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This Week's Voice: It's the Real, Dance-Music Labels WT, Golf Channel, and L.I.E.S., globalFEST 2011, and More

It's the Real: Guess which one of these guys is Just Blaze. Photo by Noah Kalina.​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Westhoff profiles the white, Jewish comedy-rap duo It's the Real, Andy Beta rounds up an exciting new crop of outer-borough dance music labels (including WT, Golf Channel, and L. ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Diddy, R. Kelly, Justin Townes Earle, and More

Request "Ass on the Floor." Photo by Travis Shinn.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg chats with Diddy on the eve of the release of his long-awaited Last Train to Paris, Mikael Wood rounds up the current crop of 2010 quiet storm r&b (R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, Jamine Sullivan, Faith Evans, ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Marnie Stern, No Age, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Marnie Stern is not impressed. Photo by David Torch.​In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell profiles the awesome Marnie Stern, Dan Weiss hails No Age's graduation to Their Own Sound, and Tom Hull strings together another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide.

This Week's Voice: Camu Tao, Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, and More

Camu Tao: Doing good, even if he's not here to see it. Photo by TONE.​In this week's Village Voice, Phillip Mlynar remembers the departed underground rapper Camu Tao, Francis Davis reviews spectacular new works from Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor, Mikael Wood hangs with Bruno Mars out in Los A ... More >>

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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This Week in the Voice: An Immigrant's Heart

​In this week's Village Voice, a (literally) bleeding-heart story: Julia Amparo-Alvarado, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant who escaped her country's internal strife for a better life, isn't well. The figurative nature of enlarged and battered heart manifested in the physical form. And now, beca ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The-Dream, Miley Cyrus, the Great Dancehall Freeze Out, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Courtesy Def-Jam Records In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla marvels at the brilliant stupidity of r&b lothario The-Dream. Theon Weber examines the calculated rebellion of Miley Cyrus. Jesse Serwer reports on the Great Dancehall Freeze-Out of 2010, during which many of Jamaica's biggest act ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Summer Guide!

​In this week's Village Voice, we present our annual summer guide, featuring all sorts of seasonal picks for music, film, art, dance, theater, food, etc., not to mention Mikael Wood on the club-pop reboot of Kelis, Ben Davis on Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale, Jed Lipinski on Pulitzer winne ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

Sex and the City 2 Reviews: The 10 Best Slams

​If you're the kind of person who sometimes asks themselves why some people hate Sex and the City so much, you are either (A) not living in New York or (B) one of the imported creatures or various changes in New York City that Sex and the City is responsible for. Well, in the new movie, Carrie ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Hold Steady, Flying Lotus, Daddy Yankee In Space, and the Return of the Jazz Rent Party

Flying Lotus, yet another outstanding cultural accessory to smoking weed. Photo by Timothy Saccenti​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla writes the definitive piece on the Hold Steady's newest, Heaven Is Whenever, while Mike Powell explains the omnivorous electronic headphone music of L. ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R. Crumb on Genesis (The Band), Green Day's New Musical, Merle Haggard, The Tribeca Film Festival, Le Cage aux Folles, And More

​Lots of great stuff in this week's Village Voice, though it all kinda pales in comparison to the incomparable Ward Sutton, who imagines R. Crumb doing an illustrated history of Genesis -- that's Phil Collins' Genesis, not God's. Elsewhere in music, Harvilla checks out the tremendously profane ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Yeasayer, Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Hot Chip, Speak Onion, and More

Yeasayer' Chris Keating, looking sharp. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scott-Heron, Drew Hinshaw on the retu ... More >>

This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More

Spoon, doing less with less. Photo by Autumn De Wilde​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old head extremist drummer) Weasel Walter. In Boo ... More >>

10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

94 critics voted. The results are in.

