Pete Seeger

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/14/12

Here are the best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

'Bring Leonard Peltier Home'

New Musical Dogfight Trades WW2 Sailors for Vietnam Marines

On the other town

Live From Jazzfest: Family Affairs And Holding On To History In A Changing New Orleans

In the grandstand, away from the heat of the Fair Grounds—the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium for each New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival—stood an exhibit of black-and-white photos that suggested much of the music going on outside. "Faces of Tremé," drawn from 30 years ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Dreams Of A Giant Jam Session May 1

"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>

VOTE NOW: Should The Velvet Underground Or The Wu-Tang Clan Advance To SOTC's March Madness Final?

As March comes to a close, so does our month-ish-long battle royale between 64 New York musicians, all of whom were put in the mix to decide which one best embodied the spirit of the city. Each of the divisions—Uptown, Queens, Downtown, and Brooklyn—has now crowned a winner, and for our ... More >>

SOTC's March Madness: The Quintessential New York Musician Tournament

Sound of the City's monthlong tournament to determine the quintessential New York City musician (since 1955, the year of the Village Voice's founding) is taking over our site all March. The full schedule and results (as of March 23) below; you can also follow along with our bracket.

The Wu-Tang Clan (4) Tries To Overcome Pete Seeger (5) In SOTC's March Madness

Disheveled musicians unite! After zipping by The Rapture in the opening round with his unkempt folksy style, Pete Seeger now faces Staten Island's original grimy, dirt-sodden rap troupe, who themselves dispatched Rammellzee to get to this stage of the showdown. With both artists embracing a stubborn ... More >>

Pete Seeger (5) And The Rapture (12) Bring SOTC's March Madness Tournament To The People

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

New York's Crackdown on Brooklyn DIY Spaces

Q&A: Tim Robbins On Growing Up In The New York Music Scene And Giving Audiences Their Money's Worth

​ Tim Robbins is used to the spotlight. He won an Oscar for his role in Mystic River, directed the acclaimed Dead Man Walking, and is the kind of actor who makes The Shawshank Redemption, The Player, or the light-hearted Bill Durham worth rewatching. And who could forget his role as Bob Robert ... More >>

Q&A: Stephan Said On Creating A Generational Zeitgeist, Collapsing Genre Boundaries, And Meeting Allen Ginsberg

​ New York-based songwriter Stephan Said has played in punk bands, toured in Ween, worked as a migrant worker and befriended and worked with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger and Patti Smith. The Iraqi-American musician is a longtime grassroots organizer; he had a hand in the 1999 WTO d ... More >>

State Assembly Lion Richard Brodsky Sharpens His Claws

He wants to roar as attorney general

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

Mary Travers Memorial Set for Monday

Dylan, Donovan, Travers--all you need to know, really.​Mary Travers, the lovely (a face and figure every bit as adorable as Tuesday Weld, said one of our more august colleagues) and committed Peter, Paul and Mary linchpin who died in September--from complications related to leukemia--will be r ... More >>

Mary Travers, Folkie Heart Throb, 1936-2009

The politically correct response among fans of bona-fide folk music to the astonishing success of Peter, Paul and Mary in the mid-1960's was to dismiss their glossy covers of "Blowin' In the Wind," and "If I Had a Hammer," as the fatal commercialization of a genuine American art form. On the othe ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens

On the improbable return of the rock-star novel

News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

Live: The Lowbrow Reader Presents Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces at Housing Works

Photo of the Fiery Furnaces via jcn's photostream Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces Housing Works Wednesday, July 22 "This one's about traveling to a distant galaxy to bring back spirit orgasms for women on earth who've never had one," Larkin Grimm said last night to a decent c ... More >>

Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition

In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch

Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>

Clip Job: Pete Seeger Banned by ABC

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 18, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 26Footnotes to 'Hootenanny'By Nat HentoffSingers Tom Paxton and Barbara Dane and the Greenbriar Boys (a bluegrass unit) have turned down appearances on ABC's "Hootenanny" series for the same reason that Joan Baez re ... More >>

THIS LAND IS PETE'S LAND

A progressive hero celebrates the 9-0 with a few friends

Live: The Buoyant, Epic Odetta Memorial

Odetta Memorial Service Riverside Memorial Church Tuesday, February 24 "Odetta all by herself was a stimulus package," declared Reverend James Forbes, senior minister emeritus of the gorgeous, cavernous Riverside Memorial Church, at about the four-hour mark of the gala tribute to the titanic fol ... More >>

Live from D.C.: Bushwick Kids Watch Pete Seeger

On the national mall with the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School from Bushwick. Pete Seeger just sang "This Land is Your Land," and the principal, Nate Nudley, is helping a kid get warmed up. One student, a senior this year, just said: "I wanna be the first gay Hispanic president!" Another senio ... More >>

Reviving Lead Belly

A hefty collection of articles and photos plumps up the legacy of the blues great

Clip Job: Titov, the Square, and Hiroshima

Steve Earle Goes Back to Church, Stays for About 2 1/2 Hours

YouTube Gem of the Week: A Really Scary Hammer Horror Film

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

The Treading

The Boss evokes those glory days but doesn't exactly push things forward

Tribeca Preview

25 movies that intrigued, annoyed, and greatly pleased our fest-happy critics

In Memoriam: Sophie Maslow (1911-2006)

Peace Strike Under Way – No Violence, Police Tactful

Remote Patrol

Stand Up and Be Counted: Marching to Defend Democracy

Listings

Peace Activists Planning to Disrupt Manhattan

Music

The Dust May Never Settle

How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

Rock: Festivals

American Bandshell

El Fanático

Boomeranging Dr. Laura Off the Air

Homophobes Can Boycott, Too

Death Be Not Proud

Where Is the Peace Movement?

Where Is the Democratic Party?

The Right Crowd

20 Centuries of Hits

Gira Scope