Phil Ochs

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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 >>

Live: Van Dyke Parks Threatens Violence At The Bell House (Pics, Setlist)

He'll cut you. Pics by Richard, more below.​Van Dyke Parks/Clare and the Reasons The Bell House Saturday, October 2 Better Than: A full-semester course in American Studies. "For whom the bell tolls," announced Van Dyke Parks as he sauntered over to the upright piano he manned for an evening ... More >>

The Very First Consumer Guide: A Plus

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 10, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 39 Consumer Guide I by Robert Christgau Unless you are very rich and very freaky, your relationship to rock is nothing like mine. By profession, I am surfeited with records and live music. Virtually every r ... More >>

Jack Newfield and Robert Kennedy: A Lunch that Launched a Memoir

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 5, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 34 Memoir of a Hero Who Died at Five by Clark Whelton In February of 1966, Jack Newfield appeared on a tv talk show to discuss his recently published book "A Prophetic Minority." During the course of the pro ... More >>

Dustin Hoffman, Jules Feiffer, Other NY Liberals Go GaGa for Eugene McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 23, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 32 The Limits of Power In a Garden of Delights by Michael C. D. Macdonald At first, things don't look good. Backstage, a network reporter complains, "no crowd releases, seats look a bit empty as the show st ... More >>

Phil Ochs Declares the Iraq War Vietnam War Over!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 23, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 6 Have You Heard? The War Is Over! by Phil Ochs Does protesting the war leave you tired and upset? Does civil disobedience leave you nervous and irritable? Does defending liberalism leave you feeling f ... More >>

Remembering Groovy, the Murdered Hippie

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 19, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 1 Love: A Groovy Idea While He Lasted By Richard Goldstein We are all victims of symbols. Events breed their own ritual. Maybe that is why the murders of James Leroy Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick rea ... More >>

Jack Newfield Bemoans Byrds Decline, Can't Digest Vanilla Fudge

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 27, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 41 Needed: A Mencken By Jack Newfield The pop scene needs its Mencken. Its mythmakers and trend-spotters have made it all visible, but the influence of the hucksters, fast-buck promoters, middle-aged teenyb ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... 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 >>

Clip Job: An Early Vietnam War Protest

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 24, 1964, Vol. X, No. 10Thomas Hits Viet War at Washington Sq. RallyMore than 1000 people, including turbaned writer Marc Schleifer, bearded, bereted hippies, mothers with baby carriages, and the Police Department's Special Services ( ... More >>

Armed With Words: D.D. Guttenplan's The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

A new biography examines the career of one of journalism's great crusaders

Fall Preview: My Bloody Valentine Reunite, Tour, Liquify Eardrums

A new biography examines the career of one of journalism's great crusaders

Body of War: Donahue's Iraq

Phil vs. George

You Can Protest This Administration With Chords

Death Cab for Cutie’s sonic architect gets awkwardly, verbosely political

Will Oldham Finds Blissful Surrender in Danzig and R. Kelly

Death Cab for Cutie’s sonic architect gets awkwardly, verbosely political

No Context: An Interview with the Magik Markers

Death Cab for Cutie’s sonic architect gets awkwardly, verbosely political

Get Your Wardrobe On

The fashion industry is obsessed with green—the color of military uniforms, army fatigues, and the scads of money it will cost you to buy next fall's designs

Letters

The fashion industry is obsessed with green—the color of military uniforms, army fatigues, and the scads of money it will cost you to buy next fall's designs

Bobby and Dave

Parallel folkies grapple with the times in a mythic Greenwich Village wonderland

Labor's Punk Songman

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

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

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

Pop Art

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

As Long as I Still Can

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

Listings

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

Music

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

El Fanático

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive

Hat Tricks

A Modern-Day Son of Joe Hill Keeps the Tradition of Championing Working People Alive