Sun Ra

Coney: Sideshow by the Hudson

The New Ohio hosts the old Coney Island

Fear of a Talibam! Planet

A Brooklyn duo brings the rap on Puff Up the Volume

Joshua Light Show - NYU - September 14th and 16th, 2012

Terry & Gyan Riley Skirball Center, New York University Friday, September 14 Forro in the Dark, Debo Band Skirball Center, New York University Sunday, September 16 Better than: A Pink Floyd laser show. A couple of what used to be called "world music" acts—local Brazilian expats Forro in the ... More >>

Q&A: Big Day Coming Author Jesse Jarnow Gets Personal With Yo La Tengo

WFMU DJ, music journalist and frequent Voice contributor Jesse Jarnow has just released Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham), a voluminous tome that dissects Hoboken's finest Amerindie pioneers' journey from their childhood beginnings all the way to their current place as ... More >>

Download TriBeCaStan's Gear-Shifting, Omniversal Ode To New York's Favorite Insect, "Bed Bugs"

New York cultural mash-up experiment TriBeCaStan is part of a growing number of local groups like Nation Beat who dive so deep into the melting pot that borders become burned away—even the name "TriBeCaStan" is meant to evoke an imaginary republic defined by New York cool, explorer energy and ... More >>

From The Archives: Colson Whitehead On The Digable Planets, 1993

​Before he was writing novels about zombies, elevator inspectors and summers on Long Island, the man behind 2010's best literary twitter account worked on staff at the Voice, writing mostly about television but often about books and music as well. To coincided with the release of his new Zone ... More >>

Download: Forest Fire's Moody, Expansive "Future Shadows"

​New York "cosmic Americana" crew Forest Fire would rather float in space than frolic in the woods; their music is a churning, twang-gazer swirl of moody hums, guitar divebombs and black angel dub dance. They've recently teamed up with vaunted avant-indie label FatCat for their second album, t ... More >>

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

TV on the Radio Turn Their Gaze Inward

​ For a brief moment in late 2008, it felt like the clouds were parting after eight dark years, and TV on the Radio's supremely great "Golden Age" might just be heralding the start of something truly amazing. The band went all in, leaving any arty pretension to the music video and earnestly pr ... More >>

Live: The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Keeps It Together at the Knitting Factory

The group in Ohio, a few days back. The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Knitting Factory Monday, March 21 Better than: Seeing any band currently attached to any kind of micro-genre-related hype or anything remotely timely. The titular amazement of Elephant 6's second Holiday Surprise revu ... More >>

Top 10 Must-See Acts At Winter Jazzfest 2011

Vernon Reid, up to something​Without a guide, Winter Jazzfest can make you pretty crazy. On Friday and Saturday night, five venues -- Le Poisson Rouge, Zinc Bar, Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, and the Bitter End -- will feature a total of 68 short sets (new performers take the stage every h ... More >>

The State of Jazz 2010

No norms, no borders, and everything's happening, louder than ever

The 2010 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll: The Results

White Material and The Cry of Jazz: Races Clash, Revolutions Ignite

Jazz Consumer Guide: Play Louder, and Pray for Peace

Living legends and budding artistes alike break out, rise up, and move beyond

Q&A: DFA's Gavin Russom on His New Project the Crystal Ark, Who Are Playing P.S.1's Warm Up Tomorrow

​Only recently has it been revealed that the DFA's secret weapon is the studio and gear whiz Gavin Russom. He was responsible for Black Dice's weird guitar FX suitcase that defined the band's sound during their tenure there. He keeps the label's studio gear in shape. He's toured the world with ... More >>

Remembering Hip-Hop Legend Rammellzee: "You Hit The Bank, You Rob The Money, And You Leave"

The mighty Rammellzee, street-art legend and the pioneering rap eccentric behind "Beat Bop," has passed away. Though confirmed by Fab 5 Freddy, the details of his death remain sketchy, which is oddly appropriate, as even in life he was difficult to pin down. His legends are hip-hop canon, but they ... More >>

"Cool Records Don't Make The Basis For Good History": A Chat About The Perils Of Record Collecting (And Weird Biases Of Nick Hornby) With Cultural Guru Karl Hagstrom Miller

​Karl Hagstrom Miller is a cultural historian (and professor at UT-Austin), whose first book, Segregating Sound, rethinks folk and blues by looking at the formative moments of these genres through the lens of the intellectuals and phonograph companies with the most interest in shaping them. I ... More >>

R.I.P. Fearless, Wildly Adventurous Jazz Drummer Steve Reid

You'd be hard pressed to find a drummer who covered more stylistic ground in his career than Bronx-born drummer Steve Reid, who died in his sleep last night after a battle with cancer. He was 66.

2009 Jazz Poll: Tom Hull's Alternate, Unsettled Top 10

Great jazz records we caught, with apologies to those we missed

Bones' Beat: Destroy All Monsters at Printed Matter

Any even slightly exhibitionistic art student knows the ground rules to starting a band: do some serious hanging out, pick a name, make a noise, and bring that noise with supreme gusto to a group of people in a basement or a cafeteria. It's simple and satisfying. Perhaps one in five art school ban ... More >>

'Marshall Allen: A Lifetime of Achievement'

Live: Yo La Tengo (With Stephin Merritt, Britt Daniels, and Ira's Mom) at Maxwell's

Zebulon Rising

An adventurous Brooklyn club gets bigger, better, and weirder simultaneously

The Year of the Woman

With all the ballots counted, our decidedly un-macho Jazz Poll finally finds its headline

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

Carey Young's "If/Then," 'The Office,' and Jean Foos's 'The Other Me'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Menorah Report

A Hanukkah fete with Yo La Tengo, the only band worth trudging all the way to Hoboken for

The Zeitgeist Reloaded

An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Festival Express

More Toronto highlights, from Nazis to anarchists

Geodesic Squonk

Colin Stetson flaunts his globetrotting lips

Film

Resist Labels, Reverse Roles

Two guys named Dave walk into a record company and ask for their own distribution deals

Spanish and Other Tinges

In spite of some silent heroes, it was a better year for recorded jazz than for the planet

Soundtracks, Pachinko Parlors, and Other Forms of Noise

Music

It's England, It's the '60s, and Big Bands Are Coming Back

New York Radio

Left of the Dial

Q's Love the Sun

The Center of the Solar System, Deep in the Hot of Atlanta

Black Arthur's Return

Arthur Blythe's Western Wind, Part II

Jam On It

Hippies, Jazzbos, and Beat Junkies Build One Nation Under a Mutant Groove

Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

Jazz

In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

Bridge Across the Cliff

Scrambling On Eggshells

Multi-Personalities on the mic, all shook up

The missing link between Sun Ra and Zapp?

Trunk Show