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Greg Tate

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    N.E.R.D. ALERT

    Wonk out at the EMP conference

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    This Week In The Voice: Greg Tate On Marsha Ambrosius, Sadat X On Wine

    ​This week in the Village Voice: It's the comics issue! We're celebrating by having Ben Westhoff talk about wine with Sadat X, host of YouTube's premier hip-hop-and-wine show True Wine Connoisseurs, and giving Greg Tate the opportunity to dissect Marsha Ambrosius' slightly Stepfordized new alb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Ari Up Punky Reggae Birthday Party This Sunday Looks Sadly Spectacular

    Three-day weekend ahead for most of us, which is another reason to file over to Sunday night's spectacularly loaded tribute to too-soon departed Ari Up at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Even without the excuse, there's so much planned to honor the riot-grrrl ancestor on the eve of what would have ... More >>

  • Music

    December 8, 2010

    Let Soulja Boy Be Great

    A rap pariah seeks legitimacy on The DeAndre Way, and nearly gets it

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Greg Tate, Raquel Cepeda, And Other Best Music Writing 2010 Honorees Are Reading At SoHo's Housing Works Tonight

    ​This year's edition of Best Music Writing, guest-edited by Ann Powers, is so loaded with rock-crit superstars that it'll take two nights of readings to honor them all: The fun begins tonight at Housing Works in SoHo and features Sasha Frere-Jones, Alex Ross, Robert Christgau, Starrene Rhett, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Greenpoint Venue Coco66 Reopens Tonight With Live Music and Burnt Sugar

    The door at Coco66, circa October 26th. ​When last we checked in with Greenpoint's Coco66, the club had been raided in the midst of CMJ, shuttered for the crime of having 350 people crammed into a 75 person capacity venue. The venue first told us that "we were misinformed by the NYPD" and that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Congrats To Raquel Cepeda And Greg Tate For Making Best Music Writing 2010

    ​Da Capo's annual Best Music Writing series is as close as rock scribes get to the Oscars; we are happy to report that this year's edition, out November 9, features two Voice pieces: Greg Tate's Michael Jackson eulogy "The Man in Our Mirror" and Raquel Cepeda's "Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Behold The Musical Spoils Of The Brooklyn Book Festival

    ​Ah, the Brooklyn Book Festival, a five-year-old, free, all-day blowout of panels, readings, and extraordinary quasi-literary happenings, where you might see, say, Ian MacKaye complaining about people who say "just type it in" when they mean "Google it." (On a panel with Thurston Moore and Lup ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2010

    WELCOME TO BOOK-LYN

    A star-studded celebration of literature

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Michael Jackson Died A Year Ago Today

    ​Yep. June 25, 2009. A genuinely shocking and oddly unifying moment, when a couple decades of profound decline and ugliness were washed away instantly, leaving everyone with the powerful urge to hear "Billie Jean" again as soon as possible. (Or "Beat It." For me it was "Beat It.") Around here ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Full Undead Jazzfest Lineup Announced, Dismayingly Short On Actual Zombies

    Roswell Rudd has my favorite of the snapshots collected here​Early January's Winter Jazzfest, a two-night, multi-venue fete that lured thousands of folks into Greenwich Village to see dozens of downtown-jazz stalwarts (Voice poll darlings Vijay Iyer and Darcy James Argue were among the star at ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death

    What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2009

    Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2009

    Letters: July 15, 2009

    Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2009

    Letters: July 8, 2009

    Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Harlem, the world. Greg Tate. Michael Jackson. Bed-Stuy. Jean Grae. Michael Jackson. Gary, Indiana. Jessica Hopper. The Village Voice Michael Jackson Archives. We all know about the Albany Coup and how bad it makes everyone look. But who really benefited ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    This Week's Voice: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

    In this week's Village Voice, we remember Michael Jackson: Greg Tate on the man and his legacy, rapper Jean Grae on what Jackson meant to musicians everywhere, and Jessica Hopper, reporting live from Gary, Indiana the night Jackson died. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla describes the daffy sci-fi audacity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Stanley Crouch on the Cross-Cultural Continuity of Michael Jackson in 1987

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Stanley Crouch, writing in response to twin hit pieces on Jackson (by Greg Tate and Guy Trebay) published in the Voice two months prior. Man in the Mirror By Stanley Crouch November 17, 1987 Because Afro-Americans have presented chal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

    The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

  • Art

    June 3, 2009

    'Negritude' Encore!

    Revisiting a black art movement.

  • News

    February 19, 2008

    Letters

    Revisiting a black art movement.

  • Music

    December 25, 2007

    Skronk On

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • Specials

    September 11, 2007

    Letters

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • pazzandjop

    January 30, 2007

    Living With War

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • News

    January 9, 2007

    Letters

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • News

    March 7, 2006

    Letters

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • News

    January 31, 2006

    Letters

    A down year still yields plenty of power and exhilaration for adventurous jazzheads

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    I'm My Favorite Game

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • News

    December 27, 2005

    Letters

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Letters

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2005

    The Fugees: Reunited and Not Very Good

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • Specials

    May 10, 2005

    Letters

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • NYC Life

    February 8, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Back to the beat: Taking classes from hip-hop's old school

  • Specials

    November 30, 2004

    Letters

    Back to the beat: Taking classes from hip-hop's old school

  • Dance

    September 14, 2004

    Down Memory's Busy Street

    Festivals and games in 18th-century France and in the postmodern, multicultural village

  • Specials

    September 14, 2004

    Letters

    Festivals and games in 18th-century France and in the postmodern, multicultural village

  • Music

    June 1, 2004

    Hello Goodbye

    The ultimate jazz outsider confab comes to praise the dead

  • Music

    April 6, 2004

    Prolific Brooklynites Repeat Themselves For a Long Time Once Again

    The ultimate jazz outsider confab comes to praise the dead

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    On Da Corner Worldwide

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • Music

    November 4, 2003

    Brooklyn-Via-Egypt-Via-the-World Post-Dub DJ Gets Coy-Tricky and True-Gritty

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • Books

    July 29, 2003

    Deep Purple

    Race Matters in New Books on Prince and Hendrix

  • News

    February 4, 2003

    Nightbirds

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Specials

    January 28, 2003

    Letters

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Music

    November 5, 2002

    Music

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Specials

    June 11, 2002

    Letters

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Books

    April 2, 2002

    Generation Hiphop's Aesthetics

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Film

    June 12, 2001

    Barbarians at the Gate

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Specials

    January 11, 2000

    Letters

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Specials

    May 4, 1999

    Letters

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • News

    March 3, 1998

    Too Deep for Anger

    To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something

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