Pink (Singer)

Rancid Can Do No Wrong: A Guide to Their Bands, Sideprojects, and Collaborations

Rancid are an institution. Fervently punk rock roots mixed with songs catchy enough for people who've never seen the inside of a squat, these Californians ain't fuckin' around. But while we take this moment to appreciate the majesty of Rancid and look forward to their upcoming shows Thursday and Fri ... More >>

HERE COMES THE FLOOD

Tokyo’s Boris play one of 
their classics

P!nk - Madison Square Garden - 3/22/13

Better Than: The opening act. Poor P!nk. Back in 2001, she was the pop star who wasn't, dissing L.A. and Britney and singing songs for all the missundazstood suburbanites teenpop theoretically ignored. Ten years later, it looked like P!nk was moving away from pop just as pop was moving more towards ... More >>

ONE LAST KISS

Blow P!nk one at 
Madison Square Garden

Defend Your Ballot: Dan Weiss, 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 >>

This Week In the Voice: The VMAs Fizzle; Unlocking The Truth Go To Metal School

In this week's Village Voice, out now: Despite the aerial hijinks of P!nk (above) and lots of sex talk, I get underwhelmed by MTV's Video Music Awards; and Jonah Bromwich hangs out with the hard-rocking kids who make up Unlocking The Truth, who you might be able to catch playing Times Square sometim ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Nine Songs From 2012 That Should Have Been Huge

The term "flop," in a musical context, usually refers to an unsuccessful album. Though singles constantly perform above or below expectations, a song will rarely get a reputation as a flop unless there's a lot riding on it, such as a pre-release single from a big-name album. In 2011, Beyonce's "Run ... More >>

SUMMER SHARE

Beach House shack up in Central Park

Live: Roger Waters Brings A Super-Sized The Wall To The Bronx

Roger Waters Yankee Stadium Friday, July 6 Better than: The Yanks taking three of four from the Red Sox. Size matters. Roger Waters proved this Friday night at Yankee Stadium when he put on his biggest-yet production of one of the biggest albums of all time, his former band Pink Floyd's double-LP ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Dan Wilson, Linda Perry, And Other Pop Footnotes Turned Hitmakers

It's a familiar scene to anyone who's seen VH1 programs like Behind The Music or Where Are They Now?, or the channel's endless lists of 'one-hit wonders' of the '80s and '90s: a musician whose brief fling with stardom is well behind them sits at the mixing desk of a studio, while the voiceover detai ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Drake, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, And The Era Of The Hit Bonus Track

Superstar pals and Young Money labelmates Lil Wayne and Drake released two of the biggest albums of 2011—Tha Carter IV and Take Care—and both are still spinning off hits well into 2012. But a look at the singles charts reveals something odd: the biggest current hits off both albums aren' ... More >>

Beyonce, Nicki, and Merrill Get Optimistic

Finding the bright side of 2011

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, The Finale: Jay-Z And Kanye West Fiddle While The Underground Gets Wasted

Smell that money burning. ​This concludes Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, a conversation about pop music in 2011 between Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph. Read it all again. Thanks for the handoff, Nick, and thanks to Katherine, Tom and esp ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Angry Songs Of All Time

​Here are my top 10 bouts of musical rage. If you disagree with me, I'll be furious! (10) "We're Not Gonna Take It"--Twisted Sister Infectious anger at its most rollicking. I always felt this song was the musical equivalent of "I'm mad as hell" from Network.

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

Radio Hits One: The Long, Long Legs Of Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday

​A few weeks ago, my colleague Chris Molanphy broke down how "Super Bass," the late-breaking crossover smash from Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, presented a rare example of a hit album taking months to yield a top 10 single after moving major units out of the gate. But at the time, I was patiently ... More >>

100 & Single: Late Bloomer Nicki Minaj Scores Summer Smash Off Aging Album

​Imagine if People named an actor "Sexiest [Gender] Alive" months before he or she had released a hit movie or TV show. It's not unthinkable, certainly—think back to the '90s and the Julia Ormonds and Skeet Ulrichs who scored Next Big Thing magazine covers before face-planting in a flop ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Has The #1 Record In The Country

​It's true. Pink Friday sold 44,000 copies this week to top the Billboard charts. It would've set a record for the worst-selling #1 record of all time, except Cake already hit that number in January, and last week Amos Lee ruled the charts by selling a mere 40,000. (Your 2011 one-week sales le ... More >>

Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and the Great Gay-Pander-Off of 2010

Nicki, P!nk, Gaga, and those two other ones taste the rainbow

On Drake, Nicki Minaj, B.o.B., and the Art of the Debut-As-Pop-Crossover

Attack of the singing rappers

Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, Debated

Growing pain or total disaster? One fan and one non-fan hash it out.

