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December 30, 2011
Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011
We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
The Weeknd Will Come On Down To New York Next Thursday
Details are sketchy on how exactly to get in, but yes, the Toronto-based downer R&B outfit known as The Weeknd will make its US live debut on September 15—that's a week from tonight—at Skylight One Hanson, the schmancy Downtown Brooklyn venue that earlier this year hosted a super-exclus ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Arturo O'Farrill's Journey for His Father
This week in the Voice, Larry Blumenfeld chronicles Grammy-winning pianist Arturo O'Farrill's trip to Havana to, in his words, "complete a musical, spiritual, and cultural journey for my father." His father, Chico O'Farrill, was revered in the Jazz world, a "stone genius, on the level of Duke ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Download a Two-Part Tribute To Underappreciated Jay-Z Sidekick Memphis Bleek
Bleek, doing what he does best. Photo via MySpaceHe's probably the best rap hypeman ever to do it, short of maybe Flavor Flav. He's clearly a loyal and self-deprecating friend. He puts more talented people's interests above his own, always. And yet, no one cares. Jay-Z and Memphis Bleek met i ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.comWith sincere apologies to Chuck Eddy, my two favorite records of the year also produced my two favorite singles: funny how that happens. And though ten songs increasingly feels like about forty too few, especially when Dr. Luke is working, ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Death To Chris Brown
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! America's preeminent lady-beater weeps. Photo via Word Up!& ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? The Final Chapter: Katy Perry Is A Bad Feminist But We Are All Vulnerable Somehow
This has been Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We're sad to see it go. Sleigh Bells frontlady Alexis Krauss, you deserved your ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? LCD Soundsystem and Nostalgia's Creeping Scourge
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! James Murphy, pulling no punches.Dear fellow illumin ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Bowling With Titus Andronicus and the Joy of the Work
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Please, this holiday season, spare a thought for these mill ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!Gent ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Defending Taylor Swift And Hailing The-Dream
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Happier times for us allMy friends, It's the confl ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Throw Taylor Swift In A Well
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Pay Rich Juzwiak what you owe him, Jay Leno. Twitpic by Dav ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? House Music vs. Hashtag Rap
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! The most important artist of 2010.Hi everybody! To ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Five SOTC Critics Discuss.
Great song, at leastWelcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: myself, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. Let us acknowledge at the onset that we are ripping this off fr ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
This Week's Voice: Kanye West, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Big L, and More
In this week's Village Voice, Sean Fennessey plumbs the gorgeous nightmares of Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Zach Baron decodes Jay-Z's Decoded, Michael Robbins sorts through a goofy Bruce Springsteen reissue project, and Phillip Mlynar remembers slain Harlem rapper Big L.
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October 29, 2010
Odd Future, L.A.'s Teenage Hip-Hop Sensations, Are Playing Webster Hall November 8
Attention: Odd Future, L.A.'s lewd, bizarre, and stupendously viral teenage hip-hop crew (learn more about them via our friend Sean Fennessey and our other friends at L.A. Weekly), are invading the East Coast via a soon-to-be-announced gig at the Webster Hall Studio on November 8. (Tickets on ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Reminder: The Ludicrous CMJ Panel "Curmudgeons Of Rock" Happens Today At 2
A quick programming note to complement our exhaustive CMJ panel coverage: "Curmudgeons of Rock," the greatest symposium of them all, is happening today at 2 p.m. at NYU's Kimmel Center, featuring the notably non-curmudgeonly opinions of Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, Charles Aaron, Nitsuh Ab ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Presenting "Curmudgeons Of Rock," The Best/Most Ridiculous CMJ Panel Of All Time
CMJ is next week, in the likely event that snuck up on you, so as you map out your schedule (factoring in Friday's Marnie Stern-starring Voice day party, of course), note also the finest panel of the week, going down Wednesday at 2 p.m. It is called "Curmudgeons of Rock." I am involved. I did ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
This Week's Voice: Waka Flocka Flame, Sharon Van Etten, Group Home, Unearthly Trance, and More
BOW-BOW-BOW-BOW. Photo by Donna PermellIn this week's Village Voice, the great Sean Fennessey explains why Waka Flocka Flame is yelling at you, Grayson Currin profiles local ethereal folk lady Sharon Van Etten, Phillip Mlynar on Group Home's tribute to their former mentor, Gang Starr's Guru, ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2010
The Bieber Bowl: The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards Live Blog
