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  • Voice Choices

    March 28, 2012

    GLORY DAYS

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he's still got it

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    March 6, 2012

    A View From The Bench: Bruce Springsteen's Legacy On Wrecking Ball And Jimmy Fallon

    You don't expect a legacy artist to still be able to surprise you, to put out music 40 years later that is genuinely interesting and expansive and making a good honest attempt at being relevant. Not in the "Mick Jagger getting his young minions to curate the hottest young live music acts for the Sto ... More >>

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    February 12, 2012

    Live-Blogging The 2012 Grammys: Tributes, Tribulations, Skrillex, And The Return Of Adele

    via Cats Who Look Like SkrillexWill this cat win Best New Artist?​Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 54th Annual Grammys, coming to you live from a couch in Astoria. There are quite a few questions lurking around tonight's ceremony. Will Adele sweep the three major categories in wh ... More >>

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    February 9, 2012

    Oddsmaking: Should The Grammys Just Give The Album Of The Year Award To Adele Now?

    For the last twenty years, the award for Album of the Year, the biggest Grammy honor of them all, has tended to go to two types of people: young women and old men. Female solo artists under 30 (Lauryn Hill, Taylor Swift) and male veterans over 40 (Tony Bennett, U2) have dominated the category for tw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Radio Hits One: Flo Rida's Accidental Posthumous Tribute To Etta James

    The late Etta James remained an active recording artist right up to the end, releasing her final album, The Dreamer, just two months before her death on January 20. But she hadn't been on a Billboard singles chart since the '70s, when a cover of Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart" from her 1978 come ... More >>

  • Music

    January 18, 2012

    Beyonce, Nicki, and Merrill Get Optimistic

    Finding the bright side of 2011

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    December 20, 2011

    People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

    Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    The 10 Best Cover Songs Of 2011

    Tell your children not to walk Wye Oak's way. ​2011 was a year of looking back relentlessly, whether you were awash in Remember The '90s nostalgia or getting down at a New Kids On The Block show or watching Lady Gaga try to bring back the variety-hour era with her whacked-out Thanksgiving spec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    The Saddest Celebrity Deaths of 2011

    ​Who will you miss the most? *Elizabeth Taylor. A legend, a goddess, an activist. *Steve Jobs. Ditto, except for the goddess bit.

  • Music

    December 14, 2011

    Lady Gaga, Born Superstar

    Rewriting the pop record at Jingle Ball

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Playing Armchair A&R With The Singles From 2011's Biggest And Best Albums

    ​The two big formats that have long ruled over popular music are the single and the album. They have a great duality between them: the song and the collection; the sliver and the whole; the appetizer and the main course. Albums are the full-length format long considered pop music's ultimate a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Live: Two 7-Inch Singles That Should Come Out Of Last Night's Permanent Wave Covers Show

    Permanent Wave's Halloween Covers Show Death by Audio October 27, 2011 Better than: Scrambling to put together my own costume. Last night, Brooklyn's Permanent Wave collective took over Death by Audio with what they were billing as a "ridiculously fun night of cover sets by some of our favorite l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Will Bon Jovi Be The Band That Heals The Wounds Of 9/11 Once And For All?

    ​Probably not, but: "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in secret negotiations with HBO to produce a historic Bon Jovi concert in Central Park the night before the 10th anniversary of 9/11." That's from The Daily's gossip page today. So, you know, this show—which will reportedly be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2011

    Clarence Clemons, R.I.P.

    manu_gt500/Flickr​The Big Man has left the building. Clarence Clemons—Bruce Springsteen's main onstage foil for most of both men's careers, a tall, broad, black saxophonist whose unflappability contrasted physically and temperamentally with the small, feisty, white frontman to great comi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    The Not-Very-Secret Message Of Lady Gaga's "Edge Of Glory" Video

    ​Last night the video for Lady Gaga's retro-soaked, Clarence Clemons-assisted powerdance ballad "Edge Of Glory" premiered, and almost immediately after the simple, dance-heavy video aired on So You Think You Can Dance a loud cry of "WTF" went up from the Internet masses. There was head-scratch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    American Idol: It's Finally Over!

    Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Lady Gaga Drags The Boss To The Club On 'Hair'

    ​Is all you need for a "Bruce Springsteen-like song" these days a Clarence Clemons sax solo, some chimingly anthemic piano lines, and a big old "Be My Baby" drumbeat on the pre-outro breakdown? Lady Gaga sure hopes so; she's claiming that her latest Born This Way teaser track, "Hair," is direc ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2011

    CHIP SHOT

    Making beautiful music with vintage computers

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Lady Gaga To Turn Farmville Into A Parking Lot For Windowless Airbrushed Vans

    Beep beep, baby, you were born this way. ​ "On May 17th, Lady Gaga and Zynga will unveil GagaVille, a farm within FarmVille, which will showcase Lady Gaga's themes from the album, such as crystals, unicorns and motorcycles." --Warning: Your Facebook news feed is about to be taken over by an in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Lady Gaga Tries To Rescue The Big Sax Solo With "Edge Of Glory"

    ​The roll-out to the May 23 release of Lady Gaga's Born This Way, the record that will either save the full-length pop album as we know it or cause the whole music-biz enterprise to capsize underneath the weight of its lengthy tracklist and umlaut-flinging, continued with today's release of "E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Robert Christgau on the Mass Culture Spectacle of Michael Jackson in 1984

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    Live: Lou Reed at the Highline Ballroom's First Birthday Party

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>

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    October 16, 2007

    Springsteen in Concert

    Everyone should see the Boss once. Maybe just once.

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    September 25, 2007

    The Treading

    The Boss evokes those glory days but doesn't exactly push things forward

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