Maxwell (Musician)

Two Gallants Are Back After A Four Year Hiatus

"Taking four years off when you're kind of a young band that's just starting to take off isn't really the best idea in the world," admits singer-guitarist Adam Stephens, one half of the San Francisco duo Two Gallants. "I definitely know that it wasn't the best timing, and I think we're still kinda w ... More >>

New Pornographers' A.C. Newman Is Going To Start A Jam Band

Carl Newman, the New Pornographers frontman who also records apart from the group under the moniker A.C. Newman, just released his third solo offering, Shut Down the Streets, a couple of weeks ago. The album's equally inspired by two recent events -- the death of Newman's mother and the birth of his ... More >>

Q&A: The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly On Nirvana Covering Their Songs, Loving Mudhoney, Eugenius And New Tunes

The Vaselines—the rascally horny, popcentric duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee—are, as their classic song from their 1989 debut LP Dum Dum portended, ageless "Teenage Superstars." The twosome formed The Vaselines in 1986, and along with fellow pop- purveyors Glasgowians The Pastels, ... More >>

Q&A: Dean Wareham On The Last Galaxie 500 Set In New York, Leaving the East Village For Brooklyn, His Forthcoming Solo Album, And John Lydon Walking Out On A Luna Show

Thurston Moore himself called Galaxie 500's pioneering debut record, Today, "the guitar record of 1988." Considering 1988 marked the release of Sonic Youth's landmark Daydream Nation and Dinosaur Jr's pedal-stomping sludgefest Bug, that bold proclamation by Moore was indeed a revelation. But it was ... More >>

"Yellow Submarine" Sends Beatles Fanatic Into Childhood Rage Fit

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Q&A: Rhett Miller On Producing His New Record And Crowdsourcing's Unintended Physical Side Effects

The past year has been non-stop for Rhett Miller. The Old 97's frontman launched his own label in 2011 with a covers record, The Interpreter—Live at Largo, and the 97's put out The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 a mere eight months after 2010's Volume One. It's only going to get busier from here—t ... More >>

Live: Robert Glasper Brings His Glow To The Highline Ballroom

Robert Glasper Experiment Highline Ballroom Tuesday, February 28 Better than: Sitting at home with the radio. "About what time does ?uestlove finish up at the Fallon show? It couldn't have been that long ago, right?" That query, overheard amid the big beats pumping from the Highline Ballroom's s ... More >>

The Gories' Mick Collins Counts Down His Favorite Reunion Shows, The Best Gory Flicks, And More

High up in the pantheon of bands that didn't get their due until now, the Gories spent the dead end of the college rock '80s and the birth of alternative rock early '90s in Detroit playing neither, instead opting for an amazingly feral pound-down of '50s booze-blues and '60s garage rock that made th ... More >>

Remembering The Court Tavern, New Brunswick's Storied Rock Dive

When word first started leaking out on Facebook that New Brunswick, N.J.'s Court Tavern had closed, an early response was, "Again? Is this a yearly occurrence now?" It wasn't as if the Court hadn't been in trouble before. A decade ago, management successfully fended off developers who wanted to buil ... More >>

Q&A: David Thomas On Resurrecting Rocket From The Tombs, Grooming His Replacement In Pere Ubu, And Doing What He Wants

​Tracing the antecedents of punk rock is as easy as whipping out your trusty map, then looking toward Michigan (The Stooges' blood-stained, glass-stabbed, track-marked skuzzballness; MC5's Afro-sized destructo rawk-n-roll bombast), New York (The Dolls' lipstick-smeared, cross-dressing scum-blu ... More >>

Q&A: Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jr.'s Lou Barlow On '80s Hardcore, Signing With SST Records And How Evil J Mascis Used To Be

via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.​The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>

Q&A: Bob Mould On See A Little Light, Blowoff, Hüsker Dü And Being "Pretty Fuckin' Out" At 51

Brendan McWeeney​When Bob Mould—ex-"miserablist" and noise-pop architect behind Amerindie rock gods Hüsker Dü and alt-pop gurus Sugar, as well as under his own name—writes in his brutally honest autobiography tour de force See A Little Light of a revelatory moment in 1998 when he ... More >>

Video Premiere: Hank & Cupcakes' "Ain't No Love," Featuring the Voice's Very Own NYPD Tapes Series

Alan LugoHank, Cupcakes, lipstick Club-diva bass-burp duo Hank & Cupcakes have only paid New York City rents for two years, but have already experienced the first-hand (dis)pleasure of being apprehended by our local law enforcement. Detained "for putting three bumper stickers on lightpoles in Will ... More >>

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

We Live In A World Where MGMT Could Lose A Grammy To Hall & Oates

​Hey the Grammy nominations were announced. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell (!!), etc. Best Male Solo Rock Performance is staggeringly old (Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Fogerty, Prince). Best Metal Performance ain't so youthful neither (Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, ... More >>

The Reigning Sound, Within Reason

NC garage titans emote pain, but mostly on weekends

Maxwell Returns. So Do the Giant Panties.

Brooklyn's finest exiled soul singer clearly doesn't mind if you're just in it for the sex

When Free Radicals Become Free Agents

Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow

Edge of 38

John Roderick seeks life partner, mega-band status

Splendour in the Crass

Spring load with punk psychopaths and cheerleader cherrybombs

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Got Your Sex Raps Here

Nevertheless, Nas still sounds like a man who's thinking even when he'd rather not be

Whine In Vain

Preening, confessing, aloof Atlanta r&b phenom falls short

Island Riddim

Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

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Carry Your Torch

By the time they make Albuquerque, she'll be modeling

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Garage Daze

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

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Opening Up

When Who's on First Is What Matters

Blige: Queen of Street Couture

Run With It

Choreographers Fling Gauntlets to New York City Ballet and Philadanco!

Anxiety (Get Nervous)

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Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

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New Wave Dogs Movin' In

All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

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In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

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Louder Than Bombs

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