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Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington Has a New Children's Book, This Little Piggy

The PG GG Allin

Portugal. the Man and Danger Mouse's Not-So-"Evil" Friendship

When word started getting around about Portugal. the Man's next record, singer John Gourley put it out there that they'd be working with Brian Joseph Burton, aka Danger Mouse--of Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz and The Grey Album fame--and that the band was toying with the idea of writing "their" Dark Side ... More >>

Elvis Costello, D'Angelo, Chris Rock Pay Tribute to Prince - Carnegie Hall - 3/7/13

Better Than: Sobbing silently while watching the club performance scene in Purple Rain on your couch for the 25th time this week... not that there's anything wrong with that. The stage was bigger, the venue more prestigious, and the atmosphere gave off a more purple hue. But then this was a Prince ... More >>

The Cringe's John Cusimano On The Beatles' Vintage Gear, The Killers' Drummer, And New York's Best Chinese Restaurant

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City-based rockers The Cringe released their fourth studio album, Hiding In Plain Sight, earlier this week. The Cringe is fronted up by John Cusimano, w ... More >>

Swans' Most Terrifying Songs

In a recent interview with The Fader, Michael Gira of Swans claimed that he took acid 300 times before he turned 14. That's a lot of acid for a young buck. That's a lot of acid for any buck. A whole lot. I took acid about 78 times before I turned 18 (and I haven't used it since). That's not nearly a ... More >>

Ween: In Memoriam

"There are things in my life that no one can understand except Aaron," Mickey Melchiondo noted of his bandmate Aaron Freeman in 2007, when they—as Dean and Gene Ween—put out their last album, La Cucaracha. "We kind of have a parallel life. We went through everything together: junior high ... More >>

Q&A: Grasshopper's Josh Millrod And Jesse DeRosa On The Electric Valve Instrument, Working In Advertising, And Improvisation

Every Grasshopper jam starts with a great big nothing sound, on or near the cusp of silence, so soft and unassuming that it almost isn't there. Then, ever-so-glacially, the frame fills with sound: Josh Millrod's penetrative trumpeting fed through the maw of Jesse DeRosa's distortion-hemorrhaging Ele ... More >>

Live: The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World Gets Honored At The Bell House

Still Better Than The Beatles: A Tribute To The Shaggs / A Benefit for the Fremont, N.H. Historical Society & 250th Anniversary Committee The Bell House Friday, April 13 Better than: The Kraftwerk tribute. YouTube recently declared a new Worst Band Ever. Whether or not the hapless outfit from ... More >>

The Best NYC Art Shows of 2011

Three Voice critics name their favorites from the past year

Five Geeky Questions For Storied Rock Photographer Mick Rock

Mick RockTheophilus London, as shot by Mick Rock. ​Anyone interested in rock photography knows the name Mick Rock, and anyone interested in rock—particularly of the classic and punk varieties—is aware of his images. "I started taking pictures in late 1969," says Rock. "The first ... More >>

Live: Guns N' Roses Reward The Patient At The Izod Center

Guns N' Roses w/Asking Alexandria Izod Center Thurdsay, November 18 Better than: Getting to sleep at a decent hour. "It's nice to be here," Axl Rose said from the Izod Center's stage at approximately midnight last night, an hour into Guns N' Roses set. "I had my doubts, too, if I'd make it." The ... More >>

What You Can Learn About Rick Perry From His Interview in Parade Magazine

​Rick Perry gave an interview to Parade Magazine (this week's issue was, yet again, almost completely devoid of any coverage on parades or the parade-attending lifestyle) and people are needling him for comments he made about Barack Obama's birth certificate. He told the interviewer that he ha ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Nobunny Thrashes, Girls Look Back, And Spank Rock Warms Up To Le Bain

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. After the mildly terrifying journey that was Fashion's Night Out, Debbie and I wanted to return to more familiar territory, which for us means the holy trinity of p ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Shinedown's Marathon Of Rock-Radio Domination

​ One of Billboard's biggest recent chart records was set last week, when Katy Perry marked 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Hot 100. She became the first artist to stay there for the entire year thanks to four singles from her sophomore album Teenage Dream, all of which peaked at No. ... More >>

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

Live: Dimmu Borgir and Enslaved Keep Black Metal Alive at Terminal 5

Enslaved, who know how to make this kind of thing look right. All photos by Daniel Snyder.​Dimmu Borgir/Enslaved Terminal 5 Monday, November 8 Better Than: A whooooole weekend of Star Wars. Though they were both spawned in the same Norwegian scene in the early 90s, Terminal 5's Monday night ... More >>

Live: Die Antwoord Kick Our Writer In the Head at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Die Antwoord Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday, July 25 Yo-landi Visser, one-half of the notorious internet phenom South African rap project Die Antwoord, has a thing for spanking her own gold, spandex-plated butt. Naturally, this is a distracting spectacle to see onstage at the Music Hall of Wil ... More >>

Fever Ray's Smoke, Mirrors, and Hirsute Wolfmen

Karin Dreijer Andersson's bone-chilling audio/visual fantasia isn't quite as dark as, say, death metal

Live: 25th Anniversary of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime at the Bowery Poetry Club

25th Anniversary of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime featuring Richard Hell, Mike Watt, Bass Player from Handjob, and More Bowery Poetry Club Saturday, July 25 "What is punk?!" squeals the mysterious Bass Player from Hand Job, as if reposing some remarkably stupid question. Anyone witho ... More >>

The Vanished Empire Tries Coming of Age in 70's Moscow

Bronx Anarchy Fair Has Free Food and Clothing, But Few Takers

Though the high winds made keeping leaflets on the tables a little more difficult than they may have liked, the attendees at the first-ever Bronx Anarchist Fair yesterday were in good spirits, having just completed erecting their tipi after several false starts. "We needed indoor space," said Ell ... More >>

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

In Stuff and Dough the Journey Is the Destination

Cristi Puiu's first feature, like his acclaimed second, is all about the trip

Indie-Pop Tarts Get Worldly

Dodos, El Guincho, and Ruby Suns discover the monotony of excitement

Live: Yeasayer and MGMT at Bowery Ballroom

Old Forms, Fresh Outlooks

Innovation reigns, from 36-CD retrospectives to the Hüsker Dü of free jazz

Sensuous Synchronized Mindmelt: Cornelius at Webster Hall

Lupe Fiasco's Frustrating Gift

Extensions of a Woman

Alicia Keys is still a few albums away from her masterpiece. She'll get there.

Studio Two

The next great reggae studio may have finally sprung up . . . in Gowanus

Primal, Feral, and Mobile

On the Paleolithic clockwork of Brooklyn drummer Jerry Fuchs

Insanity and Other Mutations

Hiphop's future is cloudier, but not necessarily darker

DJ Kicks

Nine sane and rewarding life choices we promise you will not get punished by God for

Hammer of the Goddess

Damn near instrumental metal doom for the divine mother

Indecent Exposure

Really F-word-deleted brilliant: If anyone gets annoyed by anything, it's profane!

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