Joe Williams

WBAI's Death by Democracy

Warring activists cause a legendary public radio station to implode

Paul McCartney Opens The Book Of Love Songs With Kisses On The Bottom

What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>

Live: Gregory Porter Sings A Song For Amy Winehouse At The Blue Note

​ Gregory Porter The Blue Note Monday, July 25 Better than: Most hackneyed Amy Winehouse tributes people are going to put together over the next couple of days. The publicist wanted to make it clear that despite a tribute to Amy Winehouse being teased on The Blue Note's website, Gregory Port ... More >>

Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources

Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)​Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>

Seventy On Seventy: The 70 Best Bob Dylan Songs, A To Z (Part Two Of Two)

​ (Part One is here.) So here we are on the once-unthinkable occasion of Dylan turning 70. When Dylan was starting out, old white men--I mean older than Pete and Woody--were mostly on the wrong side of the Civil Rights movement. Older black men, if they were survivors like Howlin' Wolf or S ... More >>

Michael Mulgrew Gloats on NY1 After Dubious Teachers Union "Victory" in Election

​The Michael Mulgrew victory tour took an embarrassing turn on NY1 last night, when the United Federation of Teachers president gloated throughout an extended interview, overstating a very mixed primary day report card.

Clip Job: Susan Brownmiller Laments the Money Woes of WBAI

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 15, 1965, Vol. X, No. 39 WBAI: Mastering the Art of Eking Out a Living By Susan Brownmiller They had a marvelous time, those plucky non-conforming radio kids over at WBAI. They suspended regular programming with the evening news, ... More >>

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SMOKE SCREEN

White Williams really means it

The East Village Goes South, Again

Pissed-off community activists face off against sterilization, Bruce Willis

First-Rate Second-Liners

Reinvigorating New Orleans with the Hot 8 Brass Band

No Context: White Williams at the Mercury Lounge

Second-Term Blues

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

Every Box Set Tells Its Own Story, and This One Packs a Few Surprises

High-Stakes Tests

Left behind due to the school system's failures, third-graders learn they're dumb

Almost Peas in a Pod

Sarah Vaughan and Tony Bennett Fight for the Right

Spelunking and Crooning in 2001

Reissues by the Boxful, Singers by the Cut

Deeper Into the Vaults

Weird Nightmares and Other Forgotten Dreams

El Fanático

Duke Lives!

'He Deals With Kids' Crises. He Is Rare— He Changes Lives.'

Beale Street Talks