Lucious Left Foot

Music Fall Picks 2013

Sorry, But Kanye Is the GOAT

Kanye West is the greatest hip-hop artist of all time. He's made the best albums and changed the game the most, and his music is the most likely to endure. One thing before we get going: This isn't one of those arguments meant to piss people off or "start a conversation." We really mean it. And, c ... More >>

Toxic Shock

Britney Spears and the artlessness of the chase

Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys

​"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>

Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

Arcade Fire Take Early Lead In Year-End-List Mania Sweepstakes

​It's been quite a day so far for incredibly detailed statistical analysis that I barely understand: I'm still puzzling over this "Complete Map of Optimal Tic-Tac-Toe Moves," and am barely more literate when it comes to parsing friend-of-SOTC and noted Voice jazz guru Tom Hull's master chart o ... More >>

WALK IT OUT

Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks

Q&A: Yelawolf Talks Dubstep, Harmony Korine, and Trunk Muzik 0-60

Hannibal Matthews​Yelawolf began the year with the mixtape Trunk Muzik and he's wrapping up his 2010 with a major label EP, Trunk Muzik 0-60, out today. Between the internet release of his mixtape and the EP's arrival in stores, Yelawolf signed to Interscope records, toured with Wiz Khalifa, s ... More >>

New York Magazine's "Jukebox" Feature Returns To Mercilessly Antagonize Us Yet Again

This imaginary man has some thoughts on Big Boi.​Break out the good china, everybody: Our least favorite record-reviewing conceit has returned, wherein very probably apocryphal New Yorker stereotypes say incomprehensibly insipid things about the hot artists of the day. Are we all dying to hear ... More >>

Watch Big Boi Do "Shutterbug" For Jay Leno

It's Big Boi's world this week, the praise for Sir Lucious Left Foot near-ubiquitous out in the Internet ether, so nothing left to do but perform perhaps the record's best song for the Internet's favorite late-night talk-show host. He's gonna do an actual show in NYC, with this full-ish band and e ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Summer of Whippets

​It may not be the summer of love (in fact, we're pretty sure it isn't), but that doesn't mean that you can't spend the next two months "jamming to the familiar hiss of hippie crack." In this week's cover story, John H. Tucker goes inside the Nitrous Mafia, a surprisingly organized group made ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>

Big Boi Is Not Too Artsy

After endless clashes and delays, the OutKast rapper's triumphant solo album emerges at last

Go Now: Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty Is Streaming In Full On His MySpace Page

​Yes, kids, in one week the ugliest release-date-shuffling hostage situation in hip-hop history is finally resolved with the release of Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot. (The word "released" has never been more appropriate.) To celebrate, go ahead and listen to the whole thing right here. "Gene ... More >>

On Big Boi And Andre 3000's "Lookin' For Ya"

​Rap Radar has your hookup: I am beginning to suspect that Big Boi's (finally!) imminent Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (which it's not even clear if this song is even on) is going to be fantastic. Here we have one of those heartbreakingly rare de facto Outkast reunion tracks, a ... More >>

On Big Boi's New Single, "Shutterbugg," From The Solo Album That's Actually Finally Coming Out This Year, Thank God

​Get the MP3 here or here. "I'm shittin' on niggas/And pissin' on the seat," avers Big Boi on the massive, glitzy, delightfully garish (i.e. Scott Storch-produced) new single off the (finally!) imminent Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, hip-hop's most appalling endless-delay hosta ... More >>