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May 9, 2012
This Week in the Voice: Rikers Violence, Out of Control
This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman has obtained photos of Rikers inmates with severe knife wounds and beatings to the face, neck, and arms, writing: "Four years ago, the Voice first wrote about the violence at Rikers, which was not only condoned but also promoted by jail officials in a ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
SOTC's March Madness: Rakim (6) Tangles With Black Star (11) In Our Quintessential New York Musician Tournament
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. We'll have some first-round results later today, but ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
LIVING HISTORY
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band  celebrates its gold anniversary
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Ten Steps To Shabazz Palaces: Tracing Ishmael Butler's Path Between Digable Planets And The Present
Back in the early '90s, Ishmael Butler came to rap prominence as Butterfly in the group Digable Planets. These days, he's taken on the moniker Palaceer Lazaro and records as the lead voice in Sub Pop's first hip-hop signing, Shabazz Palaces. It's a metamorphosis that Butler has left deliberat ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Rock The Bells NYC Lineup Updated; Erykah Badu To Perform Baduizm
Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the New York City stop of the Rock The Bells Festival, which will take place on September 3 at Governors Island. The lineup for the all-star hip-hop concert, during which a slew of heavyweights (Nas, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Raekwon & Ghostface) will revisit album ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Ms. Lauryn Hill And Nas To Headline Rock The Bells Festival, Which Hits NYC In September
The Rock The Bells festival returns to the New York area with a Sept. 2 date at Governor's Island. This year's installment is headed up by a slew of full-album sets that includes run-throughs of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Illmatic (which Nas will perform with AZ, Pete Rock and DJ Premie ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Ten Hip-Hop Covers Of Rap Songs
Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 2, 2011
Idle Warship
Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2010
Doom & Mos Def
Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Damon Dash's Basement, Where Facts Go to Die
These Are Powers play in the basement. Maybe. Who knows, really. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.Truth is an ever-shifting creature in the confines of Damon Dash's infamous 172 Duane Street Tribeca loft. The venue began as Under 100, before we got the place (allegedly) shut down; shortly after that, ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 12, 2010
WAX, ECSTATIC
Don't blink, or you'll miss Mos Def
Blogs
October 15, 2009
DJ AM and James Chance, Together at Last: Downtown Calling
We are against hagiography as a rule, but let's take a moment to list just a few members of the cast of Shan Nicolson's late '70s New York doc Downtown Calling, narrated by Debbie Harry and opening at the Austin Film Festival, next weekend: DJ AM, Wild Style's Charlie Ahearn, TV on the Radio' ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
Robert Glasper Experiment
We are against hagiography as a rule, but let's take a moment to list just a few members of the cast of Shan Nicolson's late '70s New York doc Downtown Calling, narrated by Debbie Harry and opening at the Austin Film Festival, next weekend: DJ AM, Wild Style's Charlie Ahearn, TV on the Radio' ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
THROWBACK TO THE FUTURE
Duo Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek are back again
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Jimmy Fallon and Mos Def Pander to Aging Rap Fans
More proof that Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is targeted straight at rap nerds: Mos Def and Jimmy Fallon spontaneously covering Run-DMC's "It's Tricky." Also: points to Mos Def for doing the classic shutting-down-the-white-guy-rapping thing after like nine seconds. Below, Mos and the Roots do "Ca ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
News Roundup: Krist Novoselic, Drake, Black Keys, Iggy Pop
--Krist Novoselic is running for public clerk in Washington as a member of the Grunge Grange Party, a community service-driven group that was popular among farmers in the 1870s. Novoselic, who is the chairman of the Wahkiakum County Democratic Party, is not running to win, but to promote the party. ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
A Brief History of the Times' Valiant Attempts to Give Fucked Up Press Without Mentioning Them by Name
Santiago FelipeAs a huge fan of the paper of record's oft-awkward attempts to cover profane bands/albums/songs without actually naming them, so as to avoid offending anybody -- my all-time favorite is still their refusal to cite Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds by name -- you have to admire how often ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.
