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The 25 Best OutKast Songs of All Time

Here's a hard truth that needs to be told and heard and understood: OutKast aren't getting back together. They just aren't. Stankonia, their last proper release as a bonafide duo, was 13 years ago. Andre is going to be Jimi Hendrix. Big Boi is making music with Phantogram and Wavves. They've moved o ... More >>

Meet Tony Hall, the NASA Engineer Who Wants Your Guitar to Sound Dirty

The Dr. is in

Q&A: Eric Haze On Going From A Graffiti Background To Designing Iconic Hip-Hop Logos

Sometimes cultural icons are known for their contributions to a culture, but the individual behind the talent gets lost in the sauce. Having designed a lot of rap groups' early logos, Eric Haze is one of these individuals whose work you see daily, but whose face and name you may not be familiar wit ... More >>

Millennial Music: A Look at How DIY Technology is Changing the Game Forever

Open. Click. Send. In a matter of seconds, Max Schieble's pre-recorded vocal track from America appears in the e-mail inbox of his bandmate Danny Lentz, who is currently abroad in Paris. Lentz receives the file, pulls out a violin and plays his part from memory. The file is sent back over to Schiebl ... More >>

Win A Scholarship To The Women's Music Summit

The Women's Music Summit is a two-day conference at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian where accomplished players like Marnie Stern, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Meshell Ndgeocello will lead master classes, jam sessions, roundtables, and opportunities to connect, and it's scheduled to take place on Aug ... More >>

Seven Important Takeaways From The Listening Session For Big Boi's Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors

Andre 3000 might be spending his summer dressing up as Jimi Hendrix, but his Outkast pal Big Boi has been busy putting together a new album. Titled Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, the project will be released on November 13; yesterday, Big Boi holed up in a Manhattan recording studio to host a li ... More >>

Patti Smith (11) Battles Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) For Downtown Supremacy

Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Last time around Patti Smith showed John Zorn who has the power, and Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground got all "Venus In ... More >>

Live: Glen Campbell Says Goodbye In High Style

Glen Campbell w/Instant People Town Hall Saturday, January 7 Better than: Not getting to say farewell. At a sold-out Town Hall on Saturday, Glen Campbell yodeled as well as Hank Williams, crooned like a country Sinatra and played flashy, funky leads that sounded like he was ... More >>

The Rapture Talk Baseball, Seattle, Postpunk Redux, And Their Difficult Second Album

​In this week's Voice, we profiled the Rapture, recently re-signed to DFA Records. Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte, and Gabriel Andruzzi are voluble guys, so there was plenty of material that we couldn't fit into the story. Here are a few pieces from our interviews that touch on the band's early ... More >>

The Last Show at the Fillmore

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 1, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 26 Fillmore, Summer of '71: Graduation Day By Don Heckman So it turned out to be with a whimper, after all. Expecting fireworks at the Absolutely Last Final Fillmore East performance on Sunday night, we expe ... More >>

New York Times Does Dock Ellis, Reminds Kids That Old People Took LSD First

​Sometimes we are a little bit hard on our favorite newspaper, the New York Times, because it is a little bit for old people, sometimes stodgy or sexless or scared to say words like "shit." It is fun -- and necessary! -- to tease them, we think. But also! It is the best and sometimes someone t ... More >>

Jason Moran's New Jazz Testament

The crossover-minded pianist's decade-long evolutionary plan continues with Ten

The 1968 Columbia University Takeover!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 2, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 29 The Groovy Revolution: Fold, Spindle, Mutilate by Richard Goldstein FOLD You could tell something more than springtime was brewing at Columbia by the crowds around the local Chock Full, jumping and gestu ... More >>

Janis Joplin Makes her Voice Debut, Viva Takes Her Clothes Off, and Lenny is Finally Vindicated

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 22, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 19 Scenes by Howard Smith NEW YORK's golden ears came out ringing from the Saturday evening performances of Janis Joplin at the Anderson Theatre on Second Avenue. The two shows were the East Coast prem ... More >>

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker -- Cream Plays NYC

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 5, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 51 Cream: They Play Blues, Not Superstar By Richard Goldstein It's Saturday night at the Village Theatre, New York's sad-eyed answer to the Fillmore-Avalon scene. Under the marquee, Slavs gape and Ratner' ... More >>

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Hopeful Dispatches From the 40th Jazz & Heritage Festival

'Uncle' Ralph McDaniels, A Hip-Hop Pioneer, Still Inside the Box

Celebrating 25 years of his trailblazing rap-video show

Super-Duper Comic Relief at the Met's Superheroes Show

Love that cape, Batman!

Keeping Jazz Makers Alive

Evicted or with no medical insurance, musicians playing their last chorus are saved by the Jazz Foundation

Elettaria: Where Saag Paneer Is 'Saag Paneer'

Elettaria puts chefs onstage, plays with convention, and comes out ahead

The Black-Rock Revolution, and How We Rebooted It

Using YouTube to beat back critical malaise and bullshit race-baiting arguments

The Re-Entroducer

Professor, blogger, DJ, curator, and music zealot Oliver Wang reveals even more Soul Sides

The Alien Invader

Is a guy from Minnesota the new king of New York street art?

Letters

Apocalypse Then

Patti Smith revives Horses on stage and disc to honor its 30th anniversary

Disco Heat

Remembering the man who turned a flamboyant life into art

Beyond the Melting Pot

Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa sure are tough-minded—and also Indian Americans

Free Again

The revolution of 1969 never came, but the 'Free America' series has now been reissued

The Small Paybacks

No, you shouldn't call Prince's new album a comeback, but musicology will do just fine

Listings

No-Sweat Gift Guide

Close-Up on Windsor Terrace

Familiar and Fabulous

How many queens does it take to fill Radio City Music Hall?

Listings

Jammed for All Time

The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore

Intelligence Data

NY Mirror

Love and Death

Struggling to the Surface

One-Bedroom Apartment Over Hair Salon

Essence of Tropicália

Season Prelude

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

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Wrigley's in the Trashcan

James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves

Scare Yourself Shiftless

In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.

Spring Fever

Dusty in Heaven

Dusty Springfield, 1939­1999

Boo!