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Riff Raff vs. Spring Breakers and Other Music Stories We <3

Here's a round-up of the music stories Voice writers have been reading recently. Take a spin through the links below and tip us off if there's something you like that we may have missed.

The Most Overused Terms In SXSW Band Bios

By Craig Hlavaty Before I take any trip to Austin and SXSW, I always take more than a few days to peruse the schedule and check out a few of the hundreds of names on the roster and read their bios. Some years there are more bands with "wolf" and "space" in their monikers than usual, and some year ... More >>

The Best Tweets and Photos From Last Night's Grammy Awards

Last night, during the 55th Grammy Awards, we trudged through the bile and self-loating of angry would-be comedians and critics who took to Twitter to tell Jack White he looks like Edward Scissorhands and Johnny Depp he looks like the butt baby of Jack Sparrow and Steve Tyler and Adele she was dress ... More >>

10 Movies to Watch in 2013

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The Fall Of Curtis: How September 11, 2007 Changed Everything For 50 Cent

Let me indulge in a little bit of Jay-Z/Kanye fan fiction in the least 50 Shades of Grey way possible: Def Jam President and retired rapper Jay-Z was fed up. 50 Cent had been sending subliminal barbs Jay's way for eight years, starting with a shot Mr. Carter's way on "How To Rob" when they were b ... More >>

Live: The Internet Shows Off Its "Weird-Ass Music" At Bowery Ballroom

The Interet w/Kilo Kish, Phony Ppl Bowery Ballroom Sunday, August 5 Better than: Staying home to wait for Drake's posthumous Aaliyah collaboration. The MTA and its agenda of mediocrity made me late for last night's Kilo Kish/The Internet show at Bowery Ballroom, but as I walked into the main space ... More >>

Hit Machines: The Ten Best Singles Runs From Post-Confessions R&B Albums

In his recent review of R&B singer Miguel's fantastic Art Dealer Chic series of EPs, The A.V. Club's Evan Rytlewski explained the singer's rise in popularity by floating the idea that his 2010 album All I Want Is You contained "arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher's Co ... More >>

Six Things To Know About One Direction, The Quintet Taking Over The Metropolitan Area For The Next Few Days

Beginning tonight and spooling out over the weekend, a pack of five British youths will blitz the tri-state area with performances and signings and, eventually, a Rockefeller Center-stuffing appearance on NBC's Today. The five young men make up the vocal group One Direction—a five-member boyba ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Adele Brings The Ballad Back To No. 1

​Adele's 21 has ruled the American charts for most of 2011, and it's done so almost entirely on the back of one song: the lead single "Rolling In The Deep." While the British singer was topping charts in her homeland and several other countries with the follow-up single, the ballad "Someone LI ... More >>

Friends With Benefits

The Top Ten Failed First Singles Off The Game's The R.E.D. Album

​This list began as a joke, but the longer I contemplated it, the more depressing its basic concept became. Consider: not only could I easily string together ten of Game's fruitless attempts to force label executives to release The R.E.D. Album, his followup to 2008's LAX; I had to make decisi ... More >>

Ten New York Bands You Should See At This Weekend's Northside Festival

Making Friendz (aka Tami Hart) plays Shea Stadium tonight.​Northside Festival starts tonight! Finally, your very own chance to see the best emerging local bands taking over Brooklyn bars for four nights... or as we like to call it, "pretty much every weekend in New York ever." We here at Sound ... More >>

If You Happen To Be In The Vicinity Of Rockefeller Center, Be Sure To Visit The Ever-Growing Tent City Of Lady Gaga Fans

​"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," goes the motto of the Post Office, but it also could be applied to fans of Lady Gaga, who are already camped out outside the NBC studios in hopes of seeing their patro ... More >>

Download: Making Friendz's Blown-Out, Hooky "Situation"

