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Radio City Music Hall

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 18, 2012

    Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

    At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Win A Pair Of Tickets To The Secret Policeman's Ball, A Music/Comedy Extravaganza At Radio City This Weekend

    This Sunday, the Secret Policeman's Ball—a night of music and comedy celebrating the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International—is taking place at Radio City Music Hall, and today Sound of the City is giving away a pair of tickets. Among the luminaries appearing at the event: Jon Stewart; ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Antony & The Johnsons To Perform Swanlights At Radio City Next January

    ​Swanlights, a "large-scale concert and performance event" showcasing the music of Antony & The Johnsons, will take place at Radio City Music Hall on January 26, 2012. (2012! Already!) The songs in Swanlights, which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, are culled from Antony's four al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: My Review

    ​The last Cirque du Soleil show in NYC, Banana Shpiel, was a mixed-bag attempt to do a Broadway-style musical with a plot and a throughline. But with Zarkana--at Radio City Music Hall--they've gone back to their formula of just stringing together a bunch of daredevil acts along with squeaking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2011

    Charlie Sheen Bombs at Radio City Music Hall

    ​New York City is just not the place for the entirely-played-out-I-can't-believe-we're-still-talking-about-him Charlie Sheen. Last night his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour came through Radio City Music Hall, and by all accounts it was horrid. Andrea Peyser especially hated it: "Charlie Sheen stan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Live: Low Mesmerize And Explosions In The Sky Triumph at Radio City Music Hall

    Explosions In The Sky/Low/Eluvium Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 6 Better Than: Sitting around and waiting for season five of Friday Night Lights to start. Explosions In The Sky have one of the strangest approaches to designing a set that I've ever witnessed. As soon as the Austin, Texa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Win Tickets To TV On The Radio's Show At Radio City Music Hall

    Vidhya NagarajanSpecial for the Village Voice Comics Issue TV On The Radio will mark the release of their forthcoming album Nine Types of Light with a show at Radio City Music Hall next Wednesday, April 13, and today we're giving away a pair of tickets to the concert. To enter, just send an email t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City

    Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Hear A New TV On The Radio Track, "Will Do"

    ​TV on the Radio has debuted a new track on the radio, appropriately enough: Courtesy Seattle's 107.7 The End, please enjoy TVOTR's "Will Do," a remarkably airy, uncluttered, elegant semi-slow jam set to anchor the band's upcoming Nine Types of Light, due out April 12.

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    TV On The Radio Announce New Album, Show At Radio City Music Hall

    ​Brooklyn's finest critically beloved art-rock institution are back at it: TV on the Radio have announced that their fourth album, Nine Types of Light, will be out this spring, no doubt a worthy follow-up to 2008's Pazz & Jop victor Dear Science. Plus no pesky comma issues to fuck with the typ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Live: Robyn Turns Radio City Music Hall Into An Epic Dance Floor/Mosh Pit

    Robyn Radio City Music Hall Saturday, February 6 Better Than: Any DJ that played "Dancing On My Own" on Saturday night. "This is the biggest crowd I've pulled myself! Ever!" squealed a thrilled Robyn at the end of the first of two encores during Saturday night's sold-out performance at Radio Ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Music Venue With the Most Foursquare Check-Ins in 2010? Terminal 5. (Mercury Lounge's Third.)

    pic by Rob HarvillaFlorence, trying to unlock the Crunked badge with her mind at Terminal 5. Somewhat interesting: the music venue with the most Foursquare check-ins for 2010 was NY-concert airplane hanger Terminal 5, announced on the Foursquare blog earlier this week. This is a global ranking too, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Robyn Is Playing Radio City Music Hall

    ​It's been a real We Did It sort of day, with various Internet phenoms beknighted by various ivory-tower institutions that once seemingly loomed far above them: New Simplicity leading lights Cults signed to Columbia, Das Racist and Odd Future carefully considered by the New Yorker, the world f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    A User's Guide To Tonight's Drake Show at Radio City Music Hall

    Is this you, perhaps? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Last night, Drake played the first of two shows at Radio City Music Hall, alighting triumphantly on a New York stage after two horrifically abortive attempts earlier this year. But last night was uniformly dubbed a triumph, a coronation for the yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Week In Review: Aw Dude, You Missed It

    Unfortunately, this just isn't fun anymore. Pic by Sam Horine.​It's Friday the 13th, and if you're as superstitious as we are here at SOTC, you'll stay away from the outside world altogether. Lucky for you, though, we've put together a pretty awesome rundown of dance parties to visit this week ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2010

    THE SUN WILL COME OUT

    Kids, move aside—we call dibs on the front row

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Week in Review: This Means Something

    Hey, Marty. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week a former member of the Fugees declared his intention to run an entire country, despite his gross lack of qualifications for said job, we started a campaign against him. Sorry 'Clef, but this is ridiculous.