Carlos Santana Needs To Be Stopped

​If you happened to watch last night's American Music Awards, well, I'm very sorry. If you didn't, our good friend Maura provides an in-depth live-blog summary over at the Awl, but here's the gist: Justin Bieber reigned supreme, Katy Perry wandered so far off key she made Taylor Swift sound li ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Roundup: Letterman Last Night, Hot 97 Today, Pink Friday Monday, Hammerstein Ballroom On Thanksgiving, Arguments About Her Singing For The Next Several Weeks At Least

Romance​Let's just say multiple members of the Voice critical braintrust are generating possibly dozens of hundreds of words about Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday even as you read this, and leave it at that -- we are excited, is all. Nicki herself, meanwhile, is ubiquitous. Her "If I'm Lucky I'll Fi ... More >>

Nicki Minaj vs. Lil' Kim Beef is Tearing This Family Apart

The above clip is of the headache-giving variety. In it, a woman raps, speaks and cries (loud tears) about the recently widened rift between female rappers Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj. Kim, the woman says, is like her mother, Nicki is like her step-mother and rap music is her father; she just want ... More >>

Best Of NYC: Worrying About Nicki Minaj

Poppin' it so crazy kooky

Why Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday Will Probably Be a Disappointment

Can this superhero save herself?​Nicki Minaj has had quite the weekend. First came "Check It Out," a Buggles-sampling, will.i.am-featuring slice of zaniness that seems destined for Pink Friday, her long-gestating debut LP, currently due on November 23. Then came a marriage announcement via fro ... More >>

This Is Not a Best of #changehearttobuttsongs Post

Because even though every one from P!nk to Marc Hogan to a decorated Boston media reporter/former colleague who is now a Northeastern University professor (!) has become compelled to weigh in, compiling the best of this particular musically inspired hashtag trend is too much to bear. That said, if ... More >>

Al Gore Deemed "Crazed Sex Poodle" by Allegedly Manhandled Massage Therapist

​Oh, National Enquirer. We knew exactly what to think of you (not much) until the day you broke the John Edwards love child story. (That was some good stuff!) And now, whenever you come out with the story of so-and-so's affair or drug addiction or secret baby lair, we wonder: Could you be tell ... More >>

Surveying the Dr. Luke Moment: A Critical Look At Lazers, Glitter, and the Un-Sexing of America's Pop Stars

On May 7, Katy Perry debuted "California Gurls," the first single from her forthcoming album, Teenage Dream. It was a cleverly-engineered, synchronized piece of pop craft--a classic no-chances move--and it had to be: there were things riding on this song. Things like the viability of Perry as a bo ... More >>

Ghostface Killah Is Checking For the New Vampire Weekend

​There must be a lot of celebrating going down in the old VW compound right about now. From yesterday's Q A in the Times, with Ghost and his manager Mike Caruso, an interview which took place inside a "parked S.U.V. around midnight recently": Q: Vampire Weekend is a group you said you liked. ... More >>

SHE COMES OUT SWINGIN’

Pop insurgent Pink brings the circus to town

News Roundup: Perez Hilton Sues, Kanye West/Spike Jonze, Jim James, My Morning Jacket

--Perez Hilton is suing Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina for battery and "infliction of emotional distress," after, you know, he got punched for calling Will.I.Am something homophobic. Hilton's lawyer said in a statement: "Whether you love Perez or hate him, he is entitled to his freedom of speec ... More >>

Butch Walker

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

Kristen Kosmas’s new play concerns a girl with a death wish

Pink: Not Dead, Again

Funhouse is the most energetic divorce record probably ever

Live: Pink is Crazy

Stoned and Rethroned

Justin Timberlake reclaims his King of Arena Pop crown with nearly three hours of gleefully defied sexxlaws

Demo'ing Down

Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds

Jagged Little Hill

Upon taking wing, singer finds airways no walk in the park

Your Guide to CMJ 2004

Superstring-Theory Strings Help Songs and Riffs That Aren't

She Stays and She Goes

Fuck you, Heidi Fleiss! Fuck you, Scott Weiland! Linda Non-Blonde Honey, see ya around

Me and My B's

Celebs Take Manhattan

Happy Loving Couples

Gamma Gamma Hey

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Popstakes

River Deep, Freckle High

Will You Scrub Me Tomorrow