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May 25, 2012
100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album
I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Who's Your Favorite Taylor?
These are your only choices. Mention another choice not listed here and you will be banned and ostracized from society.
Voice Choices
April 11, 2012
Needtobreathe
These are your only choices. Mention another choice not listed here and you will be banned and ostracized from society.
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Best Country Solo Performance, Where Ludacris's Stamp Of Approval Makes A Difference
As part of this year's larger reduction in genre-specific awards, 2012 will see the country portion of the Grammys streamlined to just four categories: Best Solo Performance (which swallows Male and Female Vocal Performance), Best Duo/Group Performance (which swallows Best Duo/Group Vocal Performanc ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Will Bon Iver Be The Arcade Fire Of 2012? And Other Pre-Grammy Nomination Show Questions
Tonight's Grammy nomination concert, airing at 10 p.m. on CBS, will not only jam-pack a bunch of performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Jason Aldean into its 60 minutes, it'll also let us know which artists will be prostrating themselves in front of the globe and thanking their families and God ... More >>
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November 20, 2011
Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)
Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
FOREVER AND ALWAYS
Taylor Swift wraps the ‘Speak Now’ tour
Blogs
October 12, 2011
The American Music Awards Nominations: Hey, Did You Know Adele Sold A Lot Of Albums This Year?
Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>
Music
September 7, 2011
Fall Arts: Music Picks
Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2011
Live: Taylor Swift Sparkles And Survives At The Prudential Center
Taylor Swift w/NeedToBreathe, Danny Gokey Prudential Center Tuesday, July 19 Better than: Bottling up your emotions. Before Taylor Swift took the stage last night, I was looking around the Prudential Center, marveling once again at the craftwork on display during an arena show. In contrast to Ka ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Will An Army Of Beyoncés Save "Run The World (Girls)" From Chart Oblivion?
Last night's Billboard Music Awards handed out popularity-contest trophies to the likes of Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry, all of whom were rewarded for the copious amounts of radio play and sales they racked up in recent months. But the evening's real winner was probably Beyoncé, who ... More >>
Music
March 9, 2011
The Lost Youth of Avril Lavigne
Goodbye Lullaby finds our mall-punk malcontent having less fun than ever
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Top 10 Super Bowl 2012 Halftime-Show Possibilities
Let's all do our best to keep this from happeningSo another enjoyable terrible Super Bowl Halftime Show is in the books, and as we wash "I Gotta Feeling" out of our eyes and ears for the thousandth time, the question becomes: Who will grace the stage in 2012? How old will their most famous al ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Presenting Your 2011 Billboard #1s: Taylor Swift...Cake...the Decemberists?
We defy you not to laugh, really.This morning, music industry executives awoke with a sigh of relief: the third full sales week of 2011 did not end with historic Soundscan lows. After Taylor Swift set a historical nadir by selling 52,000 copies of three-month-old record during one of the slow ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Week in Review: Top Train-Wreck Bloggers
Presenting... burger-core. Pic by Puja Patel.In the week we spent holed up in Sound of the City headquarters preparing Pazz & Jop results, we still found time to report back from shows by former Talking Heads members Tom Tom Club, former Deee-Lite member, Lady Miss Kier, former the Pack membe ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Everybody Panic: Taylor Swift's Speak Now Scores the Lowest-Selling Billboard #1, Ever
"Peace, suckers." Photo via MySpace.Bad news for anyone hoping to make a living off of selling recorded music ever again: after 2010 brought us such lovely milestones as the worst week for music sales in all of SoundScan history and the Kanye West record that wouldn't go platinum, 2011 has al ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
2011 In Review!
Why wait all the way till the end of the year for all those inevitable-2011-in-review stories? As always, I'm wildly ahead of the curve and on top of the trend. So how has the year been so far? Well, as pop culture's most avid observer, I'm totally your man for the wrapup:
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
SUCK IT
An award show that honors 2010’s shitty moments
Blogs
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 >>
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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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November 29, 2010
Our Countdown of the 20 Worst Songs of 2010 Starts Today
TheFABLifeLast December, our F2K series counted down the 50 lousiest songs from the morass of mediocrity that accumulated between 2000 and 2009--and it was no easy task. The 9/11 tie-ins, the mawkish charity singles, the wan covers, Owl City, the continued existence of Nicole Scherzinger ... ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
A Gallery Of Twitter Responses To Pitchfork's 10.0 Kanye West Review
So the big whoop today is that Pitchfork bestowed its first 10.0 review in nearly a decade on Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ; penned by a dear friend of ours, rest assured this opinion has generated, in turn, a wide variety of online opinions -- outraged, bemused, intrigued, confu ... More >>
Music
November 3, 2010
The Iceberg Songs of Taylor Swift
On the sneakily great Speak Now, the ultimate 'It Gets Better' campaign
Blogs
November 3, 2010
This Week's Voice: Weezer's Pinkerton, Taylor Swift, AfroCubism, and More
Weezer in simpler times, or maybe not In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell hails the reissue of Weezer's Pinkerton, Theon Weber reviews Taylor Swift's sneakily great Speak Now, and Tad Hendrickson chronicles the belated emergence of the Mali-Cuba connection finally captured on AfroCubism ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Unhappy Hipsters Tumblr Likely for Book Deal and Laughs
Even after they built the concrete nature cell, it was impossible to entice him outdoors. Unhappy Hipsters will probably be the next tumblr to accomplish the goal of most Tumblrs--a lucrative book deal. The site pulls pictures from various design publications like Dwell magazine and captions ... More >>
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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 20, 2010
Kanye West's "OFFICIAL POWER REMIX" Has Arrived
It's here. Jay-Z's on it. But Swizz Beatz runs away with it. Believe it.
