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January 30, 2012
Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well...
Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter whose ambient chansons caught the attention of Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Nina Simone, not to mention theater producers who've long crafted his work into popular revues. A late-'60s Brel revue grabbed the public and stayed there, his story songs wi ... More >>
Art
July 20, 2011
Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To
The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011
'Blue Note Jazz Festival: Paid in Full 25th Anniversary with the Roots+Rakim'
The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere
Voice Choices
February 2, 2011
Idle Warship
The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere
Film
January 19, 2011
Child Soldiery Becomes Abrasive Spectacle in Johnny Mad Dog
The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere
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October 14, 2010
Download: Julie Christmas Covers Jacque Brel's "If You Go Away"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Seldon HuntJulie Christmas is best known as wailing, barking, bloodletting dervish fronting Brooklyn's most emotionally complex metal band, Made Out Of Babies--a performer capable of unpredictable h ... More >>
Dance
August 11, 2010
Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes Gently Expose the Human Comedy
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Seldon HuntJulie Christmas is best known as wailing, barking, bloodletting dervish fronting Brooklyn's most emotionally complex metal band, Made Out Of Babies--a performer capable of unpredictable h ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 4, 2010
'C' IS FOR CYRUS
Miley's musical taste inspires a cabaret
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
Joan as Police Woman+Metric+Holly Miranda
Miley's musical taste inspires a cabaret
Film
June 15, 2010
Let It Rain: Aggressively Middlebrow Filmmaking (Not a Compliment)
Miley's musical taste inspires a cabaret
Music
June 15, 2010
The Hip-Hop/Jazz Crossover Strategy Guide
Revive Da Live brings in both crowds . . . very, very carefully
Voice Choices
February 23, 2010
Wild Beasts
Revive Da Live brings in both crowds . . . very, very carefully
Blogs
November 5, 2009
Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85
Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Clip Job: LeRoi Jones, Art D'Lugoff and Nat Hentoff Duke it Out
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 18, 1965, Vol. X, No. 22Gig at Gate: Return of the White Liberal StompersBy Jack NewfieldGoateed, immaculately dressed Negroes looking for a pogrom, carefully coifed Hadassah ladies looking for a lynching and impassive hipsters looking f ... More >>
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May 27, 2009
Lykke Li on Nearly Getting Mugged in Bushwick
It would be easy to dismiss 23-year old Swedish singer Lykke Li as the latest manufactured pop confection. After all, last year's debut Youth Novels--produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John--yielded several electro bubblegummy hits, songs with hooks that stuck in your head like claws. A ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Clip Job: A Killer Village Gate Lineup
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 22, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 5Notebook for Night OwlsBy J.R. GoddardIt is almost impossible to describe the current show at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, Thompson below Bleecker. For rarely is one night club graced with so much great musical ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 18, 2009
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 22, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 5Notebook for Night OwlsBy J.R. GoddardIt is almost impossible to describe the current show at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, Thompson below Bleecker. For rarely is one night club graced with so much great musical ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2009
Live: Antony and the Johnsons Cover Beyoncé at Town Hall
Antony and the Johnsons Town Hall February 20 For Antony and the Johnsons' second sold-out night at the venerated Town Hall, the moment that got the loudest audience laughs was when the broad-bodied and bellow-lunged singer and pianist Antony Hegarty mewled a plea of "hoping you'll page me right ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Clip Job: Village Gate Too Successful
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 7, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 33The Gate Swings AgainBy John WilcockWhen Art D'Lugoff, that bearded man-about-the-Village, first opened the Village Gate, he conceived of it as a spot where informality would always reign -- where folk-singers would ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
Hugs and Kisses 73: ATP Australia
This week's installment of Hugs and Kisses from Brisbane-based Everett True comes a few days early. Only nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia ATP Australia is nearly upon us--and man, it's nice to be feeling ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2008
Another Take on Obamamania
This week's installment of Hugs and Kisses from Brisbane-based Everett True comes a few days early. Only nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia ATP Australia is nearly upon us--and man, it's nice to be feeling ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2008
Clayton Riley, 1935-2008
This week's installment of Hugs and Kisses from Brisbane-based Everett True comes a few days early. Only nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia ATP Australia is nearly upon us--and man, it's nice to be feeling ... More >>
Music
June 3, 2008
Vetiver's Thing of the Past
Young folkies get back to their roots, mercifully
Blogs
April 16, 2008
YouTube Treasure: Soul Legend Goes Kosher
Young folkies get back to their roots, mercifully
Blogs
August 28, 2007
Hugs and Kisses, The Outbursts of Everett True: Trikont
Young folkies get back to their roots, mercifully
Dance
May 22, 2007
A Max Mix
Former hip-hoppers salute the African diaspora
Dance
May 15, 2007
The Hip Crowd
With the Urban Bush Women, beauty's not for wimps
Music
May 1, 2007
The Zeitgeist Reloaded
An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church
Music
December 5, 2006
Folk Harpy Is Tricked Into Intermittently Amusing Us
An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church
Blogs
December 4, 2006
Rock Star Supernova Made an Album
An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church
Music
November 7, 2006
The Secret Garden
White Magic stop to sniff the roses and the napalm
Blogs
January 17, 2006
Walk the Line Vs. Ray: Battle of the Oscar-Bait Music Biopics
White Magic stop to sniff the roses and the napalm
Music
January 17, 2006
The Royal She
Self-referential hip-hop queen mixes surface glam and soul-baring confessions
NYC Life
October 25, 2005
Short Memory
The cabaret law still exists. Why you should care.
Dance
August 16, 2005
Angels at Work
From Soho to Clinton, some dancers are out of this world; others just pretend to be
Dance
May 3, 2005
Bewitched or Bothered?
Gorgeous dancers knock themselves out in a choreographic maelstrom
NYC Life
March 29, 2005
Save Guernica?
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
People
March 8, 2005
Hot Spot
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
Dance
February 8, 2005
Dancemaker With Heart on Sleeve Meets Women of Distinction
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
NYC Life
December 28, 2004
NY Mirror
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
Dance
April 20, 2004
Rodgers's Troupe Pays Heartfelt Tribute to Its Late Leader
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
Art
December 9, 2003
Art
Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market
Film
December 2, 2003
The Pain in Spain
Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers
Dance
October 28, 2003
Sex From Seville, and the Same Old Same Old From Brooklyn
Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers
Specials
May 13, 2003
Letters
Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers
Music
April 29, 2003
Nina Simone, 1933-2003
High Priestess and Sister Sadie
Dance
August 28, 2001
Media Mix
High Priestess and Sister Sadie
Dining
October 10, 2000
Country Matters
High Priestess and Sister Sadie
Dance
June 15, 1999
Dialed Down
High Priestess and Sister Sadie
Music
January 19, 1999
On the Honey
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