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January 20, 2012
Pazz & Jop 2011: Alex Macpherson On Pistol Annies, PJ Harvey, And Why You Should Always Trust Diddy
To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, the British critic Alex Macpherson finds protest music and love songs that were worth holding on to past the end of the calendar year. Every year, I cavil about ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop Comments: Top 10-Plus
The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down
Music
January 18, 2012
Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down
Music
January 18, 2012
tUnE-yArds, PJ Harvey, and St. Vincent Get Physical
The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down
Blogs
January 17, 2012
The 39th Pazz And Jop Poll Is Live
Hooray and huzzah, the Pazz & Jop poll, calculated from the ballots of 700 critics around the globe, is up and running and ready for your perusal. Congratulations to Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, whose w h o k i l l walked away with the albums poll; and Adele, whose inescapable yet compelling even o ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
She's Not There: WU LYF, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, And The Value Of Absence
Every year, ambitious young bands find new ways—fascinating, puerile, ingenious—to play the Internet, and in 2011, one of the most captivating, effective ways to do so involved near-silence. A cluster of breakthrough bands, WU LYF and Unknown Mortal Orchestra among them, caused a huge pu ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
The 10 Best Live Shows of 2011
The best stuff we saw on stage this year, from thrash to Kpop
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December 21, 2011
This Week In The Voice: The 10 Best Concerts Of 2011; Tenor Saxophonists Ascend
In this week's Village Voice, on newsstands now: I pick my 10 favorite concerts of 2011 (Patrick Stump (above), PJ Harvey, and tUnE-yArDs all make the short list); and Francis Davis runs down recent standout releases by tenor saxophonists.
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011
Ben Allison
In this week's Village Voice, on newsstands now: I pick my 10 favorite concerts of 2011 (Patrick Stump (above), PJ Harvey, and tUnE-yArDs all make the short list); and Francis Davis runs down recent standout releases by tenor saxophonists.
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part II: PJ Harvey, Jessie J, And The Post-Pop Character Landscape
Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Thanks Maura! And hello Nick, Katherine and Eric. Post-megasales megastars? Beyoncé and Gaga fit the bill, for certa ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part III: Occupying The Year Of The Woman Cliché In Hopes Of Blowing It Up
Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street; confused woman. Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
The 10 Best Things From 2011 To Listen To While Writing, According To Actual Authors
Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins: Reissued in 2011, so it counts! Reports from the holiday-party front indicate that 2011 was another long and lonely year for the fiction writers and memoirists of New York, who were kept company at home all day long mainly by various "internet friends" and related ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 7, 2011
Marianne Faithfull
Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins: Reissued in 2011, so it counts! Reports from the holiday-party front indicate that 2011 was another long and lonely year for the fiction writers and memoirists of New York, who were kept company at home all day long mainly by various "internet friends" and related ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You
The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.
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April 20, 2011
Live: PJ Harvey Takes Control At Terminal 5
PJ Harvey Terminal 5 Tuesday, April 19 Better than: Anything else. Like PJ Harvey's other work, her new album Let England Shake is about longing. But she confronts something different than the sexual want she sang so explicitly about on her erlier records--here, instead, the desire is for ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
Ben Allison Band
PJ Harvey Terminal 5 Tuesday, April 19 Better than: Anything else. Like PJ Harvey's other work, her new album Let England Shake is about longing. But she confronts something different than the sexual want she sang so explicitly about on her erlier records--here, instead, the desire is for ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
PROTEST SONGS
Polly Jean gets political
Music
February 16, 2011
PJ Harvey, In Mourning
On Let England Shake, a spare, moving tribute to her broken homeland
Blogs
February 16, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Return of 'Shelter'
This week in the Voice, Camille Dodero kicks off the relaunch of "Shelter," a column that chronicles how New Yorkers live at home. She revisits Lois Morris, a writer who was the column's first-ever subject in 1997. A lot has changed for the former East Village resident in 14 years, including ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey Add Terminal 5 Dates
Yes, the Great LCD Soundsystem Retirement Show debacle took another turn over the weekend: Given the profound likelihood that an appalling percentage of the tickets for their April 2nd Madison Square Garden gig are now in the hands of scalpers, the band has announced four Terminal 5 shows to ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Stream PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, And Hope She Adds Another Terminal 5 Show
James Blake has probably got Album Everyone Will Be Talking About This Week honors all sewn up for now, but roundabout next Tuesday a nation's fawning eyes will turn to PJ Harvey's fantastic Let England Shake, far from the screamiest entry in her 20-year catalog (!), but among the bleakest, h ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Week In Review: We'll Never Get Over The White Stripes