Just how awkward will the awkwardly staged moment between Kanye West and Taylor Swift be? Will Eminem deign to smile? Which uncomfortable pop star will B.o.B choose to bring up on stage with him? And how will your hosts, Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal and eMusic's Sean Fennessey, make it to midnight withou ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Download This Bonkers Three-Disc Swizz Beatz Mix Immediately
In honor of hip-hop super-producer Swizz Beatz' triumphant contribution to Kanye West's "Power" remix (seriously, go listen to that again), beloved friend-of-SOTC Sean Fennessey has compiled a homemade Swizz best-of, spanning two discs (from "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" to "On to the Next One") with ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
Celebrating the Fact That There Is a New Katy Perry Single, the Beach House-Shaming "Teenage Dream"
If you want to know how we got to this ecstatic, scientifically-engineered paradise of weaponized choruses and overwhelming female bombast, start with this piece right here, in which Sean Fennessey explains the genius of Dr. Luke and by extension, his most singular protégé, Katy Perry. The two t ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2010
This Week's Voice: Damon Dash Resurrected, Best Coast and Wavves, Wayne Coyne, Rick Ross, and More
Dame and Tallulah. Not pictured: Sienna Miller. Photo by Raquel M. Horn.In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick profiles the post-Roc-a-Fella edition of Damon Dash as he haltingly embarks on a kinder, gentler comeback. Elsewhere, Sean Fennessey dissects the two halves of California's pre-em ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
"Why Don't We Ask The Girls What They Think?": New York Magazine Spends Some Quality Time With Dr. Luke
Please enjoy the excellent Adam Sternbergh's in-depth analysis of Dr. Luke -- NYC native (though "'The New York I grew up in is gone,' he says bluntly"), Saturday Night Live alum, and, yes, alchemist behind any current radio-dominating pop smash you'd care to name. In addition to quoting two fine ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
How Last Night's Pitchfork Office Party with Beach Fossils Really Went Down
No photos because they searched us for photographic devices on the way in. So Pitchfork had a party in their Greenpoint office last night. The young exuberant fellas of Beach Fossils played. Pitchfork.tv taped it. There was a keg and some awesome vodka made by a neighborhood guy named Tito. Some pe ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
This Week's Voice: Drake, the Gaslight Anthem, Styles P, a Summer Live-Jazz Cheat Sheet, Revive Da Live, Jason Moran, and More
Gaslight Anthem: New Jersey nostalgia. Photo by Ashley MaileIn this week's Village Voice, Sean Fennessey weights in on the all-encompassing Drake phenomenon, Michael Robbins compares the Gaslight Anthem to Walt Whitman, Ben Westhoff talks to Styles P about the rapper's debut novel, Stacey And ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2010
This Week's Voice: Sleigh Bells, LCD Soundsystem, Nas and Damian Marley, Obies, and More
Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss, meeting her public. Photo by Santiago FelipeIn this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla attempts to describe the planet-obliterating joys of Sleigh Bells, Zach Baron on LCD Soundsystem's sardonically devastating This Is Happening, and Sean Fennessey explains why th ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
This Week In The Voice: The 2010 Obie Awards
Every year, The Village Voice holds their own awards ceremony for theater free from the pomp, circumstance, and promotional intent towards profit that most other Dog and Pony extravaganzas do: The Obies. And the awesomeness that was this year's was no exception. Voice theater critic and Obie ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
B.o.B Fulfills His Destiny, Goes #1
Not to brag or anything, but Sean Fennessey pretty much called this exact turn of events a full month ago. The success of The Adventures of Bobby Ray, which sold 84,000 copies out of the gate, was a phenomenon long in the making--follow, if you care to, his team's careful set of decisions, fr ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
Co-Sign: Das Racist's Shut Up Dude Mixtape
Things to love here: "You Oughta Know"'s Terror Squad-checking, blissfully incoherent take on the Cam'ron track of the same name; the slurry Tribe homage "Who's That Brown"; all the self-deprecating, happily schizophrenic jokes on "Shorty Said"; the bit on "Ek Shaneesh" that goes "I am a pick ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Let's Not Even Pretend That The Cover Of Das Racist's Shut Up, Dude Isn't Of Interest To Us
So there you have it. Way less nudity than I might have feared, it's true. (And, as Zach points out, perhaps an inadvertent Jawbreaker reference.) Here also is a brief, also nudity-free promo clip for the long awaited Das Racist mixtape, which Sean Fennessey discusses at length for us in this ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
This Week's Voice: Spring Arts Guide, Todd P's MtyMx, Joke Rap, She & Him, Shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, Loser Lit, and More
Lizzi Bougatsos joins The Last Supper on Canal Street. Photo by David Wentworth.In this week's Village Voice, we present our Spring Arts Guide: Angela Ashman goes shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, James Hannaham talks to Baise-Moi director Virginie Despentes, Ben Davis on Grúp ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2010
YEAR OF THE WOMAN
Discussing ladies who rock
Blogs
January 20, 2010
This Week in the Voice
Pazz & Jop needs no introduction. The main page, the albums, the singles, the ballots, and essays by Sean Fennessey, Mike Powell, Rich Juzwiak, Chuck Eddy, Zach Baron, Maura Johnston, Rob Harvilla, Mikael Wood, Clover Hope, and Das Racist. The celebrity sudoku known as blind items is a mena ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2010
This Week's Voice: Pazz & Jop 2009!
