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Defend Your Ballot: Rob Sheffield, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Fall Guide 2012: Books

Gossip

Amazing Photo Of Liza Minnelli

​It's from a new Terry Richardson shoot of the award winning entertainer for Love magazine.

What's Your Favorite Diva Showstopper From Follies?

​The classic show biz breakdown musical, Follies, is coming back to Broadway, complete with its luscious and witty Sondheim score. There are no fewer than four showstopping numbers for women in the musical. Your faves in order? Here are mine: (4) Could I Leave You? Phyllis--played by Jan ... More >>

Live: Lady Gaga, Loopy And Triumphant At Madison Square Garden

Lady Gaga Madison Square Garden Tuesday, February 22 Better than: Carmelo Anthony's Knicks debut, probably. She has attention-span issues, Lady Gaga. Maybe you knew this already. For some of us, though, it's a slower realization -- something not immediately evident until, say, one observes her w ... More >>

'Roger Waters: The Wall Live'

THIEVES IN THE NIGHT

Hot Chip leave the lasers at home

WARM & FUZZY

See what one guy can do with a beat-up keyboard

Final Fantasy

'Biatch Corp Presents Abe Duque'

If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans

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Cold Cave Sign to Matador

Martin Myers​Friend of SOTC Max G. Morton and his band, Cold Cave, have signed to Matador records. Cold Cave, which has expanded from its early days as a Philadelphia-based domestic project for Morton and Heartworm proprietor Wes Eisold to something more dynamic and inclusive (the band now inc ... More >>

Your Vegas+Fan Tan+Kordan

Perfect Pop Comes Quickly to Pet Shop Boys

The seminal duo ditch the paranoia on the splendid new Yes

This Week's Voice: Booker T. Jones, Akron/Family, Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, The Girlfriend Experience, Jim Jarmusch, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla visits Booker T. Jones at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where the indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star. Aidan Levy in praise of Marc Ribot, style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire. Jesse Jarnow on the otherworldly ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Phyllis Little wouldn't leave her apartment in the Bronx until she saw justice done for her nine-year-old granddaughter, raped and murdered in 1998. The police say they have the man who did it, and Little is preparing to go. But her mind isn't settled -- not about Robert Fleming, who insists he's ... More >>

The Chap

Why England's Pop Divas The Sugababes Put Ours to Shame

Cheesy, shameless girls abroad

Solange Knowles: Crazier in Love

On the daffy, mesmerizing retro-soul surreality of Beyoncé's younger sister

SXSW: Clipse

Sensitive-Whiteboy Robo-Soul Will Own 2008

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles

Fight Club

Allison Smith's project inspires protest

Open-Road Rock Nostalgia Goes Awkwardly Disco

Life Begins at 50

Disco-centric Boys avoid becoming boring men

Gay Until Penetration

Hetero men grapple with being taken for fags

So Dark

Dark Room turns one; Cyril's in the Hamptons

For Once, Kajagoogoo Has Purpose

Artist Alyce Santoro fashions old tapes into clothes you can hear

Gloss This Mess Around

Two Brothers Walked Into a Bar

Party Party Tonight

Where the Wild Blings Are

999 Luftballons

Shameless Eurocheese Puts the Tears and Tempo Back Into Dance Music

Wearing the Melancholy

This Dungeon's for Hire, Even If We're Just Dancing in the Darkwave

Slim Swanee

White American

Eminem Makes His Rock Move

Orajel of the Species

October Symphonies

Livin' on a Prayer

Talking World War III Blues

A Hard Rain Starts to Fall

Father Figures

Music

The Soft Boys

Act of Contrition

Keeping It Unreal

African Connection II

We Love the Nightlife, Baby

Take This

Trunk Show

Boing Boom Tschak