Regina Spektor

Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered halfsies, making up one whole. Also, no songs sung in Spanish are on this list. I'm not saying Spanish isn ... More >>

Jenny Owen Youngs

BEST OF NYC™
Sartorial Disobedience: Order Up Your Own NYC Fashion

Russian Transport Rides to Brooklyn

The New Group does Sheepshead Bay

VINYL MANIA

Pick a record shop and have a party

Love & Other Drugs Desperate for Your Attention

TIBET FOREVER

Rock and experimental voices keep the fire alive

Hanne Hukkelberg

A Fine Frenzy

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.

Fall Guide: The Pains of Pure at Heart Will Pervert Your Indie Cliché

News Roundup: Steven Tyler Crashes to Earth, Chris Brown Sentencing Delayed, Regina Spektor On Sale

--Steven Tyler fell off the stage last night during Aerosmith's gig at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital ten songs into their set. The 61-year-old frontman was dancing to entertain the crowd after the sound system failed during "Love in an El ... More >>

Live: Little Joy Get Their Bass Player Back at Bowery Ballroom

via brianwferry's photostream Little Joy Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, June 23 Introducing Little Joy's final number at the Bowery Ballroom last night, multi-instrumentalist Binki Shapiro invited up some "very special New York friends." They turned out to be Regina Spektor and the Strokes' Fab Moretti, ... More >>

Tonight! Regina Spektor, Loudon Wainwright III, Tinted Windows, and Raekwon

Next week, Regina Spektor will release her first new album in three years. What we've heard of Far is more cinematic than her often bare 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, which may or may not be a good thing. Take a peek at the Beacon tonight. Loudon Wainwright III, patriarch of the venerated Wai ... More >>

Are You There, God? It's Me, Regina Spektor

The downtown ingénue takes on bigger audiences and weightier issues

This Week's Voice: Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's The Eternal, Coppola's Tetro, Sigmar Polke, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

Vincent Gallo in Tetro In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla testifies to the alternating agony and ecstasy of Brooklyn's own art-rock lobsters, the Dirty Projectors. Cristina Black talks with downtown ingenue Regina Spektor. Dan Weiss on Sonic Youth's newest, The Eternal. Don ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Live: Amanda Palmer on New Year's Eve

photo by Dan Weiss Amanda Palmer Wednesday, Dec. 31 Bowery Ballroom If the very idea of a pancake made-up cabaret duo popular with the Hot Topic set puts you off, you probably won't notice that the Dresden Dolls' frontwoman-currently-solo Amanda Palmer branches out more from her insular culture t ... More >>

iVoice: Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift Paint their Toenails!

iVoice: Coldplay's Chris Martin Tries to Befriend Thom Yorke

iVoice: A Night Out With Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson

iVoice: Kanye West "Flashing Lights" Video Chat

iVoice: Paramore Hosts MTV Hits!

iVoice: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Re-Enact Once Live

iVoice: Mariah Carey Gets Married!

iVoice: On the Improbable Romance of Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart

iVoice: Julie Taymor Makes a Bob Seger American History Homage

iVoice: Prince Covers "Creep" Over IM, Coachellafield Ensues

Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons . . .

Ostensibly mature indie-rappers woo baristas, unconvincingly

iVoice: Colin Meloy Meets the Shankill Butchers

Saturday

JUST SAY NO TO ITUNES

A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals

iVoice: Pete Wentz Writes a Polar Bear Song over IM

iVoice: Tom Waits and Waits and Waits

iVoice: Sean Kingston "Dake You Dere" IM Chat

iVoice: A Place To Bury Strangers IM Chat

iVoice: Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson, Colbie Caillat Chat

iVoice: Thriller 25, the IM Chat!

iVoice: American Idol, the IM Chat

iVoice: Hannah Montana in 3D, the IM Chat

iVoice: Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib, the IM Chat!

Live: Well-Mannered Hype-Child Kate Nash

Hugs and Kisses 24: The Kate Nash Interview!

Hugs and Kisses #21: Kate Nash, Animals And Men

iVOICE TEAM EXCLUSIVE: Regina Spektor's Songwriting Secrets

Rap Us a Song, You're the Piano Man

One emcee's quest to sound more like Regina Spektor

Noise from the Front

For the week of November 15–21, 2006

Patriot's Heart

Ignore Regina Spektor's warm idiosyncracies—or bash the U.S.A.—at your own peril

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

God Bless the Child

Cabaret wunderkind waves jock-hipster kryptonite at all of NPR's left-leaning quirksters