In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>
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March 30, 2009
Christopher Hitchens Calls Mos Def "Mr. Definitely" on Bill Maher
One of the things most entertaining slash most infuriating about rappers straying, whether intentionally or otherwise, onto political talk shows is the inability of their hosts and fellow guests to call them by their given names. Hence a smirking Dennis Miller calling Young Jeezy both "Emphysema" ... More >>
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March 3, 2009
On Big City Philadelphia's "How to Rob An Industry Hipster"
Rapper-robbing: a time-honored tradition. And rap "hipsters" are easy targets: Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, Kid Sister? Alright...This from a rapper whose official bio reads: A deal from Beanie's label State Property was on the table when fate would intervene yet again. Big City's affiliatio ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 31, 2008
Mos Def
Rapper-robbing: a time-honored tradition. And rap "hipsters" are easy targets: Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, Kid Sister? Alright...This from a rapper whose official bio reads: A deal from Beanie's label State Property was on the table when fate would intervene yet again. Big City's affiliatio ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2008
Mos Def Rolls at Movie Premiere
Rapper-robbing: a time-honored tradition. And rap "hipsters" are easy targets: Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, Kid Sister? Alright...This from a rapper whose official bio reads: A deal from Beanie's label State Property was on the table when fate would intervene yet again. Big City's affiliatio ... More >>
Music
August 5, 2008
A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells
The exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the LIRR, Mos Def's basketball uniform, and De La Soul's late-'80s nostalgia
Voice Choices
July 29, 2008
THROWBACKS AND BACKPACKS
Rap gets its own Lollapalooza
Blogs
July 1, 2008
Live: Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall
Rap gets its own Lollapalooza
Voice Choices
February 26, 2008
DEF DEFYING
Mos Def speaks out
Blogs
November 30, 2007
Status Ain't Hood Podcast 14
Mos Def speaks out
Music
July 24, 2007
Evil Empire Strikes Back
A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection
Music
April 3, 2007
Public Space Is the Place
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's brotherly love invades a square or circle near you
Music
January 2, 2007
Def in a Jam
On the endlessly inventive and increasingly mishandled career of Mos Def
NYC Life
October 24, 2006
Us Weekly
Celebs who won't let you take their picture are bad; non-celebs who demand you do are worse.
Film
February 21, 2006
Aging Hollywood Hack Attempts Clumsy B Movie
Celebs who won't let you take their picture are bad; non-celebs who demand you do are worse.
Blogs
December 19, 2005
A Metal Band So Heavy That It Doesn't Even Make Music
Celebs who won't let you take their picture are bad; non-celebs who demand you do are worse.
Blogs
December 14, 2005
Mos Def Is Boring
Celebs who won't let you take their picture are bad; non-celebs who demand you do are worse.
Film
April 19, 2005
Mostly Harmless
Galaxy quest: Disney waters down sci-fi classic, turning radical wit into not-so-deep space
Music
November 23, 2004
Hip-Hop Doppelgängers
Iced-out thug and boho griot keep it surreal on complementary CDs ready for iTunes
Music
November 2, 2004
Sonic Refuges
Rock and roll could never hip hop like this and vice-versa et cetera, part 400something
News
April 20, 2004
A Fistful of Mighta Been
How the Miramax of Music Soundbombed
Music
February 17, 2004
Brit R&B Transplants Show off Chops, Miss Kaffeeklatsch
How the Miramax of Music Soundbombed
Film
October 7, 2003
Film
How the Miramax of Music Soundbombed
Theater
May 20, 2003
The 48th Annual Obie Awards
All Over—Till Next Year
Music
February 6, 2001
Pazz & Jop Preview
All Over—Till Next Year
Music
March 14, 2000
Green Again
All Over—Till Next Year
Home
February 15, 2000
Rev That Azz Up
Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
Home
February 15, 2000
Flak On Both Sides
Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds
Music
November 9, 1999
Mos Testifies, Monch Eats
More Than One Way to Rawk a Funky Joint
News
August 31, 1999
It's Nation Time. Again.
A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets
Music
May 25, 1999
Louder Than Bombs
A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets
Music
April 27, 1999
Respect Due
A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets
Music
October 13, 1998
Do for Self
A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets
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