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The Eight Best Concerts In NYC This Week

These are the eight best concerts in NYC this week. And if you don't know, now you know.

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Film

Live: The Cops Shut Down Fool's Gold Day Off; DJ A-Trak Throws Out More T-Shirts

Check out our slideshow from the party. Fool's Gold Day Off: French Montana, Danny Brown, Brothers Macklovitch, Just Blaze, Flosstradamus, Flatbush Zombies, Nick Catchdubs, Ricky Blaze, Party Supplies, #BEEN #TRILL, Telephoned, and more City Winery Monday, September 3 Better than: Rain. Last yea ... More >>

Live: Ab-Soul Turns In A Gutsy Solo Performance At S.O.B.'s

Ab-Soul S.O.B.'s Thursday, June 21 Better than: Watching the final fourth quarter of the 2011-2012 NBA season. For a crowd full of Thunder fans, Ab-Soul provided a much-needed distraction last night during his first New York headlining gig. In subtle contrast to the mighty LeBron James, Ab debut ... More >>

Q&A: Dan Deacon Talks Politics, Patriotism, And Occupy Wall Street

Dan Deacon is one of several big name musicians playing a free concert in Union Square tomorrow at 4 p.m. We spoke to him recently about why Occupy Wall Street resonates with him and why he considers himself a political artist. Village Voice: You're playing a free show in Union Square for May Day, ... More >>

How Well Do You Know New York City? Pat Kiernan Will Quiz You. [Updated]

Pat Kiernan told us once, "Being a New Yorker is a state of mind. Not something on your birth certificate. The qualifications: some combination of knowledge of the city, love of the city, length of time here, and comfort with both defending and criticizing the city." Included in part one of that cla ... More >>

Clarence Clemons, R.I.P.

manu_gt500/Flickr​The Big Man has left the building. Clarence Clemons—Bruce Springsteen's main onstage foil for most of both men's careers, a tall, broad, black saxophonist whose unflappability contrasted physically and temperamentally with the small, feisty, white frontman to great comi ... More >>

Annoyed Scientist Wants All You Narcissistic Pop Stars To Get Off His Lawn

​Today's Times has a piece on a psychologist's theory about song lyrics of the current day being proof that we are all self-obsessed narcissists. The psychologist who came up with the theory, Nathan DeWall, was apparently inspired to embark on this quest by Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever ... More >>

Live: Twin Sister Host A Very Chill Christmas Party At The Live With Animals Gallery

Christmas cheer thankfully trumps the show's . . . intimacy. Pics by Chris, more below.​Twin Sister/Blair/John K. Friday, December 17 Live With Animals Gallery Better Than: Taking Back Sunday's Extremely Emo Hanukkah Join us as ethereal indie-rock crew Twin Sister hosts the best really aweso ... More >>

Kristin Scott Thomas as Desperate Housewife in Leaving

Morning Links: Obama Unveils Jobs Plan and Tax Breaks as Disapproval Rating Rises

​Welcome back; we hope your long weekends were swell! • President Obama has unveiled a $50 billion public-works plan to revive the economy, and is asking Congress to pass tax breaks that would let businesses write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011. [WSJ, AP]

Finding Jesus in Food

Caters New Agency LtdToby Elles of Lancaster, England fell asleep one day while cooking bacon, and the result was an apparition in a frying pan--of either Jesus or John Lennon, you pick!​ The devout Christian knows you can find Christ everywhere. But in a piece of toast, or in the grease annea ... More >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, Pop Mastermind and Raging Ego

Serving 19 years to life. Da doo ron ron.

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

Yoko Ono Reforms Plastic Ono Band For One Ridiculous New York Show

​Last September's Between My Head and the Sky was Yoko Ono's first record as Plastic Ono Band since 1973's Feeling the Space. John Lennon produced the first; his son Sean handled the second, and now comes word that the Plastic Ono Band will once again perform as well. So far, it's just two dat ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Threeasfour ♥ Yoko Ono; Rodarte Dresses Us for the Apocalypse

​ Photos by Angela Ashman. It was the kind of avant-garde spectacle that fashion outsiders would mock. Models, one by one, snipped away pieces of a spiral white dress worn by a model in the center of the room, until she was left wearing nothing but a bandeau top and high-waisted briefs. But ... More >>

Sean Lennon Defends Celebrity Nude Tribute to His Parents

​Purple Fashion, which gave us yesterday's celebrity nude, has also published a hommage (N quite SFW) to the famous Annie Leibovitz photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, starring the couple's son, Sean Lennon. Only this time the man is fully dressed, and the woman -- Sean Lennon's model/girlfrien ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

Clip Job: Eric Burdon, Animals, Generally Annoyed by Screaming Teens

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 17, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 48The Animals in NYBy Sally KemptonWith American hysteria over English rock-and-roll singers reaching new heights, the purveyors of entertainment for the young last week booked a series of English acts in two r ... More >>

ROCK, NYC-STYLE

New York finally gets a piece of the pie

Possibly 4th Street 22: Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning

Retro Man

Beatlemania

John Lennon is another mindless look at the dark side of celeb worship

Unkool Thing

The Muggabears tend to the guitar-centric '90s indie-rock flame

Youth is a Prize (Price?) in Chelsea's Art Galleries

Continuing the bow to the 'tepid orthodoxy of youth'

VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

Darfur in Central Park

"Try to imagine that your whole way of life destroyed"

Rock Star: Supernova Finally Ends

Saturday 7/29

Pharrell: Best Rapper Ever? (Well, No)

Behind the Bar

McSorley's stocks the sawdust for St. Pat's

Another Country

Two ambitious dramas cross borders and consciousnesses

The Covers Album

Don't look back: From nostalgia-peddling dreck to sci-fi satire, the peril-fraught subgenre of the rockstar movie

Daydream Nation

Slack happy: A Brit weighs in on wage-earning (none), sex (some), and drinking (lots)

Beguilement and Rage

So many unpretentious young bands with a geniune knack, so many others without a clue

Leo DiCaprio: Alien Seductor? So Says Director Jang Jun-Hwan.

Battlefield Earth

A gonzo, gear-shifting first feature from Korea confronts an ominous Andromeda strain

Pay to Play

Getting bucks from different heads of the music-biz hydra

Incognito

Sex From Seville, and the Same Old Same Old From Brooklyn

Letters

Familiar and Fabulous

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

Hello, Goodbye

Mirror Men

Cold Turkeys

Fall Classics

Life in the Cheap Seats Suddenly Becomes Precious

Wildhearts Can Be Broken

Rock in a Hard Place

Style Slumps at the Met

Fully Booked

Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

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