​ Brooklyn's Making Friendz is a self-described "punk 'n' b" dance riot, dragging the glittery disco blips of electro into the No Age age via euphoric, no-fi joymosh. Mastermind Tami Hart came here in 2005 from the same Cali scene that produced the mushy, expansive bluster of No Age, Abe Vigod ... 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 >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? House Music vs. Hashtag Rap

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! The most important artist of 2010.​Hi everybody! To ... More >>

Brooklyn's Best Butchers; New Coffee Hot Spots

​Goodfoodjobs.com, new Craigslist-type website for job seekers looking for employment in a sustainable food environment, has launched. [Diner's Journal] A roundup of Brooklyn's best butcher shops includes New Public Meat Market in Sunset Park, Michael's Prime Meats in Flatbush, and M&S Prime ... More >>

DEATH BECOMES HER

Sheila Callaghan returns to the scene of the crime

So: What's the First Professional Review of The Social Network (AKA The Facebook Movie) Say?

​Facebook just released their newest innovation that furthers the social network's reputation as a product meant to track your every move like the digital shock-collar we all know it is but have yet to fully come to terms with as (or have already given up on fighting). Which is also perfectly ... More >>

The Escalade Is the Most-Stolen Car, But Whose Would You Jack?

​In the choice between going big or going home, if you're stealing a car, you've already opted to go pretty big. With that in mind, it's not surprising that car thieves don't chintz -- they go straight for the Cadillac Escalade SUV, the most likely vehicle to be stolen, according to an insuran ... More >>

Most Romantic Street Artist Ever Proposes; Plus, Find Your Perfect Proposal Video Match!

​At the beginning of the summer, we brought you The Most Epic Marriage Proposal Ever, and this one rivals it with a certain finesse and understatement. Understatement? Yeah, not usually a word associated with Day-Glo murals and public marriage proposals, but we noted a nice level of modesty he ... More >>

Google Launching Facebook Killer "Google Me"; Facebook Movie Trailer Hits YouTube

​Maybe I'm just not up on the lingo of the tech world, but why is a new product always set up to "kill" an existing product? Aren't these unrealistically lofty expectations, especially when the thing you're trying to "kill" -- in this case Facebook -- has nearly half a billion users worldwide? ... More >>

The Great New York Lost Finale Party Guide

LolLost The fated day is almost upon us: This Sunday is the series finale of ABC's beloved tropical clusterfuck, Lost. If you've yet to find your ideal finale viewing party bar, now is probably the time to figure it out. Do you prefer island-appropriate mixed drinks? Or perhaps a city-wide scavenge ... More >>

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Rihanna's Rated R

Her new album is as angry and profoundly uncomfortable as you might have suspected

So How'd the Roots Do Last Night During Jimmy Fallon's Big Debut?

Dude is actually pretty funny. (Credit: Chad Griffith) Let it be known that within 15 minutes of the first episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, ?uestlove was providing drum-rolls for an audience-participation game called "Lick It for 10," wherein some kid from Staten Island was goaded into lic ... More >>

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

Dirty Blonde: Jon Bakhshi's Eco-Friendly Greenhouse; A Pitchfork 500 Party

Soho gets a "green" nightclub, plus a swank winery that sticks mostly to red and white

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The Best Thing About Year-End Top Ten Lists

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Things I Learned Watching High School Musical 2

Mediocre Girl Gone Good

Rihanna's triumphant, only occasionally cringeworthy pop-star coronation

American Idol's Season Ends

Evaluating This Year's Potential Summer Jams

The Sound of Summer

Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.

Hussy 'N' Flow

God-fearing black man tames slutty white girl as Craig Brewer's South rises again

The Unforgettable Fire

Joyously overwrought arena rock often sounds even better in church

Virile R&B Dudes Seek Maturity, Female Companionship

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

The Death of the Dumb Blond

Why peroxide rot is, like, officially over

Mixing Up Bottle Service

The Spirit Tree adds a new level of status to drinking

Who's More Annoying Than Osama bin Laden?

A Critic's Job at Work

God Goes Goth

50,000 Tears Under the Sea

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Ghost Dance

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