Paul McCartney

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The Grammys: Rock and Grohl

When past and future collide, does the present win?

Paul McCartney Opens The Book Of Love Songs With Kisses On The Bottom

What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2012 Grammys: Tributes, Tribulations, Skrillex, And The Return Of Adele

via Cats Who Look Like SkrillexWill this cat win Best New Artist?​Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 54th Annual Grammys, coming to you live from a couch in Astoria. There are quite a few questions lurking around tonight's ceremony. Will Adele sweep the three major categories in wh ... More >>

Protesters Clash With Guards at Air and Space Museum; Al-Awlaki Memo; Paul McCartney to Wed

Protesters in D.C. tried to enter the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum yesterday, resulting in the pepper spraying of at least one demonstrator and the closing of the museum. The Washington Post reports about 200 people tried to enter the building to protest "against the U.S. military's use of drone ... More >>

Who In History Would You Like To Interview?

At a Friars Club tribute to Bob Woodruff the other night, a panel of TV journalists was asked that very question. One replied Sandy Koufax because the famed pitcher was so inspirational and also has never talked much to press, so it would be a big "get."

THE BIG BLUE

Paul McCartney makes waves at the ballet

F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs

​This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. (Especially in recent days.) Their effects on pop music weren't as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfort ... More >>

Live: Paul McCartney Has More Hits Than Derek Jeter

Paul McCartney Yankee Stadium Friday, July 15 Better than: Watching Let It Be. "Who's this Derek Jeter guy?" Paul McCartney said after "Jet," the fourth song the opening night (of two) at Yankee Stadium. "I hear he's got more hits than me." That's debatable, as Macca put in a rather astounding a ... More >>

[UPDATED] Paul McCartney Playing Yankee Stadium In July; Second Date Added

Tickets to Paul McCartney's July 15 concert at the new Yankee Stadium, which will serve as something of a b-side to the concerts he played at the Mets' new home in 2009, go on sale at 11 a.m. today, with post-service-charge prices ranging from $42.25 to $293.90; there are also a bunch of VIP packag ... More >>

A.J. Weberman Buries Paul McCartney

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 2, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 35 The McCartney Burial: 'His ego was his amigo' By Blair Sabol Maybe it's time for A.J. Weberman to change his script -- or better yet, to get off the stage altogether. Being the foremost Dylanologist, ... More >>

Paul McCartney Wins Kennedy Center Honors and Maybe All of 2010 As Well

Though the gala was weeks ago, CBS just got around to airing the annual Kennedy Center Honors award show. Among the honorees? Bill T. Jones, Jerry Herman, Merle Haggard, Oprah Winrey, and Paul McCartney, to whom Steven Tyler can be seen paying awkward, shrill tribute to above. Which makes us wond ... More >>

Paul McCartney Sings About Scrambled Eggs and Tofu Wings with Jimmy Fallon

It's the Friday two weeks before Christmas and two weeks after Thanksgiving (and the day after the end of Hanukkah). You're probably fasting before the onslaught of holiday parties begins or still trying to work off a fortnight of turkey sandwiches and leftover pumpkin pie. In any case, we figure ... More >>

Paul McCartney

It's the Friday two weeks before Christmas and two weeks after Thanksgiving (and the day after the end of Hanukkah). You're probably fasting before the onslaught of holiday parties begins or still trying to work off a fortnight of turkey sandwiches and leftover pumpkin pie. In any case, we figure ... More >>

Download: El-P's Justin Beiber Remix (Really)

​So here is something that exists: underground NYC hip-hop doomsayer El-P remixing Mr. Pop Icon 2010, with an assist from Paul McCartney. Is it a coincidence that footage of Justin Bieber crying emerged today? No it is not a coincidence.

What Not to Do in the Midst of A Horrendous Environmental Catastrophe, If You're Barack Obama

That would be "Sing 'Hey Jude' in the East Room of the White House with Paul McCartney, Jack White, Dave Grohl (!), Jerry Seinfeld, Elvis Costello, your wife, and a whole bunch of other people on an evening when BP finally finished sawing through its own oil rig, thus dumping yet still more light ... More >>

Bettye LaVette+Peter Wolf

That would be "Sing 'Hey Jude' in the East Room of the White House with Paul McCartney, Jack White, Dave Grohl (!), Jerry Seinfeld, Elvis Costello, your wife, and a whole bunch of other people on an evening when BP finally finished sawing through its own oil rig, thus dumping yet still more light ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: May 19 through 25, 2010

That would be "Sing 'Hey Jude' in the East Room of the White House with Paul McCartney, Jack White, Dave Grohl (!), Jerry Seinfeld, Elvis Costello, your wife, and a whole bunch of other people on an evening when BP finally finished sawing through its own oil rig, thus dumping yet still more light ... More >>

