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Star-ry Eyed Alexz Johnson Cuts Through the Bull and Regains Her Independence

Alexz Johnson really loves Brooklyn. It shows on her face with the way she lights up whenever her neck of the woods is mentioned. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter/actress relocated to the borough with one goal for herself as an artist: total scene immersion. It's a pretty good goal when you have to ... More >>

Pazz & Jop: The Confounding, Inexplicable Splendor of Rapper Future

Space is the place

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/21/12

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

Le Zhang Quintet

Fan Landers: "Helpful" Yet Sexist Fans; When To Hire A Manager

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Seven Important Takeaways From The Listening Session For Big Boi's Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors

Andre 3000 might be spending his summer dressing up as Jimi Hendrix, but his Outkast pal Big Boi has been busy putting together a new album. Titled Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, the project will be released on November 13; yesterday, Big Boi holed up in a Manhattan recording studio to host a li ... More >>

Russian Red

Pazz & Jop Comments: Top 10-Plus

The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down

She's Not There: WU LYF, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, And The Value Of Absence

Every year, ambitious young bands find new ways—fascinating, puerile, ingenious—to play the Internet, and in 2011, one of the most captivating, effective ways to do so involved near-silence. A cluster of breakthrough bands, WU LYF and Unknown Mortal Orchestra among them, caused a huge pu ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part III: Occupying The Year Of The Woman Cliché In Hopes Of Blowing It Up

Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street; confused woman. ​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. ... More >>

Kate Bush's Rework

The singer streamlines her back catalog on Director's Cut

This Week In The Voice: Lady Gaga, Kate Bush, EMA, And Brad Paisley

​In the music section of this week's Village Voice, available all around the New York metropolitan area: Rich Juzwiak gives the once-over to Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Kate Bush's Director's Cut; Theon Weber looks at the hazy world of EMA's Past Life Martyred Saints; and Mikael Wood talks t ... More >>

Gang Gang Dance Pick Through Pop's Junk Heap

On Eye Contact, the band transforms Lite-FM synths into bludgeoning tools

Walter Dundervill and Trajall Harrell Give New Meaning to the Word “Show”

Dance Theater Workshop and the Kitchen host the choreographers

Austra

Download: Religious To Damn's Moody Goth Melodrama "Glass Prayer"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​A mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism, it's not entirely certain if Brooklyn's Religious to Damn want to take you higher or drag y ... More >>

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

Wagner and The Smiths aren’t so different after all

CMJ Day One: Wild Nothing Inaugurate the New Simplicity At Irving Plaza

​Wild Nothing Irving Plaza Tuesday, October 19 Better than: How I'll feel by Sunday Well, it's hard to imagine a more pleasant way to begin CMJ 2010 than this, a half full Irving Plaza on a Tuesday night, before the adrenaline really takes hold, four dudes in sweaters playing staunchly prett ... More >>

Download Jazz Vocalist Theo Bleckmann's Covers Of "Running Up That Hill" And "Hello Earth"; See Him Further Channel Kate Bush At Le Poisson Rouge Tonight

Hopefully he'll bring some of his toys. Pic by John Rogers.​"Is this a sound being made by a human being, a musical instrument, the weather, a mountain? Am I somebody singing fully out or very intimately? Why am I doing this, at this precise moment?" Thus did local jazz/classical/avant-garde s ... More >>

Video Premiere: Lia Ices, "Grown Unknown"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Eric Ogden​Uplifting in a Kate Bush way, uneasy in a Cat Power way, the 2008 debut from Brooklyn dreamcatcher Lia Ices was a slept-on slow-burner full of haunting crooning, minimalist pianos, and shi ... More >>

Glass Candy

Twin Sister Talk the Inspiration Behind Color Your Life's "All Around And Away We Go"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Top 8 Guys: Michael Lynche Redeems His Own Bad Parenting; Tim Urban Hits the Suburbs

Kidnap that fool--Tim Urban. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ FOX. ​Such a weird night on Idol. There's still plenty of dogshit left on the men's side of the competition, and maybe even worse, there are plenty of people who haven't yet decided if they're going to be dogshit or not. And the night got ... More >>

Operation Ivy League: On Vampire Weekend's Vastly Bewildering Contra

It's definitely weirder, and definitely better.

DRAMA KINGS

Feeling melancholy? Get over it, and dance

Kristeenyoung

Bat for Lashes

Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard+Diane Cluck

Bat for Lashes Mourn Both Lost Love and A Lost Vision of New York

On John Forté's Cover of "Running Up That Hill," Which Exists

John Forte "Runnin Up That Hill" from The ICU on Vimeo. Here we have everyone's favorite Drug War casualty/Bush pardon equating his seven-year prison bid with... whatever struggle Kate Bush is agonizing about on 1985's "Running Up That Hill." Thesis: Are there men and women who deserve the second ... More >>

Maxwell Returns. So Do the Giant Panties.

Brooklyn's finest exiled soul singer clearly doesn't mind if you're just in it for the sex

Solange Knowles: Crazier in Love

On the daffy, mesmerizing retro-soul surreality of Beyoncé's younger sister

Hugs and Kisses #19: Everett True Frightens a Crowd, Discovers Amy Winehouse

Glittery Brit Diva's Remixes Are Better Trashy Than Bush-y

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What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

Radical Comfort

Hey Mr. Sax Man, you're the hidden king of rock and roll, or whatever it is

Listening in Real Time

Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

Pitchfork's Year-End List Vs. Haters

One-Trick Moles

Murderous songs much too bouncy to bring anybody down

Cocteau Metal

Lovely lady voice fronts scary instruments, sits in chair

We Got A Lot

Kvelling over damn near a dozen meanings of life, their average length close to an hour

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Wearing the Melancholy

This Dungeon's for Hire, Even If We're Just Dancing in the Darkwave

Two Soul Singers

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Betwixt and Downtown

Y Tori Can Groove

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