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April 27, 2012
Kool Herc Gets Honored; Niagara Bar Lets Loose
Kool Herc's Birthday/Sutra; Normalized Dance Night/Niagara Bar Thursday, April 26 Better than: Reading about how NYC's nightlife is dead. Last month, in the spirit of March Madness, SOTC created a tournament with the aim of crowning the quintessential New York musician. Popularly dubbed the Godfat ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
SOTC's March Madness: The Quintessential New York Musician Tournament
Sound of the City's monthlong tournament to determine the quintessential New York City musician (since 1955, the year of the Village Voice's founding) is taking over our site all March. The full schedule and results (as of March 23) below; you can also follow along with our bracket.
Blogs
March 19, 2012
Dipset (13) Clashes With Bette Midler (5) As SOTC's March Madness Gets Heated
Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week. Today, all the remaining contenders in the Uptown division battle it out in the Round of 32. Keep up with all the action here. As if predestined by the Moirai, Bette Midler and the Diplomats will ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Kool Herc (12) Takes On Bette Midler (5) As Round One Of Our Quintessential New York Musician Tournament Continues
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness--in which we determine the quintessential New York musician--launches this morning with a series of polls. Up for debate this time: Hip-hop pioneer Kool Herc and the brassy yet divine Bette Midler. Check out the arguments in favor ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 29, 2012
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP
Stevie B, Corina, Safire, and more return to the Bronx
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.
Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Tonight! Will Hermes Talks About His New Book With Kool Herc, Laurie Anderson, Bob Christgau, And More
Yes, tonight at Housing Works longtime Voice pal Will Hermes assembles hip-hop Godfather DJ Kool Herc, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, Laurie Anderson, Salsa legend Larry Harlow, and former Voice music editor Robert Christgau to discuss the city's music scene(s), as they unfolded from 1973 t ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 23, 2011
MEMORY LANE
Weren't the '70s the best?
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Live: Grand Wizzard Theodore Brings It Back, Fred The Godson No-Shows At Simpson St. Block Party
Grand Wizzard Theodore, Illstyle and Peace Productions, Hip-Hop Kung Fu, and more Simpson Street, Casita Maria Saturday, August 6 Better than: Cowboys & Aliens. "Some of you might say I'm preaching to the choir," Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon, a former Zulu Nation member and our master of ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Dig If You Will These Pictures: '80s Musicals, from Dolly Parton to Prince
Grand Wizzard Theodore, Illstyle and Peace Productions, Hip-Hop Kung Fu, and more Simpson Street, Casita Maria Saturday, August 6 Better than: Cowboys & Aliens. "Some of you might say I'm preaching to the choir," Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon, a former Zulu Nation member and our master of ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2011
Kool Herc's Top Three Old-School New York Hip-Hop Venues
Kool Herc plays the genesis figure in hip-hop's fable; the first party the Jamaican-born, Bronx-raised DJ threw in the recreation room of his building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in 1973 is credited with formalizing the genre. From behind two turntables Herc spun the short, percussive sections of ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
DJ Premier: Kool Herc Needs Your Help
Over the weekend DJ Premier, as authoritative a voice as you could ask for in a situation like this, raised the alarm re: Clive Campbell, a/k/a DJ Kool Herc, the guy with as good as claim to the Godfather of Hip-Hop title as anyone. Though details are scarce at the moment, evidently Herc's be ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
Live: Nas, Cee Lo, Pete Rock, And Diplo Command An Open Bar Beneath The Manhattan Bridge At Heineken's Behest
Nas, imploring everyone to Tweet #heineken. Pics by Puja, more below.Nas/Cee Lo/Pete Rock/Diplo/J Cole Some Random Warehouse Saturday, November 13 Better Than: The same show sponsored by almost anyone else. "How can you not have a good time when this is free?" shouted hip-hop artist Bua as ... More >>
Music
August 25, 2010
Jim Jarmusch's Showtunes
On ATP 2010, musicians as actors, Tom Waits's threats, and what planet ODB was on
Blogs
June 17, 2010
A New Report Offers New Visions for New York's Street Fairs
A plague of souvlaki and tube socks.The folks at Terroir aren't the only ones who have noticed that summer street fairs tend to suck. The Center for an Urban Future has just released "New Visions for New York Street Fairs," a report designed to "kick off a discussion about how these staples o ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Back to 'Africa' With Nas and Damian Marley
Why the blockbuster collusion of Distant Relatives feels so . . . distant
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Live: Tears, Mind-Blowing Routines, And Intense Unity At The Roc Raida Tribute
DJ Scratch, doing the classics, to robust crowd approval. Pics by Puja Patel, more below. Roc Raida Tribute B.B. King's Thurday, October 22 The line outside B.B. King's last night for the Roc Raida tribute--celebrating the beloved turntable king who died September 19--took up half an ... More >>
Music
July 8, 2009
The Slow Redemption of DJ Disco Wiz
Hip-hop's first prominent Latino DJ offers a grisly but triumphant memoir
Blogs
June 19, 2009
Interview: Artist Ben Frost on His Latest Show, Plague Landscapes, at Brooklynite Gallery
"I faked my own death and everybody believed me: even my mum cried when she read about it in the paper." In 2000, Australian artist Ben Frost faked his own death, sending out newspaper funeral notices that doubled as invites to his solo exhibition. Some, of course, saw this in poor taste--but wha ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 10, 2009
FROST'S BITE
Disney mixed with s/m? More, please.
