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Rebellious Reads: 5 Book Events You Don't Want To Miss

"Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic" The National Arts Club Mar. 13, 6:30, Free If you actually expend thought on something like the excessive (still developing) ado over Anne Hathaway's Oscar dress, it's true that Katherine Hepburn begins to appear very rebellious indeed. Today the film legend might emb ... More >>

Stone Temple Pilots Fire Scott Weiland, the World Reacts

February 27th will join February 5th-- "The Day The Music Died"-- at the highest levels of rock and roll infamy. This Wednesday, critical darlings and multi-platinum superstars Stone Temple Pilots shocked the world and devastated fans by announcing the termination of founding vocalist Scott Weiland. ... More >>

Top Ten Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

These are the best Jazz shows in the city this month, in no particular order. See Also: - Ten Jazz Album To Hear Before You Die - Ten (More) Jazz Albums To Hear Before You Die - Ten Free Jazz Albums To Hear Before You Die

Hot 100 Roundup: Jerrod Niemann Gets Happy, Passion Pit Tells A Sad Story, Karmin Remains Annoying, And More

This week the new entries in the Hot 100 attain a near-perfect balance: Two good to great records (Passion Pit and Jerrod Niemann), two terrible ones (Karmin and Macklemore), and a bunch of mediocre stuff in the middle. Over the course of a year, the quality of the Hot 100 usually settles into a nor ... More >>

Fall Guide 2012: Books

Paul Ryan Fails To Realize That Classic Rock Is Pretty Much The New Elevator Music

Much ink has been spilled on the fact that Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan is a relative whippersnapper—born in 1970, the Wisconsin representative is 42 years old. Depending on who you're talking to, this makes him part of "generation x," or "the 13th generation," or "that demog ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Wild Yaks, The Death Set, Woods, And Crystal Stilts Get No Sleep In Brooklyn

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend, Waste Of Paint caught four rather different bands united by their status as beloved standbys of the Brooklyn DIY scene. It also marked the beginning of uncomf ... More >>

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KURT'S SPIRIT

A 15-minute photo session that will last forever

Q&A: NARC's Nicky Smith On Working Alone, Writer's Block, And Korn's Badass Guitar Tone

Mister Hands, the debut album from NARC, is the sound of Balimore's Nicky Smith bisecting and pinning to cork several the electric guitar's sonic flavors: the panning-stereo patty-cake blare of "Gangrene/Snickers"; the drowsy, Drunken Master splay of "Sweater"; "Don't Touch," which bear-hugs a meat ... More >>

Q&A: Film Director Kevin Kerslake on His Movie Electric Daisy Carnival Experience

In the last 20-plus years, filmmaker Kevin Kerslake has amassed a mind-bogglingly impressive list of music-industry credits, not only shooting videos for Sonic Youth, Prince, Green Day, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones, but also directing the visual treatment of Nirvana's "Come As You Are" and the MTV V ... More >>

Premiere: Lightouts' Decadent Video For "The Eloise Suite"

​Another band that resides on the early-'90s fascination street we traveled down last week is slippery Gowanus duo Lightouts, who resurrect the melancholy chug and darkly sexy swagger of bands like The Cure, Girls Against Boys, JAMC and Afghan Whigs and impolitely jam it into the drum machine ... More >>

You Are Old: Pearl Jam Twenty

Q&A: Ford & Lopatin On Playing Together And Playing With Studio Toys

David Black​Games was once the name of longtime pals Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin's studio project that they collaborated on while Ford performed in Tigercity and Lopatin operated under the spellcheck-challenging noise moniker Oneohtrix Point Never. But now the duo just goes by Ford & Lopatin, ... More >>

The Voice Battles On

​On the same night that American Idol rumbles on to its inevitable conclusion, it's pretty great to switch the channel over an hour later and catch one of these zippy, not-too-serious battle-round episodes of The Voice. This show has its problems, and it's still very early on, but right now it ... More >>

