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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 >>

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Music

Move Over, Evita! Imelda, The Musical Is Coming

And it's by the guy who wrote "Psycho Killer"! Here's the official description of Here Lies Love, coming to the Public next April: "Within a throbbing dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim desconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos and her meteoric rise ... More >>

Q&A: Big Day Coming Author Jesse Jarnow Gets Personal With Yo La Tengo

WFMU DJ, music journalist and frequent Voice contributor Jesse Jarnow has just released Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham), a voluminous tome that dissects Hoboken's finest Amerindie pioneers' journey from their childhood beginnings all the way to their current place as ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 18-24, 2012

Foreign Policy Weighs in on the World's Stupidest Food Fads

​Foreign Policy has just published its very first food issue. As you might expect from a publication better known for its discussions of AIDS in South Africa and the effect on economic stagnation upon democracy, it doesn't feature pretty pictures of unsmiling Bay Area artisans or Proustian rec ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Live: Tom Tom Club Do Their Pee-Wee's Playhouse Thing At Irving Plaza

Try and guess the DJ's name. Pics by Rob, more below.​Tom Tom Club/Matthew Dear Irving Plaza Wednesday, January 12 Better than: A Heads reunion. Tina Weymouth: "A lot of you are too young to know this show, but it feels like Romper Room. "Chris Frantz: "This song is about all the cute little ... More >>

THE BEST THING

A gathering of Doveman and pals

LOVE THEM BACK

Avant-garde auteur keeps the band together

The Choreography Carnival -- Soloists and Companies Entice You to Fall for Dance

Yo La Tengo Doing Their Maxwell's Hannukah Shows Again

​It just wasn't the same without them. Yo La Tengo's annual epic run of Hannukah-themed shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken was sorely missed last year, the first time they'd opted out since 2001, robbing us all of a crucial winter tradition, stuffed with holiday cheer and the inevitable super-secre ... More >>

A New Report Offers New Visions for New York's Street Fairs

A plague of souvlaki and tube socks.​The folks at Terroir aren't the only ones who have noticed that summer street fairs tend to suck. The Center for an Urban Future has just released "New Visions for New York Street Fairs," a report designed to "kick off a discussion about how these staples o ... More >>

Live: Norah Jones Survives A Downpour, Inaugurates Celebrate Brooklyn! 2010 At Prospect Park

She's up there somewhere. Pic from @cvbryant​Norah Jones Prospect Park Bandshell Wednesday, June 9 "Let's go get wet!" announces Norah Jones, accepting some sort of award during the mercifully be-tented Celebrate Brooklyn! pre-show gala minutes before taking the Prospect Park Bandshell stage ... More >>

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 >>

Local Natives

This Week's Voice: MGMT, Paul Motian, Here Lies Love, Fassbinder's World on a Wire, and More

MGMT. You're wearing two different socks, dude. Photo by Josh Cheuse​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on the gleeful self-sabotage of MGMT, Francis Davis looks back on the work of jazz's Paul Motian, and Theon Weber reviews David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love tribute to Imel ... More >>

Leaving Planet Earth With David Byrne at Narciso Rodriguez; Fur Explosion At Dennis Basso

​Cuban designer Narciso Rodriguez is preparing for the future--as if he knows the apocalypse is just around the corner and is attempting to send us a message, don't fret, apparently he can save us. We should have known by the dramatic drumming soundtrack that Rodriguez' Fall Collection show T ... More >>

Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

CALLING PLANET EARTH

N.A.S.A. touch down at Bowery Ballroom

ABES IN JOYLAND

Artist Dan Graham approves  Abe Vigoda

Tonight! Chat With Iggy Pop or Weep With Camera Obscura

Besides jerking around with Iggy Pop on Letterman, newly sober dance-music goof Fatboy Slim is working on a concept album with David Byrne about Filipino sovereign Imelda Marcos, based on the pair's 2006 stage production Here Lies Love. He plays at Terminal 5. Meanwhile, Iggy chats with the New Yo ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's The Eternal, Coppola's Tetro, Sigmar Polke, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

Vincent Gallo in Tetro In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla testifies to the alternating agony and ecstasy of Brooklyn's own art-rock lobsters, the Dirty Projectors. Cristina Black talks with downtown ingenue Regina Spektor. Dan Weiss on Sonic Youth's newest, The Eternal. Don ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Tonight! Amadou & Mariam, Busdriver, and the Beginning of the Week-Long Hold Steady Onslaught

Amadou & Mariam are superstars everywhere else on the planet -- in 2006, the blind Malian couple co-wrote the official World Cup anthem. But transplant the pair to Manhattan and they can't even fill up Webster Hall... yet. Let's make it happen. The Hold Steady, however, have already sold out ever ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Afrobeat, Modernist Jazz, and the Steadily Improving Amanda Palmer

The Daily News reports that tonight's Femi Kuti gig has been cancelled. But if you can't delay your fix, the Knitting Factory's New York AfroBeat Festival will otherwise continue as planned. Catch clarinetist Oran Etkin's free-form jazz at the early show, or Wunmigirl's African breakbeats late. D ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Whale-Watching With Björk

A fleeting glimpse of infinity at a surreal, 'star'-studded benefit show

David Byrne Praised as Both a Fader Icon and the 15th Sexiest Frontman in Rock 'n' Roll History

Our old friend David Byrne, still prancing about multiple continents in support of his splendid Brian Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is also being praised for various past accomplishments. First comes the new Fader issue, in which he is given the same Icon treatment gra ... More >>

The Bonnaroo 2009 Lineup's Secret Weapon

If you're real lucky maybe she'll rip off her afro wig mid-song and slam it down on the stage. I myself have never braved the differently hygienic masses at Bonnaroo, Tennessee's annual long-weekend hippie/hipster soiree. But the announcement of this year's lineup -- held June 11-14 in Manchester, ... More >>

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

BLACK MAGICK IN SCIENCE

Alchemy becomes TV on the Radio

"Looking at Music" at MoMA

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Once in a Lifetime

David Byrne asks you to make the music

Paul Simon at BAM: Will and Grace

The crossover king of Queens and a global armada make a triumphant return trip to Africa

Some Thunder, But Too Much Lightning

Fancy overproduction nearly sinks blog-rock's gawky golden boys

Dancing on the Edge

Daredevil choreography ups the ante for Ailey's superpeople

A Brazilian Dancefloor Sensation, Injected With NYC Artiness, Assaults Your Hips

In Sight of Heaven

Free dancing under the night sky

The Best Music Movies Ever

Wolf Parade: The Ultimate Indie Band of 2005?

New New Wavers So Exuberant You Could Call Them Ric Five

We Got A Lot

Kvelling over damn near a dozen meanings of life, their average length close to an hour

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