Quincy Jones

Om'Mas Keith, The Chosen One

The Queens-born hip-hop producer walks in to the Grammys a double-nominee

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

Rappers At Award Shows: A History Of Violence

This past weekend saw Rick Ross and Young Jeezy's long-simmering beef boiling over into fisticuffs as the rappers and their entourages went at each other at the BET Hip-Hop Honors Awards (and possibly broke a very expensive mirror in the process). That squabble wasn't a one-off though! Here's a prim ... More >>

Live: Escort Gets Ecstatic With Darcy James Argue's Secret Society At The World Financial Center

Escort, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society World Financial Center Plaza Saturday, August 25 Better than: Screaming "Disco sucks!" in a crowded Studio 54. "Disco snuck up on America like a covert operation," wrote Alice Echols in Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Dan Balis and ... More >>

Live: 2NE1 Are The Best At The Prudential Center

2NE1 Prudential Center Friday, August 17 Better than: Pretty much everything. At the Prudential Center on Friday, after an hour and a half delay due to "vocal and technical difficulties," 2NE1 emerged from four separated, elevated platforms, wheeled around by shirtless dudes in mesh shirts. Later, ... More >>

Rashida Jones: "Come Out, John Travolta!"

I knew I liked this woman. She's the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton. She's a writer/movie star (currently promoting the amiable Celeste and Jesse Forever). And in an interview where she speaks with writer/actor Will McCormack on topics like the need for more out gay stars, here's what ... More >>

Rashida Jones Steps Out On Her Own

The late bloomer

My Thoughts On New Motown Show Quoted In Daily News

I told you right here about the Broadway show Berry Gordy is planning, featuring his life story interspersed with scads of fabulous Motown hits. Well, the New York Daily News addressed the show today, and asked me for my input, so I told them I had a cover band for years and am literally obsessed w ... More >>

Q&A: Booker T. Jones On His First Visit To New York, Scoring Films, And What Working With Kanye West Might Be Like

Booker T. Jones is in a cab from the airport heading into Brooklyn, where he'll perform a free show tonight under the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival. In tandem with his band, Booker T. & The M.G.s, the multi-instrumentalist laid down the grooves behind some of the '60s mo ... More >>

'11th Annual A Great Night in Harlem'

Download: Escort's Euphoric Remix For Their Ode To An Impostor "Caméleon Chameleon"

Lenny Tso​Escort is New York City's greatest perpetual buzz band: Five years; five critically acclaimed 12-inches; a 17-member live bacchanal; and a decadent vintage disco sound that miraculously has never gone out of style. They're finally getting around to releasing a debut album (out Novemb ... More >>

Live: Vex Ruffin Helps Stones Throw Take Its Next Step

​CMJ, Day Four: Vex Ruffin, The Stepkids, Jonti Better than: Listening to Stones Throw's present rap roster. The day before his first CMJ show, Vex Ruffin sat in a bar called Ontario in Williamsburg, wearing a t-shirt with the Seinfeld logo on it and quietly nerding out by giving the Stones ... More >>

The Brains And Boxes Behind Blip: Six Video Game Consoles To Use As Instruments, And The Geeks Who Love Them

​NYC's annual three-day Blip Festival, which starts tonight, is the world's most important celebration of "chiptune" music, wherein gamers-turned-composers write songs using their favorite ancient video game consoles. Wanna see how the sausage gets made? Let's take a look at the consoles that ... More >>

Warren Beatty Sexes Up George McGovern

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 17 Will they snort coke in the White House? By Maureen Orth LOS ANGELES, California -- "I kissed Jack Nicholson," shrieked a teenybopper, her bare midriff quivering with excitement. "Warren Beatty hugged ... More >>

The Peggy Lipton Affair Takes Down Another Albany Big Shot

​We got yet another fascinating look inside the Albany favors factory yesterday when Andrew Cuomo released his latest revelation in the state pension fund scandal. Pat Lynch, the uber-lobbyist and close friend and ally of Sheldon Silver, was slapped with a half-million-dollar fine and banned f ... More >>

Decoding Jay-Z's Decoded

Why the rapper's memoir is definitely not Shawn Carter's

Q&A: DJ Spinna on Michael Jackson, Whose Music He Will Be Playing for You and Spike Lee This Weekend

courtesy DJ SpinnaSpinna, as a little boy holding the Jackson 5 LP Get it Together Michael Jackson would've turned 52 this Sunday. Undoubtedly many parties shall be thrown around the globe in his honor, but MJ's spirit will most likely be floating over Prospect Park for Spike Lee's second annual Br ... More >>

