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Music Summer Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Team Up

Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made

WHERE BROOKLYN AT?

Follow the ferry to find out

Solange - Webster Hall - 2/25/13

Better than: Her True EP after its been dunked in glitter and pixie dust and all kinds of other special, pretty things. Solange sold out not one but two weeknight shows at Webster Hall in a matter of minutes, so I should've been less surprised about the fact that the place was absolutely bursting ... More >>

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.

Up Your Early Adopter Alt-R&B Cred By Seeing Inc. and Kelela Tonight

If you want to see what alternative R&B will look like in 2013—if the term itself, which already looks sort of old fart-y, still exists—you should check out Los Angeles-based musicians Inc. and Kelela at (le) poisson rouge tonight for "A No World Takeover." The songs on Inc.'s full-lengt ... More >>

The Completely Real, Totally Not Fake Deleted Destiny's Child Scenes From Beyoncé's HBO Doc

On Saturday, HBO premiered a Beyoncé biopic that starred Beyoncé and was directed by Beyoncé and produced by Beyoncé and created by Beyoncé and received the approval of the universe by Beyoncé. But this story isn't about Beyoncé. It is about something Beyoncé purposely omitted from her HBO s ... More >>

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Defend Your Ballot: Caitlin White, 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 >>

Pazz & Jop: Top 42 Singles

Solange - Bowery Ballroom - 12/18

About halfway through her set at the Bowery Ballroom last night, Solange unhooked the mic from behind her ear, gently disentangling it from her signature cloud of hair before slipping into "Cosmic Journey," an ethereal waft of a song from a few years ago. "Where do we go, on this wide and traveling ... More >>

SISTER ACT

Solange steps out from Beyoncé's shadow

FEELING GROOVY

Go back to the ’70s with Mickalene Thomas

The Week Everyone Became (Rightly) Obsessed With The Solange Knowles Song/Video "Losing You"

It's often simple laziness that leads writers to discuss Solange through a comparison to her sister Beyonce; the former has been a compelling artist in her own right for some time now, thank you very much. However, Solange's new video for her single "Losing You" does something that both Knowles sis ... More >>

Dirty Projectors' Big Empty

The wide open spaces of Swing Lo Magellan

Portraits Of South By Southwest: La Sera, Santigold, Blood Orange, And The Men

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This week, we packed up our paint and headed down to Austin for the annual hurricane of musical adventure that is South By Southwest. I feel both like I just got to the jam ... 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 >>

Fashion Week: The Usual Suspects at Luca Luca, Rebecca Taylor, Charlotte Ronson

Araceli CruzThe usual suspects​ Runway shows are a funny thing. From the time the first model hits the catwalk until the last, the show takes approximately 12 minutes. But for about 45 minutes, pre-showtime, the waiting room consists of people-watching, more specifically celeb-watching. The de ... More >>

Fashion Week: Paola Hernandez Hosts a Pool Party; Tracy Reese Knocks It Out of the Park

Araceli CruzModels allowed to party while working​Mexican designer Paola Hernandez is a genius! We love her for taking us out of the Lincoln Center tents, to high above Chelsea at Hotel Americano's rooftop terrace. Was she trying to bribe us with cocktails and lounge chairs? Who cares! That's ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Must-Go Spots

​Back in 2009 when Fashion's Night Out launched, Anna Wintour, the brainchild behind the event, aimed to celebrate the fashion industry and its consumers with an all-night party at shops and department stores throughout the city, in an attempt to spruce up retail sales in the wake of the marke ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: The Immaculates Keep Cool, Ill Fits Begin To Gel

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This past weekend continued to make me wonder where everyone had gone. Do half the people in Brooklyn have secret summer homes they escape to on the weekends? Is ev ... More >>

Madeon Gets Hands-On With 39 Pop Songs

​ Just when mashups seemed a horse corpse well flogged by the likes of Glee and Girl Talk, the prodigal son of Discovery-era Daft Punk and the very best of Dr. Luke's blockbuster pop comes along to breathe life into the genre. The 17-year-old wunderkind known as Madeon (he's based in Nantes, F ... More >>

Live: Washed Out Play Against Type At The Bowery Ballroom

Washed Out, Grimes, Blood Orange The Bowery Ballroom Monday, July 11 Better than: Trillwave? To any musician with an audience, it's been clear for ages—probably dating back to when Dylan went electric—that to change your entire instrumental vocabulary is one of the biggest risks you c ... More >>

Warm Up Schedule Announced: Four Tet, Juan Maclean, Solange, And More

​P.S. 1 and MoMa have announced the lineup for the 2011 edition of Warm Up, the Saturdays-in-summer series that allows visitors to walk around the Long Island City museum's courtyard and listen to music and marvel at the intricate, shade-providing installations set up outdoors. This year's lin ... More >>

A Brief List Of Female Singer-Songwriters Who Might Not Fit The "White Girl With Acoustic Guitar" Mold, But Who Certainly Shouldn't Be Ignored By Overly Strict '90s Revivalists

Where, indeed. ​Hey, so the new Jane Pratt venture XOJane launched today! And one of the Sassy granddaughter's first music-related articles is Yet Another Thing About The Now Gingrich-Assisted '90s Fetishism Happening Right Now, in which Emily McCombs pleads, "Can the '90s Revival Include Fema ... More >>

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Live From The Bizarre But Much-Improved Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards

