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The Week in Music Writing: The Way We Make Hit Songs Now

We present this free compilation of music writing that Voice writers are into this week, all by writers we presume were paid for their efforts. If you have a story you'd like to see here, drop us a line.

Twitter Has Ruined the Art of the Musician Feud

Remember when musician fights used to be interesting--or at least memorable for more than two minutes? It's hard to imagine as we expend Twitter scrolling energy on Azealia Banks v. Angel Haze, Gaga vs. the Osbournes, Deadmau5 vs. Madonna, and the rest of the noise. Yet unbelievably, there was a tim ... More >>

Dogfish Head Chicory Stout: A Morning Beer?

Style: American Stout Serving style: Bottle poured into glass Location: My apartment with a cat on my lap Cost: $15 six-pack ABV: 5.2% [See More: Hey Alelitists: Let's All Stop Being Assholes About Beer]

Bands Carrying On The Proud Alice Cooper Shock-Rock Tradition ... According To Alice Cooper

Today we're handing the keys to the blog to spook rock pioneer Alice Cooper. Here he talks about a few music artists doing him proud. By Alice Cooper See Also: - Ten Creepy Movies That Scare the Hell Out of Alice Cooper - The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Th ... More >>

Waste of Paint: King Tuff Goes Retro, Pissed Jeans Get Pissed Off, Slug Guts Spook, and Sky Ferreira Charms

Illustrations by Debbie Allen CMJ is great. It's got all the stressful clusterfuckery of SXSW, but with none of the late night hot tub parties or surprise Kanye West performances! It brings a ton of acts to town all at once, and you can't really get mad at that. In honor of this grand industry tra ... More >>

Rob Zombie / Marilyn Manson - Hammerstein Ballroom - 10/17/2012

Better Than: Watching Elvira host Count Yorga, Vampire. It's always Halloween at a Rob Zombie and/or Marilyn Manson show. So when the reasonably dynamic, formerly dueling duo infiltrated New York a few weeks prior to the Pagan-ish holiday, it was hard to tell whether the crowd was in costume or str ... More >>

Live: Lamb Of God Build Their Wall Of Death At Irving Plaza

Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>

Q&A: Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf On Big-Budget Videos, Being "Highly Unfashionable," And Getting The Stoner-Rock Tag

Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf is a talkative guy. What was supposed to be a 30-minute interview to preview his band's performance of the 1995 album Dopes To Infinity at Music Hall of Williamsburg this Friday stretched into 90, as he took off and ran with subjects like how his band has been pi ... More >>

Live: Skylar Grey Peeks Out From Behind The Curtain

by Steven J. Horowitz ​Skylar Grey Dominion Tuesday, December 6 Better than: Remembering how much you listened to Evanescence back in the day. Skylar Grey has hustled the last couple of years, writing hits for everyone but herself along the way. The 25-year-old helped pen 2010's "Love the W ... More >>

ALTERNATIVE ART

Rock stars can do more than just rock

Me and Mini Marilyn Manson

​How hot is this pint-size Marilyn Manson impersonator extraordinaire, who sneered at my crotch-level carnival prize at the Amanda's Big Top party recently? In the Golden Age of Grotesque, this little Antichrist Superstar makes me want to say, "Eat Me, Drink Me."

What Will James Jay Lee's Psychotic Rampage Do to Daniel Quinn's Book Ishmael?

​Reported Discovery Channel environmental rampage-r James Jay Lee listed as a favorite book on his MySpace page and quoted extensively on his demands note from Daniel Quinn's 1992 philosophical novel Ishmael. If you went to college in America over the last 18 years, you've likely met someone r ... More >>

Surfer Blood Cover Neutral Milk Hotel, Owe Todd P Everything According to Miami New Times

Hey, wouldn't you know it, Surfer Blood casually cover Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two-Headed Boy" over a bottle of El Presidente, and it's not half bad for a bunch of dudes who won't even get up off the couch! They even screw up a couple times and it's still better than that awful Apples in Stereo vers ... More >>

Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul

Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>

Is Marilyn Manson Ripping Off the Elaborate and Awesome Costumes of SunnO))) Frontman Attila Csihar?

Hm, something looks oddly familiar here. All photos via Ideologic.​Almost certainly, yes! Back in September, SunnO))) leveled the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, punishing the crowd for more than two hours and three costume changes by the band's sometime frontman and vocalist, former Mayhem singer At ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 12: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. OK, we all agree that Phil Collins is for wussies--but there's got to be some middle ground, right?

Another Brooklyn Indignity: Phantom of the Opera Comes to Coney Island

​The terrible thing about the alleged new coolness of Brooklyn -- aside from the escalating rents and increasing population of young collegiate dolts -- is that the outside world is now bringing its aesthetic hideosities to our tree-lined streets. First it was the threat of a Brooklyn Sex & Th ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 30 through October 6

Week in Review: I Have a Blog, This is What Happens.

Rebecca SmeyneThese Are Powers' Pat getting his temperature taken in China​ In the week leading up to All Points Wet (har har), vandals insulted the word "gay" in describing Coldplay, we came up with suggestions for a Beastie Boys tribute on Friday at All Points West, and there were plenty of ... More >>

Marilyn Manson, Who Currently Wants To Give the World AIDS ("I Am Very Generous"), Still Shaking His Fists, Threatening Door-To-Door Visits Via MySpace

This continues. After threatening to pay home visits to quote-unquote journalists who make "cavalier statements" about him "personally or with my fans help" (read: the LA Weekly) Mr. Manson is still carrying on, posting angry mass-bulletin missive via MySpace. Buddyhead, the web site at the center ... 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 >>

News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

--Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

The Hesitant Triumph of Britney Spears

Her fans scream, her circus-themed antics mesmerize, and her wardrobe functions just fine

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Last Vegas's "I'm Bad"

Last week's prediction: Kiss My Ass. Five guys with stage-names chasing the wobbly dream of '80s hard rock superstardom, Last Vegas bear the all important 2009 Mötley Crüe cosign, which will surely come in handy when soliciting Guitar Center endorsements. World historical developments have cons ... More >>

Fergie Is a Man

And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

Party People

New York invades the Winter Music Conference in Miami

Big Time

Scissor Sisters take a break; Asia Argento breaks your Heart

Sweet and Lowdown

Truck stop 'hos, Miami fuzz, and nude, wriggling bodies converge at downtown festival

Machine Age

Wink, Wink

Wind Breaker

The Gothfathers, Part II

From Bauhaus to Our House

Alien

Banned in the U.S.A.

Annals of Dicks, Drugs, and the Devil

Letters

Getting Bizzy

IDLEWORM.COM

A Dose of Old-Fashioned Violent Wish Fulfillment

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Letters

Sugar High

Have It Your Way

Pop Culture Vultures

Influence Peddlers

Paper-Thin Reporting

School's Been Blown to Pieces

Everyday Terror in the Suburbs South of Denver

Consumer Guide

Nothing's Shocking

Who's Beautiful Now?

MTV Goes Gray