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February 1, 2012
R. Kelly Goes Back To Basics With "Share My Love"
R. Kelly's 2010 throwback album Love Letter was one of my favorite records of that year, full of romance and and aesthetics that grabbed from Sam Cooke, late-night smooth-jazz playlists. ("Taxi Cab," in particular, is a corker.) His follow-up to Love Letter is reportedly going to be called Write Me ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Year in Film, 10 Best Live Shows
This week in the Voice, out today: our new Year in Film poll along with criticism from J. Hoberman, Karina Longworth, and others. Winner of Best Film: The Tree of Life. Winner of Worst Film: I Melt With You. Maura Johnston rates the 10 best live shows she saw this year, including Beyoncé, ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
R. Kelly's Book Might Be In Limbo, But He Has A New Song
R. Kelly took the publicity storm engendered by the news of his possibly upcoming memoir Soulacoaster to release a song via his Twitter account. The track's titled "Shut Up," and it's dedicated to those people who doubted that he'd be able to come back... from the emergency throat surgery he ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2011
R. Kelly's Memoir Soula Coaster Is Not Coming Out Next Week. And Maybe Not At All? (Updated)
The mysterious case of Soula Coaster's disappearance This isn't a surprising development, but it's an unfortunate one. There seems to be some unexplained drama with the R. Kelly life-changer Soula Coaster: Diary of Me, the cover of which made the rounds this morning. Online bookseller Indigo has th ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
Live: R. Kelly Does It His Way At The Prudential Center
R. Kelly w/Keyshia Cole, Marsha Ambrosius Prudential Center Thursday, June 30 Better than: A 45-minute R. Kelly show. It's probably fitting that R. Kelly is opening his shows with a black-and-white film, starring him, one where he's at first bummed out while dressed to the nines and sitti ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
R. Kelly Is Hanging On The Telephone
R. Kelly's 2010 album Love Letter sparkles with old-school tropes from top to bottom, so it makes sense that he'd go back to the time when terrestrial radio still mattered for the video for the pleading "Radio Message." He somehow manages to parlay calling into a Chicago radio station at pre ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You
The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.
Music
December 15, 2010
R&B Serenity Now: R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, and Others Keep the Quiet-Storm Flame Alive
The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Watch R. Kelly Kick Off the 2010 World Cup in South Africa
The song is "Sign of a Victory," R. Kelly's Soweto Spiritual Singers-assisted bonkers paean to the evils of global warming and the glory of rainbows, the light at the end of the tunnel, the spirit of nations, sung with the bombastic, reality-denying conviction that is Kelly's signature. He perform ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Yes! R. Kelly Joins Shakira On the World Cup South Africa Anthem Circuit
Complete with obligatory ambient animals-on-the-veldt noises! In the vaunted twin R. Kelly lineages--raunchy, metaphorically-detailed sex jams, and completely unrealistic, head-in-the-clouds inspirational homilies--official World Cup anthem (one of three, anyway) "Sign of a Victory" is firmly ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
This Week's Voice: Sam Amidon, Courtney Love, Little Brother, Harlem's Afro-Cuban Renaissance, Roky Erickson, The Human Centipede, and More
Little Brother: happy or not, it's an ending. Photo by Studio KompleksIn this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla falls hard for Sam Amidon, the gentle, affable, R. Kelly-covering young folkie, while Camille Dodero applies a lifetime of Courtney Love-related knowledge to Hole's new Nobody's Da ... More >>
Music
April 27, 2010
The Eerie Relief of Sam Amidon
The gentle, affable, bewildering young folkie banters bizarrely, covers R. Kelly beautifully
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Big-Shot Chicago Sun-Times Rock Critic Jim DeRogatis Is Bound For Academia
Critic, author, radio show co-host, professional R. Kelly antagonizer, and all-around polarizing pop-music raconteur Jim DeRogatis announced his resignation from the Chicago Sun-Times late yesterday, where's he held down the pop-critic spot for nearly two decades, give or take a brief, unhappy sti ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2010
The-Dream Syndicate
Lovers of r&b already love him. Time to wake up everyone else.
