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Ex Cops' Brian Harding Outs Bandmate Amalie Bruun Love of Black Metal

Brooklyn's ace pop stylists Ex Cops have it all: the badass moniker, the underground cred (they were 4th Street record shop institution Other Music's first signing to its fledgling label), the swanky veneer and slick, ubiquitous poptones to match. On its debut True Hallucinations, melodious ear cand ... More >>

Dent May On Do Things, Mississippi, and Briefly Quitting Music

Dent May's output can be divided into two distinct halves: biting, old-timey sardonicism (2009's stripped-down, snark-soaked The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele) and clear-eyed, enabling positivism (2012's synth-heavy, ukulele-free Do Things). A gentlemanly uber-pop classi ... More >>

A Sneak Peek At Motown The Musical

I have sat through jukebox shows with music by everyone from Bob Dylan to the Beach Boys while wondering, "When's there going to be a Motown one already?" And now there's finally one coming for next March, and it's actually more than just a jukebox show; it mixes in the songs while telling the stor ... More >>

Live: Janelle Monáe, TV On The Radio, And Toro Y Moi Break Boundaries At Afro-Punk

Afro-Punk Festival Commodore Barry Park Sunday, August 26 Better than: Sitting at home, waiting for Breaking Bad to start. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley were some of the original architects of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix pushed it forward in the late '60s. Then came Prince. And Bad B ... More >>

Fan Landers: De-Schlubbing A Bandmate And Bringing A Dog On Tour

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>

Live: Adrian Grenier And The Honey Brothers Make Midtown West Feel A Lot Like L.A.

The Honey Brothers (with Adrian Grenier) Random Warehouse on Tenth Ave. Wednesday, April 18 Better Than: Would Turtle's band be Saigon? Let's get this out of the way now: Adrian Grenier was member of new-wave folk troupe Honey Brothers before he was Vince Chase on Entourage and not the other way a ... More >>

Meshell Ndegeocello Gets Crafty On "Weather"

​"Weather" isn't the first Meshell Ndegeocello single to fall into the category of "freak folk," but the album of the same name (Naive) is her first that can be comfortably filed under that genre. Classical and country elements have often enhanced Ndegeocello's melding of jazz, rock, global fu ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Nobunny Thrashes, Girls Look Back, And Spank Rock Warms Up To Le Bain

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. After the mildly terrifying journey that was Fashion's Night Out, Debbie and I wanted to return to more familiar territory, which for us means the holy trinity of p ... More >>

Fall Arts: Music Picks

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 >>

The Last Show at the Fillmore

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 1, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 26 Fillmore, Summer of '71: Graduation Day By Don Heckman So it turned out to be with a whimper, after all. Expecting fireworks at the Absolutely Last Final Fillmore East performance on Sunday night, we expe ... More >>

So Much More Than Just the Facts in DOC NYC

Was Animal Collective Really the Hipster?

​Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>

Live: Best Coast Channel The Ramones (And Shout Out The Voice) At Bowery Ballroom

She couldn't get into the Drake show either. Pics by Kiernan, more below.​Best Coast/Male Bonding/Small Black Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, September 29 Better Than: Going to a show in California. Just before Small Black took the stage at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom tonight, Best Coast's Betha ... More >>

Best Coast and Wavves, Sitting in a Tree

In praise of two great records from California's pre-eminent surf-fuzz power couple

KING BERRY

Rock's originator reunites with B.B. King—the club, anyway

The Maharishi Makes the Scene

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 15 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Politics of Salvation by Richard Goldstein The question of the hour is: can an honest man still be a fraud? The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi arrived in New York last Thursday, f ... More >>

Broken Bells, The Collaboration Between Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer, Is For Lovers in New York

Broken Bells Music Hall of Williamsburg Wednesday, March 10 The Shins are a band girlfriends take boyfriends to see. Gnarls Barkley are a band boyfriends take girlfriends to see. So it's no wonder that the crossover between the two turns out to be couples. Lots of them. Couples rubbing each other ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

Animal Collective Tune In, Drop Out, Grow Up

On the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Merriweather Post Pavilion

Plumbing the Exquisite Psychic Depths of Robert Ashley

Department of Eagles' In Ear Park: One Local Record To Be Excited About That's Not Dear Science

POP Montreal Day 4: The D'Urbervilles, Adam & His Amethysts, PUCE Pop

Live: Black Dice Are "Pure Electricity" in Williamsburg

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Sensuous Synchronized Mindmelt: Cornelius at Webster Hall

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

The Price Is Right

Ten bucks a dance (concert) at City Center

Summer's Here Kids

Sweltering jams for the imminent doldrums

How They Boogalooed It!

Student dancers with professional chops

The Polyphonic We

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

Rainbows, Kittens, Cotton Candy, and Unicorns 4 Ever!

John Denver, the Carpenters had it right

Formed a Band

Savvy teens and Brooklyn noise-rock luminaries combine for some do-it-yourself doo-wop

Alex Chilton, Carl Newman, and Their Subcults Prove Poppin' Ain't Easy

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