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A beggar's banquet of Rolling Stones films
It's no surprise that Georgia May Jagger--the 20-year-old daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall--is a knockout. It's also not exactly shocking that she has huge pillow lips that open to reveal keyboard teeth. She's hot. In tribute to her ascendance as a fashion model par excellence--and a lippy ... More >>
Telling people about their bad press is a no-no, especially if you couch it in an "I'm so concerned for you" backdrop of fake-compassion. At least the one time I alerted someone to a bit of bad publicity, I did it without any disingenuous charm whatsoever. I was just flat out spiteful. This was i ... More >>
The latest rumor about how the Olympics will close themselves out next month comes from The Sun: "[Oasis's Liam Gallagher] will perform a new arrangement of... 'Wonderwall' with bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock." 12. All of the track & field competitors dress up like Benny Hill a ... More >>
Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>
It's been a busy year for Bruce Springsteen. In March, he released Wrecking Ball, his seventeenth studio album and tenth release to top the Billboard 200, and after packing in arenas across America throughout the spring, he took the E Street Band to Europe. His name is also in a top-40 entry on the ... More >>
Rumors have been circulating for some time that Kristen Wiig was considering her seventh year as an Saturday Night Live castmember to be her last. And, in the last sketch of the season finale on Saturday night, she confirmed those rumors with one of the best (and emotional) send-offs in the show's h ... More >>
The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>
Most people have a story about meeting someone famous—and most of those stories are dull. So why is an entire Tumblr site devoted to the most banal ones—"Did I ever tell you about the time... ?" is the header, but it's better known by its URL, Rock and Roll Tedium—such a riot? The ... More >>
More reasons to turn off the radio
The Song: Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger" The Crimes: Profligate whistling, misplaced sass, wholly unsexy instruction to "take [Levine] by the tongue." Earlier this year, both Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera were coming off what might be called "soft landings"th ... More >>
The Song: will.i.am feat. Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" The Crimes: Overhashtagging, sub-"Dancing In The Streets" incoherence from Jagger, using "feces" as a term of braggadocio. Sometimes I feel bad for the music industry, which has had a rough go of it these ... More >>
Plus: Ed Sanders's memoir Fug You
The forthcoming album from will.i.am, lead Black Eyed Pea and tireless trend-rider, is called #WILLPOWER, and yes, the pound sign is intentional; apparently he's so interested in willing (ha!) himself into the Internet-enabled public consciousness, he's named his album in the style of Twitter ... More >>
"Either you like my voice or you don't," Marianne Faithfull says in a deep, husky breath. "If people come to my music expecting my pretty voice, or anything pretty, they're going to be disappointed and they're going to hate it. It's much better to come to my work and say, 'This is going to b ... More >>
Well, "Moves Like Jagger," the Voice-synergizing duet between Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera that raises the sexual specter of the Rolling Stones frontman while, some hope, making people forget about Aguilera's overall pretty terrible 2010, has landed. It's an uptempo track with a riff that ... More >>
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This past weekend was a glorious cultural swan dive for Debbie and me that started uptown in the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sailed down throu ... More >>
"It was really hot at Siren Fest, but I didn't really wanna have my boobs out. People might think it was sexual." photo by Rebecca SmeyneWilly Siegel at Siren Fest 2010 When Baltimore art-rock group Ponytail played the Voice's Siren Festival last summer, people noticed two things: That Ponytail is ... More >>
There's a pretty astonishing piece of criticism on Slate today about the new Keith Richards autobiography, Life. It purports to be by Mick Jagger himself, and comes with an editor's note attached at the top: On a recent morning, the journalist Bill Wyman received a UPS package containing a ... More >>
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62 Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday by Grover Lewis SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 11, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 61 Day of the Angels: Let It Bleed! by Grover Lewis ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY, Alameda County, California -- All across the scalded brown hills looming above this seedy, out-at-the-elbows drag strip located 50 ... More >>
Beltrami Foods will bring regional Italian cooking to Avenue B. Included in the agenda for Community Board 3's SLA meeting tonight is Beltrami Foods, an Italian restaurant that's set to occupy the long-dormant storefront on 14-16 Avenue B, at the corner of 2nd Street.
That right there is a lovely bit of correspondence between Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, the man who would later design the super-iconic cover to the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. Although really, they could've just printed this letter verbatim and called it a day. [Letters of Note]
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Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again
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Wily wiry men start themselves back up with good album, innovative dance steps, ticket price jokes, and a corporate blimp
Darius Rucker proves that inoffensiveness still has its heartland place
Don't look back: From nostalgia-peddling dreck to sci-fi satire, the peril-fraught subgenre of the rockstar movie
Tight jeans for boys who like to highlight the goods
Aussie renegade heroism and British dental derring-do thrive against overwhelming odds
Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro
Hurts So Good
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