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Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

The Melvins, Globe-Trotting Men of Metal

Destined to be in the Guinness book of world records, or die trying

"Yellow Submarine" Sends Beatles Fanatic Into Childhood Rage Fit

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Which Celebs Are Vegetarians/Vegans And Why?

A PETA brochure I picked out of a box like Alicia Silverstone's baby picks food out of her mouth told me the answer. It's everyone from Alicia to Pamela Anderson to the Dalai Lama, with stops along the way for black swan Natalie Portman ("I really, really love animals") and ex-Spider-Man Tobey Magu ... More >>

Live: The Secret Policeman's Ball Speaks Freely At Radio City Music Hall

The Secret Policeman's Ball: Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and many others Radio City Music Hall Sunday, March 4 Better than: Watching the Lohan Saturday Night Live on DVR. Going to a live show that's actually meant to be broadcast on television can be a deadly propositio ... More >>

The Grammys: Rock and Grohl

When past and future collide, does the present win?

Is Nothing Sacred? Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, Sullied, in Joyful Noise

Live: globalFest Takes Webster Hall On A Too-Quick Trip Around The World

globalFest 2012 Webster Hall Sunday, January 8 Better than: A Sunday evening spent preparing for the Monday grind. Starting with the number of stages it commands (three) and moving up from there, globalFest 2012 is the kind of event that could lavish in its stats. In line with its mission to showc ... More >>

100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records

​Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>

Fall Arts: The Merce Cunningham Company Dances to an End

Ozzy Osbourne Documentary Reissues, Repackages, But Doesn't Re-Evaluate The Prince Of Darkness

By Eric Hynes ​God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli Starring Ozzy Osburne, Sharon Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Kelly Osbourne, Bill Ward The most overexposed of rock stars receives yet more attention thanks to this standard-issue biopic, which premi ... More >>

Annoyed Scientist Wants All You Narcissistic Pop Stars To Get Off His Lawn

​Today's Times has a piece on a psychologist's theory about song lyrics of the current day being proof that we are all self-obsessed narcissists. The psychologist who came up with the theory, Nathan DeWall, was apparently inspired to embark on this quest by Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever ... More >>

Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems

​Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>

Remembering John Lennon, 30 Years On: The Voice's 1980 Eulogy

​Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. His senseless murder on December 8th, 1980 was hard to sort out at the time--"the anonymous eating the famous like a cannibal feasting on testicles," as Robert Christgau wrote in these pages--and not much easier to parse now. In memory of ... More >>

Ivy Baldwin, DD Dorvillier, and Alain Buffard Explore the Art World, Technology, and the Exposed Body

Peggy Guggenheim, strange eroticism, and a little Goethe for you

Drake Concert Debacle Now Causing the Cancellation of Other Free New York Shows

Aftermath of a free Drake concert. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​It was inevitable that the city of New York would begin to crack down on the plethora of free, sometimes anarchic summer shows around the five boroughs after Tuesday's Drake concert degenerated into a near riot. Now we have the first o ... More >>

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon in NYC: We Were Duped By the Maharishi

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 16, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 31 Scenes by Howard Smith THERE I STOOD, next to Paul McCartney and John Lennon -- calm, but without a thing to say. I wasn't intimidated, but more amazed I had managed to get through an endless skein of Be ... More >>

Alex Chilton Tribute Roundup: The Rockers, The Critics, The Congressmen

With apologies to our own Rob Trucks, you ain't gettin' more surreal in terms of Alex Chilton tributes today than the above brief speech from Steve Cohen -- make that Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee. He quotes from "The Letter" and everything. Very sweet, very bizarre. But of course he's not ... More >>

The Sunnier Days of Real Estate

New Jersey indie-pop bros celebrate their pretty (and shitty) hometown

Ambiguous All Points West 2009 Attendance Figures Announced

Rebecca Smeyne​The attendance numbers are in for this year's All Points West. The festival drew 71,500 people over three days, according to APW promoter Paul Tollett, down 4000 from last year. In an interview with the New York Times, Tollett chalks the inferior numbers up to the weather, which ... More >>

Live: Cass McCombs Charms About Half of Union Hall

McCombs, live, last year. Photo via neonwar's photostream​Cass McCombs Union Hall Saturday, August 1 Until Cass McCombs's latest full-length, Catacombs, found itself tagged with an unexpected Pitchfork Best New Music last month, I had trouble finding people who had heard of him. After three c ... More >>

News Roundup: Peter King vs. Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Panic at the Disco, Rihanna

--One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

From the Voice Archives: Robert Christgau on the Mass Culture Spectacle of Michael Jackson in 1984

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>

Interview: David Lynch on Creativity, Meditation, and Collective Experience (But Nothing on That New Sparklehorse / Danger Mouse Collaboration)

"Transcending is a natural thing; so you have this experience, you're going asleep but you're still awake. Boom! Woah, what was that? You transcend." David LynchThis man even takes his own press photos. David Lynch has clearly been an influencer within Hollywood over his 35-year-plus career. But ... More >>

On Beck's Cover of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," and the War Child presents Heroes Benefit Album from Which It Sprung

As the Oscar ceremony credits rolled last night and, via a coming-attractions highlight reel, a grateful nation was alerted to the presence of Night at the Museum 2, perhaps you noticed Beck's glammy, insouciant take on Dylan's "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" playing o'er top. Not terrible, but no ... More >>

John Lennon's Imagine Demands Truth, But Provides Little Of Its Own

Blakeman for Mayor! Bring Back the World's Fair! (Updated)

NYC RFD: Weekend Update

Paris Hilton Politics = Hilarious

Atmosphere's Growing Pains

Tiger, Paul McCartney and Diddy: Celeb Tabloid Roundup

SWELLS! ATTACK!: Love, Death, Sex, Facial Fishnets

Hugs and Kisses #21: Kate Nash, Animals And Men

Goofy, Ambitious Ska Duets Benefit From Your Inattention

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Politics, Provocations, Eulogies

Accepting the things we cannot change and raising hell about the rest

Queens of England

Why the British love the Scissor Sisters more than we do

The Grammy Awards: A Preview

Kevin Barnes does more things than you know, impeccably

Ghost Writers

Dueling divas of Latin hair-prog explode the possibilities

Lip Stink

A brief history of the ultimate pop faux pas

Introducing: Trannyfags!

'The Love Chimes,' 'Better Off Dead,' All Their Nonhits!

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Pet Sounds Boy

Clichés for a Reason

Not Knowing What Else to Do, Singers Sing 9-11 Songs

England's Oldest Hitmakers

Storied Lives and Strange Bedfellows