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Blogs
May 23, 2013
The Ultimate List of Free Summer Concerts in NYC, 2013
Get ready to plug this in your bookmarks, iCals, sticky notes, and religious shrines, because the ultimate guide to free summer concerts in New York City is here! Seriously, scroll down and don't be stingy - share with your friends. Concerts aren't fun without friends. Just ask the lucky gal above e ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2013
Rightbloggers Not Having a Great "Happy 10th Anniversary Iraq War" Party
Last week was the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. For friends and family members of the thousands of Americans and allies killed or wounded in that struggle, or of the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, wounded or displaced, it probably wasn't a happy one. We don't know whether these ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2013
Marnie Stern Gets Personal
It's when Marnie Stern, bundled in a gold puffer jacket, steps away from the Starbucks counter that I see she's covered from waist down in day-glo, neon lemon shoes sticking out from electric cerulean pants declaring her the brightest person on the Upper East Side before she's even opened her mouth. ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Bilal's New A Love Surreal Was Inspired By Salvador Dali
Even though Bilal Sayeed Oliver -- that's Bilal, to his fans -- has a new album, A Love Surreal, ready for fans to consume, he is still hounded by that one question: Will Love for Sale ever get the proper release it deserves? "Well, I don't know," Oliver says. "I would like for it to, but it's a lo ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2013
Rightbloggers and the Great Obama Skeet-Shooting Mom Jeans Conspiracy
We have observed once or twice before that, at this point, President Obama seems to be trolling his opposition. The thickness with which he laid on the contraception issues at last year's Democratic Convention, for example, seemed ill-advised until the general conservative flip-out (and Obama's reel ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2012
Tonight David Byrne and Author Chris Ruen Explain Exactly, Specifically, and Definitively Why Illegally Downloading Music Makes You A Huge Asshole
Tonight, in the main branch of the New York Public Library, the long-running conversation about artist copyright, piracy in the digital age, changing (and disappearing) artist revenue streams, and illegal downloading continues with two people who've added much to that discourse of late: Talking Head ... More >>
Music
November 28, 2012
Meet Tony Hall, the NASA Engineer Who Wants Your Guitar to Sound Dirty
The Dr. is in
Blogs
November 6, 2012
New Amsterdam Records Badly Hit by Sandy
Following the news of the unfortunate sizable damage to Norton Records, another label based in Red Hook, New Amsterdam Records, has had its headquarters devastated in the storm, including 70% of the label's CD inventory, which the artists themselves actually owned (the label held them as storage but ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
High Highs Talk Elton John, The Price Of Beer In New York, And The Isolation Of Australia
By Kai Flanders Last January Brooklyn-by-way-of-Australia indie-pop songsters High Highs released a self-titled EP. NPR called it's under-watery layers "immediately endearing" and NME listed them as one their 50 best new bands of 2011. Their phone rang. Elton John's people were on the line. They we ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2012
Jack White Exits Stage, Leaving Fans Angry And Mystified
At Radio City last night, Jack White performed a short set (under an hour) and split, leaving the crowd confused and deeply pissed. It was a big-time "love interruption." The theories floating around about White's premature departure seem to be: He didn't like the sound. He wasn't happy that so ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2012
F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs
Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. Their effects on pop music weren't as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfortunate—artists on both sides of the aisl ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2012
The Beach Boys' "Kokomo": The Musical And Personal Horrors
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 >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
Neil Munro of The Daily Caller: Here's The Only Clean Audio Of What He Heckled At President Obama [EXCLUSIVE]
After reading Megan Carpentier's Raw Story article about our experience in the White House Rose Garden standing next to Daily Caller heckler Neil Munro, we decided to go back and listen to the audio we were recording on our iPhone of the event, and compare it to other news outlets' audio. Shockin ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2012
Everything You Need To Know About Jeremy Lin's Injury and How It Will Affect The Knicks
The Knicks' absolute bipolar, roller-coaster of a season took yet another turn with news today that Jeremy Lin will undergo knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus. The surgery will sideline him for six weeks, and while most media, whether out of optimism or caution, are reporting that Lin's finished ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Protestors Descend on Grand Central Apple Store; Reporters Attack Them
There were more reporters than protestors at a rally today at the new Apple store in Grand Central. A lot more reporters. But it's an important cause, especially for you iPhone-iPad-MacBook-Apple-loving folks, so listen up! SumOfUs and Change.org, two groups speaking out against labor practices i ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Indiana Senate Votes to Teach Scientology in Schools
UPDATE: We now have an interview with Vi Simpson, the woman who put Scientology (and other religions) into a Creationism bill in order to neutralize it. Yesterday, Indiana's state senate voted 28-22 to adopt yet another creationism-in-the-schools bill, which have been routinely found unconstitution ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Don Cornelius, R.I.P.
via SoulTrain.comWhat must it have been like to be under the sway of Don Cornelius back when he was a salesman? Damn hard to resist, most likely. Cornelius was a salesman before he was a DJ, a DJ before he was a TV host, a TV host before he was a mogul—a series of roles that require inc ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens is Dead. Long Live Hitch.
Less than an hour ago NPR reported that Christopher Hitchens had finally succumbed to his battle with cancer. Tomorrow, at a decent hour, I will search through the Voice archives for some of his pieces. At one point he wrote the Press Clips column, but whether it was before or after Alexand ... More >>
Books
November 23, 2011
Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears
Bookshelf cower power
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Ira Glass Responds to the Ira Glass Sex Tape!