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Jimmy Kimmel Exposes the Aziz Ansari/Major Lazer Connection
Never in my life did I think I'd witness a late night TV bit that turned on explaining to a national audience who exactly Skeritt Bwoy is, and why you might see him at a Major Lazer concert. You've got to give it to Aziz Ansari--from Kanye to R. Kelly to Diplo and Switch, he keeps music-related jo ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
R. Kelly Is Preparing His Memoirs
"I'm writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly," the singer says. "I'm tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well as all the drama. I want to tell it like it is." This is gonna even better than that ot ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Susan Boyle Bypasses Young, Illegal Downloaders En Route To A Second #1
527,000 copies. She is a commercial juggernaut no one can touch, not least because in all likelihood the vast majority of her fans have no idea how to pirate and/or steal I Dreamed a Dream--the 10th best-selling record of the year and rising fast. If you can find a demographic old enough, thi ... More >>
Music
December 1, 2009
Devendra Banhart and R. Kelly, 'Maturing'
527,000 copies. She is a commercial juggernaut no one can touch, not least because in all likelihood the vast majority of her fans have no idea how to pirate and/or steal I Dreamed a Dream--the 10th best-selling record of the year and rising fast. If you can find a demographic old enough, thi ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2009
R. Kelly's "Number One" Is About What You're Assuming It's About
Yahoo! Music--now exclusively premiering sexually suggestive male/female duet videos! We're not entirely sold on R. Kelly and Keri Hilson's "Number One"--it's like "#1 Fan," (which isn't old yet at all!), but not quite as good. Still: Kells and The-Dream are in an white-knuckle race to see who can ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009
Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up
The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2009
Did R. Kelly Inadvertently Confess to Having Sex with a 14-Year-Old?
R. Kelly's latest mixtape is The "Demo" Tape, a free, very unlicensed suite of riffs on tracks by T-Pain, Jeremih, Lil Wayne, and more. It's a funny, ouroboric project: Kelly remakes songs by a generation of rappers-turned-singers who in turn make music directly inspired by R. Kelly. At the center ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities
In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2009
News Roundup: R. Kelly, MGMT, Yo La Tengo, New Releases
--R. Kelly, who still wants to have sex with every woman in the world, has been keeping a low profile as of late. But that's changing. The R&B singer has announced Untitled, his first album in two years. Kelly explained to MTV News, "I wanted to mix it up a little. I want whoever listens to the ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
R. Kelly Still Wants To Have Sex With Every Woman in the World, Unfortunately
R. Kelly hasn't tested out his commercial might much since his 2008 acquittal on child pornography charges--12 Play, the follow-up to 2007's Double Up, never came out--so the album-buying public has yet to get a chance to render a verdict on the continued viability of dude's career. But he has occ ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2009
Sam Amidon Covers R. Kelly
This blog's second sojourn to the Happy Ending Reading and Music Series last week reminded us of Colson Whitehead's stand there back in April, when the evening's musical guest, Sam Amidon, covered R. Kelly's "Relief," one of the most underrated, if also most exceedingly bizarre, tracks in Kells' v ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2009
R. Kelly, Meet The-Dream: On Kells' New "#1 Fan"
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2008
Funk Flex Airs Out Famous Pervert R. Kelly
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 24, 2008
Trey Songz
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2008
On the R. Kelly Not-Guilty Verdict
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2008
Slate.com's Thorough, and Thoroughly Alarming, R. Kelly Trial Coverage
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2008
Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2007
No Context: R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet," Chapter 3
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2007
"Trapped in the Closet": Ironic or Not?
Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>
Music
August 21, 2007
The Chocolate Wars
On the bewildering summertime dominance of Tay Zonday and R. Kelly
Music
July 3, 2007
Cred Sheet
Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism
Music
June 5, 2007
Doodle on U
Insight into the artistic process of one R. Kelly
Blogs
December 7, 2005
A Running Diary of the Billboard Music Awards
Insight into the artistic process of one R. Kelly
Columns
November 15, 2005
La Dolce Musto
Insight into the artistic process of one R. Kelly
Music
August 16, 2005
TP.3: Rehashed
R. Kelly gets a little too comfortable with his mysterious failure to come to trial
Music
October 19, 2004
Steppin' Wolf
Super-freak turns smooth and frothy Jesus freak, tries to prove he's not your steppin' stone
Specials
June 22, 2004
Letters
Super-freak turns smooth and frothy Jesus freak, tries to prove he's not your steppin' stone
News
June 8, 2004
Doing It With R. Kelly
Stripping the sexiness right out of sex
Specials
January 27, 2004
Letters
Stripping the sexiness right out of sex
Music
January 13, 2004
Good Morning Little School Girl
Taking a manifestly skillful, manifestly simplistic oeuvre seriously now that it's news
News
January 6, 2004
I Believe I Can Open My Fly
Why Michael Jackson Is Damned and R. Kelly Is the Man
Music
August 12, 2003
Why Birds Suddenly Appear Every Time the American Idol Is Near
Why Michael Jackson Is Damned and R. Kelly Is the Man
Music
March 18, 2003
The Bronzeville Hop
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
People
May 28, 2002
R. Kelly, Snoop, and Some Other Peeps!
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Music
January 9, 2001
Serenading the Boys
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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December 1, 1998
Give It Up!
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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