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March 8, 2012
Six Songs That Can Almost Make You Feel Like You're Actually Outside On A Nice Day Like Today
Have you been outside yet today? It's so nice! Sunny, breezy, just brushing 70 degrees—sure, the factors leading to this pleasantness are probably not all that great, and apparently rain's going to come and wash away this pre-Daylight Savings Time reprieve pretty soon (note graphic at left), b ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Adele And M.I.A. Bring Back The Middle Finger!
At the Super Bowl Half Time show, famously enough, M.I.A. flipped the bird and uttered an "expletive," unbeknownst to star Madonna, who later expressed dismay that such a juvenile act disrupted the feeling of love and peace that had taken over the stadium. This from the woman who said "Fuck" ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011
We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 30, 2011
'Mr. Saturday Night' w/ Mark E
We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records
Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Kelly Clarkson's Seven Best Cover Songs
Bryan HorowitzIn this week's Voice I talked about the new album by Kelly Clarkson, inaugural American Idol and the pop star who seems most likely to be a rip-roaring time at a coffee klatsch/Tupperware party/gathering of pals. The show that put her on the map, of course, is known for putting ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Elusive Superstar Duet (Or Three-Way)
In last week's breakdown of Lil Wayne's chart ubiquity, I noted that while Lady Gaga's Born This Way and its singles seemed to be everywhere, she hasn't staked out much additional Billboard territory with collaborations. Her only charting collab of late is "3-Way (The Golden Rule)," a little ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Coming To The Local Sheds This Summer: Lots Of "Heritage Acts" And Country Stars (And Yeasayer)
Yeasayer. Here's hoping things are a bit warmer than this for their shows this summer. Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Janet Jackson Has Some Butch Competition
Butch Cordora is a Philadelphia-based TV personality who famously did a calendar called Straight & Butch, in which he lay naked with 12 hetero guys (but not all at once), often simulating famous images from pop culture. Well, here's a famous Janet Jackson photo you'll recognize, adjacent t ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2011
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Janet offers just the chart-toppers
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Narcissister Keeps Avant-Garde Performance Alive and Spinning
A four-headed creature -- all masked, by the way -- with arms as legs and vice versa, Narcissister is the strikingly schizo creation of a Brooklyn-based artist/performer who trained at Alvin Ailey's Dance Center. Directed by Rob Roth, Narcissister: This Masquerade -- a one-hour romp at Abron ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Michael Jackson Used to Torture Janet
The guy who was always pissed at the world for all the teasing he got was the world's biggest teaser himself! In her new book True You, Janet Jackson reveals that while she adored her brother and he had a beautiful heart, he would mercilessly make fun of her when they were kids.
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Presenting Popdust, A New Pop-Music Blog Costarring One Maura Johnston
The birth of any new music-writing outlet is cause for ecstatic celebration, particularly when it happens to involve writers we know and love. So please welcome Popdust, the new concern of former Blender/Billboard dude Craig Marks, featuring the blogging talents of one Maura Johnston, who yo ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Watch Kathleen Hanna Sing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" And "Rebel Girl" At Joe's Pub Last Week
Kathleen Hanna is slowly creeping back into the limelight -- a few nights after taking the stage during her own star-studded tribute show at the Knitting Factory, the Riot Grrrl luminary/semi-recluse showed up at an Our Hit Parade fete at Joe's Pub for a long, rambling, thoroughly engrossing ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Death To Chris Brown
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! America's preeminent lady-beater weeps. Photo via Word Up!& ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
'Confessions of an Agent' Provides Best Reasons Yet to Pay College Players
SI.comJosh LuchsThis week's Sports Illustrated cover story is the most important sports story since Tom Verducci's groundbreaking story on performance enhancing drugs, "Totally Juiced," back in 2002. As you've probably heard, the article, "Confessions of an Agent," just out today, is Josh L ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2010
Here Is Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" Video, Finally
At the onset, the sexy/military theme here feels like it'll be content to recall Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" video and call it a day, but we (of course) get into some weirder, more ostensibly provocative stuff here, particularly the Latex Nun getup (sure to be a hit come Halloween) and the who ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
American Idol Season 9, Finale Results
Vince Bucci/FOX Alice Cooper and the Idols 8:01pm. It's a sad night, and not because we're saying goodbye to another season of Idol, not because we're saying goodbye to Simon Cowell, but because they managed to drag this out to a two-hour production of group sings and product placements. 8: ... More >>
Film
March 30, 2010
Tyler Perry's Worst Film: Why Did I Get Married Too?
