Johnny Cash

Lady Antebellum and Brandy Clark Headline a Night of Country Concerts

Better Than: This divided by two. Let it go into record that for once, on the night of May 7 in the year 2013, Manhattan had too many good country—country referring to popular country, as imported from Nashville—shows to attend, overlapping bookings that could have both been the highlight ... More >>

Spring Reading: Top 5 Book Events of the Week

Julia Solis Spectacle Theater Thursday, 8pm, $5 There aren't any actual deaths in the ghost story Solis tells, but it's still mighty chilling. In her new photography collection Stages of Decay (Prestel), she chronicles the fallen grandeur of abandoned theaters across America and Europe, affectionate ... More >>

GRAND ROYAL

Make way for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Merle Haggard Is Searching for His "Hurt" and Considering Doing Stand-Up Comedy

Outlaw country club

Live: Alvarius B Sings Songs Of Love And Spleen At Union Pool

Alvarius B w/Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett Duo Tuesday, September 4 Union Pool Better than: Getting drunk with your conspiracy-theory spewing uncle. Before his performance as the pseudonymous Alvarius B (with all the trippy venom that implies), former Sun City Girls member Alan Bishop chats p ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie And Countrified Pop Tunes

After Kelly Clarkson went to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart last year with the Jason Aldean duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," I wondered hopefully if the Texas-born pop star would finally go country with her next album. So I was a little disappointed a few months later, when she debuted the bla ... More >>

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook at MXYPLYZYK, Gift Suggestion #14

​The cookbook displayed in the window of MXYPLYZYK, against a backdrop of hamburger greeting cards and Ritz boxes. Help the Goth, Vamp, or just plain cynic on your list have a very morbid Christmas by picking up a copy of The Dead Celebrity Cookbook by radio personality and raconteur Frank ... More >>

Chris Isaak

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

Betty Ford, R.I.P.

​In recent years, people holding the vice-presidential seat have had complicated, if not vaguely hostile, relationships with pop music. Before Al Gore became Bill Clinton's veep in 1992, his wife Tipper founded the PMRC. In 2002, six years before taking his seat to the back-left of Barack Obam ... More >>

SXSW Cheat Sheet 2011

An assortment of local bands heading to Texas for beer, BBQ, and maximum blogability

Best Films of 1970!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 3 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris The time has not only come, it is probably long past, to survey the moviegoing year of 1970 (itself either the last year of the '60s or the first year of the '70s), to p ... More >>

Toting Your Handy Firearm Will Make That Drink Taste So Much Better, Sir

​Good news for people who feel that they need to protect themselves with guns in bars; bad news for those of us who just want to get our drink on without the threat of impending bloodshed or ricochet action totally blowing our buzz. Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, and Virginia will now let you br ... More >>

End Times Watch: Nashville Is Underwater

AP​What with the Times Square bomb and the manholes exploding and Ahmadinejad in town, we've been a little focused on New York City today. We will address that now. Add to our End Times Watch record rains and 50-feet-high-and-rising waters in Tennessee. The flooding has led to evacuations of ... More >>

Live from Shepard Fairey's "May Day" Opening at Deitch Projects: Fab 5 Freddy, Rick Ross, and a Topless Breastfeeding Lady

all photos by Sam HorineShepard Fairey has a motorcycle posse and it includes Rick Ross. Shepard Fairey's "May Day" show opened this past Saturday. The promotional noise from Deitch Projects' send-off has been near-deafening, amplified by the hubbub around Fairey's rabidly targeted, heavily guarded ... More >>

Bloodsong of Love at Ars Nova

Bullets over Off-Broadway

The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

SUNNY DAYS

Sesame Street via Lafayette Avenue

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

That Thing He Does

Thankfully, pop alchemist Mike Viola keeps doing it

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

The CMAs: A Running Diary

Porter Wagoner's Wagonmaster

Anti-Surrealist, deadpan country for deep-thinkers, acid casualties

Monday+Tuesday 7/31 & 8/1

Rack Focus

50 Cent Needs to Shut Up

Who Needs Boxes 2005

That's not counting Johnny Cash, of course, but New Orleans finds are worth seeking out

Four More Music Video Veterans Enshrined in Pop Canon

Open Season

Fall brings hope of a brave New World and a historic Violence

Our Own Roots 'n' Ganja Man Visits Planet Reggae

Lightwave Darkwaver Sticks Mostly to the Monotone He Knows Best

Dallas Cowboy Gets Big and Rich; Nashville Teddy Bear Trash-Picks

Goozlin' Daddy

Stuck inside of Nashville with the Memphis blues again

Mourning Glory

A British video artist engaged with history both as a participant and as an outsider

Nashville Catches Up

A pair of country goofballs boogaloo down Broadway with their rappin' buttload of friends

A Manner of Speaking

Rust-belted Motor City meets mined-out Appalachia in the battleground state between

The Dean's List

The New Frontier

Playboys of the Southwestern World Thrive on Certainty

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Music

Bombs Away

Heavy Artillery From an Idiot Underground

Found . . . and Gone

Choreographers Grapple With Loss and Dream Safe Worlds

His-Uh Way-Uh

Music

Urban Organics

Roto-Roots Rock Flushes Your Troubles Down the Drain

Wandering Minstrel