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May 7, 2012
Lasers, Inquisition, And A Cameo By The Wanted: The 10 Most Metal Moments Of Saint Vitus's One-Year Anniversary Week
On April 12, St. Vitus—the metal outpost in Greenpoint—turned one year old, but the birthday celebration went down between April 23 and April 28. Bands, cartoons, go-go girls, celebrities, sacrilege, and a metal magician were in attendance. "It was chaos," says bartender and co-owner Ju ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Q&A: Jim Carroll Of Unicycle Loves You On The Nature Of Failure, The Fifth Element, And Paying Tribute To Sonic Youth
Anthony DixonChicago's Unicycle Loves You is unabashedly a noise-pop band, but not in the (mo-fi) sense that Sisters, Japanther, Railcars, or early No Age jams are noise-pop. Rather, singer/guitarist Jim Carroll, singer/bassist Nicole Vitale, and drummer J.T. Baker author lo-fi indie-pop bang ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Download: White Hills' Grinding, Surreal "The Condition Of Nothing"
The last time we talked to White Hills, they were fresh off releasing one of our fave local releases of 2010, a self-titled slab we called "a schizophrenic trip through Acid Mothers Temple riff bludgeon, Boris chug, shaggy pseudo-grunge, and tender bursts of formless noise." With follow-up Hp-1 (Th ... More >>
Books
November 3, 2010
Last Words: Jim Carroll's Novel, The Petting Zoo
A posthumous book from rock's famous Catholic Boy
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November 3, 2010
This Week's Voice: Weezer's Pinkerton, Taylor Swift, AfroCubism, and More
Weezer in simpler times, or maybe not In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell hails the reissue of Weezer's Pinkerton, Theon Weber reviews Taylor Swift's sneakily great Speak Now, and Tad Hendrickson chronicles the belated emergence of the Mali-Cuba connection finally captured on AfroCubism ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
This Week in the Voice: Let's Play "Who's My Landlord?"
Home is, as they say, where the heart is. So who's the guy selling you your Lipitor and what the hell are all these rats doing everywhere? In this week's Village Voice cover story, join staff writer Elizabeth Dwoskin for a rousing, fun, morbid round of the game New Yorkers everywhere can rela ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
Live: The Drive-By Truckers Reek Of "Dude" At Webster Hall
Drive-By Truckers Webster Hall Thursday, April 1 I admire these dudes (who appear in these pages, virtual and literal, with alarming frequency) for distilling complicated societal ills into one compact, blunt, blaring, paradoxically rousing burst of Southern rock: What "The Man I Shot" did for th ... 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
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September 18, 2009
Week in Review: ZOWEE
Photo of Ida Maria plus models by David Wentworth.In the week "I'mma Let You Finish" became the new "WAZZUP!" (see how well that one aged!), we leaned back, helpless as the Maxwell Man (our references are old today, huh?) as Kanye annihilated his own website and the hopes and dreams of a 19-y ... More >>
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September 18, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily fund ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
Jim Carroll, 1949-2009
It may seem poignant that the death of Jim Carroll at 60 was reported by his ex-wife. But Carroll was about people and things left behind. "It's too late/To fall in love with Sharon Tate," he wrote in one context, "But it's too soon/To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb." His best know ... More >>
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September 13, 2009
Jim Carroll, 1950-2009
Jim Carroll -- prototypical NYC punk-rocker, Basketball Diaries scribe, and CBGB poet laureate -- died of a heart attack Friday night. He was 60. Lots of intense eulogies will follow in the days to come: He's an excellent jumping-off point for an "Old New York City vs. New New York City" screed, t ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
There Is No Shame in Wanting to Read Devendra Banhart's Naked Lady Story from the Found Book
Davy Rothbart's third and latest Found book--Requiem For A Paper Bag: Celebrities & Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed & Found Items From Around the World--stars a fantastically intricate cover by former Voice illustrator M. Wartella (left), and the happenstance discovery stories of fo ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2009
Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition
In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>
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May 6, 2009
Interview: Found Magazine's Davy Rothbart
"Jim Carroll goes to a colonic spa in San Francisco with a friend of his, and his friend shits out this plastic green army soldier... his friend, after the soldier was out of his system, he got a lot mellower." Davy's Sears-style portrait Eight years into a project that began when he discovered a ... More >>
Music
August 15, 2006
Spaghetti Eastern
The Lordz, Brooklyn rap-rock's preeminent wiseguys, crank the bass and wax Soprano
Music
September 20, 2005
Craft and Lies
From Senegal to Austin T-X clear evidence of cooperation between or among principals
NYC Life
August 16, 2005
The Haves and Have-Nots All Sustain Injuries in New Novel
From Senegal to Austin T-X clear evidence of cooperation between or among principals
Music
June 22, 2004
Dead? Yer Out of the Family
Blood thicker than water for death-rap's kings of the Jews
Music
January 6, 2004
Yeah, the Bum Was Dead
Stoner-rockers go the reaper one better; instro-stoners separate sonics from scriptures
Music
December 9, 2003
Music
Stoner-rockers go the reaper one better; instro-stoners separate sonics from scriptures
NYC Life
November 11, 2003
Close-Up on Riverdale
Stoner-rockers go the reaper one better; instro-stoners separate sonics from scriptures
News
September 5, 2000
Ink Slingers
Across Town, Words Jump off the Page
News
February 2, 1999
Adventures in Hi-Fi
Digital Kills the Radio Star

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