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Composer David Earl Buddin Can Totally Relate to Lindsay Lohan

In 2012, the Voice doled out honors to David Earl Buddin, tabbing him New York's Best Composer for very good reason: he's a beer-swillin', chain-smokin', gloriously prolific pioneer of electronic music and ringleader of the honky tonkin' trio of high rolling drunkards, American Liberty League. As ... More >>

The Ten Dumbest Things Overheard at SXSW

For every insightful conversation I have heard or had at SXSW over the years, whether it was talking to Matt Pinfield while walking the streets of Austin talking about David Bowie, or telling The Clash's Mick Jones that he was in fact, in The Clash, I have overheard a thousand awful ones. See Also ... More >>

The Lady GaGa Approved Dirty Pearls Want To Be Rock's First Gang "Since Guns N' Roses"

It's two-for-one happy hour at Motor City on the Lower East Side, and three-fifths of New York rabble rousers the Dirty Pearls quaff cheap suds to a soundtrack of the Heartbreakers, the Ramones and the New York Dolls. The Dirty Pearls fit right in with such musical brethren of the '70s, as well as ... More >>

New Pornographers' A.C. Newman Is Going To Start A Jam Band

Carl Newman, the New Pornographers frontman who also records apart from the group under the moniker A.C. Newman, just released his third solo offering, Shut Down the Streets, a couple of weeks ago. The album's equally inspired by two recent events -- the death of Newman's mother and the birth of his ... More >>

Studio Barnhus Get Down With the Heaven's Gate Cult

The earth is about to be recycled and only those who hate this world strongly enough will pass on to the Next Level. Or so Marshall Applewhite and his 38 Heaven's Gate followers believed when they attempted to hitch a ride on a spaceship they believed was trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. Dressed in an ... More >>

David Paterson Nominated For MTA Gig; Paul McCartney To Blame

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that he's nominating disastrous former Governor David Paterson to serve on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- and we have the "cute" Beatle to blame for Patterson's return to public life.Paterson will replace former Board member Nancy Shev ... More >>

Live: Elijah Wood DJs While Bon Iver Stays In His Corner At The Woolworth Building

Diana Levine/Bushmills​ Elijah Wood The Wooly Thursday, February 2 Better Than: Reading about Bon Iver on the internet today. After attending a party called Macaulay Culkin's iPod two months ago, during which I watched the love of my kindergarten days supervise a six-hour playlist and the tw ... More >>

100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100

​What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

Radio Hits One: The Elusive Superstar Duet (Or Three-Way)

​ In last week's breakdown of Lil Wayne's chart ubiquity, I noted that while Lady Gaga's Born This Way and its singles seemed to be everywhere, she hasn't staked out much additional Billboard territory with collaborations. Her only charting collab of late is "3-Way (The Golden Rule)," a little ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

Happy Birthday, John Lennon: Here's Your Google Doodle and an FBI Investigation

Imagining John Lennon today.​Tomorrow would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. Back in 1971, he gave his famous interview with Rolling Stone, saying the following: "I was different, I was always different... A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to ... More >>

Q&A: Author Rob Sheffield on His New Book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

"Wow, Kenny Rogers was always right!" Photo by Deborah Suchman Zeolia​"Oh my God, you're a Nick Rhodes girl," says Rob Sheffield, referring to Duran Duran's keyboardist. Earlier in the evening, we'd wrapped an interview about Sheffield's new book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young ... More >>

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

American Idol Season 9, the Final Three: Casey James Makes a Deal With the Devil; Lee DeWyze Lives On An Airport Runway

Credit: EW/Michael Becker​Answer me something: How the fuck is Casey James still on American Idol? I realize this is a weak season and all, but he should've been gone at least a month ago, and I have no idea how to explain his continued existence on the show unless he's made some sort of devil ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo and Bruce Blakeman Seeing Same Green

​Andrew Cuomo, the diehard Democrat-who-would-be-governor, and Bruce Blakeman, the stalwart Republican-who-would-be-senator, are light years apart on most things political. But money is money, and both pols are employing the same political consultant to raise the big bucks. Blakeman -- desper ... More >>

Erykah Badu, In Love

New Amerykah Part Two could use more menace and less mushiness

Jonathan Tasini Carries a Democratic Torch Against Gillibrand

Rebel in a pinstriped suit

'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' -- Fraudulent, or Most Creative Album Ever?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 22, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 36 Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper': The Album as Art Form By Tom Phillips A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the new Beatles album. Richard Goldstein, reviewing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in las ... More >>

Interview: Hot Rats/Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey on Impressing Ray Davies, Licensed to Ill's Harmonizing Potential, and Covering Squeeze

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey always get excited when the power comes back on.​When Brit-rock's ultimate pleasure-seekers Supergrass lost bassist Mick Quinn to the most embarrassing run to the toilet since Slumdog Millionaire a few years ago, singer/guitarist Gaz Coombes and drummer Danny Goffe ... More >>

SWELLS! ATTACK!: Steven Wells's First and Last Column for Sound of the City

About a year and a half ago, a pitch fell into my lap from Steven Wells, the infamous NME writer who'd been highly praised and enthusiastically recommended by a determined string of collegial forwards. ("Crazy, brilliant Brit," went one such thumbs-up.) Wells wanted to write a column for this blog j ... More >>

Daily Flog: Smears and schmears; meltdowns on Wall Street and in the Arctic

So That's Where The Celebrity News Has Been Hiding: Rob Lowe's Blackmail Scandal and Jay-Z's Marital Status

iVoice: Thriller 25, the IM Chat!

The Wrong Version of Nick Lowe's Debut Album Is Being Reissued

But you'll live.

Adrienne Kennedy Talks About Her Life

Lorca, London, and the Beatles: the doyenne playwright's new work

Hugs and Kisses #25: Kate Nash Interview, Part 2

Hugs and Kisses 24: The Kate Nash Interview!

Hugs and Kisses: Pete Doherty, Babyshambles, Shotter's Nation

Silent But Deadly

Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?

The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

Prince at the Super Bowl: Pretty Good, Yeah

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

Get Busy Living

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

A Tale of Two Cities

Shopping on 14th Street, from Union Square to the meatpacking district

NY Mirror

The Emperor's New Paintings

Hirst is just another symptom of the hype, the hubris, and the money that have swamped the art scene lately

Gandalf Gets Swivey on the Wheels

Cool out, it's only Ringo and his three friends, doing the same stuff they've always done

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