Steve Albini Has a Food Blog

Steve Albini, not cooking food.​Steve Albini is one of the music world's most renowned and prolific recording engineers: he's made his mark on an estimated 1,500-2,000 albums from the likes of Nirvana, the Pixies, Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Low, Joanna Newsom, and Jarvis Cocker. He's also ... More >>

The Voice Gets Ready To Rummmmbllllleeeeeee

Lewis Jacobs/NBCMichael Buffer might have sold that a little better, dude. ​ A couple of weeks in, The Voice is already turning out pretty great. The singers, at least thus far, can all actually sing, the coaches all have sharp and productive things to say, and the show's setup provokes more a ... More >>

Six Great Musical Moments From The "Law & Order" Version Of New York City

Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe: Not so into rap-metal. ​The news that Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be ripping all those headlines about the struggles of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for an upcoming episode was notable for its lightning-quick turnaround time, and for its fictionalized tak ... More >>

THX-1138: George Lucas Goes Feature-Length

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 8, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 14 White on White By William Paul The most successful science fiction films like "The Thing" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," have used their science fiction conceits as metaphors for an actual state o ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Live: Superchunk Are Just Great at Bowery

At Other Music on Sunday Superchunk Bowery Ballroom Saturday, September 18 Better than: The entire genre of chillwave. Let's start with "Driveway to Driveway," the first song of Superchunk's first of two encores this Saturday night, and overwhelmingly triumphant for a onetime landmine that seem ... More >>

Live: Of Montreal, Janelle Monae, and a Pair of Manpigs Take Over Terminal 5

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneThe new King and Queen of the misfit teens. Of Montreal, Janelle Monae Terminal 5 Saturday, September 18 Better than: Any music currently being made by actual teenage girls. In a characteristically intellectual/saucy dis on his new album False Priest, Of Montreal fron ... More >>

Best Coast and Wavves, Sitting in a Tree

In praise of two great records from California's pre-eminent surf-fuzz power couple

Q&A: How to Dress Well On Lo-Fi Bedroom R&B, Sampling Blackstreet, and the Meaning of the Phrase "Cock Dock"

​How to Dress Well is the nom de R&B of one Tom Krell, a Cologne/Brooklyn-based bedroom producer whose weird, ethereal, indie-soul EPs have been rolling out all winter at the rate of about one per month. The alias has been around for nearly six years, and Krell has been making music for far lo ... More >>

Fifth Street Tropicália (in Furs)

A downtown record-store owner unearths the Holy Grail of lost Brazilian psychedelia

Jeffrey Lewis Can't Lose

Tales of (very minor) stardom with the anti-folk/comic-book luminary

Ian Curtis Biopic Gets Manchester Right

. . . and that's about it

Gimme "Indie" Rock

Another payola settlement promises us better, braver radio. Let's not get too excited just yet.

Rave On!

Get your glow sticks out of storage, everybody—you're going to the Ruff Club

Ancient Maneaters of the Future

The year's best-selling album made mass culture sound vapid; the year's hottest auteur made vapidity sound transcendent

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying

Going to the Chapel

Hearing the Irony

A piano trio whose fundamental aesthetic is irreverent—get it, coppers, irreverent?

Celebrity Skinned

Blake placid: A former 'Dawson's Creek' star tackles a mythic musician with willful incoherence

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Seminal speedmetal thrashers, despised by their own fans, seek and find psychiatric help

Maybe He'll Tackle the Bellamy Brothers and Bright Eyes Next Time

Whiskers in the Dark

Mama's Got a Litterbox, Daddy Never Sleeps at Night

Re-make/Re-model

Hung With Guitar String

Lift Every Voice

Cool as Kim Deal

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

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A Year (Heck—A Decade, Even) of Pop Music at the Movies

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Jonathan Davis, Public Freak on a Leash, Lashes Back

The boys can't help it

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