2007’s Why Did I Get Married? was his best. The sequel is not.
News
December 29, 2009
Michael Musto's Top Three Top Ten Lists, Because Why Not?
2007’s Why Did I Get Married? was his best. The sequel is not.
Blogs
December 22, 2009
Michael Jackson Saves Slow News Day with FBI Kid Sex, Death Threat Files
It's Christmas Eve's Eve's Eve and we got nothing, so thank Santa for the Freedom of Information Act, which got the FBI to release documents showing that the feds were looking into Michael Jackson's life, particularly the parts spent with young boys. Now we can relive the magic all over again ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
The Highs and Lows of the VMAs
So the channel that doesn't show videos anymore gave its annual awards to videos, and as usual, there were weirdnesses. (For example, if Beyonce didn't win Best Female Video, how could she win Video of the Year?) But there were astounding performances, all reflecting the sense that no longer ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
From the Voice Archives: Guy Trebay on Michael Jackson in 1987
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Guy Trebay on the inscrutable and surgically air-brushed creature Jackson had become in 1987. It ran alongside a Greg Tate piece on the same subject. The Boy Can't Help It Guy Trebay September 22, 1987 There's no longer any question t ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2009
From The Crap Archives: Finger Plays for Little Folk
Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Finger Plays For Little Folk Author: Janet Jackson Publisher: David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Ill ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 18, 2008
LADY MIX-A-LOT
Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment
Blogs
February 26, 2008
"Live": Janet Jackson's Rained-Out Pseudo-Event
Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment
Blogs
February 15, 2008
Mariah Carey's Failed Adjustment
Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment
Film
August 28, 2007
Going for the Gold
Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment
Music
February 13, 2007
Night Becomes Eclectic
Brooklyn melting-pot supergroup Volney Litmus keeps the fire and the conversation going
Music
October 24, 2006
Stuff You Need to Know About to Avoid Ostracism
Brooklyn melting-pot supergroup Volney Litmus keeps the fire and the conversation going
Music
October 10, 2006
Lose Control
Ms. Jackson works hard but still can't sound truly effortless
Music
September 26, 2006
Music
What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism
Blogs
February 21, 2006
Carrie Underwood and John Legend Ruin the NBA All-Star Game Halftime Show
What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism
NYC Life
March 15, 2005
The Green Door in the Floor
Show me the money shot: How porn made itself at home in America's living room
People
March 8, 2005
Casual-Sex Myths
Harmless hookups offer hot no-strings action, but still get a bad rap
News
October 5, 2004
Bleep This!
Howard Stern, rule-breaker, heads for the land of no rules
Music
June 29, 2004
Open Season
Two one-world bands converge for 2004's protest summer
Music
March 30, 2004
But It's Really Good Sex
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Columns
March 16, 2004
NY Mirror
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Music
March 2, 2004
Quartet from Brooklyn stick out necks and show their sex
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Music
February 24, 2004
Another single released, this time without Justin's help
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Columns
February 10, 2004
NY Mirror
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Columns
February 10, 2004
Horoscope
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
NYC Life
May 27, 2003
Kiss and Tell
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
NYC Life
November 12, 2002
Listings
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Columns
July 10, 2001
NY Mirror
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
Music
December 14, 1999
New Abstract
Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection
NYC Life
July 27, 1999
Beach Blanket Surgery
Summertime Blues
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December 15, 1998
Risqué Rope Skipping
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