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#HashtagMusic: Are We Witnessing its Beginning or its End?

#Hashtags are probably the bane of your Twitter existence. You no doubt follow people who either use them too much or in the strangest possible ways. Chances are, you regularly do the same. #DGAF. Currently, there are two songs that begin with a #hashtag in the Top 20. it's the most 'sign o' the tim ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Laina Dawes On Tombs And Other Metal Bands That Shake You To The Core

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Up next is Toronto writer Laina Dawes, whose ballot is a study in the year's best extreme metal offerings. I first got turned on to Tombs, whose Path Of Totality ended ... More >>

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 >>

Two Christmas Songs I Really Hate!

​I know "hate" and "Christmas" probably shouldn't be in the same sentence, so how about "despise"? Anyway, I absolutely loathe "The Little Drummer Boy". I find it slow and tedious and pretentious and annoying. Hearing it over and over again is the equivalent of putting hot pokers under my n ... More >>

HO! HO! HO!

Santas, get those vocal cords ready

Radio Hits One: Adele Brings The Ballad Back To No. 1

​Adele's 21 has ruled the American charts for most of 2011, and it's done so almost entirely on the back of one song: the lead single "Rolling In The Deep." While the British singer was topping charts in her homeland and several other countries with the follow-up single, the ballad "Someone LI ... More >>

Summer, We're Over You: 8 Reasons to Look Forward to Winter

viaYeah, you wish. ​Listen, we (that is, Jen) loves summer. But maybe not everyone does. And because it's our dear intern Esther's last day, we're letting her sound off on the subject. Let the summer-hating commence! It's August, and it has been for two weeks now. Summer is almost over. We ma ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Many of Boyz II Men's Five #1 Singles Can You Name?

​Thanks to new albums by The Weeknd and Frank Ocean, this is totally the month of hipster R&B. You can read our own Sean Fennessey's magnificent think piece on it , or maybe peep The Guardian's informative take on the "cult of Cassie" among chillwaver types, or maybe just follow Eric Harvey ... More >>

The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010

No.​Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Cee Lo, Janka Nabay, Mariah Carey, the Books, and More

Cee Lo Green: Nice, not gnarly. Photo by Kai Regan.​In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden asks if The Lady Killer and "Fuck You" will finally turn Cee Lo Green into an actual solo superstar, Jesse Jarnow talks with Sierra Leone superstar Janka Nabay about his relocation to the Brooklyn, Ric ... More >>

The Brilliant Stupidity of The-Dream

Love King continues the r&b lothario's streak of making terrible ideas sound like genius

Live: Fang Island Cover Mariah Carey, Inspire Much Unironic High-Fiving At Cake Shop

Fang Island's Jason Bartell, reveling. Pics by Raymond Haddad, more below.​Fang Island Cake Shop Saturday, May 29 No offense to the other four (!!!) bands on this bill, but the full-on, Facebook-abetted lightsaber battle raging in the park at Houston and Chrystie on the Lower East Side Saturd ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Pazz & Jop 2009!

​In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>

Police Kill Former Jay-Z/Diddy Bodyguard; Thugs React

​Chaos inside Brooklyn's Norwood Palace late Saturday night led to the fatal wounding of a club bouncer who'd previously worked as a bodyguard for Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, and P. Diddy. He either was or was not pointing a gun at the officers when they fired on him. Not the best weekend for trigger ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Paramore, Mountain Goats, Mariah Carey, Jemina Pearl

Ryan Russell"WE SOLD OUT WEMBLEY ARENA IN ONE DAY!!! WHAAATTT?!?!!" In this week's Village Voice, Ryan Dombal watches Paramore, led by emo femme fatale Hayley Williams, bust up the Lonely Tears Boys Club. Zach Baron thumbs through chapter and verse trying to understand the Mountain Goats' The Life ... More >>

Tyler Perry Assembles The World's Greatest Blactresses

​So Tyler Perry--you know, the Madea guy--is writing and directing a film called For Colored Girls, based on the brilliant series of monologues called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. (The play surfaced in '75, when you had to have long, interesting title ... More >>

LET'S GO CRAZY

Is grinding allowed during "Darling Nikki" at Prospect Park?

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 >>

Sonic Youth's Rather Regressive Latest

The Eternal doesn't break new ground, for the first time in 20-plus years

Tennessee Tunes in to its Beaten-Down Characters

The Worst Karaoke Songs of All Time!

"Womanizer" by Britney Spears. Anyone who tries singing it can never keep up with the quick vocal spurts and rapid repetitions. There's a reason Britney lipsynchs.

Empire State Building Cuts Power for Earth Day

There's more to Earth Day than anti-Communist ravings and deposits on water bottles. Nick Cannon, actor-DJ-Mr. Mariah Carey, and Spongebob Squarepants, fresh from his Earth Day appearance on the Daily Show, are here to tell you that the Empire State Building will power down for 60 seconds tonight ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Jadakiss Brings New York Fire to Texas

At the indiest of indie-rock showcases, GZA upstaged Black Lips, Kanye battled Metallica for most anticipated semi-secret act, Janelle Monáe grabbed best in show honors, and Jadakiss and Styles P tore it down in what appears to be broad daylight (way better look than their show a couple weeks bac ... More >>

Push Wins 3 Prizes at Sundance

Last week we mentioned that the novel Push, written by Harlem schoolteacher and poet Sapphire and a popular multi-cultural reading assignment hereabouts, had been made into a film and was debuting at the Sundance Festival. Last night the film won the Festival's jury and audience awards in the U.S. d ... More >>

American Idol: Judge Kara, Still Hot, Our Gaydar Report, and What Are They Eating in Kansas City?!

Sharyn Jackson will be your American Idol host for season eight. Her first dispatch from Tuesday's season premiere followed the adventures of Bikini Girl, Blind Guy, and Kara DioGuardi, our new judge! Last night's episode was a batch of more auditions and whoa there were some doozies. It's Day 3 ... More >>

iVoice: Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift Paint their Toenails!

iVoice: Coldplay's Chris Martin Tries to Befriend Thom Yorke

iVoice: A Night Out With Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson

iVoice: Kanye West "Flashing Lights" Video Chat

J. Lo Produces Feel the Noise

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Kids Incorporated

Disney superstars and their accessible tales of growl power keep the record biz afloat

High and Dry

The Long, Arduous Search for the Non-Low Rise Jean

The Grammy Awards: A Preview

Are You In Love?

Rock stars, dating experts, and cartoon characters talk about Valentine's Day

Garage Daze

Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

How the Other Half Lives

America Gets in Touch With Its Interior Designer

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Split Decisions: the Critics Speak

Befores and Afters

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Minstrels All

Labels and Labeling

Five Corporations Cope With Content

Flava Flav and the Mad Hatter

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Push in the Bush

Sugar High

Look Who's Ticking