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February 6, 2013You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>
Books
December 5, 2012The biographer reads at Book Court on Thursday with Rob Sheffield
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September 20, 2012Tonight, Bell House will screen the Monkees' 1968 film Head. The group and their management thought it wise to keep copping the Beatles' moves, and the film was likely greenlit with the idea that it would be their Help! Thankfully, the Monkees -- fueled by their growing insecurity over being percei ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 19, 2012A movie from the
made-for-tv band
Voice Choices
July 18, 2012Music blog throws bash
in honor of self
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April 13, 2011Tonight is a fine night for staying indoors and listening to people chat about music, and New York has two fine options: Friend of SotC Daphne Carr is throwing a party for her 33 1/3 series entry on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine at The Sackett (661 Sackett Street, Brooklyn); there will ... More >>
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January 28, 2011In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>
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November 12, 2010SOTC role model Ted Leo has had a long standing sideline in comedy, from Best Show cameos to Our Show skits, so it only makes sense that comedian John Frusciante, host of UCB's Break Up Your Band ("a live monthly discussion about the state of music past and present, what you should and should ... More >>
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September 10, 2010Ah, the Brooklyn Book Festival, a five-year-old, free, all-day blowout of panels, readings, and extraordinary quasi-literary happenings, where you might see, say, Ian MacKaye complaining about people who say "just type it in" when they mean "Google it." (On a panel with Thurston Moore and Lup ... More >>
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September 10, 2010Predictably nasty New York Post film critic Kyle Smith is now apparently telling his readers what else to do on the weekends. Not that he really should, but Smith obviously doesn't give a shit what Post readers are doing on the weekend, because he apparently wrote one entry just to be a cruel ... More >>
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July 16, 2010Not 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?
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July 14, 2010"Wow, Kenny Rogers was always right!" Photo by Deborah Suchman Zeolia"Oh my God, you're a Nick Rhodes girl," says Rob Sheffield, referring to Duran Duran's keyboardist. Earlier in the evening, we'd wrapped an interview about Sheffield's new book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 6, 2010Chat up Chuck Klosterman at Lulu's
Books
May 25, 2010Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging
Blogs
March 18, 2010
With apologies to our own Rob Trucks, you ain't gettin' more surreal in terms of Alex Chilton tributes today than the above brief speech from Steve Cohen -- make that Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee. He quotes from "The Letter" and everything. Very sweet, very bizarre. But of course he's not ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009Librarians: smart enough to plan a party the right way
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July 30, 2009Forgive the moderate self-aggrandizement here, but tonight, Brooklyn's own Jalopy Theatre is hosting Peter Stampfel's Critical Karaoke, wherein the badass NYC folk heavyweight invites a bunch of rock critics -- the slate will apparently include Robert Christgau, Rob Sheffield, Joe Levy, Micha ... More >>
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October 21, 2008Voice Choices
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March 19, 2007Books
January 23, 2007Love and loss among rock critics
NYC Life
January 9, 2007Two beloved scribes release two dramatically different books, and celebrate accordingly
NYC Life
July 25, 2006Bitchy doormen, '70s porn, and the paragraph that turned Fly Life gay
NYC Life
February 28, 2006NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards
pazzandjop
January 24, 2006Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile
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January 24, 2006Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission
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January 24, 2006Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine
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January 24, 2006Falling in love for different reasons
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January 24, 2006They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
Specials
October 18, 2005The 'Voice' invents rock criticism
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February 3, 2004Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet
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February 3, 2004Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King
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February 3, 2004Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
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February 3, 2004"I'm Never Wrong" vs. "This Is What I'm Good At"
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February 3, 2004Home
February 3, 2004Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club
Specials
January 6, 2004Music
January 6, 2004Rock-operatic American idol chews nonexistent scenery
Music
June 6, 2000Home
February 15, 2000Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop
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February 15, 2000Consumers Complain, Party, Riot, Look for Answers, and Crack Wise
Long Island Voice
November 9, 1999News
November 2, 1999Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock
Specials
November 17, 1998
