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May 7, 2012
100 & Single: Buy An Adam Lambert Album, Strike A Tiny Blow For Gay Rights
About a year ago, the movie Bridesmaids opened in the U.S. and was the subject of a rather unusual awareness campaign. Female movie fans, largely independently of the film's producers, compelled women to go see the film in its opening weekend and defy common Hollywood wisdom that non-rom-com movies ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Madonna's Album Took a Record Nosedive, Say Insiders
I'm happy for Madonna's longevity. I don't agree with all the ageist complaints about her. I realize the decks are stacked harder against the woman because of these prejudices. And I applaud her for using a crafty array of marketing devices to try staying on top, as she's always done. The other ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
Guns N' Roses At The Cafe Carlyle?
Shocking moment: Talented Canadian singer Gregory Charles sang "Sweet Child O' Mine" at the hotsy totsy Cafe Carlyle last night. By request! It was like hearing the Sex Pistols at a coronation. Charles and his trio do a really fun show which starts with them banging out some jazzy standards ("Ta ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Fiona Apple, The-Dream, And More At SXSW Day One (With Video Of Two New Fiona Apple Songs)
If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Coming This Week: SXSW Coverage
by Chris Gray "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." —Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Should The Grammys Just Give The Album Of The Year Award To Adele Now?
For the last twenty years, the award for Album of the Year, the biggest Grammy honor of them all, has tended to go to two types of people: young women and old men. Female solo artists under 30 (Lauryn Hill, Taylor Swift) and male veterans over 40 (Tony Bennett, U2) have dominated the category for tw ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Adele Go "Rolling" Over Her Song Of The Year Competition?
The Grammys have a determinedly behind-the-times history, and Song of the Year is one of the ceremony's most reliably old-fashioned categories. It's given to the songwriter—even though what constitutes a "song" today is a lot different than when the Grammys began in 1959, back when sheet music ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Kathleen Hanna Is The Set Designer for an Insane Clown Posse-Inspired Performance Piece
It's not the first place we'd expect to find Kathleen Hanna's name, but there it is, subtly tacked onto the credits for Neal Medlyn's Wicked Clown Love, a 2012 experimental work "built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other form ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
100 & Single: LMFAO's Pair Of Chart-Toppers Suggest Stardom, Guarantee Nothing
The national star-making machinery only begins to take you seriously when you command the field more than once. Just like, say, GOP presidential candidates, pop acts can't chart one strong number and assume dominance is permanently theirs. They've got to come back on top, week after week, sur ... More >>
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November 20, 2011
Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)
Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
The Band Perry, Taylor Swift Win Big At Last Night's Country Music Awards
Last night, country music's biggest stars (not to mention welcome outsiders like Lionel Richie and Kenny Loggins, who joined Male Vocalist of the Year Blake Shelton for a performance of "Footloose") convened in Nashville for the CMA's annual awards show. By the time hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Un ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
100 & Single: You Can Keep Your EGOT; Adele's Going For A 2011 PB&G
The lady sitting atop both of Billboard's major lists this week has made enough news in 2011 that I'm tempted to rename this column "This Week in Adele." The British thrush is certainly making enough sad news these days, canceling her tour and preparing to undergo much-needed throat surgery. ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?
Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100
What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Levi Aron Suspected in Murder of Brooklyn Boy Leiby Kletzky; Facebook Page Asks, 'Is Your Family Safe?'
Levi Aron has been named as the suspect, not yet charged, in the brutal murder of Leiby Kletzky, the Brooklyn boy missing since Monday who was found chopped up in a suitcase, left in a Dumpster in Park Slope. It has also been reported that some of the boy's remains were found in Aron's refrig ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
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 >>
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March 24, 2011
American Idol Season 10, Top 11: The Freaky Rictus Smile of Thia Megia
This person has no idea what Motown is. Photo courtesy Michael Becker/ FOX. Since last we spoke, Karen Rodriguez has gone back to MySpaceLand, Steven Tyler's wardrobe has grown impressively more absurd, and Jacob Lusk has bodied the fuck out of Heart's "Alone." I missed the last week of Ameri ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Lionel Richie: Marvel Superhero & other horrors from America's worst coloring books
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Three Godawful Coloring Books The coloring book industry now profits thousands of do ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Who Should Perform at The Michael Jackson Tribute?
