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Blogs
September 24, 2012
Talibam! Is Proud to Be the Sixth Grade, Amateur Version of LMFAO
For a feature story this week we sat down with "no school" rap duo Talibam! to talk about their groovy, ass-spanking debut, Puff Up the Volume. The snazzy production team of MC K-Wizzle and MC Moaty Molguz played every instrument on the work, sans samples. You can also get a taste of them via their ... More >>
Music
September 19, 2012
Fear of a Talibam! Planet
A Brooklyn duo brings the rap on Puff Up the Volume
Blogs
July 13, 2012
Geto Boys, Danny Brown, Bobcat Goldthwait Playing the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos
If the Internet meme machine has seemed a little slow this summer, it's probably because the Gathering of the Juggalos is less than a month away and Insane Clown Posse's industrious label, Psychopathic Records, has yet to release 2012's endlessly watchable Juggomercial. That's already more than a mo ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Q&A: Hot Sugar On Associative Music, Working With The Roots, And Sampling A Rat Who Played Keyboard
"There are two pigeons right there, so if I threw some bread and scared them off, I could turn that flutter sound into a Mannie Fresh snare roll." With that, Hot Sugar claps his hands and, as if on command, the two pigeons stop their strut through Tompkins Square Park to flap and flutter off. For a ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
May Day in New York City: A Quick Preview
Almost since their eviction from Zuccotti Park more than six months ago, Occupy Wall Street activists have been laying plans for a grand reemergence on May Day. Now the big day has arrived, We'll be running a live-blog throughout the day to keep you updated on developments throughout the city. But ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Q&A: Dan Deacon Talks Politics, Patriotism, And Occupy Wall Street
Dan Deacon is one of several big name musicians playing a free concert in Union Square tomorrow at 4 p.m. We spoke to him recently about why Occupy Wall Street resonates with him and why he considers himself a political artist. Village Voice: You're playing a free show in Union Square for May Day, ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2012
Clip Job: Tom Johnson's Original 1972 Voice Review Of Philip Glass's "Music in 12 Parts"
Throughout this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we dial back to longtime Vo ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Q&A: Das Racist's Dapwell On Tibetan Independence And Playing Carnegie Hall
Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this has led to an interview with Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) of Das Racist, who's performing Monday night at t ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 8, 2012
FOR THE LULZ
South African weirdo  rave-rappers come to Irving Plaza
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others
Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
NY Redistricting: Untangling Boundaries and Adding a New Hispanic Majority District
New Yorkers may want to ensure that they have fair representation in our fine democratic system, but sometimes it can be difficult to get jazzed up about the nitty-gritty of mapmaking. But new technology available this redistricting cycle is making it easier for advocates and academics to get involv ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year
Think of the orange car as a clue. The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
Congratulations To All The Music-Related Winners In The Voice's Best Of New York Awards
Das Racist, New York's Best Rap Moguls With A Business Plan. It's Best Of New York day! We've honored about 40 different music-related entities in our annual roundup of the best this city has to offer, from the Best Twitterer to the Best Fiddler to the Best Radio Show. Congratulations to all ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
Every Day I Write: Music-Related Events At This Year's Brooklyn Book Festival
At last year's Brooklyn Book Festival, Joshua Clover and Ta-Nehisi Coates argued the relative merits of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" and Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The year before, Ian MacKaye (on a panel with Thurston Moore and Lupe Fiasco) decried the overuse of the phrase "Goog ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Five Artists Who Should Cover Beyoncé At Some Point In The Near Future (And The Songs They Should Tackle)
In honor of Beyoncé's four-night run at Roseland, which continues with a sold-out show tonight, Sound of the City is celebrating the singer with a series of features. While she's a singular artist with her own way of handling tracks, it's fun to imagine what would happen if other artists tac ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)
So much to see, everywhere. The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 27, 2011
TALK SOUP
Mark Bazer chats with Das Racist