In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2009
Let Us Fondly Recall A Time When Kanye West, And The Music Industry, Were Full of Unblemished Promise
Please enjoy this fantastic Kanye reminisce from friend-of-SOTC Sean Fennessey, centered on the heady College Dropout days of 2004, and featuring links to several early mixtapes from rap's favorite pariah of the moment. A fine complement to Kanye's own recent wistfulness. Representative sampl ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Here Is A Photo of Some Empty Best Buy Racks Where Chris Brown's Graffiti Has Apparently Sold Out
Courtesy of Sean Fennessey. First R. Kelly goes to #4 in the country, and now this. America we are better than what you see in the picture above. [@fennrock]
Blogs
August 10, 2009
Anyone Want to See James Murphy Mercilessly Taser Reset Author Kurt Andersen?
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cExclusive - Backstage With Kurt Andersenwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep Better or worse than that time Howard Dean shouted out Sean Fennessey's Tumblr?
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July 29, 2009
This Week's Voice: Oneida, Fabolous, ZE Records, Japanese Reggaephiles, Funny People, and More
Lionel DeluyMore like an interpreter of hitmaking: Fabolous In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla hops the trans-Brooklyn express with Oneida, New York's finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies. Sean Fennessey on Fabolous's new Loso's Way: "A classic mixtape rapper with no cl ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2009
Fabolous Releases Loso's Way Today, Unveils Twitter Campaign We Always Knew He Had In Him
Alright, alright Fab, we give--did you know that today is the long-awaited release date of Fabolous's Loso's Way, a record we'd been cautiously anticipating until we remembered that all of Fab's records are the same semi-disappointing cyclone of r&b collabos and bad puns? ("I'm not that little pr ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2009
Hug a Rock Critic II: Vibe Has Folded
Vibe magazine, 1993-2009. As with Blender's demise (just with more history), this puts a ton of talented folks either out of work (occasional Voice contributor Sean Fennessey springs immediately to mind) or in an even worse bind from a freelancer's perspective. In happier times, Vibe supplied my fa ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Summer Jam 2009: One Man's Twitter-Based Narrative
Yes, our fair blog's most avid Summer Jam enthusiast is long gone. But Hot 97's annual fete/debacle raged on last night at Giants Stadium, and friend of SOTC/Vibe guru Sean Fennessey was there to bemusedly take it all in, including yes, Jay-Z's live debut of his Auto-Tune riposte and thrilling com ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
On Busta Rhymes's "Number One" Featuring Akon and T.I.
A week or so ago, Sean Fennessey somewhat mischievously asked "Does Busta Rhymes Have A Classic On The Way?", a question that was brilliant in the sense that the more you thought about it, to more it started to look like it might be true. Back on B.S. was actually going to be a good album--"album ... More >>
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January 21, 2009
This Week in the Voice: Pazz & Jop!
Catch up on a year's worth of musicology with the Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, now in its 36th year of goading the nation's top parsers to struggle over the higher meaning of sonic culture. Review the singles top-1,761 and albums top-1,693, see how your favorite critics voted, and attend the deep thou ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2009
Pazz & Jop 2008: TV on the Radio Is #1; So Is M.I.A.
The 36th Annual Village Voice Critics' Poll, Pazz & Jop, has finally arrived, bringing with it the revenge of TV on the Radio (on Bob Dylan, among others) and of M.I.A. (on our insufficiently reverent 2007 singles poll). Read Andy Beta on TV on the Radio, Rob Harvilla on M.I.A., Estelle, and Beyo ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
Thank God: Kanye Beard Status Update
Our buddies Tom Breihan and Sean Fennessey clear up the Kanye West graybeard/Benjamin Button's mystery. To wit, Vibe's music editor and author of the West cover story had strong words for those who can't distinguish between the telltale signs of a man aging in reverse and a mere "glisten": "Having ... More >>
Unknown
January 15, 2008
The Top 10
Odes to fame, guns, and what we should've seen coming
Unknown
January 15, 2008
Ugly, Dirty, Redundant, and Toxic
Tales of disgust, depression, and ballot regret we're already feeling
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