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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/20/13

Need plans? Check out any of these 10 shows around the city this week.

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/17/13

The Killers walk into an Electric Daisy Carnival with known Liars ... these are the 10 best concerts of the weekend.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/6/13

Here's your carefully crafted guide to blowing your paycheck this week.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/3/13

Each of these 10 shows shine bright ... like a diamond ... in the sky.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 4/12/13

These 10 concerts were chosen "Best of Weekend" by a robot made of melted down vinyl copies of Black Sabbath's Paranoid and the guts of old tube amplifiers. Make it happy. Go out into that good night.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 4/5/13

These concerts are all certified "Best of Weekend" by the mayor's office. We bring them to you by court order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/29/13

Please get out and do something. Your roommates are worried about you.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/18/13

Here are the10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/11/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/25/13

Here are the 10 best concerts in the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/18/13

Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/4/13

Here are the 10 best shows to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 1/21/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/18/13

Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts In New York This Week

These are the 10 best concerts in NYC this week.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/28/12

We're gettin' an early jump on the weekend because you've probably already checked out anyway. So here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Countr ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 12/3/12

Here are the ten best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

Weekend Concerts: What's Canceled, What's Still Going On, and What's Been Postponed

We'll be adding to this list as the weekend moves on. On with it...

The Ten Best Concerts In New York This Weekend, 10/12/12

In no particular order, here are 10 can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit us up at villagevoice.com/concerts

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/21/12

In no particular order, here are ten can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit up villagevoice.com/concerts. See Also: - All Tomorrow's Parties Preview: Founder Barry Hogan on the Festival's Move to New York City - Fear of a Talibam! Planet - ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Lana Del Rey, Japanese Sound Systems, The Lijadu Sisters, And Wheelchair Sports Camp

The Lijadu Sisters.​In this week's Village Voice, out now: Camille Dodero gets the cover with her profile of Kalyn Heffernan, a 24-year-old with the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta and leader of the hip-hop outfit Wheelchair Sports Camp; Marlon Bishop gets down with the Japanes ... More >>

Wild Flag, Method Man, Cyndi Lauper And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

Those Darlins, hangin' out in those giant pipes.​The mouse-headed DJ Deadmau5 finally finished his six-night stand at the Roseland Ballroom earlier this week (in one of the week's strangest press releases, I learned that the event was commemorated by a fancy cake that placed his signature head ... More >>

Deadmau5, K-Holes, Screaming Females, And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

The week brought us Jon Brion and Shellac and Sam Sparro (not to mention a handful of surprise Occupy Wall Street pop-ins), and that wide spectrum of genres is also represented in this weekend's concert listings. Tonight Deadmau5, who Maura has just informed me stands out as the only artist to be n ... More >>

Jason Moran Tops Himself

The adventurous Ten headlines the Voice's Fifth Annual Jazz Critics' Poll

This Week in the Voice: The Queer Issue, Featuring Jersey Shore's Guidos

​We at the Village Voice fly all variations of flags -- patriotic, pirate, freak, or otherwise -- day in, day out as routine business around here. But this week, we're loud and proud of a very specific color (or colors), as that special time of year is here again: The Queer Issue has arrived. ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Laurie Anderson, Devo, Theo Bleckmann, Omar Souleyman, and Ahem, "Jersey Shore"

Carrie SchechterIf you think I could possibly resist using this cover, you're wrong ​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla interview Laurie Anderson, Francis Davis visits the Murray Hill apartment of jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Richard Gehr basks in the sheer urgency of the polarizing 'Syr ... More >>

Umphrey's McGee, A Jam Band Of Non-Frenchmen, Covered Phoenix's "Lizstomania" At Nokia Theatre Friday Night, To Questionable Effect

A valiant attempt at honoring a band we are quite fond of around here (seriously), though mostly this will drive home the fact that this song is really, really hard to sing. Buy the MP3 (or the whole Friday-night set) here. [Thanks to friend-of-SOTC Richard Gehr.]

This Week's Voice: Ciara and Chrisette Michelle, Bob Dylan, Outrage, Ben Greenman's Please Step Back, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla takes a trip to the r&b salt mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michelle. Edd Hurt on Bob Dylan's Together Through Life, during most of which Dylan apparently carries a gun. Justin Farrar laments the end of USA Is a Monster. Brad Cohan anticipa ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Is it Trekalicious? Or Trek Jerky? Robert Wilonsky weighs in on the Star Trek movie, in which Spock is a "tormented youth in revolt." Ward Sutton does the funny cartoon version. We're accustomed to think of William Thompson as Mr. Clean. But he's a friend of William Howell, and as city comptrol ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>

This Week's Voice: "New Directors/New Films," DOOM, John Updike and John Leonard, Goodbye Solo, Best in Show, and More

Clockwise from top left: Autumn, fest-opener Amreeka, Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds, Cold Souls, and Mid-August Lunch. In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Phillip Mlynar asks DOOM, rap's biggest enigma, if he's heard any good jokes lately. Larry Blumenfeld crosses borders, hearts with th ... More >>

Week in Review: Asher Roth, the Silent Superhero; Real World: Brooklyn, Obnoxious Diseasebags

In the week we met the Real World Brooklyn cast (again) and yipee-skippied at the first episode, we also watched Whitney Port in The City and learned to stay away from the "Downtown Crowd." Meanwhile, the real youth-world Brooklyn was actually here. A rap spectacular this week. For a second, Ashe ... More >>

Week in Review: A Prevailing Theory That Targeting Women As The Main Consumer/Enjoyer of Hip-Hop Proved the Genre's Biggest Misstep

Week in Review: A Collection of Preposterously Foxy Debbie Harry Photos

Pulp Fictions: Sita Sings the Blues at MoMA

Week in Review: You Can’t Believe It

Pulp Fictions: Watching the Watchmen and Joker

Pulp Fictions: Richard Gehr on Herbie and Rory Hayes

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Wetlands Preserved: An Appropriately Mellow Chronicle

No good nostalgia for a Tribeca hippie nightclub

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No Fruit 'Til Late

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Rock 'n' Roll Grad School

'If I can't dance about your architecture, I don't wanna be a part of it.'

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