LL Cool J, satanist: Studies in Crap presents Dancing With Demons

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Dancing With Demons: The Music's Real Master Author: Jeff Godwin Date: 1988 ... More >>

Clip Job: Wary, Post-'Jesus' Beatles Meet the NY Press for Shea Show

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 25, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 45 John, Paul, George, Ringo: Cool Duel with the Press By James Kempton A press conference is where photographers jostle for the same shot as the one in the files and the reporters ask questions about th ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Live: Paul McCartney Lets It Be (and/or Lives and Lets Die) at Not-Shea-Stadium

No Billie Joel cameo this time, which is fine, fine, fine Paul McCartney Citi Field Tuesday, July 21 I'd like to publicly thank the usher in section 314 for physically blocking my path to the bathroom during the opening strains of "Live and Let Die" because he didn't want me to miss the firewor ... More >>

What Paul McCartney on the Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Sounded Like From the Ground

The author's view Paul McCartney Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Wednesday, July 15 Like everybody else, the helicopters await Paul. First one, chopping ambiently over Broadway, then two more. When the 67-year old ex-Beatle finally comes onto the marquee roof of the David Letterman-occupied Ed Su ... More >>

MCCARTNEY GETS BACK

Baby, he's a rich man for a reason

Going Hydro in Queens & Going Meatless on Mondays

Christian "Hitsch" Albin, the executive chef at The Four Seasons, where he had worked for 36 years, died at New York University Medical Center on Saturday at age 62, just five days after being diagnosed with cancer. [AP] A rooftop in Jamaica, Queens is set to be transformed into the city's first co ... More >>

News Roundup: Jack White, Tim Burton, Paul McCartney

--Jack White says he hopes to start work on a solo album by the end of the year. The tidbit is only a sidebar in White's interview with the industry magazine Music Connection. The story also states White wants to work with drinking country icon George Jones. We'd gladly hold off on a new White Stri ... More >>

News Roundup: Le Tigre, Touch and Go, Kenny Rankin

-- Usually when a band announces an "extended break," it means they are too afraid to say they broke up. Not the case with Le Tigre. The electro-punk trio are back in the studio working with Christina Aguilera, though there isn't much more information available than that. The group has been quiet si ... More >>

Quick Hits

"I met Carla from Bravo's Top Chef -- I was rooting for her the whole season long." Twitpic by drschefcick. Paul McCartney will play Citi Field, which makes sense, since neither he nor the Mets have been any good since the 1980s. The "Bike in Style" Challenge had FIT students "create stylish, p ... More >>

News Roundup: Paul McCartney, Live Nation, James Murphy, Hold Steady

--Paul McCartney hasn't performed much lately, favoring one-off gigs instead of touring. (In April, he performed a Beatles-heavy set at Coachella). But New York fans will get a chance to see the Wings legend (kidding) when he performs July 17 and 18 at Citi Field, the Mets' new home. McCartney has ... More >>

Coachella 2009, By The Numbers

David AtlasLeonard Cohen: hymnal, transcendant Clubs editor Stacey Anderson sojourned in Indio, California this past weekend for Coachella. She already covered the frantic play-by-play over at our Twitter, so we asked her to wrap-up the festival with a by-the-numbers guide to her three days in the ... More >>

SAY, 'OHM'

Rock stars and David Lynch want to save our souls

Age, Beauty Before Youth at Grammys

Despite myriad concessions to modishness and a Twitter feed, it was a Steely Dan sort of year at the Grammys as Robert Plant and Alison Krause's Raising Sand won five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ("Please Read the Letter"), and awards in the Country and Contemporary Folk ... More >>

Springsteen at the Super Bowl: Who Had Money on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"?

Awwwww cute. I have seen the past of rock 'n' roll, and his name is Bruce Springsteen. Most of the halftime-show chatter at the Super Bowl party I attended concerned the Boss' somewhat advance age and nonetheless clearly robust physical health -- the implausibility of those deep-knee bends, the r ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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French Kicks' Swimming

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

Status Ain't Hood Interviews LCD Soundsystem

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

Goofy, Ambitious Ska Duets Benefit From Your Inattention

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

Does Kanye West Deserve the Grammy?

Hypnotic melodrama, with a little help from their friends

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Mega Huge

'Mommie Dearest' and sultan of Brunei run with Scissors

Books

'Mommie Dearest' and sultan of Brunei run with Scissors

Soundtrack a K-Tel Comp of Metal Wimpier Than the Cure

'Mommie Dearest' and sultan of Brunei run with Scissors

Evolution of Man

Brooklyn sibling duo proves that shy adolescence is ageless

Introducing: Trannyfags!

Brooklyn sibling duo proves that shy adolescence is ageless

He’s Always a Pop Star to Me

At 52, Billy Joel Writes His Opus 1

Hit It, Now Hold It

At 52, Billy Joel Writes His Opus 1