Music Festivals

Music Summer Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Team Up

Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made

The Ten Dumbest Things Overheard at SXSW

For every insightful conversation I have heard or had at SXSW over the years, whether it was talking to Matt Pinfield while walking the streets of Austin talking about David Bowie, or telling The Clash's Mick Jones that he was in fact, in The Clash, I have overheard a thousand awful ones. See Also ... More >>

Super Bowl Gospel Celebration Will Be Filled With Homophobes

This weekend's Super Bowl festivities will be a competitive celebration of tight ends and wide receivers mixed with heavy doses of God-fearing hate and loathing. Queerty has the story about tomorrow night's Super Bowl Gospel Celebration, a star-studded lollapalooza with a dazzling lineup of bigoted ... More >>

Deftones: Here Comes the Rain

Offering a master class in outperforming a storm

Zac Brown Band Stretches Country's Limits (And Its Legs) On Uncaged

Country music has never had a simple relationship with Mexico. While outlaws like Waylon Jennings once warned that there "ain't no God" on the other side of the border, Tim McGraw more recently took the opposing position, suggesting that God in fact created the country, but only as a place for trapp ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: June Is Jazz Festival Month In New York City

In this week's Voice, Larry Blumenfeld reports from last month's Blue Note Jazz Festival and Vision Jazz Fest, taking in performances by Buika (above), Jason Moran and Herlin Riley, Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Grimes, and others. Congratulations to Larry, also, on being named the winner of the Helen ... More >>

Jonathan Toubin To Host 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty; Delicate Steve Added To Festival Lineup

The Voice's 4Knots Music Festival is a little more than a month away—it takes place Saturday, July 14, at the South Street Seaport's Piers 16 and 17—and New York's foremost purveyor of soul sides, Jonathan Toubin, will host the afterparty, scheduled to go live right after the main show e ... More >>

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Black Lips To Headline 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty; Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday

The 4Knots Music Festival—the Voice's annual all-day music extravaganza, set to take place this year on July 14 at the South Street Seaport's Pier 17—won't end after the sun goes down. The afterparty, which will take place at the nearby Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club, and will have as it ... More >>

Archers Of Loaf, Team Spirit, Doldrums, And Devin Added To 4Knots Music Festival Lineup

The 4Knots Music Festival—taking place on July 14 at the South Street Seaport, and already featuring The Drums, Hospitality, Bleached, Crocodiles, and Nick Waterhouse—has added Team Spirit, Doldrums, and Devin to the bill, as well as the mighty Archers Of Loaf. Check out Dan Weiss's hist ... More >>

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience

Live From Jazzfest: New Orleans Celebrates Its Gift To The World

Just as Kermit Ruffins sang "Sunny Side of the Street" with trumpet in hand, an early morning sun shone powerfully across North Rampart Street in New Orleans onto Congo Square. Two centuries ago, enslaved Africans and free people of color drummed and danced here each Sunday, exerting their right to ... More >>

Live: The Village Voice Hosts An 18-Band Marathon In Austin

Village Voice SXSW Showcase Red Eyed Fly, Austin Saturday, March 17 Better than: Drinking green beer on Sixth Street. During South by Southwest, musicians, industry folks, and people who want to have a particularly music-filled spring break head to Austin in order to soak in the less-threatening M ... More >>

The Worst Moments From SXSW 2012

Over the last few days, Village Voice Media's music editors have been regaling you with stories of the best from Austin's South By Southwest Festival. But with the best must come the worst, and our critics unfortunately came across the following borefests, technical problems, and insults to their in ... More >>

Wheelchair Sports Camp's Crip Life

If there were ever a moment for a queer, disabled rapper with a love for pot, jokes, and revolution to be a star, the moment is now

Ten Years Of Free Ted Leo Shows In NYC: A Brief Retrospective

Matias Corral​ You're forgiven for wondering if the Sound Of The City is really just a gussied-up Ted Leo fansite, but we argue that's the only natural reaction to his glorious existence. Ted Leo is many things: insightful songwriter; leave-it-all-on-the-stage performer; great interview subjec ... More >>

'Northside Festival'

Middle Brother+Dawes+Deer Tick

Why Pitchfork Is Challenging CMJ With Their #Offline Festival

Screaming Females at CMJ, last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In case there was any doubt, it's now official: next week's Pitchfork-sponsored #Offline Festival will have no CMJ affiliation whatsoever. "This is purely a Pitchfork event," a representative for the website told us yesterday: "just ... More >>

Woodstock Hangover: Ripping Off Rock Festivals

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 30, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 31 Rip-offs and revival By Don Heckman Summer rock festivals. Hippie capitalists. Rip-offs. Exploitation of the "rock community." Not exactly the kind of year anyone expected after the good vibes of Woodstoc ... More >>

Bootleg Roundup: Download Spoon At Madison Square Garden, And Darcy James Argue's Secret Society At the Newport Jazz Festival

