Johnny Cash

Is Greta Gerwig The New Johnny Cash?

At the New York Film Festival yesterday, they screened Frances Ha, the Noah Baumbach-directed film in which Greta Gerwig plays a woman who breaks up with a guy, is kind of a likable mess but is maturing, and who has a female best friend who speaks in snappy sentences. Just like in Gerwig's last fil ... More >>

Live: George Thorogood Lights Up B.B. King's

George Thorogood & The Destroyers w/Tom Hambridge & The Rattlesnakes B.B. King Blues Club Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Jack White. The last time I was at B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square (right next to the Sanrio store, across from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum), I saw Napalm Death. From the ... More >>

Q&A: Drop The Lime On Growing Up With New York's Dance Underground, Bringing Punk To Le Bain, And The "Devil's Music"

A dracula is the image most frequently equated with Trouble and Bass founder and DJ Drop the Lime. "It's because I'm a night owl, always showing up everywhere," says Luca Venezia—and he's a New York night owl at that. Born and raised downtown to artist parents, Venezia has lived through three ... More >>

Q&A: Allo Darlin's Elizabeth Morris On Rejecting "Twee," The UK Indie Scene, And Singing Along With Weezer

This May, for the sixth year running, New York will once more be treated to the NYC Popfest, a lovingly curated sugar-rush of indie fizz that brings bands from all corners of the globe—and not just Sweden!—to celebrate a musical lineage that traces itself back to names like Sarah, Factor ... More >>

Nas Takes Illmatic To Texas As South By Southwest Comes To An End

Before the 2012 edition of South By Southwest blows out of town, allow Village Voice Media's editors to share their favorite moments from the festival's fourth, and final, day.

Live: Yo La Tengo Light The Menorah At Maxwell's One More Time

Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley w/Yo La Tengo, "Mote" Yo La Tengo: Hanukkah Shows Maxwell's December 20-27 Better than: Christmas. Hanukkah doesn't technically end until sundown Wednesday, but Yo La Tengo unplugged their electric menorah at Maxwell's last night, just after a post-midnight sign-of ... More >>

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

Live: Yelawolf Mixes It Up At Irving Plaza

Yelawolf w/Rittz Irving Plaza Tuesday, October 25 Better than: Fiddling with the radio. Midway through Yelawolf's show at Irving Plaza on Tuesday night—his third time appearing on that stage, his first time headlining it—he invited the audience to get a little better acquainted with ... More >>

Glen Campbell Says Goodbye on Ghost on the Canvas

Moving on to a better place

Ice-T's Newest Role: The Voice Of Reason On Ice Loves Coco

​ Who knew Ice-T was a role model? Ice Loves Coco, E!'s new reality show about the rapper/actor and his model/fashion designer wife, makes them look like such a perfect couple that you almost expect them to turn into anime characters and see little cartoon hearts popping above their heads as t ... More >>

American Idol: Casey Abrams Gets Sent Packing, This Time For Good

Michael Becker/FOX​ For the second time, Casey Abrams got voted off American Idol, and I honestly don't have a thing to say about it. I liked him at first, and then I got sick of him yelling and scatting at me. He ended things nicely, screaming and grunting while running around and singing "I ... More >>

"American Idol": Say Goodbye To Paul McDonald

Michael Becker/FOX​So Paul McDonald went home this week. Not that shocking! The only real surprise is that it finally reverses the gross and troubling trend of only female contestants getting bounced. (The one time a male contestant was voted off after top 12 week happened when the judges save ... More >>

Live: Dierks Bentley Brings Out "Will Ferrell" in Long Island

No cowbell The Jägermeister Tour featuring Dierks Bentley, Josh Thompson, and Sean Patrick McGraw Long Island Community Bank Theatre at Westbury Sunday, March 27 Better than: Staving off the Sunday night blues with a screening of Talladega Nights. For much of his show on at the former Westbury ... More >>

Even with a Shirtless Robert Redford and Johnny Cash Soundtrack: 'Rotten to the Core'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 29, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 44 Film: Little Fauss By Molly Haskell Can Robert Redford be a nasty skunk? Can Jack Nicholson be without charm? Or Jane Fonda without bail money? Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spot ... More >>

Bob Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' -- People Are Missing the Point!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 1, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 29 Obvious Believers by Robert Christgau I think people are missing the point of "Nashville Skyline," which is as it should be, since they were probably supposed to. The beauty of the album is that it is tota ... More >>

Liz Phair Returns With Internet-Only Funstyle, Rhymes "Genius" With "Peen-ius"

​On Saturday, lizphair.com suddenly had a new album available via download for a mere $5.99, with one streaming track as a sample, or maybe a warning: "Bollywood" features our heroine rapping in different voices over, yes, a Bollywood tabla. This, in addition to the low asking price, prnt scrn ... More >>

Fall Guide: The Pains of Pure at Heart Will Pervert Your Indie Cliché

David Parker and Yoshiko Chuma Ride Different Ranges

BETTER THAN FICTION

Doc Fest covers it all from post-Prohibition-era New York to Johnny Cash

Valentine's Day Music Listings: Ways To Avoid Yr Loneliness

The Best Little Western Swing Band in Brooklyn: Smokey Hormel's Roundup at Sunny's

Things I Learned Watching Walk Hard

CMJ: Pirate Had a Party, Day 2

Ian Curtis Biopic Gets Manchester Right

. . . and that's about it

Still Waiting for That Train

James Mangold remakes a classic western for our ADD times

Live: Morrissey in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Unreality Show

Idol's Carrie channels Christ in Atlantic City. In do-me heels. Get real (like David Hyde Pierce).

Hard Targets

The rockneck-inducing splendor of Earl Greyhound

Get Busy Living

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

No Continuity

Slowcore pioneer Jeff Martin goes it alone with a pile of scraps

Letters

Nine Inch Nails Take Credit for Paris Riots

Grandiose and Ascetic

Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

The Week in Review

Body Heat

Vito de Milo: A pioneer of body art shows enduringly radical work from the '60s and '70s

Film

Music

Music

Attack of the Chickenshits

Steve Earle Practices Rock and Roll Leftism for Its Own Sweet Sake

Music

Down and Alt

Room for the Occasion

Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps

Music

Listings

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Letters

Ina Dancehall Groove—Finally

Freeze-Frame

A Year (Heck—A Decade, Even) of Pop Music at the Movies

As Not Seen on TV!

Border Crossings