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May 25, 2012
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 >>
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January 10, 2012
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 >>
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December 9, 2011
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 >>
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October 28, 2011
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 >>
Voice Choices
October 19, 2011
NO SLEEP ’TIL BROOKLYN
CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear
Blogs
July 12, 2011
Q&A: Tom Vek On Forced Spontaneity, Learning About Trending Topics, And His Favorite Places In New York City
Katie ColeslawTom 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 >>
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June 24, 2011
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 >>
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June 23, 2011
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 >>
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May 27, 2011
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 >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
Cake
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 >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
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 >>
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February 9, 2011
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 >>
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February 2, 2011
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 >>
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January 28, 2011
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 bitAs 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?
Blogs
January 26, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
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:
Blogs
November 30, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
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 >>
Music
September 8, 2009
The Drums Don't Surf
Brooklyn transplants thrive with mopey, slightly insincere nautical-themed frivolity
Blogs
July 23, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
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 >>
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009
Cake
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 >>
Theater
December 4, 2007
Stuffed Happens
A post-strike round-up: four Broadway openings, plus a little Off-Broadway Darwinism
NYC Life
February 1, 2005
New Orleans Via New York
Break out the beads for a little Mardi-Gras mayhem
Music
December 16, 2003
Kinky Kronikles
Monterrey’s vanguard boyband from another dimension
News
November 12, 2002
Vice Bust
Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World
Music
April 9, 2002
Girls With The Most Pie
Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World
Art
January 8, 2002
Hip-Hop Don’t Stop
Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World
Music
March 20, 2001
Lovers Not Fighters
You May Think It’s Stupid; Rhett Miller Thinks It’s Art
Music
February 9, 1999
Wandering Minstrel
You May Think It’s Stupid; Rhett Miller Thinks It’s Art
Music
October 6, 1998
Starring... Slinky
You May Think It’s Stupid; Rhett Miller Thinks It’s Art
Music
January 20, 1998
Satellite of Like
DirecTV's 30 Channels of Never-Ending Sound

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