Joni Mitchell

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/4/13

Here are the 10 best shows to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 1/28/13

Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

School of Seven Bells

Diane Cluck

Taylor Swift Is Playing Joni Mitchell

There's a movie in development based on Sheila Weller's book Girls Like Us, about various female singer/songwriters who helped shape the modern sound. Taylor Swift has been cast as Joni Mitchell, and the hissing of the summer lawns will have to drown out anyone's reservations about that. And here' ... More >>

Michael Arden

Judy Collins & Madelein Peyroux

Studies Look At What The Internet Can Do To And For Kids

via​There was a period in history when we assume being a teenage girl or a girl on the verge of teenagedom must have meant listening to a Joni Mitchell record while writing in a diary. Now, there's Taylor Swift, blogs, Facebook, texting and the like. It's all so confusing. So two recent studie ... More >>

Laura Marling

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

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

The Callaway Sisters

Rob Harvilla's Top 10 Albums Of 2010

Naturally, this dude is involved​Distilling a full year of furtive, easily distracted, constantly overwhelmed listening down to a mere 10 albums is a ridiculous, agonizing, thoroughly loathsome undertaking, and yet here we all are, pulling nine fully formed sonic universes together and capping ... More >>

Joni Mitchell Slags Off on Bob Dylan and Madonna

​Music legend Joni Mitchell has turned a shade of turbulent indigo as she hisses like a summer lawn, speaking her mind as per usual. In a fiery interview, Joni ragged on fellow folkster Bob Dylan, saying, "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist and his name and voice are fake." Yeah, ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over reason, we pleaded to our editors at the Village Voice to let us publish the No. 1 entry as one of t ... More >>

Alela Diane

Fanfarlo+Laura Marling (CMJ)

Tina Dico

'John Kelly Sings the Joni Mitchell Songbook'

This Weekend! Gays Take to the Streets

This weekend's celebration of the Stonewall Riots' 40th anniversary culminates with the Gay Pride Parade, which features Governor Paterson as a Grand Marshal. The Nokia Theatre is hosting a Commemorative Concert and Love Ball to raise funds for Heritage of Pride, who have helped in organizing the ma ... More >>

LADY OF THE CANYON

John Kelly digs out his Joni Mitchell costume

High Places Do Daytrotter Session

Steve SchroederPerforming at the estimable Che Cafe, in San Diego The consistently excessively excellent Daytrotter Sessions--in which traveling musicians come through Rock Island, Illinois and record a handful of songs in the tour spirit, meaning lots of improvisation, half-wrecked gear, and fatig ... More >>

Bold Grammy 2008 Predictions!

Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .

Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

This Year's Grammy Nominations: Fucking Insane

The Zeitgeist Reloaded

An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church

Mysterious Producer Wankers Deploy Wan Whumps

The Roots Reconsidered

Back to the Future

Two electronic chanteuses go their own way, one in the wayback machine, the other into a broken-beat future

1974

Rack Focus

So Near Yet So Far

Two works probe distance versus intimacy, and the ambiguity of a spectator's scripted gaze

Breath Fed

Mom conceives new uses for her lungs, mouth, and throat

Bronx Impresario Aviles Brings His Evening to Restored Downtown Parlor

Step by Step

Up in Canada, sk8ing away on the thin strife of a new day

The Joan Baez of Jazz

A great tradition strives to keep itself young by discovering its inner Melissa Manchester

Darn That Dream

Major tie-up on the one-way street from jazz to jam

Music

Escape Claus

Heaven Sent

Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore Reopen Douglas Sirk's Melodrama Fakebook

NY Mirror

Oddballs With Problems

Keeping It Unreal

Music

It's a Mann’s Mann's Mann's World

The Artists Formerly Known as Each Other (Almost)

Music

The Land of Less

Reeling from a major funding drought, vanguard performing artists downsize their dreams

Urgency Emergency

Meet the Counselors

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