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January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop 2011: Seth Colter Walls On Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, And Voting From The Fringe
To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. We'll start off the series with Seth Colter Walls of New York City, who has a constant itch to do the deep dive and find the single-voter albums out there. Find his bal ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
Music
October 12, 2011
Chuck Eddy Gets Collected
The Devil's advocate speaks in Rock And Roll Always Forgets
Blogs
October 12, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Portishead And Deadmau5 Get Screened, Neon Marshmallow Arrives In New York, And The Collected Chuck Eddy
In this week's Village Voice, out now: I look at how Portishead and Deadmau5 took back the screen in their live settings; Christopher R. Weingarten talks to the folks behind the new-to-NYC experimental-music fest Neon Marshmallow; and Michael Hoinski chats with the great Chuck Eddy on the occ ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Zomby Ascends, Horse Meat Disco Celebrates, Eric Church And Randy Montana Commiserate
Kate GarnerIn this week's Village Voice, available now: Michaelangelo Matos checks in on the always-ahead-of-the-curve British dance producer Zomby, Andy Beta talks to the folks running the British "queer party for everyone" Horse Meat Disco about their imminent New York dates, and Chuck Eddy ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Local Writer Says Farewell
In 2005, the Village Voice's music editor, Chuck Eddy, its web editor, Nick Catucci, and their intern, Nick Sylvester, had the novel idea that the Voice's music section might become something more than a once a week proposition. The eventual result of this idea was something called Riff Raff, ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.comWith sincere apologies to Chuck Eddy, my two favorite records of the year also produced my two favorite singles: funny how that happens. And though ten songs increasingly feels like about forty too few, especially when Dr. Luke is working, ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island
All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
This Week's Voice: Jamey Johnson, Superchunk, Brandon Flowers, the Walkmen, and More
Jamey Johnson: Bon Iver, only good! Photo by James Minchin.In this week's Village Voice, Chuck Eddy on the charms of schizophrenic stoner country guy Jamey Johnson, Jessica Hopper reviews Superchunk's excellent new Majesty Shredding, Ryan Dombal talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, an ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
How Kanye West's Twitter Killed Music Magazines
Today, Slate posts "an all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with the would-be king of hip-hop," Kanye West. The conceit is as follows: though the rapper stopped giving many interviews in the aftermath of his mother's death, in 2007, he's lately been on "a new-media-heavy promo offensiv ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
This Week in the Voice: Siren Fest and The Fake Retirement of Ted Leo
Every summer, Coney Island gets taken over for a Saturday by a mass of incredible music, and the mass of fans who hop on the F or the Q to get to one of the furthest edges of Brooklyn to hear them. The best part? It's free, and it's ours: The Siren Fest is here again. This year's headliner? Mod-r ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
This Week's Voice: M.I.A., Ted Leo, Marissa Paternoster, Early Indie Reissues, and More
Ted Leo, blowing a vuvuzela. Photo by Mark Hewko.In this week's Village Voice, we get ready for Siren Festival by talking to Ted Leo about the rumors of his impending retirement (not true!), while Rob Harvilla attempts to sort through former Siren headliner M.I.A.'s new Maya, Chuck Eddy round ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
This Week's Voice: The National, Ariel Pink, Battle of the Memphis Rap Crews, Colt Ford, and More
In this week's Village Voice, Michael D. Ayers writes our cover story on the National, who make the awkward look cool and despair sound hilarious. Elsewhere, Mike Powell hangs out with creepy chillwave godfather Ariel Pink, Ben Westhoff on the massively divergent fates of Memphis rap crews Th ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Presenting The Hilarious Music-Related April Fool's Joke Probability Index
Tough day on the Internet: Everyone is both probably lying to you and totally hilarious. As we grapple with this whole Fucked Up getting sued thing, let us examine today's other remarkable music-biz announcements and rate them on a) believability and b) amusement.
Blogs
January 20, 2010
This Week in the Voice
Pazz & Jop needs no introduction. The main page, the albums, the singles, the ballots, and essays by Sean Fennessey, Mike Powell, Rich Juzwiak, Chuck Eddy, Zach Baron, Maura Johnston, Rob Harvilla, Mikael Wood, Clover Hope, and Das Racist. The celebrity sudoku known as blind items is a mena ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
Pazz & Jop Bonus #1: The Wonderful World Of Needle
So Pazz & Jop 2009 is finally up, with lots of fine essays (dig Chuck Eddy's especially), comments, and statistical ephemera to sift through. Congratulations are in order to Jay-Z, Animal Collective, and Voice house stats guru/savior Glenn McDonald, because without him none of this would've b ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
This Week's Voice: Pazz & Jop 2009!