We started out the week on a positive jam. Riding high off Bob Dylan Week, we spent the weekend paying tribute to all those bands who came before with Craig Finn at Music Hall of Williamsburg and trying with all our hearts to sing along while the Dismemberment Plan flailed around on stage at ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
PJ Harvey Is Playing Terminal 5 In April
Good news for all you Foursquare enthusiasts who can't get enough of Terminal 5: On April 20th the cavernous Midtown spot will host none other than PJ Harvey, supporting her new record Let England Shake and possessed of a terrifying intensity perfect for making large places feel uncomfortably ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
The Six Most Decisive Wins In Pazz and Jop History
Not quiteHaving spent the last two weeks poring through Pazz & Jop 2010, I've learned everything from the two albums most statistically similar to a bootleg compilation of early Bob Seger (those would be Flockaveli and Ke$ha's Animal/Cannibal combo) to the number of writers who ended their co ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Hear A New PJ Harvey Song, "Written On The Forehead"
The indomitable PJ Harvey has a new record, Let England Shake, due out in mid-February; head to her website right now to hear "Written on the Forehead," a soft, elegiac, reggae-sample-driven drifter, Harvey singing "Let it burn/Let it burn/Let it burn burn burn" in a high, wistful, far-less-t ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Q&A: Japandroids' Brian King on Their Single Series, Disappointing PJ Harvey, and That Siren Festival Rumor
A pair of late bloomers, guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse had never been in a band before they graduated from the University of Victoria and started chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs. Which meant that when the Canadian duo formed Japandroids--pr ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 6, 2009
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A pair of late bloomers, guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse had never been in a band before they graduated from the University of Victoria and started chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs. Which meant that when the Canadian duo formed Japandroids--pr ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2009
PJ Harvey & John Parish
A pair of late bloomers, guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse had never been in a band before they graduated from the University of Victoria and started chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs. Which meant that when the Canadian duo formed Japandroids--pr ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
This Week in the Voice
When you think about out-of-control parents and coaches in little-league sports, you probably think of the suburbs. But right here in the city, there are sixth-graders playing 12 months a year, with sponsors like Nike, signing bonuses -- and out-of-control parents and coaches. This is Elite Youth ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
SXSW 2009: Getting Off on the Good Foot with Marnie Stern and Heartless Bastards
Heartless Bastards (Radio Room) Marnie Stern (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Afternoon, March 18 Erika Wennerstrom's bandmates give her a tremendously wide berth onstage, three grizzled gentlemen crowding demurely to our far right as she holds court on the left, the sort of blast radius you'd give ... More >>
Music
March 18, 2009
PJ Harvey and John Parish Reconvene...
...and target your chicken-liver balls
Voice Choices
March 18, 2009
PJ Harvey & John Parish
...and target your chicken-liver balls
Voice Choices
July 9, 2008
THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA
Diplo, Santogold bite down on the Big Apple
Blogs
October 11, 2007
Live: PJ Harvey at the Beacon Theatre
Diplo, Santogold bite down on the Big Apple
Music
September 25, 2007
PJ Harvey's White Chalk
Tense, confessional, and excruciating in every sense
Blogs
August 6, 2007
Hugs and Kisses, The Outbursts of Everett True: Stolen Recordings
Tense, confessional, and excruciating in every sense
Blogs
March 16, 2007
A Not-Going-to-SXSW Playlist
Tense, confessional, and excruciating in every sense
NYC Life
October 10, 2006
There's No Winking in Hell
Liberal heathens imitate fundie Christians denouncing liberal heathens. Sweet.
Music
August 8, 2006
The Pussy Rock Monologues
On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls
Specials
October 18, 2005
1995
On one man's obsession with opera, MySpace, and NYC's female-fronted rock hopefuls
Music
April 12, 2005
Angel With Big Friends
Boozy chantoozie and young turks bring out the mediocre
Music
June 22, 2004
Lollapalost
Where to catch your favorite bands now that the big show is canceled
Music
June 8, 2004
Carnal Fission
Polly Jean Harvey goes home to the self-imposed alienation that all of us know so well
NYC Life
June 1, 2004
Hopelessly Devoted
Polly Jean Harvey, you're my star; Volume gets a visit from the city
Columns
September 4, 2001
Horoscope
Polly Jean Harvey, you're my star; Volume gets a visit from the city
NYC Life
February 27, 2001
Live and Erect
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
Music
November 28, 2000
Getting Bizzy
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
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March 16, 1999
End Games
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
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February 16, 1999
Beats Below the Street
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
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October 6, 1998
Love Taps
Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action
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