Nellie McKay

Old Hats Doesn't Make Clowning New--But Does Make It Excellent.

Boys being clowns being boys

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/18/13

Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

I Was The Tin Man Last Night

Playwrights Horizons was filled to capacity for The Night of 1000 Judys, a combo concert/comedy show benefiting the Ali Forney Center. Host Justin Sayre--who's sort of Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg--was hilarious, with his offhand monologues about the need for Judy Garland worship (and any othe ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Judy! Night of 1000 Judys' Final Cast List

The late Judy Garland would have turned 90 yesterday, so Liza Minnelli sent out a message: "Today is a day for celebration. We celebrate the privilege of having had Mama touch all of our lives. She left us with so many feelings we never would have discovered about our self until she exquisitely tra ... More >>

All-Star Night of 1000 Judys Is Coming!

And I'm in it! It's a Judy Garland-obsessed show that benefits the Ali Forney Center. And guess who's going to be there, preaching at the shrine of Judyism?

Downtown Express

The Wackiest Things Celebs Have Ever Said To Me

In their dealings with a potentially scary press person like myself, celebs are sometimes solicitous, occasionally pandering, at times delightfully ass kissy, but always tons of fun. Here are just a few of the highlights through the years:

Nellie McKay Pays Homage To Susan Hayward

​You can't say this has been done before: A cabaret act called "I Want To Live!" in which the star plays Barbara Graham--the real-life Death Row inmate portrayed by Susan Hayward in the 1958 movie--and recites actual dialogue from the film in between crooning classics like "April Showers" and ... More >>

Rally for Women's Rights Brings 6,000 to Foley Square

​Saturday's Rally for Women's Health in Foley Square served as a reminder that activism in America is alive and well, contrary to whatever the Internet might have been telling us. An estimated 6,000 people gathered at the event held by New York City's Planned Parenthood in an attempt to tell W ... More >>

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up

LIFE.com ​With sparks flaring across the globe, from the Middle East to the Midwest and even our very own SoHo, what seems to be a moment for change is spreading rapidly. This weekend, New Yorkers will take to the streets in honor of two particularly relevant issues: women's health, and violen ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: Play Louder, and Pray for Peace

Living legends and budding artistes alike break out, rise up, and move beyond

Liz Phair Returns With Internet-Only Funstyle, Rhymes "Genius" With "Peen-ius"

​On Saturday, lizphair.com suddenly had a new album available via download for a mere $5.99, with one streaming track as a sample, or maybe a warning: "Bollywood" features our heroine rapping in different voices over, yes, a Bollywood tabla. This, in addition to the low asking price, prnt scrn ... More >>

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Pay Homage to Imelda Marcos

2009 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll: The Results

Album of the year, reissue of the year, best debut, and more

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll

Are You There, God? It's Me, Regina Spektor

The downtown ingénue takes on bigger audiences and weightier issues

Imani Coppola

VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN

Keep the Living Theatre alive

NO GREATER ASSETTES

What’s behind Lady Rizo

Who Truly Feels It All?

Feist overshadows the subversive sirens blaring down South

Track 18 Wins Again

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

Live: Nellie McKay at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Tonight: the Music Hall of Williamsburg Opens?

A Month on the Town

The man who's reviewed 12,000 records reviews 32 shows in 30 days

Patriot's Heart

Ignore Regina Spektor's warm idiosyncracies—or bash the U.S.A.—at your own peril

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Faust Things First

A mammoth production of the epic verse gets a stateside staging

Show Tune Liberation

Every day Nellie McKay wonders why she’s in the music business—but she definitely is

Flops and Monks

Philip Glass's handpicked humanitarians keep it unstuffy

Music

Mine Enemy The Turkey

Add to the many things not to be thankful for this year 13 CDs that will make your gorge rise

Early Bird

Thrush attempts again to show everything old is new again

Events for Dissent

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Nashville Catches Up

A pair of country goofballs boogaloo down Broadway with their rappin' buttload of friends

Music

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

God Bless the Child

Cabaret wunderkind waves jock-hipster kryptonite at all of NPR's left-leaning quirksters

Richard Belzer, Ice-T Jack Up the Election

Ah, those talking heads-the TV yabberers, not the guys singing about buildings and food. We've grown a little...