On September 26, Vienna will be home not to just mountains of high-caloric wiener schnitzel, but to scads of bad-for-you stars singing their love for Michael Jackson so they can gain a mass televised audience and revive their careers. It's basically the memorial all over again, but without al ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
Obits Do Minnesota Public Radio
The SOTC-beloved quartet Obits recorded at three song set at Minnesota's public radio affiliate KCMP on Monday, performing the relative rarity "I Can't Lose" (it was released on a Record Store Day 7" as the A-side to a Graham Nash "Military Madness" cover), a super-mellow "Two-Headed Coin," a ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
Live Blogging the Michael Jackson Memorial
Live Video streaming by Ustream For all the lovely grace notes, homages, and eulogies that have flowed from any number of erudite and compassionate individuals in the wake of Michael Jackson's untimely death at the young age of 50, a celebrity's death is not over in American until the huge, gaudy, ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
MJ in LA Update
Latifah said, "I'm here to represent millions of fans who loved Michael... all of you." She reads a Maya Angelou poem, "We had him," composed for the occasion: "Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing/Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer win ... More >>
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June 22, 2009
Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply
So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is
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May 20, 2009
American Idol Finale Results: The Live-Blog
Ray Mickshaw/FOX The only intrigue raised by last night's uneventful competition night of the finale was how in the world Cathy Dennis, who wrote the wonderful "Toxic" and "Can't Get You Out of My Head," collaborated with Kara DioGuardi on the awful new Idol winner's anthem, "No Boundaries." Winner ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Real World Brooklyn, Episode 9: Katelynn Has To Stick Things Inside Her Vag, Chet Auditions for MTV VJ Slot
Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>
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July 23, 2008
Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol
Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>
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July 9, 2008
Voice Choice: Neal Medlyn's Unpronouncable Symbol
Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 2, 2008
SEXUAL HEALING
A dude who knows how to Get Off
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June 10, 2008
Jamie Lidell, the Only Thing on Television
A dude who knows how to Get Off
Music
May 27, 2008
Usher Doesn't Have Sex Anymore
He now 'makes moments that will outlast the world' instead. You'll live with it.
Columns
April 29, 2008
Free Will Astrology: Week of April 30
He now 'makes moments that will outlast the world' instead. You'll live with it.
Blogs
March 26, 2008
American Idol Week Six: The Archuleta Problem
He now 'makes moments that will outlast the world' instead. You'll live with it.
Blogs
March 6, 2008
American Idol Week Three: "Hallelujah" and Bullshit
He now 'makes moments that will outlast the world' instead. You'll live with it.
Unknown
January 15, 2008
Why We Love Justice (and Shouldn't)
The perils of hyping dance music you can't really dance to
Music
July 17, 2007
Sublime Frequencies
The Field turns Lionel Richie and the Mac into thundering, florid ambient triumph
Blogs
February 12, 2007
The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary
The Field turns Lionel Richie and the Mac into thundering, florid ambient triumph
Blogs
January 30, 2007
Live: Conor Oberst, uh, M. Ward at Town Hall
The Field turns Lionel Richie and the Mac into thundering, florid ambient triumph
Blogs
January 6, 2006
Country Music Grapples With Race
The Field turns Lionel Richie and the Mac into thundering, florid ambient triumph
Music
September 20, 2005
Face Off
Slow jam superproducer returns to AC with vintage but divaless set
Music
July 5, 2005
Music
Slow jam superproducer returns to AC with vintage but divaless set
Music
May 24, 2005
Music
Slow jam superproducer returns to AC with vintage but divaless set
Dance
March 29, 2005
Laugh Your Heart Out
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
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August 17, 2004
NY Mirror
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
NYC Life
February 17, 2004
Listings
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April 15, 2003
Film
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
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November 6, 2001
Music
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
Books
May 2, 2000
Miss Understood
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
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April 4, 2000
NY Mirror
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
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September 28, 1999
Fresh Horses and Vegemite
Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)
Music
September 7, 1999
Summer of 69
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