This Week's Voice: Phish, G-Side, Phil Kline, I Slept With Joey Ramone, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, the Year's Best Graphic Novels, and More

Phil Kline gets into the holiday spirit. Photo by Tom Jarmuich​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla does the thing that probably everybody with a masochistic streak should probably do at least once, which is go to a Phish show at Madison Square Garden, while Brandon Soderberg meets up wi ... More >>

We See Invictus, The Lovely Bones, and A Single Man So You Don't Have To

Is there an Oscar at the bottom of that scrum? Oh no, there isn't.​Have you heard? It's Oscar Season! That couple of weeks at the end of the year when the studios put away all their horror and Gerard Butler films and instead release The Good Movies. And one after another, the good movies thi ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Mike Bloomberg has a deal with the city that keeps his mayoralty separate from the business he founded. But Bloomberg the company has a way of benefiting on local deals even without the help of Bloomberg the Mayor. You may have noticed, for instance, that the Yankees' cable network used to be ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Years ago, Ella Taylor interviewed Quentin Tarantino at his favorite Denny's. She returns to the scene to ask about Inglourious Basterds and his career. Tarantino is charmng, but if you want to be pissed at him, he does say things like, "A case can be made that I re-created the gangster fil ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun

This Week's Voice: Oneida, Fabolous, ZE Records, Japanese Reggaephiles, Funny People, and More

Lionel DeluyMore like an interpreter of hitmaking: Fabolous​ In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla hops the trans-Brooklyn express with Oneida, New York's finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies. Sean Fennessey on Fabolous's new Loso's Way: "A classic mixtape rapper with no cl ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Antibalas Offspring Fu-Arkist-Ra, Jovanotti, and No, Pollution,

Jackie SnowJovanotti In this week's Village Voice, Carol Cooper writes about Italian stadium pop star Jovanotti. Michael Downes introduces Antibalas offspring Fu-Arkist-Ra. Adam Ganderson digs into the toxic stew you ignore and finds No, Pollution, who are defiantly not on Twitter. In Film, Scot ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

The Deutsche Bank fire is Mayor Bloomberg's "defining debacle," says Wayne Barrett, "a failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency, revealed in one law enforcement report or news story after another." But with the help of a complaisant press, the Mayor's getting off the hook. Asked why ... More >>

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Photo by Cary Conover. What were the Obies like? We noticed mainly free drinks. James Hannaham saw a lot of winners of color ("Black is definitely the new black"), and many other details. List of laureates here; slideshow here. Michael Feingold starts his Obie meditation by talking about depart ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Summer Arts Guide, Bjork and Dirty Projectors, Dan Graham's Whitney Retro, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, Cam'ron, Lit Seen, Summer Hours, and More

In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Summer Arts Guide: Stacey Anderson on the constantly curious and enduringly romantic Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, Jed Lipinski on author Lawrence Osborne's delightfully vulgar Bangkok Days, Aaron Hillis in conversation with Surveillance director Jennif ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Animal Collective, Antony Hegarty, Fiction Inspired By Sonic Youth, Notorious, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Mike Powell on the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Animal Collective. Michael D. Ayers sits down with Antony Hegarty. Carol Cooper reports back from GlobalFest 2008. In Books, Zach Baron reviews Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth. In Film, ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Ninth Annual Village Voice Film Poll, the Third Annual Voice Jazz Poll, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, the Third Annual Voice Jazz Critics Poll: Essays, RIPs, and more. In Film, the Ninth Annual Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll. Plus Ella Taylor on Holocaust movies Good and Defiance, and Scott Foundas on Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life. In Books, Tom ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Dan Deacon, the Web Sheriff, Best Books of 2008, Che, and More

This Week's Voice: Chinese Democracy, Kanye West, New Column Lit Seen, Gus Van Sant's Milk, and More

This Week's Voice: The Killers, Disco Inferno, Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Terry Winters, and More

This Week's Voice: Chunklet, Gang Gang Dance, Changeling, Elizabeth Peyton, Crust, and More

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