklyn-based trio Keepaway has received since it released "Yellow Wings" in 2010: Timbaland; The Strokes; Gang Gang Dance; any number of Ethiopiques compilations; Modest Mouse; MGMT; Yeasayer; LFO; southern hip-hop (the drum patterns); a barbershop quartet; and An ... More >>

Live: Macaulay Culkin Lets His iPod Do The Talking

​Macaulay Culkin's iPod (le) poisson rouge Thursday, December 8 Better than: I would say Elijah Wood's iPod but I don't think that's true. The giddiness set in about four hours before Macaulay Culkin's party at (le) poisson rouge's gallery bar last night—yes, that Macaulay Culkin. Upon ... More >>

Happy Halloween: 7 Scary Movies With Pretty Good Soundtracks

​ It's almost Halloween, and if you're like me, you've been spending your free time watching scary movies and thinking up costume ideas. These sorts of movies are usually known for blood, boobs, and bad jokes, but the music that accompanies them is important, too. For instance, high-pitched s ... More >>

NO SLEEP ’TIL BROOKLYN

CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear

Q&A: Tom Vek On Forced Spontaneity, Learning About Trending Topics, And His Favorite Places In New York City

Katie Coleslaw​Tom Vek released his debut album We Have Sound in 2005, and the British musician's distillation of his influences was catchy enough to make him stand out from the crowd—he even appeared on the soapy Fox drama The O.C.. But in the years that followed, Vek kept quiet—t ... More >>

Radio Hits One: The Foo Fighters Foster The Alternative Generation Gap

​ The Foo Fighters' seventh album Wasting Light became the band's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in April, following a mountain of pre-release hype that included some of the best reviews of the band's career, a documentary about the making of the album, and the inevitable pu ... More >>

Pitbull And Nas: Where They Are Now

by Ian Cohen Timothy Saccenti ​ This week's Voice takes a look at how Pitbull rode a bullish multimedia campaign to a level of chart success and celebrity that far exceeds what he accomplished during reggaeton's heyday. It's every bit as heartening as it is surprising. When you consider the ... More >>

Beyond Kreayshawn: The Women In Hip-Hop Who The Internet Should Freak Out About Next

Last week, the birth of rap's newest star-to-be happened suddenly. Kreayshawn, a California rapper with Amy Winehouse's tattooes and piercings, Queen Latifah's earrings, and a modified version of Michelle Williams' pixie bob, dropped her video for "Gucci Gucci," and every person who was tweeting abo ... More >>

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NYPD Arrests Lou Reed's Manager, Tom Sarig, For Threatening Headhunter

​Police have actually arrested rock icon Lou Reed's manager for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hit men to go after a headhunter for the stars in a nasty squabble over an unpaid bill. In a complaint filed two weeks ago with the Midtown North Detective Squad, as the Voice first reported, ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Has The #1 Record In The Country

​It's true. Pink Friday sold 44,000 copies this week to top the Billboard charts. It would've set a record for the worst-selling #1 record of all time, except Cake already hit that number in January, and last week Amos Lee ruled the charts by selling a mere 40,000. (Your 2011 one-week sales le ... More >>

Out of Four Full Music Sales Weeks In 2011, Three Have Hit Historic Lows (Congratulations, Amos Lee!)

"Kneel, industry, kneel!"​We'd graph it, but sadly, it's too simple for that. Your 2011 Billboard #1s, in chronological order: Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 52K; Cake, Showroom of Compassion, 44K; the Decemberists, The King Is Dead, 93.5K; Amos Lee, Mission Bell, 40K. That last number is the lowest ... More >>

Let's Play "Name Your Favorite Bob Dylan Song," Starring No Age, Robyn Hitchcock, DJ Rekha, Greg Dulli, And More

Naturally, this record shows up quite a bit​As our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City winds down, we thought we'd reach out to a bunch of musicians with a simple question: What's your favorite Dylan song?

Presenting Your 2011 Billboard #1s: Taylor Swift...Cake...the Decemberists?

We defy you not to laugh, really.​This morning, music industry executives awoke with a sigh of relief: the third full sales week of 2011 did not end with historic Soundscan lows. After Taylor Swift set a historical nadir by selling 52,000 copies of three-month-old record during one of the slow ... More >>

Soulja Boy, Dimitri From Paris, And Mannie Fresh Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​A full range of emotions this week -- get emo tonight, go pantless on Saturday, giggle at the goofy songs of your youth on Tuesday. With Mannie Fresh, you might be able to do all three. In any event, here are your nightly nightlife picks for the next seven days:

Universal Order of Armageddon Are Returning To New York For Two January Shows

See if you can spot this grinning blogger in the above picture. Photo by Keith Marlowe, via Brooklyn Vegan.​Beloved early '90s hardcore band Universal Order of Armageddon are resistant to the term "reunion" (according to drummer-turned-Del Posto pastry chef Brooks Headley, they prefer "money l ... More >>

The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets

The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>

The Drums Don't Surf

Brooklyn transplants thrive with mopey, slightly insincere nautical-themed frivolity

Live: The Lowbrow Reader Presents Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces at Housing Works

Photo of the Fiery Furnaces via jcn's photostream Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces Housing Works Wednesday, July 22 "This one's about traveling to a distant galaxy to bring back spirit orgasms for women on earth who've never had one," Larkin Grimm said last night to a decent c ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

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Stuffed Happens

A post-strike round-up: four Broadway openings, plus a little Off-Broadway Darwinism

New Orleans Via New York

Break out the beads for a little Mardi-Gras mayhem

Kinky Kronikles

Monterrey’s vanguard boyband from another dimension

Vice Bust

Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World

Girls With The Most Pie

Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

Lovers Not Fighters

You May Think It’s Stupid; Rhett Miller Thinks It’s Art

Wandering Minstrel

Starring... Slinky

Satellite of Like

DirecTV's 30 Channels of Never-Ending Sound