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Zap Mama, Cake, and Some Golden-Age Hip-Hop
Starting today, intrepid Voice intern Michael Downes will offer a daily, highly biased digest of that evening's best NYC shows -- and the whole weekend's slate on Friday, which today is, mercifully, if you were not aware. Enjoy. FRIDAY Zaire-born Marie Daulne fronts Zap Mama at Joe's Pub. Foun ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009
KRS One+DJ Cool Herc
Starting today, intrepid Voice intern Michael Downes will offer a daily, highly biased digest of that evening's best NYC shows -- and the whole weekend's slate on Friday, which today is, mercifully, if you were not aware. Enjoy. FRIDAY Zaire-born Marie Daulne fronts Zap Mama at Joe's Pub. Foun ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
Live: Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz at B.B. King
Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz B.B. King Blues Club March 10 Star power does funny things to your eyes. Take last night's Busta Rhymes/Ron Browz show at B.B. King, for instance. I mistook Kool Herc for Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Richard Webber--an honest mistake considering that the four elements of hip-ho ... More >>
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March 10, 2008
Trinity House Residents Seek 'Kool Herc' Reprieve
Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz B.B. King Blues Club March 10 Star power does funny things to your eyes. Take last night's Busta Rhymes/Ron Browz show at B.B. King, for instance. I mistook Kool Herc for Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Richard Webber--an honest mistake considering that the four elements of hip-ho ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2008
Herc's Building Saved, But What About Other Mitchell Lamas?
Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz B.B. King Blues Club March 10 Star power does funny things to your eyes. Take last night's Busta Rhymes/Ron Browz show at B.B. King, for instance. I mistook Kool Herc for Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Richard Webber--an honest mistake considering that the four elements of hip-ho ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2008
Kool Herc Fights to Save Birthplace of Hip Hop
Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz B.B. King Blues Club March 10 Star power does funny things to your eyes. Take last night's Busta Rhymes/Ron Browz show at B.B. King, for instance. I mistook Kool Herc for Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Richard Webber--an honest mistake considering that the four elements of hip-ho ... More >>
Music
October 23, 2007
Delicious Vinyl
Gorgeous crate-digger mag Wax Poetics teaches us to value the artifact as much as the art
Music
September 11, 2007
Bee Kind, Rewind
The exuberant wild style of Busy Bee still resonates three decades later
Music
April 24, 2007
A Deluge of Parades
Promoters, DJs, and dancers alike prepare for some much needed cabaret lawlessness
Blogs
January 10, 2007
The 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: A Report Card
Promoters, DJs, and dancers alike prepare for some much needed cabaret lawlessness
Blogs
December 27, 2006
Remembering James Brown
Promoters, DJs, and dancers alike prepare for some much needed cabaret lawlessness
Music
October 3, 2006
Pure Percussive Pleasure
Kenny and Louie's joyous retro reboots dominate clubs and living rooms alike
Music
February 28, 2006
'Old-Schoolest of Collectors'
Grandmaster Flash and the Smithsonian's new hip-hop collection
Music
January 31, 2006
A Soldier's Hagiography
Helping his people remember why they love themselves
Music
March 1, 2005
Unstoppable
Veterans look back at hip-hop's big-bang birth in the Bronx
Books
February 8, 2005
Can Flow Will Flow
'Give them an apocalypse, and they would dance': Jeff Chang's monumental hip-hop history
Music
January 18, 2005
Old School
Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel
News
November 19, 2002
World War of Words
As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop
NYC Life
October 29, 2002
Hip-Hop Hooray
As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop
Books
April 2, 2002
Generation Hiphop's Aesthetics
As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop
NYC Life
May 29, 2001
Rock: Festivals
American Bandshell
Music
March 27, 2001
Music
American Bandshell
Music
February 29, 2000
Dreams of a Final Theory
American Bandshell
Home
February 15, 2000
Rev That Azz Up
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
Long Island Voice
November 30, 1999
Still Rough Enuff to Break from NY To Long Island
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
Music
August 3, 1999
A (Re-)United Front
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
Music
March 30, 1999
Out of Time
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
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December 22, 1998
Letters
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