A history of violence
For starters, Mick Barr is not in Hella. Never was. Sure, the diminutive, scraggly-haired, baseball-capped experi-metal guitarist overlord has collabbed with the San Franisco spazz-proggers' drummer, Zach Hill, on a slew of intense and brain-scorching shredders. But those were just one-offs. ... More >>
Before he was writing novels about zombies, elevator inspectors and summers on Long Island, the man behind 2010's best literary twitter account worked on staff at the Voice, writing mostly about television but often about books and music as well. To coincided with the release of his new Zone ... More >>
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 13, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 19 Protest package By Michael Kerbel Melvin Van Peebles's "SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG" does for the black movement what "Getting Straight" did for the student movement: reduces it to escapist entertai ... More >>
Celebrating a great indie publisher
He should have been a star
the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds--Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20 Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and 47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an upcoming play) is hosting.--Brooklyn Book Festival ... More >>
Charles Hamilton, hitting deleteIn this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>
Avant-garde with some brotha-ly love
Classical Theatre of Harlem moves its hit show outdoors
Every fest has its misses. This year's Tribeca is no exception.
Friends and colleagues remember one of the music biz's few universally beloved men
God-fearing black man tames slutty white girl as Craig Brewer's South rises again
At 73, the original baadasssss shows no signs of slowing down
The Hit List
Nelson George brings the romance; Cervenka, the metal
Classical Theatre of Harlem revives the acid groove of Van Peebles's '70s musical
A loyal son imagines the making of his father's influential pre-blaxploitation psychodrama
25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival
Indie works in progress vie for buyers at 25th IFP Market
Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again
Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Windows to the Soul