Mia Moretti, co-winner, Best DJ (seriously). Pics by Puja, more below.​"There's nothing that says 'party' and 'class' like a bomb-shelter basement in Midtown," joked drag comedian Murray Hill last night. "This is bullshit!" It was one of the many loving jabs taken at the sixth-annual Paper Mag ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Solange, Peanut Butter Wolf, And The Martinez Brothers

​As hard as she tries to claim that she's not a hipster, Solange has been pretty consistent about proving otherwise. Never mind the palling around with the Dirty Projectors on- and offstage, or recording with Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes -- now the budding starlet has taken to DJing. Yes, DJing. ... More >>

Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>

Q&A: Solange Knowles On Why Working With Kevin Barnes "Makes All the Fucking Sense in The World"

"I don't want this façade of me diving into the indie scene - there's not a conscious effort to that at all." ​Back in '08, when Solange Knowles released her sophomore album, the daffy, Motown-checking Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, she sang "I'm no soul girl equipped with no afro." No ... More >>

Q&A: Yo Gabba Gabba! Creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Shultz Explain Why Indie Rock Is Good For Children

Ben Clark/NickelodeonBottom row: Christian Jacobs, DJ Lance Rock, and Scott Shultz. Top row: Brobee, Muno, Plex.​The characters of the Nickelodeon preschool children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba!, recently barbecued with riff-rockers Them Crooked Vultures: picture a gap-toothed cyclops (Muno), a pin ... More >>

Swedish Twee-&-B Duo jj Cover "Birthday Sex." Why?

​You may have noticed that Zach and Camille--SOTC's daily stewards--aren't posting today, because they're on some kind of spiritual retreat that I'm not privy to the details of. As a guest, I'd be remiss in not writing an amorphous think piece that will fall through the cracks between more web ... More >>

DO THE TIGHTROPE

Janelle Monáe juggles three nights in NYC

Hey Neat, The Daily SXSW Showcase Schedule Has Been Posted, So You Can Plan Your Itinerary If You're Going, Which, Yeah, Great, Good For You

​Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>

Week in Review: I Sweat Nonsense

Ever feel like Sid Vicious is just kinda watching you? Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we made Jay-Z's signature gas face at the bunch of hacks and pretenders posing as Guns N' Roses until dudes got the hell out of town, we also posted rants about everything from LMFAO not punching Mitt Romne ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors Played Opening Ceremony's Kick Off Party at the Ace Hotel; Solange Knowles Guested on "Stillness Is the Move" and Groove Theory's "Tell Me" (!!)

The scene at the Ace Hotel was pretty rowdy on Saturday night, as Opening Ceremony threw a party to celebrate opening a bizarre and tiny store in the chain hotel's lobby. Further research undertaken by SOTC over the weekend seemed to indicate that the store is long on McSweeney's and Levis-collabo ... More >>

Matt Dillon -- Was That Him At Charlotte Ronson?

David Wentworth Designer Charlotte Ronson​ Designer Charlotte Ronson hasn't let her prestigious pedigree stop her from riding the easy wave through the fashion industry. For the past three seasons now, we've noticed the young talent establish her line, solidifying her shows with an enthusiasti ... More >>

Do Not Be Alarmed: The Terrifying "Flames, Steam, and Fog" Scheduled For Union Square Park This Evening Are Just Promotion for Beyonce's Perfume Line

​Because it's called "Heat," see? Fresh off of taking the Grammys by military force on Sunday night, Beyonce will run up on innocent little Union Square Park tonight, "flickering projections of flames, steam and fog" in tow, by way of launching her new fragrance line. All this noise will be em ... More >>

The-Dream Syndicate

Lovers of r&b already love him. Time to wake up everyone else.

Week in Review: Or Whatever's Left of Her

Your guess is as good as ours. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we ran all over town looking for a headless pop star (and found her, hiding out in the Barnes and Noble Union Square magazine section), we also hailed the non-headless pop-stars-in-the-making Girls at their New York coronati ... More >>

Solange Knowles Covers the Dirty Projectors' "Stillness Is the Move"

Remember that time Solange and La La photographed themselves dancing to Animal Collective?​Alright, we give, we give: space r&b hero Solange Knowles covering the Dirty Projectors' spaced-out proto-r&b jam "Stillness Is the Move." Those wondering why her sister Beyonce and Jay-Z can be found th ... More >>

The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the MTV VMAs

In honor of 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, we've invited SOTC buddies and pop savants Sean Fennessey and Ryan Dombal to lend a certain wisdom and perspective to these sure-to-be completely dignified proceedings. Gentleman? John Shearer​ 9:00pm Sean: We're coming to you live from one or two or ... More >>

Grizzly Bear Was Also At Grizzly Bear's Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Party

Sam HorineHey, look, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste went to that Jay-Z show yesterday in Williamsburg. ​A whole summer's worth of Jelly NYC Pool Parties on the Williamsburg waterfront took a bow yesterday, as Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Vega played the final Sunday of the 2009 series. Solange Kno ... More >>

Sporadically Vibrant Reports From the R&B Salt Mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michele

New jams for low-riders and supper clubs, respectively

Solange Knowles: Crazier in Love

On the daffy, mesmerizing retro-soul surreality of Beyoncé's younger sister

WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND MOST?

Raphael Saadiq ponders neo-soul at the crossroads

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

The American Music Awards: A Running Diary

The BET Awards: A Running Diary

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