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Class is in Session with professor Questlove

Nine Poppy Picks From ?uestlove's Non-Rap Productions

?uestlove's stock is at an all-time high. His stint as house band-leader on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was recently complimented by a profile in The New Yorker; you might even peep his face on subway billboards around the city as he clocks up his Sonos endorsement money. Tonight he'll be spinning ... More >>

ROCK ’N’ REVOLT

The Afro-Punk festival storms Commodore Barry Park

Nas Takes Illmatic To Texas As South By Southwest Comes To An End

Before the 2012 edition of South By Southwest blows out of town, allow Village Voice Media's editors to share their favorite moments from the festival's fourth, and final, day.

Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom

via VH1​VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>

Erykah Badu (DJ Set)

Rock The Bells NYC Lineup Updated; Erykah Badu To Perform Baduizm

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the New York City stop of the Rock The Bells Festival, which will take place on September 3 at Governors Island. The lineup for the all-star hip-hop concert, during which a slew of heavyweights (Nas, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Raekwon & Ghostface) will revisit album ... More >>

Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading

​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

Ms. Lauryn Hill And Nas To Headline Rock The Bells Festival, Which Hits NYC In September

​The Rock The Bells festival returns to the New York area with a Sept. 2 date at Governor's Island. This year's installment is headed up by a slew of full-album sets that includes run-throughs of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Illmatic (which Nas will perform with AZ, Pete Rock and DJ Premie ... More >>

The Top 10 NSFW Music Videos of 2010

​ One major downside to 2010: There's a pretty good chance you lost your job. The good news, though, is that the concept of NSFW no longer applies, and so today, while your former co-workers are stuck in their cubicles, bored to death and forced to pass around OK Go's latest YouTube meme, you ... More >>

'Good Peoples Presents Hudson Mohawke, Rustie & Mike Slott'

Week In Review: Aw Dude, You Missed It

Unfortunately, this just isn't fun anymore. Pic by Sam Horine.​It's Friday the 13th, and if you're as superstitious as we are here at SOTC, you'll stay away from the outside world altogether. Lucky for you, though, we've put together a pretty awesome rundown of dance parties to visit this week ... More >>

Watch Erykah Badu and Rick Ross Assassinate Someone in the "Window Seat Part II/Turn Me Away (Get MuNNy)" Video

Is there an odder couple in rap currently than Miami fantasist Rick Ross and the neo-soul nudist Erykah Badu? Their work together so far--"Maybach Music III," off Ross's Teflon Don, and this new "Window Seat" remix--has zeroed in on perhaps the one thing these two disparate characters have in comm ... More >>

The Hip-Hop/Jazz Crossover Strategy Guide

Revive Da Live brings in both crowds . . . very, very carefully

Week in Review: Sign of Victory

One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>

Memorializing the Constant Lateness of Erykah Badu, Via Twitter

Take it from a man who would know--this might take awhile. Erykah Badu does many things well--otherwordly r&b; superlative hat-wearing; even reenacting JFK's assassination in the nude. She's a never less than incendiary live performer. But one thing Badu is not good at is showing up on time. To an ... More >>

An Insidious Gang Of Cabbage Patch Kid-Based Drug Smugglers Is Terrorizing Governors Island

Full of heroin​Let it be known the Beach at Governors Island website's official FAQ section, as far as rock-concert venue FAQ's go, is surprisingly enjoyable reading, though it doesn't exactly have great things to say about humanity. Of particular interest is the rapid-fire list of shit you ca ... More >>

Electric Boogie

The silver screen gets a brave new soundtrack

And So It Came To Pass That Erykah Badu Bought All the Publicity in the World For Five Hundred Dollars

​She ran naked through the streets, enacted some complicated restaging of the JFK assassination, then Tweeted about it. Matt & Kim were duly paid homage to, then interviewed, then paid homage to again. Law enforcement in Dallas put out an APB for witnesses who would come forward and testify to ... More >>

This Week's Voice: David Simon's Treme, Erykah Badu, Usher, High Places, Jules Feiffer, Leaves of Grass, and More

New Orleans reborn. Illustration by Goni Montes.​In this week's Village Voice, Larry Blumenfeld writes our cover story on David Simon's Treme and how the show can get New Orleans right, Rob Harvilla reviews Erykah Badu's newest, Rich Juzwiak takes on Usher, and Vijith Assar profiles the ex-NY ... More >>

Erykah Badu, In Love

New Amerykah Part Two could use more menace and less mushiness

Damon Dash's Under 100 Lives! Erykah Badu Was There Friday, Before Playing Good Units on Saturday

Under 100, still the most secret and ridiculous rock club in NYC. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​Alright. Let the record show that for once in our miserable, venue-destroying lives, we kept a secret show secret, sending house photographer Rebecca Smeyne to Friday's hush-hush Under 100-hosted prequel ... More >>

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 >>

Hudson Mohawke+Andrew Lustman

Photos: Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae at Governors Island Beach

​ Few things we love here more than Janelle Monae. Unfortunately our resident "space cowgirl" correspondent had his own event to attend, so Rebecca Smeyne went in his place to photograph the r&b superstar open for Erykah Badu, also no slouch to the strange-while-riveting live performer depart ... More >>

SXSW: Kanye West "Surprise" Show at the Fader Fort

JensenKanye West with Common at the Fader FortBackstage at the Fader Fort, half of the Voice team escaped to the Shockhound.com/Hot Topic trailer, hiding out from Kanye West's security, who swept through the backstage area at 7:25 and removed everyone without an all-access pass. When the coast was c ... 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 >>

Janelle, Erykah, and Santogold Are the Afro-Techno Revolution

While Beyoncé just struggles to keep up

Pazz & Jop 2008: TV on the Radio Is #1; So Is M.I.A.

The 36th Annual Village Voice Critics' Poll, Pazz & Jop, has finally arrived, bringing with it the revenge of TV on the Radio (on Bob Dylan, among others) and of M.I.A. (on our insufficiently reverent 2007 singles poll). Read Andy Beta on TV on the Radio, Rob Harvilla on M.I.A., Estelle, and Beyo ... More >>

Two Hours of Inspired Weirdness With Erykah Badu

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THINGS FALL APART

Two veteran rap acts take their next best shot

The Quarterly Report: Best Albums of 2008 Thus Far

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 28

Erykah Badu: The Plebeian, Militant Homegirl

No songs per se, but plenty of deep grooves on Mama Gun's latest

Common's Simple Denominator

His avant instincts dulled, the Man of the People gives the people what they want

Still Tryin'

Macy Gray soldiers on where her formerly mighty neo-soul cohorts fear to tread

Things I Learned Watching Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Download: Jay Dee, 1974-2006

Gift of Gab

German producer drops echoes, crazy voices, bowling balls

Dress You Up

Woman of Influence

Seducing, sermonizing, showing off her best instrument

Letters

Music

How to Be Good

Sensitive-Guy MC Consults Navel, God, Erykah

Two Soul Singers

Urban Organics

Erykah in Stanklove

Fathership Connection

Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common