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The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the best jazz shows in NYC this month.

The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

By Ryan Wasoba Bands are collections of people. In any such group, some people will be cooler than others. Even in an uncool rock band, there will be cool people. Here are the six coolest members of uncool bands. Cool? Cool. See also: Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

Q&A: Marc Ribot On His Headlining Run At The Village Vanguard, Heading Into Unfamiliar Scenes, And Coming To New York In The '70s

While working in organist Jack McDuff's band in 1979, guitarist Marc Ribot learned not to "hit the obvious note," a guideline he's followed ever since. As a sideman, he's strummed for the likes of Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, the Lounge Lizards, and John Zorn; on his own, he moves from solo guitar to ... More >>

Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones, Trevor Dunn and Mary Halvorson and can also be found pulling all-nighters drumming in Haitian vodo ... More >>

Live: Marianne Faithfull And Marc Ribot Bring A Vibe To City Winery

Marianne Faithfull & Marc Ribot City Winery Thursday, March 15 Better than: Stones tributes. If the billing of a stripped-down duo performance between Marianne Faithfull, the 65-year old pop singer, and Marc Ribot, the master guitarist of the downtown jazz scene, seemed too good to be true, it wa ... More >>

Ceramic Dog

Dissonant Notes at Jazz Festivals

Tensions between promoters and musicians underscore this year's slate

Live: Undead Jazzfest Shows Off Its Rock-Solid Vital Signs

Brian Chase (l) and Alan Licht (r) perform at Kenny's Castaways on June 23.​ Second Annual Undead Jazzfest Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, (le) poisson rouge, The Bell House, Littlefield, CrossFit Gym, Homage Skateboard Training Facility Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25 Better ... More >>

Second Jeff Mangum Show Added To Portishead's Big Three-Day Fest In Asbury Park

​The Portishead/All Tomorrow's Parties-curated festival I'll Be Your Mirror, taking place down the shore in Asbury Park from September 30 through October 2, has added a second performance by the no-longer-all-that-reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum to its itinerary, and is relea ... More >>

IT'S ALIVE!

This jazz festival is a monster

In Praise of Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, and the Graceful Despair of Marc Ribot

This Week's Voice: AraabMuzik, My Chemical Romance, Orange Juice, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and More

My Chemical Romance go . . . Styx. Photo by Neil Krug.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg profiles the 21-year-old rap producer AraabMuzik, Christopher R. Weingarten is not impressed with the new record from My Chemical Romance, Francis Davis praises new efforts from Bill Frisell, ... More >>

Week in Review: Quarantine the Past

Later, dude. Photo by Rob Harvilla​In the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>

Download: Marc Ribot, "Delancy Waltz"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Silent Movies (out now September 28, via Pi) is a gorgeous and insular detour for downtown guitar visionary Marc Ribot, a dude best known for frenetic Tzadik -endorsed aggro-jazz, wild excursions wi ... More >>

The Jazz Passengers

Alternative Guitar Festival

Tonight! Previously On Lost, Das Racist, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, and Skeleton$

​There's only one lyric you need to know for Tuesday night: "So like a pimp I'm pimpin'/I got a boat to eat shrimp in." Yes, "Shake Your Rump," among other Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys classics, will be performed by esteemed essayists and rap aficionados Das Racist at Cameo. Continuing this t ... More >>

Chad Taylor's Circle Down

'Silent Films/Live Guitars with David Bromberg & Marc Ribot'

'New York Guitar Festival'

Advance Stream: Richard Hell's Somewhat Bizarre, Thoroughly Excellent Destiny Street Repaired

​So here's a strange thing: Next month Insound will release a revamped, partially rerecorded version of Richard Hell and the Voidoids jovially jagged 1982 NYC punk classic Destiny Street, with Robert Quine's original rhythm-guitar tracks overlayed with all-new vocals by Hell and stupendously o ... More >>

Tonight! Cam'ron, Marc Ribot, and Explosions in the Sky

In the event you're hoping for a love connection at Harlem megastar Cam'ron's show tonight, know that the guy's idea of foreplay is "Get in the car, and don't touch nothin'/Either we lovin' or I'll see you tomorrow." He's at B.B. King's. Marc Ribot is best known for the shambling licks he contrib ... More >>

Allen Toussaint

In Praise of Marc Ribot...

...style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire

This Week's Voice: Booker T. Jones, Akron/Family, Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, The Girlfriend Experience, Jim Jarmusch, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla visits Booker T. Jones at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where the indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star. Aidan Levy in praise of Marc Ribot, style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire. Jesse Jarnow on the otherworldly ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Phyllis Little wouldn't leave her apartment in the Bronx until she saw justice done for her nine-year-old granddaughter, raped and murdered in 1998. The police say they have the man who did it, and Little is preparing to go. But her mind isn't settled -- not about Robert Fleming, who insists he's ... More >>

GOING, GOING, GONE!

Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko

Marc Ribot Needs to Rock

With Ceramic Dog, the trailblazing guitarist puts the 'Party' in Party Intellectuals

Live: Spiritual Unity with the Joshua Light Show at Issue Project Room

Jolie Holland Talks About Working With M. Ward, Yogi Bear

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's Raising Sand

A whole lotta desolate, evocative, engrossing love

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Five Days Later, Tonic's Demise Still Sucks: Protesting Outside City Hall

Intertrend Crib Notes: Tonic, Feist, and Joel Brodsky

Austin and Brooklyn Songsters, Appreciated by the A-list

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

New Hope for the Dead

Downtown Poetry Institutions Team Up to Help Katrina Victims

Leaving Out the Saxophone, a Tone Scientist Resurrects Albert Ayler's Spirit

Poetic Justice: New Year's Day dueling words marathons

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