Glass: "Ain't Too Proud to Craig!"Earlier this week, the Voice reported about Julian Joslin's shocking discovery of a (public radio) celebrity sex tape between This American Life's Ira Glass and Fresh Air's Terry Gross. After the jump, read Glass's response to the scandal, when our blog post ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Herman Cain: Could Two Black Men Actually Head Up the 2012 Presidential Tickets?
Well, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal have got something hard to top, even if you're in the pizza business: Herman Cain is now leading the pack of Republican presidential candidates in their poll with 27 percent, besting Mitt Romney by four points and trouncing the narcoleptic, unfortuna ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
NYC Residents On Track to Spend $215 Million This Year At Area Walmarts
Despite its claims to the contrary, Walmart has been trying to infiltrate New York City for some time now. The mega-chain even has a Walmart New York City website and has donated large sums to city programs. Their spin has always been that New Yorkers really want a Walmart, and maybe they're ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Should Journalists Make Kickstarter Donations? We Ask Randy Cohen, The (Original) Ethicist and Kickstarter User
Our man Randy CohenIt's been six months since the New York Times Magazine replaced Randy Cohen, the four-time Emmy Award winner who wrote the Ethicist column for 12 years and made the rounds as a congenial moral-principle purveyor everywhere from NPR to Oprah. Since his winter departure, the ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
Satellites and Debris: Star-Crossed Lovers
Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down, and beats a confession out of it. This week, we look up to the stars, readjust our focus, and look closer at satellites. They are the reason you are able to read this right ... More >>
Music
July 20, 2011
Dissonant Notes at Jazz Festivals
Tensions between promoters and musicians underscore this year's slate
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Matt Taibbi on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone: Not Quite Plagiarism; PBS Hacked Again
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone wrote another of his highly entertaining, polarizing, acerbic, hyperbolic and metaphor-laden magazine features, online now, this time about Minnesota politician and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who Taibbi, right out of the gate, calls "almost certainly t ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2011
David Mamet Stopped Being a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' Back in 2008
In 2008, when President Barack Obama was just a surging senator, the famed (and rich!) writer David Mamet penned a political essay for the Village Voice that was titled "David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'" It was hugely successful -- basically the biggest story in this we ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Many Members Of Odd Future Do You Know?
Our panel of music experts has proven themselves less-than-expert on any number of legendary subjects--Metallica, The Clash, Boyz II Men, pretty much anything that doesn't have a Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo in it. So we thought we'd test their knowledge about current events. You can't cli ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Charles Schumer Proposes No-Ride List for Trains
It's been a busy couple days in train news, what with the PATH and Second Avenue subway tunnel breaches, plus that mishap on the PATH that injured 30. There's also a new call from Senator Charles Schumer to increase rail security, which comes after reports that Osama Bin Laden may have been p ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech Runs Wild, Namechecks ODB
On Friday, we talked about how Beyoncé's participation in Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" program showed how the Obamas were interested in including a wider (and younger-skewing) swath of culture in official political life. On Saturday, President Obama's speech to the White House Correspondent ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011
Q&A: Director Kerthy Fix on Her Endearing Film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour
DVD cover We are on the cusp of a riot-grrrl resurgence, or so we hope. Early last year, NYU's Fales Library announced that the institution had acquired Kathleen Hanna's 1989-1996 papers. Then in the fall, news of a Hanna documentary spread, with activist/poet/Sister Spit staple Sini Anderson at th ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Yes, WikiLeaks Led to the Revolt in Tunisia
At least according to New York Times editor Bill Keller, who just last week blasted WikiLeakes chief Julian Assange in a massive profile, calling him "arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial and oddly credulous." But that doesn't mean the work Assange's organization does can't spur political c ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?
In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>
News
January 5, 2011
Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man
Meet New York bike-scene fixture Pablo Airaldi. He made friends with everyone—except ICE officials.
Blogs
December 4, 2010
New York City Remembers Elaine Kaufman of Elaine's, Restaurateur and Friend of the Stars
Elaine Kaufman, referred to by the New York Times as the "salty den mother" of exclusive New York City restaurant Elaine's, died on Friday in Manhattan at the age of 81. The cause of death, perhaps darkly appropriate with regards to the period of New York City that Kaufman represented, was co ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
New York Will Lose Seats in the House, Thanks to Census-Abstaining Hipsters
Hey, if you didn't fill out your census -- and it was easy, seriously -- now is when we all get to point our fingers at you and growl, or extract whatever means of punishment seems suitable (kick you out of New York?). The Census Bureau is set to announce this month that our state's Congressi ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Sharon Van Etten Playing Bowery Ballroom In January
Politely acidic Brooklyn folkie Sharon Van Etten is a burgeoning SOTC obsession -- her intoxicating sophomore album, Epic, is a killer if you're in a particularly emotionally vulnerable mood. (YIMBY'd closing track "Love More" especially.) She hasn't played around here lately, alas, denying u ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2010
The Way We Parent Now: "Give the Baby the Damn iPhone!"
In Sunday's New York Times, the iPhone is called "the most effective tool in human history to mollify a fussy toddler." But this designation is not awarded in an advertisement for the cellular phone, or at least not one Apple paid for. The iPhone is dubbed a "Toy of Choice" for "many 1-, 2- a ... More >>
Film
October 9, 2007
Social Suicide
In Wristcutters, the afterlife is just a lousier version of real life. Oh, and Tom Waits is there.

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