Prince (Musician)

Up Your Early Adopter Alt-R&B Cred By Seeing Inc. and Kelela Tonight

If you want to see what alternative R&B will look like in 2013—if the term itself, which already looks sort of old fart-y, still exists—you should check out Los Angeles-based musicians Inc. and Kelela at (le) poisson rouge tonight for "A No World Takeover." The songs on Inc.'s full-lengt ... More >>

Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

Miami Connection Is the Kung Fu '80s Electro-funk Flick of Your Dreams

So good it's good

The Most Bizarre Music-Based Halloween Costumes of 2012

It's the Halloween season once again, and weather permitting (guess what ... IT'S NOT PERMITTING) soon the streets will be flooded with people of all ages in costumes, ready to party. This year, there's a surprising number of costume options for the discerning music fan, so we decided to investigate ... More >>

Michael Jackson's (and Spike Lee's) BAD25 Proves Your Butt Is Still His

Ginuwine Strips It Down

The r&b singer rides the pony at B.B. King's

Live: Phish Bring The Phish Experience To Jones Beach

Phish Jones Beach Theater Wednesday, July 4 Better than: Putting the freak flag in permanent cold storage. "Goddard College!" Phish leader Trey Anastasio called out between verses during "Alumni Blues," the band's opening number at Jones Beach on Wednesday night, a rare onstage shout-out to the b ... More >>

Live: Lady Antebellum Cross Genres, Get Gooey At Radio City

Lady Antebellum w/Darius Rucker, Thompson Square Radio City Music Hall Thursday, March 3 Better than: Most things that can actually be described as antebellum. Two years ago, "Need You Now" pushed Lady Antebellum, a soulful country trio with a chart-topping record and single, out of Nashville and ... More >>

Live: Yann Tiersen Gets Playful At Irving Plaza

Yann Tiersen Irving Plaza Friday, April 27 Better than: Most of the Philip Glass and Stephin Merritt music I've heard. Skyline, Yann Tiersen's seventh studio album, is only the second album of his current deal with Anti- and, like 2010's Dust Lane, it pioneers sonic territory structurally differen ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Beyoncé's Unlikely Pazz & Jop Coup

If the triumph of tUnE-yArDs in this year's Pazz & Jop albums poll was one of the biggest upsets in the poll's history, then the companion singles poll offered one of its most predictable winners to date: Adele's "Rolling In The Deep." Smart money had been on that song taking the prize since it bega ... More >>

100 & Single: What Billboard's Rule Changes Mean For The Britney, Michael And Gaga Albums You Bought

When you go see a movie at a Saturday half-price matinee, should it count toward that weekend's box office? You paid less than the guy who saw the movie Friday night. Does that mean your viewing shouldn't count? What about if you see an old movie at a revival house: Should that count toward the box ... More >>

100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100

​What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

Annoyed Scientist Wants All You Narcissistic Pop Stars To Get Off His Lawn

​Today's Times has a piece on a psychologist's theory about song lyrics of the current day being proof that we are all self-obsessed narcissists. The psychologist who came up with the theory, Nathan DeWall, was apparently inspired to embark on this quest by Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan to Pull a Prince, Drop the "Lohan"

​When push comes to shove, we really don't care whether Paris Hilton calls herself Paris or Farthead, whether Madonna has one name or two, or whether Prince calls himself by an actual name or chooses to go by a symbol. Nor do we care much about Lindsay Lohan, but she seems to think differently ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Death To Chris Brown

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! America's preeminent lady-beater weeps. Photo via Word Up!& ... More >>

The Broken Promises of Bruce Springsteen

His remastered Darkness on the Edge of Town doesn't exactly show a light touch

CMJ Day One: Greg Dulli Seethes, Thrills, And Banters Hilariously At Bowery Ballroom

Go ahead, ask him about the Yankees. Photo by Caryn Rose.​Greg Dulli Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, October 19 Better than: Leaving the lights on. "Could we bring the lights down a little bit, please?" asked Greg Dulli after the first song of his Bowery Ballroom set on Tuesday night. And immediat ... More >>

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Kids Have Inevitably Tragic Lives

​The day the internet exploded, triggered by the death of Michael Jackson, is approaching its one-year anniversary. The outpouring of re-grief in the media -- also known as clamoring for stories on sticky summer days -- has already begun, ushered in by the Associated Press and their release of ... More >>

Last Night: A Wednesday Night Out On The L.E.S., Featuring A Secret Entrance, Wobbly Dancers, And One Awful Bouncer

​Above, the scene at Ella; below, the nefarious Corona-based secret door at Stay. Pics by Puja. ​New York City's downtown party scene adheres to a finely tuned set of rules. It's one of those things that everyone understands and no one talks about--a delicate balance of power that's main ... More >>

I Blog New York: Your Guide to Gotham's Best

18 obsessive, cantankerous, and unstoppable Gotham blogs worth going ape over

JUST DANCE

Single ladies, womanizers, and paparazzi welcome

FUCK CHRISTMAS

The only way to survive the holidays is with a drink and a Beat

Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

Michael Jackson is dead, and I'm taken aback by how incredibly unpleasant a feeling it is, far beyond the usual celebrity-grieving response: This is devastating in an unexpected and overwhelmingly surreal way. I'm also tremendously/overly conscious that at this exact moment thousands of writers/blog ... More >>

'Uproar: The Lives & Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt'

The Worst Karaoke Songs of All Time!

"Womanizer" by Britney Spears. Anyone who tries singing it can never keep up with the quick vocal spurts and rapid repetitions. There's a reason Britney lipsynchs.

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

THE REAL DEAL

Alejandro Escovedo is like no other

Of Montreal Trades Polite Beatles Worship for a Flashy Prince Fixation

Kevin Barnes loves loincloths and horses. Outback Steakhouse? Not so much.

Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol

Hot 97's Summer Jam: A Preview

Mister Lonely: Harmony Korine's Moody Neverland

A former enfant terrible, now singular and sincere

Michael Jackson's Nigh-Unstoppable Thriller Gets the 25th-Anniversary Treatment

Still Tryin'

Macy Gray soldiers on where her formerly mighty neo-soul cohorts fear to tread

Sugar on My Tongue

Nostalgia = Death: Gay Pride, Gay Shame Part 2

A podcast of a more experimental bent

Accept Substitutes

The Loser's Lounge ventures into the present and other dangerous conceptual realms

Don't Call It a Comeback

The Neverland Music Summit

Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

Time Will Reveal

Save Zee Robots

Banned in the U.S.A.

Annals of Dicks, Drugs, and the Devil

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Chain Store Hairdos

Age of Discovery

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It

Letters

New Abstract

'Alternative ' Soul: Progress in Design?