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Park Slope Anti-Rap Club Petition Flooded With Pro-Rap Signatures, Hilarious Jokes
You will by now be familiar with Prime 6, the soon-to-be Park Slope club and already the site of much controversy. Will the neighborhood descend into an orgy of Yo MTV Raps, "Henessey" [sic], and "bling-bling" on account of the club's plans to play rap music? Or will the forces of "indie" pre ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2011
Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, And Nicki Minaj Are Invading Long Island In March
If ever you wanted an excuse to truck out to Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, home to perennial NHL doormats the New York Islanders, this'd be it: Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour, costarring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Mixmaster Mike, and indomitable rapper accessory Travis Barker, is coming to town ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Pazz & Jop Stats: On Kanye West's Dominance, And What The Poll Would've Looked Like Without Him
"If there was any way you could confirm Kanye's inevitable victory early, that'd be a big help art-department-wise." So began Pazz & Jop editor Rob Harvilla's first note to me after voting closed in late December. Inevitability is not a statistical quality, but the magnitude of My Beautiful D ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2011
Reveling In Social Anxiety with Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend
The Suburbs and Contra contemplate little pink polos for you and me
Music
January 19, 2011
Odd Future, Wiz Khalifa, and the Internet-Rap Atomization
Lil B et al. build tiny kingdoms, and rule them
Blogs
January 13, 2011
The Juggalos Are Coming to Manhattan
photo by Nate "Igor" SmithThis dude will fit right in on 29th Street. You'll hear about this one way or another, so might as well be from us. Insane Clown Posse will headline their first Manhattan show in eons at the Gramercy Theater on Friday, April 29. Horrorcore harlequins Violent J and Shaggy 2 ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Here's Das Racist's "All Tan Everything," Earnestly Explained, Line By Line
Perhaps you are familiar with Rap Genius, a useful interactive site that aims to "discover the meaning of rap lyrics" by painstakingly explaining every single line of various popular tunes -- at press time Lil Wayne's "Hoes & Ladies" is exactly 13 percent explained, with Rick Ross' "Made Men" ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
Ridgewood Masonic Temple Has Gone Dry
2010 was not a particularly pleasant year for venue/police relations -- see Market Hotel or Santos Party House -- and 2011 unfortunately got off on the wrong foot immediately. Ridgewood Masonic Temple, the pretty great Bushwick spot that hosted shows last year by Sleigh Bells, Das Racist, Lightni ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.Dear fellow illumin ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Week in Review: Quarantine the Past
Later, dude. Photo by Rob HarvillaIn the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2010
Week in Review: Welcome to the Ultimate Vacation
Last one of these, we swear. Photo by Nate "Igor" SmithIn the week we got real cozy with some our subjects, Camille Dodero spent four days at the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back best friends with Tom Green, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope (who say it's happening again next year), the worl ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Bushwick DIY Show Space Party Expo Is Changing Its Name
SuperchiefThe Bushwick DIY show space Party Expo has had a wild year: after opening back in January with a booze-soaked benefit show featuring three of the rowdier bands in Brooklyn--Japanther, Death Set, Cerebral Ballzy--the space went more or less dry, in response to repeated raids from the ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
Photos: Maluca and Mad Decent Host a Block Party at the South Street Seaport
Maluca cools things down. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.Diplo's Mad Decent label has been taking its act on the road lately, throwing block parties in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. For Saturday's Seaport stop, the label teamed with local Pool Party auteurs Jelly NYC, bringi ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2010
Anamanaguchi Post Das Racist Remix, Promise To Release the Scott Pilgrim Video Game Soundtrack Somehow
Ryder RippsPoor ladyOne detail that didn't emerge during our long conversation with Brooklyn chiptune composers Anamanaguchi, regarding their wish-fulfilling project of scoring the Scott Pilgrim videogame, was whether or not the band planned to release the tracks separately. So we wrote guitarist/NE ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
"You Know Who I Feel Like? I Feel Like I'm Motherfucking Mel Gibson!": The Ten Greatest Things Lil B Said Saturday Night at Santos Party House