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Live: Spiritualized Revive Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space at Radio City Music Hall

    Spiritualized Radio City Music Hall Friday, July 30 Jason Pierce sits on a chair at stage left in Radio City Music Hall in front of a backdrop of hi-watt stars with what looks to be 29 other people. He wears white, says nothing, and only gets up from his chair once, to leave. The onstage excess i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, the Return of Sons of Bazerk, and More

    Spiritualized's Jason Pierce. Photo by Suki Dhanda.​In this week's Village Voice, Michael D. Ayers revisits the rock 'n' roll grandeur of Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space as the band prepares to perform the album at Radio City Music Hall, and Phillip Mlynar chronic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

    Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Lands on the Bowery

    ​Last year, O.G. English space-rock collective Spiritualized reissued 1997's dreamy classic Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, and commemorated the occasion by doing a series of ATP-sponsored Don't Look Back shows around the UK, performing the thing in its entirety. The band is doi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

    Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Tonight! Andrew W.K. With Angel Deradoorian (She Of Dirty Projectors), Fester (He Of The Addams Family), And Peter Gabriel

    ​This is your Monday night: Choose from Andrew W.K., Fester from the Addams Family, and Peter Gabriel, a confluence slightly more random than M.I.A. provoking ginger genocide last week. At Santos Party House, W.K. and friends (including Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors) are uniting for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Tonight! Cold Cave, Fiasco, Total Slacker, And Rodrigo Y Gabriela

    Tonight, Cold Cave beckon you to stop by Le Poisson Rouge and enter "The Laurels of Erotomania." Essentially, it's a place of hustling drum-machine loops, bubbling pops of synth chords, and a deep come-hither voice. Over at Death by Audio, you can relinquish your body to the jagged, rhino-chargin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Live: Spoon Feign Maturity At Radio City Music Hall

    Spoon Radio City Music Hall Friday, March 26 "This place is all right," declares Britt Daniel, understating as always. "I think we are the band that played the most times at Brownies and then played Radio City Music Hall." Calling out their long-shuttered-East-Village-rock-club roots is a slightl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Week in Review: DIY Snitchin

    We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Photos: Lady Gaga's First Night at Radio City Music Hall

    all photos by David AtlasLady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall​"She's worn red latex to meet Queen Elizabeth, possibly dethroned a queen of a different sort (Madonna), collaborated twice with Beyonce, compelled Barbara Walters to say 'bluffin' with my muffin' on prime-time television, reminded th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 19, 2010

    Lady Gaga+Kid Cudi

    all photos by David AtlasLady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall​"She's worn red latex to meet Queen Elizabeth, possibly dethroned a queen of a different sort (Madonna), collaborated twice with Beyonce, compelled Barbara Walters to say 'bluffin' with my muffin' on prime-time television, reminded th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Tonight! Daniel Johnston, No Age, So Percussion

    ​Daniel Johnston, somewhat unwitting source of the sweetest iPhone app ever made, heads to Highline Ballroom tonight to sing his wobbly songs of vaguely menacing and often unbearably sad whimsy. Do him a favor and don't be fucking with your phone the whole entire time.

  • Music

    September 29, 2009

    Karen O, Uptown Girl

    Yeah  Yeah  Yeahs (and ESG) make Radio City Music Hall (slightly) rowdier

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    SHE COMES OUT SWINGIN’

    Pop insurgent Pink brings the circus to town

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Vince Aletti Backstage with the Jackson Five in 1975

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti, backstage at Radio City Music Hall with a 16-year-old MJ in 1975. In Love With the Jackson Five 'I'm more concerned that I didn't get their autographs than that I can't read any of my notes.' By Vince Aletti Mon. Feb. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Live: Let's Go Yell Dopey Shit at Flight of the Conchords

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Willie Nelson For President! The Redheaded Stranger at Radio City

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2008

    No "Sex" for You: The Sex and the City Premiere Freeze-out

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Photos: The Swell Season at Radio City Hall

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2008

    Two Hours of Inspired Weirdness With Erykah Badu

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    Friday 5.9

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    December 4, 2007

    Performances & Live Music

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    Live: Hilary Duff at Radio City Music Hall

    Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2007

    Magical Musical Piss House

    CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt Anniversary Show at Radio City: Really That Good

    CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

  • NYC Life

    March 1, 2005

    Spin Cycle

    From Marc Spitz's Talking Heads to Interpol and Joan Rivers

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Where Do I Go Now?

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

  • NYC Life

    December 11, 2001

    People in Glass Houses

    Holiday Windows in a Sad Season

  • NYC Life

    September 4, 2001

    Grrrl, Inturrupted

    It’s Ladies First This Season

  • Dance

    June 27, 2000

    Extraordinary People

    It’s Ladies First This Season

  • Film

    August 10, 1999

    Palace Walks

    On the Road With the Theatre Historical Society

  • NYC Life

    January 19, 1999

    Boobism and Cubism

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

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