Jessica Hopper

Fan Landers: Our Dick Of A Producer Stole Our Demo!

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having--whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; con ... More >>

Fan Landers: Should I Publicly Shame My Mooch Of A Bandmate?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having--whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at v ... More >>

Fan Landers: Help, I'm Intimidated by an Indie Legend

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; conf ... More >>

Fan Landers: How Can My Band Go From DIY To The Next Level?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; conf ... More >>

Fan Landers: How Can I Bootstrap My Way To Pop Stardom?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; conf ... More >>

Fan Landers: Identity Crises From Duos-Turned-Bands And The Formerly Famous

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers Live! Listen To Our Advice Columnist Give Tips To Musicians In Need

Our advice columnist Fan Landers is going wide...r on the Web! This week, Fan (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper is answering questions on WNYC's Soundcheck. Below, an embed of the show—and information on how you can have Jessica solve your problems, should you have any.

Fan Landers: "Helpful" Yet Sexist Fans; When To Hire A Manager

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: Help! A Bridezilla Fiasco Might Result In A Band Breakup!

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: How Can I Balance Being A Musician With Motherhood?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: First Tours, Glow-In-The-Dark Basses, And Dealing With Kicked-Out Members' Backbiting

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: "I've DIY'ed Myself Into Oblivion. How Do I Climb Out Of It?"

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: De-Schlubbing A Bandmate And Bringing A Dog On Tour

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: When To Call It Quits And When To Commit

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Fan Landers: Advice On Getting Famous And Maybe Being Too Old For The Rock Band Lifestyle

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Usher, Grass Widow, Kool Keith

This week in the Village Voice, now available in a red box near you: I review the seventh album by Usher, the surprisingly minimalist (and unsurprisingly enjoyable Looking 4 Myself; Jessica Hopper chats with the San Francisco band Grass Widow about their move toward the light on their new album; and ... More >>

This Week in The Voice: Can Occupy Wall Street Trust Its Own Candidate?

This week in the Voice, out today, Nick Pinto profiles Congressional hopeful George Martinez: "This is all the basic stuff of Brooklyn retail politics, the story of an upstart candidate backed by a ragtag crew of idealistic volunteers pulling 18-hour days in a desperate effort to make up with sweat ... More >>

Is Your Band Having Problems? Send Them In To Our New Advice Columnist, Fan Landers!

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (her real identity is below), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. She'll help you settl ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Action Bronson, First Aid Kit, Music Therapy, And A Giant Doritos Vending Machine

This week in the Voice Phillip Mlynar talks to Action Bronson and Party Supplies about their Blue Chips collab; Jessica Hopper finds out how the Swedish sisters in First Aid Kit came to love country; Steven Thrasher looks at "the nonprofit 1%" and talks to a music therapist who got lost in her forme ... More >>

The 39th Pazz And Jop Poll Is Live

Hooray and huzzah, the Pazz & Jop poll, calculated from the ballots of 700 critics around the globe, is up and running and ready for your perusal. Congratulations to Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, whose w h o k i l l walked away with the albums poll; and Adele, whose inescapable yet compelling even o ... More >>

Q&A: Best Music Writing Series Editor Daphne Carr On Becoming A 21st-Century Publisher, What "Best" Means, And Bringing Pop And Classical Closer Together

Michal Nanoru​This month marks the publication of Best Music Writing 2011, the annual anthology of top-notch scribing about music—2010 pieces by the likes of Nitsuh Abebe, Ann Powers, and Jessica Hopper are collected in the book, which this year was edited by New Yorker classical-music c ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: St. Vincent Plays It Candid And Coy, Kelly Clarkson Offers Real Talk

Tina TyrellAnnie "St. Vincent" Clark in repose. ​In this week's Village Voice: Jessica Hopper gets deep—but not too deep—with Annie Clark of St. Vincent; and I look at the evolution of Kelly Clarkson in the wake of the first American Idol winner releasing her fifth album, Stronger. ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Lost Boys, Life Under Occupation

​This week in the Voice, out today: Kristen Hinman explores new research on teenage sex workers. Rosie Gray discusses how the community around Zuccotti Park is reacting to Occupy Wall Street's continuous presence. Michael Musto gets personal with fading stars and is determined to get one deg ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: AUM Fidelity's Rise, Fucked Up's Suburban Epic, The Coathangers' Girly Shambles

Daniel BoudFucked Up. ​In this week's Village Voice, now available on newsstands: Brad Cohan profiles Steven Joerg, whose DIY aspirations helped launch the "jazz-forward" label AUM Fidelity and who'll be assembling the lineup at The Stone later this month; Christopher R. Weingarten reviews Fuc ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Women Of Post-Punk Return, Gang Gang Dance Go Trash-Picking, And Krallice Bang On