All hail Spoon, arena-rockers at last. Pic by Ben Jay.​A couple splendid bootlegs to start your week, starting with Spoon's triumphant, 15-song (!) opening set for Arcade Fire at MSG last Wednesday, as captured by the indomitable NYC Taper. Britt Daniel and co. fill the place just as capably a ... More >>

Soundgarden Invent Chillwave On Unreleased Track "Black Rain"

LOL, j/k. "Black Rain" (a Badmotorfinger sessions outtake, not a brand-new track as I'd initially suspected) leaked in the aftermath of Soundgarden's triumphant (or at least not-catastrophic, in any case) return at Lollapalooza over the weekend (setlist here, and thank god they're still playing "G ... More >>

Tonight's Joao Gilberto Show At Carnegie Hall Is Cancelled, Alas

​A major highlight of the in-progress (and still plenty loaded) CareFusion Jazz Festival is not to be, alas: Tonight's Carnegie Hall fete with bossa nova deity Joao Gilberto has been canceled due to travel issues. Per the fest's official statement:

Announcing the Siren Festival 2010 Tenth Anniversary Line-Up: Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Harlem

Paul Antonson This year, we proudly celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Siren Festival. In the history of the our free Coney Island corndog bonanza, no band has ever played Siren twice. This was a conscious decision on behalf of our fearless festival founder and organizer (who we've kindly rewar ... More >>

The Tenth Annual Siren Festival Will Take Place on Saturday, July 17, 2010

Rain or shine, fools Since you already pick up the Voice every week in print, you already saw on page 54, beside Michael Hoinski's tale of watching Roky Erickson eat rocky road ice cream, that the 10th Annual Siren Festival is happening again this year. But it's worth repeating that official date f ... More >>

Superchunk Talks With Us About Their Last Show Ever, Which Will Never Happen

After chatting backstage at the Village Voice Media SXSW party with Surfer Blood (who told us about their Twittering philosophy), and Pains of Being Pure at Heart (who recounted an innocently embarrassing incident involving a condom), we cornered Merge Records honchos/Superchunk leaders Mac McCaug ... More >>

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Backstage at the Village Voice SXSW Party

Like to pretend this doesn't exist, but the Music Slut won't, so here you go. Backstage at the Village Voice's finely tuned SXSW day party, someone who is definitely not me was conscripted into having how-is-your-SXSW-going conversations with bands who were kind enough to humor their hosts. Includ ... More >>

Todd P's Mexico Fest, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, Is Fully Confirmed; Tickets On Sale Now

​There had been speculation about this show going all the way back to December. Privately, Todd P began confirming it this week. And now comes the official announcement about one of the more ridiculous bits of derring-do ever attempted by a local DIY promoter: an outdoor, two stage, three day ... More >>

Further Details on the SXSW-Killing Todd P Festival in Monterrey, Mexico

That right there looks like an insanely beautiful spot in which to have a show. Photo via Impose.​March 19 to March 22, two stages, a "tent city," shuttle buses running both ways across the border, tickets at the absurdly low cost of $10 a day, and as many as 80 bands already confirmed, accord ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne

--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>

SXSW Recession Special: Free Fader Fort Wristbands On Craig's List For $200, With the Promise of Kanye West

So the biggest non-secret secret of SXSW is that Kanye West is the surprise "special guest" at the Fader Fort on Saturday night. And so some enterprising soul took the time to get these SXSW Fader Fort wristbands--which are free--and try to sell them online. You wait in a line to get them, no badg ... More >>

SXSW Tip Sheet 2009

For fans of the Beatles, Willie Nelson, non-cloying indie pop, and presidential pardons

Village Voice's Free SXSW Day Party Announced: M. Ward, Cursive, Gomez

He's impatiently waiting for SXSW too Every year, the event-planning honchos at Village Voice Media throw a Friday afternoon shindig during South by Southwest. Once again this year, it'll be completely, unequivocally free and held at La Zona Rosa, a spacious 4th-Street venue that knuckleheads thin ... More >>

OF COVERS AND CULTURE

New York turns 40

CONEY ISLAND, BABY

We only do this once a year

Bonnaroo Day 2: Drugs For Fun and Profit

Bonnaroo Day 3: The Real Green Deal?

Bonnaroo Day 3: High Tide Blues, Mason Jennings, Abigail Washburn, B.B. King, Ben Folds, Chromeo

M.I.A. Live at McCarren Park Pool

ONE MILLION CUSTOMERS SERVED

M.I.A. graces the first of many outdoor stages

Photos: VietNam and Dr. Dog Hang With the Dude

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

M.I.A Cancels Sasquatch Appearance

No Fun, More People

A beloved noise fest now draws civilians, too

A Not-Going-to-SXSW Playlist

The Sober Bunch

Life's a Party for New York Nightlife's Sober Hipsters

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