Ian MacKaye

Ad-Rock Hated "Faggots" and Other Beastie Boys Revelations Gleaned From Our Archives

Since October of 1955, when Norman Mailer and co. founded The Village Voice as a weekly paper for bros of the leftist pinko persuasion, we've done our dutiful best to preserve every word ever printed in our pages, tucking them away in our vast archival editorial library (pictured above). This summer ... More >>

Girls Against Boys Version 2.0

A '90s underground It-Band makes peace

The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Loved By Iggy Pop, Hated By Jim Morrison: The Life and Times of Danny Fields

From pulling needles full of dope out of Iggy Pop's arm just before showtime and helping turn Jim Morrison into a sex symbol (becoming Morrison's sworn enemy in the process), to unleashing the Ramones upon the world and later becoming one of the globe's leading music journalists, Danny Fields has be ... More >>

Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge hardcore rascals in D.C. (she felt more at home with the stoners); she scurried off to New York City at ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of Westchester Punk

Anarchy in the 914

Q&A: Scarcity Of Tanks' Matthew Wascovich On Not Being A Poet, Cleveland Punk, SST Records, And Releasing Two New Albums On The Same Day

Bottomless songwriting pit machinist Bob Pollard has some friendly in-state competition from fellow Ohio native and Scarcity Of Tanks guru Matthew Wascovich. The Clevo skater/sporto/wordsmith/punk dude—the lone constant in SOT's revolving universe of all-star avant-rock beasts—is touting ... More >>

Cash In Now, Honey: The 11 Best Uses Of Music In Commercials This Year

We are adidas' friends. You'll never be shoeless again. ​Right now in a record store (probably in Seattle or maybe in Austin), two people are flipping through used vinyl and talking about music. Inevitably, one of them will turn to the other, pick up a record and accuse that musician or band o ... More >>

Q&A: Joe Lally On Moving To Rome, Wanting To Be In The Melvins And How Being In Fugazi Destroyed His Hearing

Antonia Tricarico​Mass hysteria took over the music web-o-sphere when Pitchfork blew its wad on the "breaking news" that Ian MacKaye revealed Fugazi might emerge from their self-imposed exile and "reunite one day." That's not to imply the members of D.C.'s most storied art-punk crew have been ... More >>

Information Wants to Be Free, Etc., in Barbershop Punk

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 >>

Live: The Dismemberment Plan Do The Standing Still (And Flail Around A Lot) At Webster Hall

Travis Morrison, in a rare break from his stand-up-comedy routine. Pics by Jena Cumbo.​The Dismemberment Plan Webster Hall Saturday, January 29 Better Than: Back when they played shows with Death Cab for Cutie as the "Death and Dismemberment" tour. Travis Morrison, frontman for freshly reun ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

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 >>

DETROIT ROCK CITY

Two tributes to ’80s Michigan hardcore

The Perils Of DIY Touring: There Are Too Many Goddamn Bands

Ian MacKaye's the Evens at a not exactly Bowery Ballroom-like venue. (Nice lamps.) Excellent,though somewhat dismaying, piece in the Washington City Paper about the increasingly overcrowded and booking-agent-besotted DIY touring circuit, which makes it tough for young bands to get gigs anywhere. T ... More >>

Q&A: Henry Rollins Talks With Ex-MTV-VJ Iann Robinson About Why Black Flag Won't Reunite and Why He'd Rather Be 49 Than 20

Musician/actor/talker/personality Henry Rollins has been in touch Iann Robinson for years, long before Robinson's days as the MTV VJ Horatio Sanz once spoofed on Saturday Night Live. Since Henry Rollins headlines Irving Plaza tonight and tomorrow, we asked Robinson to get his old acquaintance on the ... More >>

The Great Chuck Biscuits Death Hoax of Aught Nine

The three on the right: Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and Chuck Biscuits, elusive even in Black Flag. Photo by Dave Markey.​As harsh as 2009 has been for celebrity deaths, it's been an even harsher year for Internet-based fake celebrity deaths. As of June, the real-to-fake death ratio has approach ... More >>

Jeff Nelson's Own Personal First Minor Threat EP: Pay No More Than $1,125.00

Jeff Nelson, the drummer for Minor Threat and co-founder, with Ian MacKaye, of Dischord records, is offloading some junk, apparently. To wit, an "Absolutely MINT condition copy of 1st pressing of Minor Threat's 1st 7" EP, released in June 1981. Dischord No. 3. Only 1,000 copies made of 1st pressing ... More >>

Grammys Fawn over Coldplay and Plant/Krauss, Set Race Relations Back 20 Years

Good for you. As any self-respecting Grammy live blog will have told you by now, the highlight of last night's occasionally lively fiasco was undoubtedly the "Rap Pack" black-and-white "Swagga Like Us" blowout, ostensibly starring Jay-Z/Kanye/Wayne/T.I. but dominated by a stupendously pregnant M ... More >>

Bad Brains to Be Embalmed Once More On Film

Given that, pace Obama, we're already in a rearguard fight against the insanely ubiquitous culture of our elders--the Rolling Stones, marijuana, VW buses--it's more than a bit demoralizing to see our cultural heroes aspire to the same plinth status. Above is a trailer for Bad Brains: The Movie, wh ... More >>

Brooklyn Book Festival: Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Price Triumphant

Brooklyn Book Fest: from Joan Didion to Gossip Girl

Youse Got Literature at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Back for its third year, the ever-growing book fest aims for some international flair

Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Jonathan Lethem Head Up Brooklyn Book Festival

READ HERE OFTEN?

The perfect place to meet that special bibliophile

Everyone Loves Wolf Parade

Provincializm: Vic Chesnutt's North Star Deserter

Punk'd

From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

Goodbye to Punk Planet

DC Punks Age Gracefully

Out of Step, Out of Time

Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore

Status Ain't Hood's Top Five Live Shows of 2005

The Prince of Alt-Porn

Director Eon McKai leads a new generation of smut makers

Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Bun B Make Year's Most Disappointing Rap Song

Indie Bedwetter Dweebs Maybe Not So Bad

'We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen'

La Villa Strangiato

Ayn Rand's favorite Canuck power-prog trio colonizes Brazil

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Throw Your Hands in the Air

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2001

The Lit Parade

Heard It on the X

There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

DIY or Die

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring