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May 9, 2012
Live From Jazzfest: Family Affairs And Holding On To History In A Changing New Orleans
In the grandstand, away from the heat of the Fair Grounds—the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium for each New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival—stood an exhibit of black-and-white photos that suggested much of the music going on outside. "Faces of Tremé," drawn from 30 years ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Dr. John Gets Locked Down With The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach
One recent trend in pop music has seen a number of old souls producing albums by the young at heart. Gospel goddess Mavis Staples's latest album, 2010's You Are Not Alone, was produced by Wilco wunderkind Jeff Tweedy; rockabilly vet Wanda Jackson's The Party Ain't Over, released in 2011, was oversee ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom
via VH1VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Southern Soul Guide: Sweet Angel, Mel Waiters, and Luther Lackey
A pack of thoroughly modern throwbacks
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February 15, 2011
Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield
Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Pazz & Jop Stats II: Calculating Enthuasiasm, Hipness, Metalism, And, Uh, Kvltosis
Time to learn about this albumPazz & Jop's album chart is officially ranked by points: Each voter has 100 to hand out, with no album receiving more than 30 or less than 5. There are, of course, a bunch of ways to turn that mass of music data into revealing lists. Here are four of them.
Music
January 19, 2011
Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: The Personals
Time to learn about this albumPazz & Jop's album chart is officially ranked by points: Each voter has 100 to hand out, with no album receiving more than 30 or less than 5. There are, of course, a bunch of ways to turn that mass of music data into revealing lists. Here are four of them.
Music
January 12, 2011
Mavis Staples Is for the Children
The soul icon/golden girl hooks up with Jeff Tweedy and charms the world anew
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January 12, 2011
This Week in the Voice: CityTime Costs and Costs and Costs
This week in the Voice, Graham Rayman details the disaster that is CityTime, a project of the Bloomberg administration meant to automate the city's payroll system. Last month, one CityTime consultant, Spherion, was indicted for defrauding the city of $80 million. Over the last 12 years, CityT ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
This Week's Voice: Mavis Staples, Shilpa Ray, and More
Mavis Staples: For kids aged 8-80. Photo by Chris Strong.In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden talks with soul icon/golden girl Mavis Staples about her collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, and David Cotner profiles local wailer Shilpa Ray.
Voice Choices
November 24, 2010
Jeff Tweedy+the Autumn Defense
Mavis Staples: For kids aged 8-80. Photo by Chris Strong.In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden talks with soul icon/golden girl Mavis Staples about her collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, and David Cotner profiles local wailer Shilpa Ray.
Music
September 1, 2010
Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years
But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist
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July 22, 2010
The Very First Consumer Guide: A Plus
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 10, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 39 Consumer Guide I by Robert Christgau Unless you are very rich and very freaky, your relationship to rock is nothing like mine. By profession, I am surfeited with records and live music. Virtually every r ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
Lollapalooza Lineup Announced in Full
Featuring the odd return of 1995, in the persons of Soundgarden and Green Day, modern arena-rock surrogates the Strokes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix, the National, and the Black Keys, and who else but Lady Gaga? Music is a befuddling tapestry in which Cypress Hill will always have a home. Comp ... More >>
Music
June 3, 2008
Talking with Robert Plant
Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.
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April 26, 2005
Democracy Now
Annual collaborative fest puts the 'O' back in countronica
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January 11, 2005
Intricacy And Economy
Hip-hop pied piper sustains multisyllables for long runs, cuts bravado with melancholy
Music
August 31, 2004
Inter-Century Freundschaft
Where the fuck is for example the Z100, gangsta-rock, and Merina-Senegalese fusion?
Music
August 24, 2004
Sympathy for the Slave
Stephen Collins Foster is back on earth, wrestling with race: the entity in the woodpile
Music
December 30, 2003
Singing School
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
NYC Life
December 16, 2003
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Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation
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October 9, 2001
Dances From the Gone World
Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation

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