Phil Collins

The 10 Douchiest Drummers of All Time

By Nate Jackson What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder who ... More >>

Hello I Must Be Going

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

HOT FOR HALEN

The greatest band of all 
time reunites, sort of

Nickelback (And Paul Scheer) Try To Figure Out Why Everyone Hates Nickelback

​Why do people hate Nickelback enough to craft petitions inveighing against their inclusion in the halftime entertainment of a regular-season NFL game? (Even the Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl appearance didn't inspire such e-ire!) I tried to figure this out two weeks ago and maybe sorta did, at ... More >>

Suicide, Incorporated Does Not Off Itself

Andrew Hinderaker's play lives OK at Roundabout Underground

Beyoncé Goes Back To The Classics For "Love On Top"

​When the world last received a Beyoncé video, it was... well, it was about 10 days ago, when the sugar-rush clip for the thrill-a-millisecond "Countdown" arrived and brought with it some controversy about where she got her inspiration. In the video for the sumptuous "Love On Top," which more ... More >>

The Seven Worst Songs Of All Time

​Whenever these tunes get played, I hide under a rock for four minutes--actually, five, just for safety's sake. They are easily the seven worst songs in history. (7) Mr. Roboto by Styx. I would have ranked this a little higher, but its sheer kitschy audacity, pulled off in a sort of nouvea ... More >>

Free Fallin' With John Mayer: Spotify's Most Popular Songs Of The Past Five Decades

Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you.​ Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>

Beware of the Burning, Scarring, Blindness-Causing Giant Hogweed

ny.govBehold the menace​Ladies and gentlemen, New York is at war. The enemy is Giant Hogweed, by all accounts the most terrifying and malevolent plant in the universe. Specimens can grow as tall as 21 feet, and toxins in their sap, combined with exposure to sunlight, can cause blistering so s ... More >>

Superchunk's "Crossed Wires" Video Wins The Internet For The Afternoon

All one can really say about Superchunk's clip for "Crossed Wires" without massive spoilers is a brief outline of its concept: Laura Ballance attaches video camera to kitty's collar and lets it run free, hilarity ensues. (OK, I can say one other thing without spoilage: It's much better than Phil Col ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Phil Collins Says, "That's All"

​Phil Collins is calling it quits. Or, as CNN puts it, "Fans of Phil Collins may be begging for just 'One More Night' now that the singing legend has announced that he's ready to retire from music." You must be thinking, surely this must be some kind of "Misunderstanding," but no, the legendar ... More >>

Francis & the Lights

Odd Future, Wiz Khalifa, and the Internet-Rap Atomization

Lil B et al. build tiny kingdoms, and rule them

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

ISLAND IN THE SUN

BK’s brightest tropicalia electro

This Week's Voice: R. Crumb on Genesis (The Band), Green Day's New Musical, Merle Haggard, The Tribeca Film Festival, Le Cage aux Folles, And More

​Lots of great stuff in this week's Village Voice, though it all kinda pales in comparison to the incomparable Ward Sutton, who imagines R. Crumb doing an illustrated history of Genesis -- that's Phil Collins' Genesis, not God's. Elsewhere in music, Harvilla checks out the tremendously profane ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Billboard #1s Week: Siobhan Magnus Unveils a Pompadour-Mullet; Didi Benami Butchers "You're No Good"

Siobhan Magnus: hair for days. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​Wow. Oh boy. Whoof. OK. This was definitely the worst episode of American Idol in recent memory and probably one of the worst of all time, Taylor Hicks season included. Everything was just wrong. The theme, Billboard #1s, was hopel ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 12: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. OK, we all agree that Phil Collins is for wussies--but there's got to be some middle ground, right?

Adventures of Power Wants Badly to Win You Over

Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply

So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is

Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol

BONE DANCE

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony meet you at the crossroads

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Prog Attacks!

Hailing the oft-derided genius of these bloat-tastic motherfuckers

Rock Band

It’s never been easier to start your own (fake) musical project.

The Death of the Billboard Music Awards

VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

'Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace'

Trae: Rap as Paralyzing Depression

The Great Cover-Up, Part 1

Live: Phil Collins, A Great Man

NY Mirror

Disney Against Nature

Is that a jungle out there? Looks more like a theme park to me.

Old Folks Home

New Weird American beards and buskers revive their freaky forefathers and an iconic earth mother

The Hordes of Flatbush

A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust

The Quirky Love Song of Andrew J. Nemr Has Rhythm

Letters

Show World

Film

Film

Big With the Kids

Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America

Music

Slow Ride

Houston Screws Off the Cough-Syrup Cap

Friend or Fraud?

A Suspect Benefit Promoter Raises Fear and Loathing

Brand New Men

Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

Dope Whites on Non-Punk

NY Mirror

At the HX Awards, everyone was on their best behavior until the Lee Press-On claws inevitably emerged through the white gloves.

Tarzan

Iris Blond