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This Month's Dueling East End Music Festivals: How To Tell Them Apart

Take a holiday with Vampire Weekend at the MTK Music Festival. And go shopping! After many stabs at hosting multi-day music festivals on Long Island (Field Day Fest, we knew you when), August 2011, at least for now, brings us two festivals happening on the East End: Escape To New York kicks off tomo ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Dre Day, Heavy Carnivale, Fantasy Love Affair, And Meat Beat Manifesto

​If you're looking for an early start to your night (and a whole lot of bass), head to the Bless Up! happy hour at Brooklyn's Halcyon. Every Thursday, the tiny record store that caters to lovers of techno, house, drum 'n' bass, and so forth hosts an in-store BYOB hang that features local DJs a ... 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?

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?

​In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>

Interview: Famed Bob Dylan Violinist Scarlet Rivera On The Chance NYC-Street Meeting That Changed Her Life

"Fortunately, I didn't have too much time to think about it." ​Scarlet Rivera may well be the most famous post-Band musician to play behind Bob Dylan. Two reasons: a violin that stands out more than, say, even the most stylistic bass or drum set, and one hell of a story. In February 1976, Pe ... More >>

Here's Our "Bob Dylan In New York City" Video Series, Complete And Uncut

​So we've spent the week revisiting old Greenwich Village Bob Dylan landmarks, thanks to the tireless work of SOTC writer/interviewer Rob Trucks and video guru Jeremy Krinsley; they've dropped by the Gaslight, Jones Street, Cafe Wha?, and the Washington Square Hotel, among various other Dylano ... More >>

Week In Review: Bob Dylan Is Waiting In A Van Outside Your House

Photo via Fred W. McDarrah, there from the start.​Yes, it was Dylan Week here at SOTC, a veritable orgy of Greenwich Village-scouring videos (with installments covering Cafe Wha?, Jones Street, the Gaslight, and Washington Square Hotel, or just enjoy the whole thing in one shot here), along wi ... More >>

Dylan In NYC, Day 4: Haunting The Washington Square Hotel And The 8th Street Bookshop

​For the last day of our video series covering New York City's Bob Dylan landmarks (which has already covered places like the Gaslight, Jones Street, and Cafe Wha?), we step away from places where he lived and posed and played, instead curling back to Washington Square to find the place he met ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archive: Nobody Likes Him In His Hometown

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories. Already we've seen a stage-crashing, fruit-throwing Mods vs. Rockers brawl at one of Dylan's early electric shows and a glowing review of the kinder, gentler Blo ... More >>

A Word From Todd Snider: What Would You Say If You Met Bob Dylan?

"i'm hoping if i ever meet bob dylan that i don't end up pinned under a garage door."​To continue our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we've asked folk singer/jovial Renaissance Man Todd Snider for his thoughts on Dylan's legacy, and his intimidating ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 3: Revisiting The Gaslight, The Village Gate, And More

Try and guess which famous song Bob wrote at this spot while you enjoy one of the six best margaritas in New York City. Pic by Trucks.​All this week we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in Manhattan; with Cafe Wha? and Jones Street behind us, day three of our video tou ... More >>

Bob Dylan's New York City: Why It Never Got Better Than 1961

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we're rolling out a host of essays, videos, old Voice clips, and assorted fanfare. Here, professor, author, and critic David Yaffe explains why 1961 was the year Dylan could never forget, and never duplicate. A simpler time ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 2: Revisiting Jones Street And 161 West 4th

Tic Tac Toe wasn't there at the time, no. Pic by Trucks.​As Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we move now to the second Jeremy Krinsley-helmed video in our week-long celebration. Today's tour stop features 161 West Fourth Street, the site of Dylan's fi ... More >>

Bob Dylan Arrived In New York City 50 Years Ago Today

Photo by the incomparable Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images​Bob Dylan's life is short on concrete facts and figures, very much by design, but the experts seem to agree on this one: The man born Robert Zimmerman arrived in NYC on January 24, 1961, exactly a half-century ago. He immediately started ... More >>

Bob Dylan In NYC: Revisiting Cafe Wha? And 94 MacDougal

Pic by Trucks.​Today marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City: To celebrate, each day this week we'll be taking you to a different landmark integral to the half-century-old Bob-in-NYC story, hosted by the most deadpan voice-over guy in history (that'd be me) and filme ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archives: Mods And Rockers Face Off In An Epic Orgy Of Stage-Crashing And Fruit-Throwing

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories about the man, the latter starting with this piece, first published on September 2, 1965, on the tension between Mods and Rockers at an early show during the divi ... More >>

Nicki Minaj, Louie Vega, Talib Kweli, And Bollywood Disco Headline Your (Christmas!) Week In Nightlife

​The holidays tend to bring a mass exodus from the city, but not everyone is leaving. In fact, some of our favorite DJs (and rappers) have chosen to come for a visit, giving us a full week of dance parties and awesome shows. We recommend that you take a night off from your holiday daze, grab a ... More >>

SUMMERTIME HUES

Two artists heat things up at Brooklynite Gallery

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve

NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at the airport, and stuck in train stations, we think those of you who are left in town should make the most of i ... More >>

'Que Bajo'

Yes In My Backyard: Download Jahdan Blakkamoore's "The General (Remix)" ft. Smif-N-Wessun's General Steele (SOTC Premiere)

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​A grimy mix of hip-hop, dancehall, electronic, dubstep,and pretty much anything else with chest-caving bass, Brooklyn's Jahdan Blakkamoore is a vocalist who's taking that pan-global headknock from n ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: December 17 through 23

SXSW Tip Sheet 2008, NYC Edition: DJ Rekha

SXSW Tip Sheet '08

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Indian Summer

The guru of Basement Bhangra celebrates 10 (or nine) years on the job

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Susan Sontag Hair Extensions, Anyone?

'Bust' and local artists rescue the ailing holiday craft fair

Mo' Money

Tsunami benefits and political parties, oh my! Stars shine.

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Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

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Ex-Shamen DJ Conjures Up a New Image

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