In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
This Week's Voice: 50 Cent's The 50th Law, Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Andy Williams Memoir, and More
Who moved my cheese? Illustration by Shane Harrison.In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reads 50 Cent's surreally insightful self-help book, The 50th Law: "This book is actually kind of sad, in the bleakness of its cutthroat, shoot-nine-times-or-be-shot-nine-times worldview. Trust no o ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
Michael Buble Knocks Paramore Clear Out of the Top 10
This week in completely joyless chart news: International cipher Michael Buble sells a whopping 132,000 copies in three days to knock Barbra Streisand out of the number one spot; Kiss, whose Walmart-exclusive Sonic Bomb sold 108K, take #2; and Toby Keith's American Ride (not to be confused wi ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Mark Farese "stole $150 from his grandfather to buy his first pair" of premium athletic shoes, specializing in the Air Force 1 variety. Now he has 1,400 pairs, and Nike sends him advance copies of new models. He is the Mayor of the fascinating world of sneakerdom, where pre-teens and grown-up ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
A Chat with Michael Jackson's Attorney, and a Beyond-Devastating Missive from Lisa Marie
At this point we're drowning in both Michael Jackson eulogies and carefully curated roundups of Michael Jackson eulogies, and while there's plenty of that to go around -- here are excellent dispatches from Voice sister papers in St. Louis and Nashville, just for starters -- the best stuff I've r ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up
The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
Nico Muhly Takes on the Times, the Word "Precious," and, Uh, Us
Brooklyn Vegan has kindly noted Composer to the Indie Stars Nico Muhly's spirited and pretty much instantaneous riposte to the New York Times' "weirdly mean-spirited" review of late May's Grizzly Bear show. (Ben Ratliff's closing thought: "I left Town Hall grinding my teeth.") Nico, a major player o ... More >>
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May 13, 2009
Letters: May 13
Brooklyn Vegan has kindly noted Composer to the Indie Stars Nico Muhly's spirited and pretty much instantaneous riposte to the New York Times' "weirdly mean-spirited" review of late May's Grizzly Bear show. (Ben Ratliff's closing thought: "I left Town Hall grinding my teeth.") Nico, a major player o ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Follow Up: This Week in the Voice
We had a little trouble getting the Voice online this week, and we hope you didn't miss any of the great stuff in the issue. Like our former music editor Chuck Eddy's consideration of some contemporary male country singers and their new style of shit-kicking. Or J. Hoberman's review of Observe an ... More >>
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August 21, 2008
Manny Farber, According to Chuck Eddy
We had a little trouble getting the Voice online this week, and we hope you didn't miss any of the great stuff in the issue. Like our former music editor Chuck Eddy's consideration of some contemporary male country singers and their new style of shit-kicking. Or J. Hoberman's review of Observe an ... More >>
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January 30, 2007
You Can't Compete With Babes
A few unkind words for us with regards to Pazz & Jop's patriarch
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July 6, 2006
The Quarterly Report: The Summer's Best Singles
A few unkind words for us with regards to Pazz & Jop's patriarch
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January 24, 2006
Earphone Heads
A few unkind words for us with regards to Pazz & Jop's patriarch
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January 24, 2006
Story of the Hurricane
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
NYC Life
December 20, 2005
So Over
2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.
Specials
June 21, 2005
Letters
2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.
Specials
July 13, 2004
Letters
2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.
Music
May 11, 2004
Suitably Hep
Tipsy businessmen toast conflicted British cabaret star
Music
March 16, 2004
Sludge in the '70s
Rotted remains of obscure Middle American metal also-rans dug up, and oh the stench
Music
December 16, 2003
Roll Credits
And a thank-you to my wife, my daughter, and my mom
Music
September 30, 2003
Love and Crunk
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
NYC Life
August 26, 2003
Fancy Feast
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
NYC Life
August 19, 2003
Listings
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
Specials
January 14, 2003
Letters
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
Music
March 19, 2002
Room for the Occasion
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Books
May 29, 2001
Heavy Mental
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Music
May 22, 2001
Girls Don’t Sigh
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
NYC Life
April 10, 2001
Listings
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
NYC Life
February 27, 2001
Listings
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Specials
July 18, 2000
Letters
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Books
May 4, 1999
Voice Authors
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Specials
November 17, 1998
Letters
Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps
Music
November 3, 1998
The Iceman Cometh Back
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