Kid Rock

Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered halfsies, making up one whole. Also, no songs sung in Spanish are on this list. I'm not saying Spanish isn ... More >>

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Monster Magnet's "Space Lord": Is It Rock and Rap's Missing Link?

Tomorrow, stoner-rock heroes Monster Magnet come to the Music Hall of Williamsburg to play their debut album Spine of God in its entirety. As career-making as that album was, talk of looking back on the group's legacy calls to mind their biggest hit, 1998's "Space Lord." While the song has since be ... More >>

Barack and Mitt Will Have Lunch Today; Here's What They Could Talk About

It has been almost a month now since America went to the polls and re-elected President Obama to another four years of running this whole place. Since then, we've collectively done well in the whole "taking our minds off the election" business. We've had Petraeus, the progress of the Sandy recovery, ... More >>

Andrew Goodman, Perv Who Got Smooch-On-The-Wrist Plea Deal, Could Be Federally F**ked

At the sentencing hearing earlier this month for convicted Brooklyn pervert Andrew Goodman, the pederast was so happy about the wimpy sentence he was set to receive (thanks to a sweetheart plea deal from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office) that he used the court appearance to declare his undyin ... More >>

Live from New York... It's Mitt Romney?

This has to happen. In what could be one of the most interesting Saturday Night Live episodes in recent memory, it has been reported that Lorne Michaels, the producer of the legendary sketch comedy show, has offered the Romney tent a chance for their candidate to show off his comedic flare ... More >>

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Pitbull And Nas: Where They Are Now

by Ian Cohen Timothy Saccenti ​ This week's Voice takes a look at how Pitbull rode a bullish multimedia campaign to a level of chart success and celebrity that far exceeds what he accomplished during reggaeton's heyday. It's every bit as heartening as it is surprising. When you consider the ... More >>

Adele Goes Deep

The queen of British white-girl r&b-dom is crowned at last

Q&A: Chavez's Matt Sweeney On How He Ended Up Working With Josh Groban

"What's up, Billy Corgan?" Photo by Annabel Mehran.​Back in the stellar, angular riffage-filled '90s indie-rock days of yore, guitar-rawk behemoths Chavez scorched downtown spots like CBGB while unleashing two now-classic mathy slabs in Gone Glimmering and Ride The Fader. Front and center in t ... More >>

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10 Profoundly Depressing "Celebrity" Sightings at This Year's Big Apple Comic Con

The special guest line-up for this past weekend's Big Apple Comic Con read a lot like a wish list for VH1's The Surreal Life: classic TV-show refugees (Different Strokes' Todd Bridges, Silver Spoons' Erin Gray, Dukes of Hazzard's Tom Wopat); cartoony wrestlers (Ric Flair, The Iron Sheik, Bushwacke ... More >>

Interview: WFMU's Tom Scharpling on His Twitter Novel, the New Scharpling and Wurster Album, and His Antipathy Towards Sleep.

"Fuel Dump is going to be like Magnolia. Or Crash. It's going to be like Magnolia meets Crash." Obligatory caption: "What I Do On The Weekends For Disposable Income." What Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling, might lack in modesty, he makes up for with his impressive ... More >>

The 9 Beers Obama Should NOT Serve at the Gates-Sgt. Crowley Meeting

​Certainly, the headline of the day is ABC News' "What Beer Will Obama Choose for White House Meeting?" This refers to the beer the President is scheduled to have with Professor Henry Louis Gates and the man who arrested him, Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge PD. Scott Mayerowitz' articl ... More >>

News Roundup: Brendan Flowers, Live Nation, Neutral Milk Hotel, Chris Brown/Rihanna

--The Killers' Brendan Flowers likely got to live out a childhood fantasy Saturday when he joined Bruce Springsteen for a duet of "Thunder Road" at the opening night of the Neatherlands Pinkpop Festival. Nowadays, it's a right of passage for Springsteen-influenced acts to join their idol onstage. Th ... More >>

Live: Snoopy Dancing to the Allman Brothers at the Beacon

Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre Thursday, March 26 I felt like this is something I should do at least once, given that many people feel like they should do this, like, hundreds of times. "There's an extra rig onstage," notes a clearly loyal gentleman in the men's bathroom, minutes before sho ... More >>

Grammys Fawn over Coldplay and Plant/Krauss, Set Race Relations Back 20 Years

Good for you. As any self-respecting Grammy live blog will have told you by now, the highlight of last night's occasionally lively fiasco was undoubtedly the "Rap Pack" black-and-white "Swagga Like Us" blowout, ostensibly starring Jay-Z/Kanye/Wayne/T.I. but dominated by a stupendously pregnant M ... More >>

Eminem's Tragedy is Our Comedy in The Way I Am

Back in the closet with his new memoir

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The Gorgeous Ladies of Alt-Folk Wrestling

Triple-A sirens contemplate blood, oil, and coffee with varying degrees of enthusiasm

The VMAs: A Running Diary

The (White) Rapper Show: Still Great

Good Riddance, Tower Records

The CMT Music Awards: A Running Diary

Music

Nashville Catches Up

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

The Personals

Me and My B's

NY Mirror

Bare Naked Lesbians

Horns and Halos

This '70s Show

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Manifest Destiny

The Return of the Dictators

Rock Boxed

Music

Forever Old

NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year

Dope Whites on Non-Punk

Ecleftic Ladyland

New Hope for the Stupid

Rev That Azz Up

Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

Music

The 12 Lays Of Christmas

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Politics of the pit

Politics of the Pit

Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock

E-Mail at the End of Time

Mambos in Bottles, Pit Bulls in Skirts, Smurfs in Stretch Hummers

Corn Doggy Dogg

Unholy Regional Hit, Batman!