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Jon Hamm: Stop Talking About My Privates!

"They're called privates for a reason," the Mad Men star tells Rolling Stone, perturbed at the wave of gossip reports about the way his giant Hamm often seems to show through his pants. "When people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my cock, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal," ... More >>

Elliott Stein, 1928 - 2012

By Nick Pinkerton Elliott Stein, a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, as well as

Q&A: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli On Getting The Band Back Together, The Art Of Comedy, And Bad At-Bat Music

Tonight at the Bowery Ballroom, the Afghan Whigs—the Cincinnati torchbearers for damaged soul music—return to the stage after 13 years on hiatus, and if their performances on last night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are any indication, tonight's sold-out show will be full of the band's ... More >>

Arrest Count 73 At OWS Saturday, Police Say, As Occupiers Wait For Arraignments

DCPI has confirmed to us that 73 people were arrested over the course of the day at the Occupy Wall Street protest staged yesterday, while OWS maintains that then number is over 90. Our reporter Nick Pinto headed over to 100 Centre Street for the arraignments of those that were taken into custody, b ... More >>

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Live: Nite Jewel Stretches The Concept Of Pop At Glasslands

Karen Plemons​Nite Jewel w/Headless Horseman, Warm Ghost Glasslands Gallery Wednesday, November 2 Better than: Watching old Pointer Sisters videos on your laptop. Last night at Glasslands, things were running a bit behind schedule, and Nite Jewel (aka Ramona Gonzalez) knew it. The band had ... More >>

Live: Lightning Strikes Bush At The Bowery Ballroom

Bush Bowery Ballroom Thursday, July 28 Better than: Better Than Ezra. Those of you who got here from the link I will be posting on Google may find this hard to believe, but for the first half of my life I was what you'd call a late adopter. The Discman I bought from a garage sale in 1995 was the ... More >>

Indie's New Guard Celebrates Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life

His book mapped their lives

Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?: Can You Name The American Idol Finalists?

Michael Becker/FOXWho are these people?​ For weeks, our weekly indignity parade "Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?" has been putting our writers at an unfair disadvantage, asking for the intimate details of long dead and gone artists like The Clash, The Doors and Metallica [yeah, no sic]. I ... More >>

Gaga Is Gaga For Liza

Rolling Stone​ When Liza Minnelli entered Madison Square Garden for the Lady Gaga concert last night, the little monsters went apeshit.

Farrah Fawcett's Sexy Swimsuit Donated to Smithsonian: Here Are 5 More Sexy Artifacts

​The sexy red swimsuit that college students in the '70s dreamed about is now an official part of the historical record. Farrah Fawcett's iconic red swimming garb, immortalized on posters that hung in dorm rooms everywhere, was donated to the Smithsonian by her longtime boyfriend Ryan O'Neal y ... More >>

Let's Play "Name Your Favorite Bob Dylan Song," Starring No Age, Robyn Hitchcock, DJ Rekha, Greg Dulli, And More

Naturally, this record shows up quite a bit​As our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City winds down, we thought we'd reach out to a bunch of musicians with a simple question: What's your favorite Dylan song?

Rock Critic Pop Quiz #3: How Many Members Of The Clash Can You Name?

Left to right: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, and Steve Mason​In celebration of Pazz & Jop 2010, we are more than happy to explore the sinister reality that most of us rock critics are completely ill-equipped to do our jobs properly. Our ongoing column "Are You Smarter Than a Rock ... More >>

Kanye West Wins One For the Douchebags

Our poll winner and his runner-up James Murphy turn their private flaws into public triumphs

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #2: How Many Members Of New Edition Can You Name?

Left to right: Raphael Saddiq, Luther Vandross, Usher, Gerardo, Masta Killa, and Jimmy Rollins​It's a poorly kept industry secret that rock writers are cheaters, frauds, and goons -- as dependent on Google as a clown is on facepaint. Our ongoing column "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" pee ... More >>

The Juggalos Are Coming to Manhattan

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithThis dude will fit right in on 29th Street. You'll hear about this one way or another, so might as well be from us. Insane Clown Posse will headline their first Manhattan show in eons at the Gramercy Theater on Friday, April 29. Horrorcore harlequins Violent J and Shaggy 2 ... More >>

Can A Professional Music Critic Name All Nine Members of the Wu-Tang Clan?

​If there's one common complaint we hear as rock critics, it's "I could totally do your job." First off--shhh, don't tell anyone! Secondly, "jobs" traditionally pay better than this, so we'll gladly go Parent Trap with you in a heartbeat. Either way, we decided to get some measurable data o ... More >>

The Year In Hardcore Circa 2010, Featuring OFF!, Trash Talk, Fucked Up, and More

On top of our growing 2010 year in review coverage, we've asked some pals to help out, too. Below, Pitchfork/Status Ain't Hood writer Tom Breihan looks back at the year in hardcore. OFF! at L.A.'s 6th St. Warehouse. Photo by Sean Peterson.​Let's talk for a minute about this idea: Hardcore in ... More >>

Winter Guide: Holiday Gift Books for Any Kind of Troublesome Friend

Frenemies? Self-important hipsters? No literary problem.

Queens of the Stone Age's Super Sad True Love Story

On the pointless, entirely necessary reissue of Rated R

The Kanye West Spontaneous Office Performance Train Rolls On

​One of the many things we loved about Drake's Thank Me Later was the way in which the 23-year-old rapper pulled back the curtain on fame and the industry: he talked honestly and simply about what it felt like to be in the midst of a multi-million dollar album/personality push. At the time, pe ... More >>

We Found That Decapitated Shakira Rolling Stone. (Hint: Try the Magazine-Rack Art Section.)

Quick refresher: the Decapitator, the street artist lauded for lopping the heads off actresses, Disney kids, rappers in glibly depicted advertisements, is currently in New York City. (Think Poster Boy with frequent-flyer miles and a dark wit.) Already from this visit, a headless Shakira has been s ... More >>

News Roundup: Paul McCartney, Live Nation, James Murphy, Hold Steady

--Paul McCartney hasn't performed much lately, favoring one-off gigs instead of touring. (In April, he performed a Beatles-heavy set at Coachella). But New York fans will get a chance to see the Wings legend (kidding) when he performs July 17 and 18 at Citi Field, the Mets' new home. McCartney has ... More >>

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

CMJ: This is Another Piece About M.I.A. at Terminal 5

The Bored and the Beautiful

The Pierces are enjoying themselves a little more than their biggest hit would suggest

Revenge of the Day-Job-Havin' Lifers

The Polyphonic We

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

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Demo'ing Down

Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds

Famous

NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards

The Run-Up to Fashion Week: Andy Warhol as Napoleon in Rags

The War Scores

Surprise: career soldiers back the war, athletes dislike the press, and the media don't matter

Attack of the Puppet People

Team America's critical mess: How reviewers misread the year's most potent political satire

A Critic's Job at Work

Big With the Kids

Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America

'Vice' Squad

Party Gone Overboard

Replacement Party Tonight!

La Lutte Continue

Looking for a Mindset at CMJ’s Special Apocalypse Edition

Keep Your Glass Topped Up

Australian Rockers and Poppers Don’t Get Up Themselves

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

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Generational Tastes

The Boys of Summer

Here’s the Beefcake

Total Systems Failure

Eat Their Poussière

Zydeco’s Louisiana Purchases Inch Toward Raunch