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March 14, 2012
Stephen Colbert Is A Bit Miffed That His Pop Conference Paper Got Rejected
Next weekend, various stripes of music nerds (critics, academics, people who just like to think a lot) will descend on New York for the EMP Pop Conference, an annual mind-meld of pro and amateur musicologists that's taking place in our fair city for the first time. The conference, sponsored by the S ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
Drake and The Weeknd Wallow in their Misery
Riding the Bummer
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January 10, 2012
Radio Hits One: Foster The People, Cage The Elephant Lead The Charge Of New "The" Bands
Back around 2001, a Transatlantic cabal of music critics led a media hype machine declaring that rock was "back." To further this thesis, it grouped together a disparate set of bands offering variations on the stripped-down "garage rock" template who were often cheekily referred to as the "The" Band ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
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November 20, 2011
Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)
Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Why You Can't Hate Kanye West and Love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy At the Same Time
Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy doesn't come out until next week, but the reviews are already in. (Summary: it's a masterpiece.) In these pages, Sean Fennessey wrote at some length about the way West's embattled public persona crashes, again and again, into the music on his new ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
On Odd Future, Rape and Murder, And Why We Sometimes Like the Things That Repel Us
Odd Future and Mos Def in New York, circa two days ago. Photo by Brook Bobbins.By now you've heard about Odd Future, the polarizing Los Angeles rap collective that got a lot of New York-based critics and labels pretty excited the other night in the basement of Webster Hall. And if you've list ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Is Kingmaking At CMJ A Real Thing Or An Act of Futility? Our Critics Discuss
Titus Andronicus play Webster Hall during last year's CMJ. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneAh, the first day of CMJ: a moment of optimism, possibility, and prophecy. Even now every website and publication with any kind of music-related bent is scrambling to post guides and predictions, links to MySpac ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Congrats To Raquel Cepeda And Greg Tate For Making Best Music Writing 2010
Da Capo's annual Best Music Writing series is as close as rock scribes get to the Oscars; we are happy to report that this year's edition, out November 9, features two Voice pieces: Greg Tate's Michael Jackson eulogy "The Man in Our Mirror" and Raquel Cepeda's "Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
A User's Guide To Tonight's Drake Show at Radio City Music Hall
Is this you, perhaps? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.Last night, Drake played the first of two shows at Radio City Music Hall, alighting triumphantly on a New York stage after two horrifically abortive attempts earlier this year. But last night was uniformly dubbed a triumph, a coronation for the yo ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
The Golden Age of Advice Rap Starts Now
"When you've run out of peaks," Jon Caramanica wrote in yesterday's Times, by way of reviewing Monday's ridiculous Jay-Z extravaganza, "all that's left are ridiculous, sublime stunts, new ways to climb old mountains." This is counterintuitive but true: a guy like Jay-Z has been a ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Press Clips, Day 8, Evening Edition: NYT Flack Fires Shots in WSJ Biz News Attack
Not Bob Christie, but close enough.Two Press Clips in one day? Don't call it a comeback. To cap off the day, the New York Times is firing shots at the Wall Street Journal; Newsweek is bleeding staffers everywhere, still; and...I mean, does anything else matter today besides the latest shots i ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Who Does Rick Ross Think He Is, Exactly?
The rapper Rick Ross, born William Leonard Roberts II, is currently being sued by the living, breathing drug boss--"Freeway" Ricky Ross--from whom he stole his stage name. On his new Teflon Don--another nickname borrowed, without consent, from John Gotti--Ross has a song called "MC Hammer," o ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
The Best #p4kfestpickuplines So Far
Love u Chris... Pitchfork is having a good week. Yesterday, our pal Jon Caramanica wrote a piece in the New York Times suggesting the website had pretty much fully arrived as a "hegemon of taste," in the words of one super-fan. This weekend, the publication will host its annual music festival out ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010
KISSY, KISSY, KISSY
Do you remember your first time?
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February 22, 2010
Stew Vs. The New York Times: "You Review AMERICAN IDOL Shit For A Living (???) And Yer Calling OUR SHIT Verging On Trite?"
Nicholas SuttleStew's on the left; Caramanica photo N/ANothing like a good bad-review-based artist/critic slapfight. Here we have Stew -- the acidic folk troubadour behind the Negro Problem and dearly departed rock-musical Passing Strange -- expressing his extreme displeasure with
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February 2, 2010
Please Welcome the Backlash to the Taylor Swift Backlash
Her multitudes await, says Jon Caramanica. There's a contrarian streak in culture, where it's a lot easier to share an animosity towards a figure, whether it's the government or a pop star, says Maura Johnston. Also, you try holding onto four Grammy Awards without dropping at least one. (Robo ... More >>
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December 16, 2009
Hey, Gucci Mane's The State Vs. Radric Davis Is #10 in the Country!
He's no Susan Boyle (#1 for the third straight world beating week, for a grand old-people-still-buy-records total of 1.8 million copies of I Dreamed a Dream sold), but Gucci Mane does have his first top ten record. He sold 90,000--not quite Jadakiss numbers, but better than being the Clipse, ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
Hug a Rock Critic II: Vibe Has Folded
Vibe magazine, 1993-2009. As with Blender's demise (just with more history), this puts a ton of talented folks either out of work (occasional Voice contributor Sean Fennessey springs immediately to mind) or in an even worse bind from a freelancer's perspective. In happier times, Vibe supplied my fa ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Clipse Edition
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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June 30, 2008
Nikka Costa Tonight at the Bowery Ballroom
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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June 12, 2008
Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band Tonight at MSG
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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May 20, 2008
Kidz in the Hall Tonight at S.O.B.'s
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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May 13, 2008
Black Kids and Cut Copy at Studio B Tonight
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 13, 2008
Thursday | 5.15
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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April 23, 2008
Tonight: Sara Bareilles at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2008
Wednesday
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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April 3, 2008
Tonight: Ex-American Idol Bo Bice at B.B. King Blues Club
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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April 2, 2008
Tonight: Beach House at the Bowery Ballroom
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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April 2, 2008
Tonight: Cormega at the Knitting Factory
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 1, 2008
Wednesday
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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February 29, 2008
American Idol Week Two: Sucking Slightly Less
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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January 17, 2008
Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
Unknown
January 15, 2008
Maybe We Shouldn't Do This Anymore
The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008
NYC Life
August 1, 2006
Thursday 8/10
The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008
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January 24, 2006
I'm My Favorite Game
Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile
pazzandjop
January 24, 2006
The Personals
Falling in love for different reasons
News
April 19, 2005
Crimson, No Clover
Harvard revisited: outsiders, 'parlor liberals,' snobs, econ majors, and resisters
NYC Life
November 23, 2004
The End of Eminem
Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Music
November 2, 2004
Music
Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Specials
July 13, 2004
Letters
Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Specials
July 6, 2004
Letters
Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Music
June 22, 2004
Music
Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Home
February 3, 2004
100 Hottest Hotties
Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet
Home
February 3, 2004
On Da Corner Worldwide
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
News
November 5, 2002
Crossover Dream
Class Trumps Race in Eminem's '8 Mile'
NYC Life
April 9, 2002
NY Mirror
Class Trumps Race in Eminem's '8 Mile'
Home
February 15, 2000
Rev That Azz Up
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

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