Meet Avan Lava, New York's Newest Super-Funky, Fischerspooner-Affiliated Disco Duo

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​New York's super-funky disco exports (see Invisible Conga People, Escort) just got maybe their most luscious addition yet. Not to be confused with YIMBY favorite Ava Luna, Avan Lava is lush, sparkli ... More >>

R.I.P. Fearless, Wildly Adventurous Jazz Drummer Steve Reid

You'd be hard pressed to find a drummer who covered more stylistic ground in his career than Bronx-born drummer Steve Reid, who died in his sleep last night after a battle with cancer. He was 66.

Albita Rodriguez Is Here To Infuse Your Thursday Night With A Bit More Afro-Cuban Flair

​Cuban songstress Albita Rodriguez makes an NYC tour stop tonight at SOB's, on the day of Dia de San Lazaro. The Afro-Cuban holiday honors San Lazaro (or Babalu Aye), a father-figure saint believed to protect and heal--the dance stylings of Rodriguez intend to celebrate that through her soulfu ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Sizzurp-Guzzler Blues

The Dwayne Carter documentary has arrived, to his dismay, or at least his lawyers'

A Guy Named Kenneth Rogers, Who Is a Miserable Human Being, Is Suing VIBE Magazine

While most normal, functioning human beings with brains and consciences and feelings for other human beings react at things like the closing of VIBE magazine--one of those elegantly sad duets of massive job loss combined with significant cultural loss--with sensitivity and compassion, there are alwa ... More >>

Vibe Gets a Righteous Eulogy from . . . David Carr?

No offense to the dude (getting to Night of the Gun soon, I promise), but it seemed unlikely that Mr. Carr would supply perhaps the most comprehensive and tender-hearted Vibe epitaph not delivered on Twitter. But his Times piece gets at what made the mag so important to both hip-hop and the NY musi ... More >>

Quincy Jones Not Done with VIBE

Now the news comes that Quincy Jones is thinking of "saving" VIBE. "I'm trying to buy my magazine back now," Jones told EbonyJet.com yesterday. "They just messed my magazine all up, but I'm gonna get it back. You better believe it, I'm'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over." This ... More >>

From the Voice Archives: Vince Aletti Reviews Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1982

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti on Jackson's Thriller in 1982. E.T as Mr. Entertainment 'Michael Jackson: intense fame, dreams of flying, and a paranoid undertow' By Vince Aletti Dec. 14, 1982 Michael Jackson, who has been "touring, singing, dancing" ... More >>

Is Billy Elliot Gay? Is Liza Admitting To Marrying Them?

Not all the liquid refreshment was at the after-parties.

A Night With Alicia Keys, John Mayer, and Diddy!

Gambling on being satisfied by ham on wry; finding sex outside of the city.

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

New Jack Comeback

Can a series of six-minute web films revive Barry Michael Cooper's storied career?

Idol Gives Back: A Running Diary

Keeping Jazz Musicians Alive

Many world-renowned jazz musicians have no pensions, no medical plans, no hope

Pure Percussive Pleasure

Kenny and Louie's joyous retro reboots dominate clubs and living rooms alike

Soft Sell

M-1 works to smoothly revolutionize the grown folks

Afrocentrifugal Force: Looking Blackward With Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Flops and Monks

Philip Glass's handpicked humanitarians keep it unstuffy

Brown-Skin Lady

Suede magazine wants advertisers to see its true colors—and spend some real green

Benny Carter, 1907-2003

A Gentleman You Didn't Mess With: The King and His Honors and His Many Revolutions

With God on Our Side

Today's Pop-Gospel Albums Affirm the Persistence of Faith Through Adversity

Good Old Boys

Blige: Queen of Street Couture

NY Mirror

Schmooze Operators

Inside the World Economic Forum

Work for Hire

Sonny Stitt and Bobby Hackett Survive the Marketplace

Spinning Race at Harvard

The Business Behind the Gates-West Power Play

Music

Diddily-Dee

NY Mirror

I chatted up Debbie Matenopoulos, whose mantra was, 'How sick is it that I'm up for an Emmy?'

The Beats Go On

Revenge of the Mad Rappers

When hip hoppers use violence to silence their critics

Soul Lite

Soul Food Reimaged for the '90s