Janette Beckman​In this week's issue: Vivien Goldman looks at the return to music-making by women of the post-punk era, including the late Poly Styrene (pictured), whose album Generation Indigo was released here the day her death was announced last week; Jessica Hopper examines Gang Gang Dance ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Superchunk Are Playing a Free In-Store All-Acoustic Set at Other Music on Sunday

Not the Love Language. Photo by Jason Arthurs. ​"Time and transition is a wave that'll put you over," Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan avers on "My Gap Feels Weird," one of eleven sparkling new songs on Majesty Shredding, the band's first LP in nine years. Who could doubt him? It's Superchunk ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island

​All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jamey Johnson, Superchunk, Brandon Flowers, the Walkmen, and More

Jamey Johnson: Bon Iver, only good! Photo by James Minchin.​In this week's Village Voice, Chuck Eddy on the charms of schizophrenic stoner country guy Jamey Johnson, Jessica Hopper reviews Superchunk's excellent new Majesty Shredding, Ryan Dombal talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, an ... More >>

Q&A: Steve Albini Is Not an Asshole But Sylvester Stallone Might Be

Presenting your All Tomorrow's Parties NY House band. . . In the early 2000's, the shits 'n' giggles folks at snarkier-than-thou Chunklet Magazine plopped recording engineer god and Shellac guitarorrist Steve Albini on its cover, screaming: Is This Guy The Biggest Asshole In Rock? That infamous is ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Summer of Whippets

​It may not be the summer of love (in fact, we're pretty sure it isn't), but that doesn't mean that you can't spend the next two months "jamming to the familiar hiss of hippie crack." In this week's cover story, John H. Tucker goes inside the Nitrous Mafia, a surprisingly organized group made ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>

Whose Ass Do We Have To Kick To Get On Flavorwire's "10 Music Critics You Should Follow On Twitter" List?

Christopher R. Weingarten's, of course, for starters. Sheesh. Insincere congratulations to him, Maura, Jessica Hopper, the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted guy, etc. Guess we just didn't like the new Green Day record enough.

Lifter Puller Finally Come Back Into Print

​Robert Christgau's one-line review of long defunt Minneapolis quarter Lifter Puller's final bow, Fiestas and Fiascos: "Postpunk E Street for fuckups clocking e-dollars." Frankly, we blanch at adding all that much more than that--the Hold Steady's Tad Kubler played bass, and Craig Finn fronte ... More >>

Paramore Finally Bust Up the Lonely Tears Boys Club

Emo's Femme Fatale, Hayley Williams

News Roundup: forgetters, Rock Writer Literary Death Match, Ghostface on Fallon

​--After getting a bit more publicly excited than we care to remember about Thorns of Life, last fall's short-lived collaboration between Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil's Blake Schwarzenbach, Aaron Cometbus, and (The L Word's) Daniella Sea, we figured we'd just go ahead and keep quiet about forgett ... More >>

Live: David Bazan Preaches/Blasphemes At Pianos

Serenading New Hampshire. David Bazan Pianos Tuesday, Sept. 1 No one writes better -- or angrier -- songs about God than David Bazan, slow-core sad-sack mastermind of Pedro the Lion and various solo escapades, his calm, gorgeously bitter baritone enunciating every syllable of every word with perf ... More >>

To Do: End of Summer Blow Out with The Girls' Guide to Rocking

​The Girls' Guide to Rocking, the new super-primer/covert punk-rock educator/best friend of a book by SOTC buddy Jessica Hopper, is actually a lot of books at once. It's a polemic (girls should rock), a how-to with a sneaky DIY slant (girls should do it themselves), and a covert good-taste rec ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Also Stream the Gossip's Music for Men

That sound you hear -- Beth Ditto dismissing Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" as a "boner dyke anthem" -- would seem to indicate that a new Gossip record is imminent. Verily, Music for Men (produced by Rick Rubin!) is out Tuesday, and streaming at Spinner.com at this very moment: At first blush it's a ... More >>

Boy Crisis' "L'Homme": A Quick Reminder That This Song Is Not a Good Look

For the same reason that it's not funny to set your MySpace location to "Iraq" unless one of your band members has actually been shipped there, the Boy Crisis lazy-come-on drug-dance "L'Homme" continues to be one of the more reprehensible songs to come out of pre-recession, Royal Oak dance-partyin ... More >>

Errant Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Good Charlotte were charming in their youth, but sound increasingly mean and hopeless now

Every Molly Has an Emo Album

On the brash, brilliant, and thoroughly vexing Say Anything

Try Isn't Do

Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission

Show Me the Money

Seattle's EMP proves that great popular music conferences cannot live by inclusive intentions alone

A Critic's Job at Work

Ghost Dance

It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber