Rufus Wainwright

Defend Your Ballot: Dan Weiss, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You 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 >>

Tracing "Hallelujah" From Obscurity To Ubiquity

Back in September of 2010, noted music journalist (and former editor-in-chief of SPIN and Vibe magazines) Alan Light was among 4,000 people sitting in the Jacob Javitz Center for Yom Kippur services when the Congregation Beit Simchat Torah choir took the stage to conclude the solemn proceedings with ... More >>

How Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' Went From Obscurity to Ubiquity

Cold, broken, and holy

Any Day Now Makes Injustice Risible

A travesty's travesty

Loved By Iggy Pop, Hated By Jim Morrison: The Life and Times of Danny Fields

From pulling needles full of dope out of Iggy Pop's arm just before showtime and helping turn Jim Morrison into a sex symbol (becoming Morrison's sworn enemy in the process), to unleashing the Ramones upon the world and later becoming one of the globe's leading music journalists, Danny Fields has be ... More >>

Win A Scholarship To The Women's Music Summit

The Women's Music Summit is a two-day conference at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian where accomplished players like Marnie Stern, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Meshell Ndgeocello will lead master classes, jam sessions, roundtables, and opportunities to connect, and it's scheduled to take place on Aug ... More >>

Q&A: Director Lorca Peress On the World Premie of The Image Maker At Queens College

Theater director Lorca Peress is directing two one act operas opening this weekend at Queen College's Goldstein Theater. My Kinsman, Major Molineau (making its New York premiere) and The Image Maker (making its world premiere) were both composed by Bruce Saylor and are conducted by Ms. Peress's fath ... More >>

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

Q&A: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003

​This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>

The 5 Best (Free!) Shows at River to River Festival 2011

​This year's River to River Festival, which runs from June 19 to July 17, marks the 10th time that its mix of free shows takes over Lower Manhattan for the summer. The 2011 bill has a decidedly New York-centric bent, with Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and the New York City Op ... More >>

Gramercy Park Hotel Blog Just About the Only Part of Gramercy Park You Can Get Into, Peasant

​Doing their best to put the "mercy" in "Gramercy," the compassionate minds of Ian Schrager's richster (rich hipster) haunt Gramercy Park Hotel have finally bestowed upon the 99.9999999999999999% of the five borough's humans who don't live in New York City's most inclusive, snotty neighborho ... More >>

IFC's Dinner With the Band Premieres Its Second Season Tonight, Which Gives Us an Excuse To Post Related Photos

Dinner With the Band guest and Santos' co-owner Andrew W.K., Food Party creator Thu Tran‎, and Dinner With the Band chef Sam Mason The second season of the Williamsburg-produced Dinner With the Band, a show that's title conveniently functions as elevator pitch, airs tonight at 10:30 pm on IFC. H ... More >>

Sharon Jones's Family Affair

Brooklyn's exuberant soul goddess fits into 2010 just fine, thanks

What's Up With Jeremy Renner's Sexuality?

You'll never guess who I saw on my latest outing.

Sam Mason Says He'll Probably Open a New Restaurant This Year. Possibly in Park Slope.

Sam Mason fixes his penetrating gaze on Park Slope.​Sam Mason's schedule for the past few weeks has been consumed with filming a new roster of episodes for Dinner with the Band, which will premiere on the IFC channel on April 27. But while it's been fun teaching Rufus Wainwright to make schnit ... More >>

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch

Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>

New York Newcomers Story Turns Out Happily for Rich, Famous People

New York magazine has produced that article about New York noobs and why they come here, which we saw them working on earlier, and about all you need to know about it is in this quote: "Many offered some variation on 'I came here to live out my dream.'" If you can stomach more, a former nanny says s ... More >>

Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart

Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment

Maybe We Shouldn't Do This Anymore

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

School of Schlock

Rock legends in the making they may be, but for now the NYU Clive Davis alums may have to stick to YouTube for exposure

City Rump

An ass-eye tour of New York with the editors of 'BUTT' magazine

Territorial Imperatives

A party band fluent whether the language is Count Basie, Don Cherry, or 'Darling Nikki'

Riding the Shortbus

Sex-starved East Village hippies get naked for John Cameron Mitchell's latest perverse utopia

Wish You'd Been There

How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations

The Partisans

Performances mostly killer, interviews filler, in Leonard Cohen doc

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Weimar Vegas

Former figure skater and Japanese arranger revive standards bebop won't touch

Iraq Turns Four: To Rock or Protest?

Postmodern Pioneer: The Next Generation

Bokaer gets physical, digital, and naked

Extraordinary Machines

We didn't get what we wanted but we haven't entirely lost what we had

Turkey Shoot 2005

Fifteen courses you'll be better off skipping at this year's musical overfeed

Trisha's Spawn

Two choreographers with a common heritage depict different worlds, both of them perilous

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Sympathy for the Slave

Stephen Collins Foster is back on earth, wrestling with race: the entity in the woodpile

Bush Begone

Anti-RNC parties bring back lewdness, courtesy of the First Amendment

Moonlighting

James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

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Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

MoveOn Ad Competition Ushers Bush Attacks Into the Mainstream

The Medium Is the Message

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Sound Checks

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

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Where the Action Isn’t

Amos and Apple

Online With the Divine

SYM Seeks Audience