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Lauren Bacall's Worst Performance Ever
It's a miracle that Lauren Bacall is still here after this version of "I'm Still Here" that pops up on Youtube. It's very informal--maybe a rehearsal or something she did in what might be her own living room, but it clearly should have stayed there.
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Taylor Swift Isn't That Off-Key!
I'm a little late to this picnic, but I finally caught up with the Grammy Awards (I was away) and prepared for the Taylor Swift trainwreck everyone had clucked about, expecting her to not come any closer to any of the notes than I have to Wasilla, Alaska.
Blogs
February 1, 2010
Here Is An Uncensored Version of Drake, Lil Wayne, and Eminem's "Drop the World/Forever" From the Grammys Last Night
Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Will You Watch "Hope for Haiti" Tomorrow Night?
Just try and avoid it! It'll be on every channel except Boomerang, filling your brain with the sight of caring celebrities reaching out to get exposure for their new CDs--I mean for Haitian relief, while raising tons of dollars for that worthy cause through high-profile artistry and in-your- ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Susan Boyle Bypasses Young, Illegal Downloaders En Route To A Second #1
527,000 copies. She is a commercial juggernaut no one can touch, not least because in all likelihood the vast majority of her fans have no idea how to pirate and/or steal I Dreamed a Dream--the 10th best-selling record of the year and rising fast. If you can find a demographic old enough, thi ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009
'Z100's Jingle Ball 2009'
527,000 copies. She is a commercial juggernaut no one can touch, not least because in all likelihood the vast majority of her fans have no idea how to pirate and/or steal I Dreamed a Dream--the 10th best-selling record of the year and rising fast. If you can find a demographic old enough, thi ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2009
Bondage Lambert, Dead Michael Jackson Enliven American Music Awards
In entertainment news, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert performed simulated bondage sex, including fellatio and reverse buttsecks ("This was not family entertainment"), and engaged in lascivious melisma during the American Music Awards, which gave four prizes (Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, Fa ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
Carrie Underwood's Play On Is #1
To the tune of a stunning 318,000 copies sold, good for the "largest sales week for an album by a woman in 2009 and the second-best sales week for a country release," according to Billboard. Sorry Mariah! MJ's This Is It halved its sales and still held onto #2, clocking second week numbers at ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
May Saturday's Taylor Swift-Hosted SNL Contain Only This One Kanye West Joke
Because "I'mma Let You Finish" was a bright shining star but its moment is gone gone gone. Also, it's not like Taylor Swift needs the help, guys. "I want to look nothing like myself," she told MTV News. "I told all the writers, 'Don't count anything out.' I want to go completely, 100 percent in. I ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2009
Which Was The Grossest Public Display?
Screaming out rude, self righteous remarks for a mass audience seems to be all the rage these days, especially when said comments are shrieked while someone else already has the floor. Just recently, we've had the following sore-losery emissions of terrible manners:
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Watch Candid Footage Of Taylor Swift Freaking Out Upon Learning Of Her Four CMA Nominations
In her pajamas, even. While it's somewhat disingenuous maybe for someone so wildly successful to feign shock at being short-listed for, say, Entertainer of the Year, that apparently unfeigned shock is nonetheless wildly entertaining. Unless you are one of her dogs, in which case it's a little dist ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2009
Who's The Biggest Pop Diva of All?
Which glorious singer with female private parts do you feel reigns over all the other pretenders (and no, this has nothing to do with "Now that Jacko's gone...") The top diva choices are: Lady Gaga. Her three songs are fee-eerce. Will her future be so bright she still has to wear shades? Rihanna. ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2009
Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place
Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2009
Let the "Best of the Decade" Listmaking Bacchanal Begin
Seriously, when's the last time you thought about this. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out here, but is everyone aware that this decade ends in, like, six months or so? The whole thing? The 'Aughts, or whatever we're gonna call 'em? You realize what this means, right? Wanton rock-critic lis ... More >>
Film
February 25, 2009
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Starring Fountains of Sticky, White Goo
Seriously, when's the last time you thought about this. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out here, but is everyone aware that this decade ends in, like, six months or so? The whole thing? The 'Aughts, or whatever we're gonna call 'em? You realize what this means, right? Wanton rock-critic lis ... More >>
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November 19, 2008
Adventures in Taylor Swift Reviewing
Seriously, when's the last time you thought about this. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out here, but is everyone aware that this decade ends in, like, six months or so? The whole thing? The 'Aughts, or whatever we're gonna call 'em? You realize what this means, right? Wanton rock-critic lis ... More >>
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November 14, 2008
Taylor Swift's Empty Life Chills USA Today Readers
Seriously, when's the last time you thought about this. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out here, but is everyone aware that this decade ends in, like, six months or so? The whole thing? The 'Aughts, or whatever we're gonna call 'em? You realize what this means, right? Wanton rock-critic lis ... More >>
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