Christina Aguilera

Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

Blogger Takes You Inside The Vortex Of Hustling In New Memoir

Says the release for Justin Hernandez 's imminent memoir, Inside The Vortex, "Early years of abuse and neglect led to his eventual descent into the dark world of addiction, stripping, and even male escorting." He grew up in the Bronx, hung with the pier queens, was "rejected by Christina Aguilera" ... More >>

Your Frighteningly In-Depth Guide To Insane Clown Posse's Upcoming Record The Mighty Death Pop!, Featuring Kreayshawn, Ice Cube, Color Me Badd, and a Christina Aguilera Cover

On August 14, Insane Clown Posse will deliver their 12th studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The last time Detroit's finest punching bags released a full-length original album, September 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!, they gave the world "Miracles," an unintentionally hilarious viral-video ode to giraffes ... More >>

Santigold's Gold Standard

Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 4: Brian McFadden, "Just The Way You Are (Drunk At The Bar)"

The Song: Brian McFadden, "Just The Way You Are (Drunk At The Bar)" The Crimes: Setting sexual assault fantasies to the dulcet strains of "Cotton Eyed Joe," as remixed by a David Guetta clone. As has been the case for too many years now, 2011's year-end polls have ended in a wave of proclamations ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 8: Tyler, The Creator, "Bitch Suck Dick"

The Song: Tyler, The Creator, "Bitch Suck Dick" The Crimes: Ugh. There really is no winning when one discusses the output of Tyler, The Creator, the leader of the West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future, a skateboard-riding LA dude who this year showed the world that he loved the Neptunes and his ... More >>

Radio Hits One: How The Whistle Became Pop's Secret Weapon Of 2011

​After Billboard released its 2011 year-end charts on Friday I pored over them, looking for patterns and trends with which I could make sense of the year in pop. If someone asked you to pinpoint "the sound of popular music in 2011," there are countless fads and running themes that you could po ... More >>

100 & Single: The Increase In Hot 100 Rebounders, And The iTunes-Radio Tug Of War

​The first week I remember ever hearing American Top 40 with Casey Kasem on the radio, back in the summer of 1981, the No. 1 spot was a real cliffhanger. As Kasem explained, the week before, Kim Carnes's synth-pop smash "Bette Davis Eyes" had ceded the top spot after about a month, to a song ... More >>

The Voice: All Of A Sudden, There Are Only Four Contestants Left

via Rickey​One thing about The Voice that bugs me: Way too many people getting sent home way too quickly. It's hard to develop that much of a connection to the contestants when half of them get axed once a week. So on this results show, people were, once again, just dropping like flies. Would ... More >>

The Voice: The Dominance Of Javier, The Rise Of Vicci

via RickeyVicci Martinez performs "Dog Days Are Over."​I wish Game of Thrones was still on. It isn't. But hey, The Voice is still on! On last week's show, it seemed pretty obvious which four singers would make it through and which ones wouldn't. On Team Cee Lo, for instance, it was absolutely ... More >>

'Burlesque' Was Just Turned Into A Drag Show

​This time with real drag queens. As I recently told you, the Cher/Christina Aguilera movie musical Burlesque inspired a drag spoof called Boylesque at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and there was actually not much difference.

This Week's Voice: Winter Arts Guide, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, Iron & Wine, the Dipset Reunion, and More

Nicki Minaj, the O. Henry of rap. Photo by Howard Huang.​In this week's Village Voice, we present our Winter Arts Guide, featuring Mikael Wood on Iron & Wine's new record, Aaron Hillis in conversation with British actress Lesley Manville, James Hannaham's winter books picks, Ben Davis on artis ... More >>

CHER-A-LOT

A pre-Burlesque parody

Live: Florence The Machine Bring Their Drumsticks/Magic Wands To Terminal 5

"OK, I might actually be a witch." Pics by Rob, more below.​Florence and the Machine Terminal 5 Monday, November 1 Better Outfits Than: The costumes everyone else wears on Halloween. I refuse to see any more Harry Potter movies unless Florence Welch joins the cast, traipsing around Hogwarts ... More >>

Best Of NYC: Worrying About Nicki Minaj

Poppin' it so crazy kooky

This Week, in the Voice: The Andrew Cuomo-Shelly Silver Donkey Show

​How many Democrats does it take to make a donkey show? In this week's cover story, Village Voice columnist Wayne Barrett takes account of the opposition New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo will actually have to face: Shelly Silver, and the rest of our state's old-school democrats.

Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>

Lady Gaga Approximately

You can't be a fabulous pop star like her, no matter what she tells you

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 12: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. OK, we all agree that Phil Collins is for wussies--but there's got to be some middle ground, right?

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Why Taylor Swift Ain't a Mess

​AOL's Popeater blog just asked me for quotes about why that pretty little Taylor Swift hasn't fallen into the "hot mess" trap that some other young stars, a la Lindsay/Britney/Xtina/Miley, have flirted with. My stunning reply: "Unlike so many young stars who've turned into walking train wre ... More >>

News Roundup: Le Tigre, Touch and Go, Kenny Rankin

-- Usually when a band announces an "extended break," it means they are too afraid to say they broke up. Not the case with Le Tigre. The electro-punk trio are back in the studio working with Christina Aguilera, though there isn't much more information available than that. The group has been quiet si ... More >>

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Remix King Spins Through His Rolodex

Mark Ronson's Version

Noise from the Front

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

The Unlikely Evolution of the Black Eyed Peas

Christina Aguilera Saves Hip-Hop

'Herbie Hancock: Possibilities'

2003

Pulling the White Strings

Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

Bye Hot Topic

R-E-S-P-E-C-T via Berlin synths, serious shit, Linda Perry

Hip-Hop Doppelgängers

Iced-out thug and boho griot keep it surreal on complementary CDs ready for iTunes

VMT&A's

Who and what went down at the MTV Video Awards

Horoscope

Okies From MMMBopee Remain Brothers for the Long Haul

Art

Close-up on the Financial District

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Grab Bags!

Made for Walkin'

New Boots and Panties

Dance This Mess Around

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Songcatchers

More, More, More

Sex Workers and Alcoholics Dominate Popular Music Once Again

Grammytanamera

Pour ¡Azúcar! on Me

Remembrance of Things Crass

The Fashion Magazines of September 2000

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Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

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