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Pazz & Jop: Miguel Is Living The Dream

Sex takes center stage on his sophomore album

Q&A: Future Of What On "Electro Pop," Being Nitpicky, And Trying To Get On MTV Unplugged

At a Thanksgiving party in Brooklyn in 2011, singer-songwriter Blair Gimma met Sam Axelrod. The musicians immediately hit it off, as Sam (formerly of Chicago noise band The Narrator) was a fan of Blair's blissful 2010 LP, Die Young, which had garnered a bit of critical praise but then slipped throug ... More >>

First Worsts: Remembering When Bon Jovi Gave "Hair Metal" A Bad Name

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

The Spotlight Shines on Adele's Heartbreak

Suffering from realness

2012, Your Escort Is Here

New York's premier disco big band crowds into the spotlight

100 & Single: You Can Keep Your EGOT; Adele's Going For A 2011 PB&G

​The lady sitting atop both of Billboard's major lists this week has made enough news in 2011 that I'm tempted to rename this column "This Week in Adele." The British thrush is certainly making enough sad news these days, canceling her tour and preparing to undergo much-needed throat surgery. ... More >>

100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?

​Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... More >>

Live: Morris Day And The Time Condensate At B.B. King's

Morris Day and the Time B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Friday, July 29 Better than: Watching the bonus Time videos on the 20th-anniversary edition DVD of Purple Rain. (Seriously, it's just the same footage cut faster each time.) Morris Day is to vanity what Jack Benny was to stinginess. No, not th ... 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 >>

The Fame Cookie: 2011 Grammy Awards Live Blog

It's the return of the most talked-about Grammy Awards live blog--a collection of quips, blips, and arguably insightful observations that dares to match the actual Grammy telecast in terms of pure spectacle and Justin Bieber mentions. Please join our hosts Tom Breihan and Ryan Dombal below, and keep ... More >>

Live: Of Montreal, Janelle Monae, and a Pair of Manpigs Take Over Terminal 5

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneThe new King and Queen of the misfit teens. Of Montreal, Janelle Monae Terminal 5 Saturday, September 18 Better than: Any music currently being made by actual teenage girls. In a characteristically intellectual/saucy dis on his new album False Priest, Of Montreal fron ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 18: Toby Keith, "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Unreasonable, short-sighted, hyperbolic, childish, reactionary--well, to be fair, "Angry American" is a pretty accurate title...

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 27: Kelly Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne, "Changes"

Someone figured out a way to make Ozzy even more incoherent! In retrospect, it's hard not to see The Osbournes as the first sign that the modern world was entering its Post-Dignity Era: The sight of the Prince Of Darkness doddering around his house, his brain turned to mush by the colony of ants ... More >>

Interview: Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny on God, Hardware, and His New Luminous Night

"Even Danzig believes in a higher force." Elisa Ambrogio​For the past ten years, Ben Chasny has been recording under the moniker Six Organs of Admittance. His first self-released recordings, put to tape in his birthplace in the California Redwoods, were homespun abstractions that paid equal h ... More >>

"The Bard Goes Global: Shakespeare on the International Screen" at Walter Reade

From the Voice Archives: Chuck Eddy Reviews Michael Jackson's Dangerous in '91

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Chuck Eddy on Michael Jackson's 1991 hated-on-mostly-but-still-plenty-epic Dangerous. Sound of Breaking Glass By Chuck Eddy December 17, 1981 Hey, so how come nobody's compared the fucker to There's a Riot Goin' On? Well, maybe Rio ... More >>

From the Voice Archives: Guy Trebay on Michael Jackson in 1987

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Guy Trebay on the inscrutable and surgically air-brushed creature Jackson had become in 1987. It ran alongside a Greg Tate piece on the same subject. The Boy Can't Help It Guy Trebay September 22, 1987 There's no longer any question t ... More >>

The Excess and Eccentricity of Francis and the Lights

A moderately illuminating introduction to a studio obsessive

All Sold Out at CBGB

How much is that mosh pit in the boutique window?

Ancient Maneaters of the Future

The year's best-selling album made mass culture sound vapid; the year's hottest auteur made vapidity sound transcendent

Noise From the Front

For the week of December 6–12, 2006

Beelzebabs

A harrowing look at Satanic motifs in the canon of Barbra Streisand

Air to the Throne

At the '06 air guitar nationals, the thrill is real, though the axes are not

Where Is Your Mind? Maverick Thinker Challenges New York.

Dance Deluge

Coming attraction: Great dance, five different troupes nightly for six nights at a tiny price

Sex, Lies, Death

The irresistible pull of the down-low myth—uh, story—hooks reporters and their readers

For Your Amusement

A roll call of this year's bands at Coney Island's favorite freak show

But It's Really Good Sex

Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection

Missy E for President

The Augustus Pablo of the mainstream underground takes her private pleasures public

Rousing Constituencies

Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes

Words Will Never Hurt You When Queers Perform for Peace

Hear My Body Talk

Born to Be Alive

New Thai Cinema Hits the Road

Mysterious Objects and Black Tigers

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The Human Gaza Strip

Pazz & Jop Preview

This Won’t Hurt a Bit

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Underground Disco?

Low-pass filters from the land of frogs and Ninja Turtles

MTV: Behind the Music

VJs, Video Awards, and Li'l Kim's Boob

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On Divas Live '99, the bewigged trio of Cher, Elton John, and Tina Turner rocked on Elton's theme song, 'Proud Mary.'

Out of Time

Open Season

Luck Be a Yankee Tonight

In the Clear

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Instead of Not About Nightingales, the Tennessee Williams play should really be called Is About Three Hours.

Love Jones

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