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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/25/13

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

Live: Café Tacvba Bust A Move At Irving Plaza

Café Tacvba Irving Plaza Sunday, August 26 Better than: Spending a night with anything else that's 23 years old. Dance is a vital part of Café Tacvba's ethos. A vast number of the Mexican rock legends' songs reference the act, while almost all of them encourage it. Hell, the band's best song ( ... More >>

15 Sexual Insights And Lovemaking Technique Tips From Mötley Crüe

Former Jarvis Cocker backup dancer and current Seattle Weekly Dategirl Judy McGuire's new book, The Official Book Of Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll Lists, is rife with lists counting down debauched and out-there moments of —Ozzy Osbourne's health tips, pot-smoking hints from Willie Nelson, marri ... More >>

BLACK MAGIC

Witch cast their evil spell on Santos'

New York's Finest '90s Rock Tribute Acts Get Their Halloween Costumes Ready

Grunge days, revisited

Bert Jansch, R.I.P.

Influential British folk guitarist Bert Jansch, 67, passed away on Wednesday night in London from lung cancer. Having watched Jansch in performance when he opened for Neil Young just over five months ago, it's shocking to say the least: "while Jansch's singing voice at times came out murmured and in ... More >>

Arias With a Twist Triumphs Again

​After a series of curtains dramatically open onto each other one by one, a kaleidoscopic light show erupts, followed by an overture played by a puppet orchestra. And on comes the star in full dominatrix gear, strapped to a neon hoop that rotates as aliens probe and examine him and he belts o ... More >>

Erotic Art With a Happy Ending

At this all-male drawing studio, the models touch themselves—but the artists can't

Five More Ways For Cee Lo Green To Re-Record His Big Hit

​ Cee Lo Green nearly topped the pop charts with his vulgar hit "Fuck You" thanks to some creative maneuvering; its blithely profane chorus was reworked so it could pass the FCC's muster for radio-airplay and Glee-warbling purposes, and it was dubbed "The Song Otherwise Known As Forget You" w ... More >>

Julie Taymor's Other Tempest

Mungo Jerry Arrives to Save Rock 'n' Roll

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 6, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 32 Riffs By Andrew Lycett LONDON -- The Beatles are dead, the Stones are playing bad, repetitive music. In fact, the English music scene has been in a state of unhappy hiatus for the last year or so. Gone a ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix Finishes His Electric Lady Studio on 8th Street

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 25, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 26 Scenes By Howard Smith WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio was first announced, costs were cheerfully estimated at $350,000 to convert the old square dance premises of the Village ... More >>

Video: Harry Potter 'Deathly Hollows' Trailer Finally Out, World Gets a Little Bit More Magical for this Muggle's Monday

​Sorry to interrupt you from your daily reading about the boring-ass Supreme Court or the boring-ass Rolling Stone or the boring-ass BP oil spill or whatever other boring-ass "important" non-magical thing you read about today, but, um, THE NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILER IS HERE! Click the "More > > ... More >>

Live: Bidding Isis A Fond Farewell At Webster Hall, Alongside The Ever-Unflappable Melvins

Isis earlier this month, letting it all go. Isis/Melvins/Totimoshi Webster Hall Friday, June 18 Farewell tours are weird, the celebratory nature of live rock being counteracted by the knowledge that this will never happen again; the listener can frequently walk away feeling weirdly hollow, as tho ... More >>

This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Our First Date With Them Crooked Vultures

Getting to know a deliciously indulgent, only slightly exhausting hard-rock supergroup

Them Crooked Vultures

News Roundup: Radiohead, Weezer, Brooklyn Book Festival, Them Crooked Vultures, The Verve

​--A new Radiohead track was mysteriously posted at the fan site Atease yesterday. "These Are My Twisted Words" is a two-minute number that may just well be the sing-along anthem of the summer. Just kidding. It's an eerie, echoey five-and-a-half minutes of noise and Thom Yorke's vocals don't e ... More >>

News Roundup: Modest Mouse/Heath Ledger, Them Crooked Vultures, Live Nation, Billy Lee Riley

​--The long-shelved video for Modest Mouse's "King Rat," directed by Heath Ledger before he died, premiered yesterday. The video imagines a world with a talking sun where whales commandeer ships and hunt, kill, and skin humans. No worries, though: profits from the video will go to environmenta ... More >>

So That Onion Article Might Come True: Marilyn Manson Is Really Now Offering To Go Door-To-Door To Shock People; The LA Weekly May or May Not Be First on His List

Manson's mug shot from 2001, after rubbing his pelvis on a security guard's head Even funnier than that Best Music Writing-feted piece in the Onion from 2001--"Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People," a classic you should reread immediately--is that it's threatening to come tr ... More >>

WHEN VIKINGS ATTACK

Opeth and Enslaved wield their battle axes

Sonic Youth, Merce Cunningham Deploy Giant Cricket Helmet at BAM

Daniel S. NeunerExperimental Jet Set? Sonic Youth meets Merce Cunningham. Of all the strange bandstands Sonic Youth have played on over the years, this had to be one of the strangest. This past weekend, the group joined Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Takehisa Kosugi to provide th ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 63: Mudhoney Hack Job

"Teenage Alternative Realities" and Black Sabbath in John Darnielle's Master of Reality

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Optimo Demolish the Subgenre

New Genre Alert

Buzz-Worthy

Country Music Needs a New Publicist

Burly Men

Crushing hard rock from where you'd least expect it: here

Animalize

Talking with John Mikl Thor, rock gladiator

Dance

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Be Stiff

German robo-pop legends stand still like mean machines

The Drowned Baby

Lucky messy punks from Seattle peel down their Christmas stocking and show their context

Music

Demented Blur of Trombonist-Led Outfit Recovers From Info Overload

NY Mirror

Mome Raths Outgrabe

Outsider Rockers Come Inside With Vorpal Swords in Hand and God in Their Din

This '70s Show

Pet Sounds Boy

Cash & Carry

Money For Nothing in Used-CD Central

Chain Store Hairdos

Music

Wheatfield Gnosticism

The Goths Must Be Crazy

Dark Metal's Windowless World

Beats Below the Street

Yiddish Dreams

Bigger Beat