Lil B and Das Racist Santos Party House Saturday, July 24 Look, with apologies to Noz, we're not even going to pretend to fully understand the Lil B phenomenon. We like it. We just, while standing in a sold-out Santos Party House on a Saturday night, surrounded by hordes of incredibly enthus ... More >>
Music
June 1, 2010
Fraternizing With Brooklyn Rockers at the Manhattan Inn
A Greenpoint spot finds an particular clientele, for good and/or ill
Blogs
May 20, 2010
Tonight! LCD Soundsystem, Truman Peyote, The Proclaimers, Pearl Jam, Veronica Falls, Das Racist, And Rassle
Truman Peyote: "Yo, someone send this Polaroid to Gorilla vs. Bear, ASAP!"Starting tonight, LCD Soundystem begin their four-show, all-sold-out NYC stint -- without a ticket or the bankroll to deal with Stubhub et al, the closest you're getting to James Murphy's sardonic devastation is Zach Ba ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg
Norman WongTake a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Week in Review: Shut It Down
Scenes from MtyMx. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy told our own Michael Musto to "eat it" and Musto sensibly retaliated by telling him to "suck it" right back, we spent a good chunk of the week unpacking the twin out-of-state enterprises that were SXSW and M ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2010
A Salute to the LMFAO Goons, Who Almost But Did Not Quite Punch Mitt Romney In the Face
Despite being stalwart defenders of all things that could possibly be called "joke rap"--from Plastic Little to Das Racist to Donald Glover--we've always found it impossible to enjoy LMFAO, the two twerps responsible for the phrase "I'm in Miami, Bitch" entering the lexicon. Not OK. It's even wors ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
New Japanther MP3 (Download: "Spread So Thin"), Album (Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream), Member!
Seems like just yesterday Japanther were bringing out 2008's Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt, staging punk rock operas in the basement of PS122 with Penny Rimbaud from Crass, causing trouble in various Barnes and Nobles, and getting robbed on the A Train. But a new year brings glad tidings--a new r ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Week in Review: An Extra Side of Arrogance
R.I.P. Jay Reatard. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week our American Idol recapper made it all the way to the BBC for calling Victoria Beckham's face "too crazy", we also tossed epithets in the direction of the Times, in solidarity with M.I.A., and toward Esquire, who this week were forced to ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2009
Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts
Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
Deer Tick's Wild Year Ends With An Access Hollywood (?!) Co-Sign
So first the Providence proto-folk band picked up the unlikely endorsement of Brian Williams, kicking off the newsman's "BriTunes" program in a kind of deadpan surrealist interview. Then a cross-dressed John McCauley was a surprise guest on a St. Louis stage, randomly filling in for King Khan ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Live From The Paper Nightlife Awards, Which Honored Quite A Few Sketchy People (Musto Excepted, Of Course)
Puja PatelYou get older, and Amanda Lepore stays the same age.Last night's Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards joined the dismayingly long list of 2009 award-show travesties. The invite-only event went down at M2 (the old Mansion) to a packed audience of important downtown scenesters (that's the ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2009
Week in Review: I Dunno, I Don't Smoke
YYYs, by Rebecca Smeyne, of course.In the week in which death shrugged off the "summer of" appellation and kept right on killing people, we mourned the Death Set's Beau Velasco, a good man cut down too early, and Mr. Magic, whose work as a DJ in New York in the 1980s is an enormous wormhole d ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2009
Week in Review: ZOWEE
Photo of Ida Maria plus models by David Wentworth.In the week "I'mma Let You Finish" became the new "WAZZUP!" (see how well that one aged!), we leaned back, helpless as the Maxwell Man (our references are old today, huh?) as Kanye annihilated his own website and the hopes and dreams of a 19-y ... More >>
Books
September 15, 2009
Lit Seen: A Report From the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Gaitskill, Auster, Gessen—and Lupe Fiasco.
Blogs
August 20, 2009
Live: Islands and, Yes, Das Racist at Bell House
Talking trash at Siren 2008, courtesy of Idolator Islands/Das Racist Bell House Wednesday, August 19 Nick Diamonds emerges in a sparkly cape, which gets me to wondering if anyone other than James Brown will ever be capable of wearing a sparkly cape unironically, but with Islands this is the wrong ... More >>
Music
August 4, 2009
The Wesleyan Mafia: MGMT, Boy Crisis, Amazing Baby
How a Connecticut liberal arts school became the epicenter of surrealist Brooklyn pop
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