Raleigh

The Making of Mykki Blanco

Michael Quattlebaum Jr. takes rap beyond pronouns

Blake Shelton Wants to Nail You in a Nice-Guy Sort Of Way: Rating the Top Country Hits

Every couple weeks, we take a hard listen to the music in which millions of Americans soak. Questions raised by this round of top country music singles: Did you know country stations are the only radio home for new songs (like Blake Shelton's) built on Babyface-style slow-bump R&B heartbeat rhythms ... More >>

Sadat X's New Workout Plan (Or How To Work Off 9th Wonder's Mom's Famous Pie)

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Sadat X notched his place in hip-hop history as part of the Brand Nubian crew who coined the tail-end golden-era classic One For All. Since then he's also droppe ... More >>

Carolina BBQ Pork Sandwich: Fletcher's Finally Gets It Right

Fletcher's pulled pork sandwich comes closest to ones FiTR has eaten in Raleigh, NC and Lexington, NC. The city has made many strides BBQ-wise in the last two decades. I can point to a half-dozen places that do excellent beef brisket, Texas style, and there are no shortages of pits that do great p ... More >>

Live: Corrosion of Conformity's Show Stolen By Royal Thunder

Better Than: Witch Mountain. One of the greatest delights of concert-going is being blown away by a band who's not the headliner. This is exactly what happened to us at Saint Vitus on Friday when Royal Thunder, from Atlanta, played second in a lineup of four bands and made all who performed afterwa ... More >>

The 5 Best Things at This Year's Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

Pork pulled from the whole hog from Ed Mitchell's, Wilson and Raleigh, NC. Put the slaw on the sandwich! We have many things to thank the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party for, now in its 10th year. A decade ago, it got the ball rolling for barbecue in NYC, and is partly responsible for our fair city ... More >>

The Burrell Brothers Revisit Basement-Tape Days

In their house

New York: Enemy of Newlyweds?

If you have just gotten hitched, congrats and STAY OUT of New York! In a recent study, Rent.com looked at 25 American cities to figure out which were best for newlyweds. New York didn't even make the top ten. The cities that did? Austin, Texas; Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Kans ... More >>

Das Racist's Top Ten Tour Memories (So Far)

​Viktor Vazquez has just arrived at a hotel in Seattle and is pining for some noodles. Specifically, he has the hankering for some "fancy ramen noodles." It's a caliber of Japanese wheat-noodle that he has not been able to find since leaving his home in New York City to undertake a vehement 30 ... More >>

Which Part of the Country Has the Best Barbecue?

Texas-style barbecue at Hill Country​ This week we had a nice long chat with Blue Smoke executive chef Kenny Callaghan, who explained the nuances of this country's many regional barbecue styles. Apparently Zagat has been obsessed with this issue as well because they just published their BBQ St ... More >>

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

With Txikifest, Alex Raij and Eder Montero Will Turn Txikito's Back Alley Into a Street Fair

Laura Salierno/Txikito​A couple of weeks ago, Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez told us that she'd be resurrecting Lassi at Txikifest, a street fair organized by Txikito's Alex Raij and Eder Montero. Now, Raij has sent us some more details about the event, which will take place on Sunday, May 1.

Rightbloggers Compare Large National Protests (Union) Unfavorably with Large National Protests (Koch Brothers)

Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers' union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walker's attempt to break the union. Sounds like a big deal, right? Hundreds of thousands of people tur ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Hatey-Haters Will Protest Elizabeth Edwards' Funeral Just to Piss You Off

Westboro protesters, previously​Let us give no further attention to the media-seeking antagonists at the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas than this: They plan to picket Elizabeth Edwards' funeral on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina, because...God only knows, but if we were betting folks, w ... More >>

Bike Lanes on City Streets Coming 'Soon': 1970

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 39 Cyclists in The City: Ride On! By Clark Whelton A thousand bicyclists left Central Park last Wednesday morning and headed down Fifth Avenue to demonstrate that New York would be a better city if more ... More >>

Q&A: The Foreign Exchange's Phonte Coleman On How To Make Grown Up R&B That You Can Listen To With Other Men In the Car

​When Phonte Coleman, the singing, songwriting half of r&b duo the Foreign Exchange (the other half is producer/multi-instrumentalist Nicolay Rook), talks about the group's new album Authenticity, he's close to apologetic. That's because unlike 2008's Leave It All Behind, the group's Grammy-no ... More >>

For National Coming Out Day, Tales of Coming Out

​Happy National Coming Out Day! Since October 11, 1988, the first anniversary of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, this date has been celebrated as a day for LGBT people to live openly. Runnin' Scared asked a few gay and lesbian New Yorkers around town (and ... More >>

Your Guide to All Tomorrow's Parties New York 2010, Which Still Has Tickets Available

Rebecca SmeyneWelcome back. The third All Tomorrow's Parties New York begins tonight. Jim Jarmusch is the curator. Christopher R. Weingarten is your official historian. Shellac are your house band. Barry Hogan is your host. And if you enjoy life, you should go. There's still time.

Little Brother's Retirement Party

Yes, these hip-hop shape-shifters are breaking up. Don't get sentimental about it.

Megafaun+the War on Drugs

The Newspaper Rack Victory: One Small Step for Print, One Giant Leap for Spare Change

​Eat a dick, Hudson News.

The Personals

We promise to do better next time

Free Will Astrology: January 6-12, 2010

Free Will Astrology: December 23 through 29, 2009

Former Texas Cop Indicted in New York for Moving 200 Tons of Cocaine

​A leader of a major Mexican drug cartel and former Texas police officer was sentenced in Manhattan federal court yesterday for importing at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States during a five year period. Between 1994 and 1999, Gilberto Salinas Doria -- formerly Officer Dora of th ... More >>

Handicapping the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party has grown to be one of the great culinary events of the summer. This year the 7th annual edition will be held on June 13th and June 14th in Madison Square, from 11 am till 7 pm, which is two hours longer than the previous year. As usual, the collection of barbecues ... More >>

BOHEMIAN BOND

Megafaun+the Rosebuds

From the Crap Archives: Weep No More, My Lady

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

Possibly 4th Street 21: Annuals

A White Southern Family's Alterna-History Meets Reality in Moving Midway

Guess who's coming to dinner?

New Directors/New Films Brings the New Class

Old New York, the ghosts of Raleigh, and queer debuts mark an exceptional ND/NF

Maybe We Shouldn't Do This Anymore

The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008

The Top 10

Odes to fame, guns, and what we should've seen coming

That Which We Cranked

Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions

Bob, Barkley, and Beyond: The Top 20

The poll's upper echelons drive us crazy, or at least drive us to drink

Indie-Pop Excellence, Bubbly and Believable

Indie-Pop Excellence, Bubbly And Believable

Tar Nation

Lacking Lung Power, Butt-Free Cigarette Satire Wheezes Through One-Liners

'Don't Tell'

Party People

New York invades the Winter Music Conference in Miami

NY Mirror

Letters

A Critic's Job at Work

NY Mirror

Virtual Exhibitions

Film Companies Keep Dreaming of a Digital Future

Letters

Thong Throng

Letters

Trapped in Bad Schools

'If a Teacher Is Doing a Good Job, I Don't Care If He or She Is Green'