The Beatles

The Cringe's John Cusimano On The Beatles' Vintage Gear, The Killers' Drummer, And New York's Best Chinese Restaurant

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City-based rockers The Cringe released their fourth studio album, Hiding In Plain Sight, earlier this week. The Cringe is fronted up by John Cusimano, w ... More >>

Bucks Burnett's Very Cool Eight Track Museum Opens This Weekend

Tiny Tim's 1996 album Girl concludes with "Fourteen," a song that declares, "I'm just an ordinary man." The author of "Fourteen," though, is anything but average. A lifelong resident of Dallas, Texas, James "Bucks" Burnett has written ad copy for Warner Bros., worked as a butler for Small Faces bass ... More >>

"Yellow Submarine" Sends Beatles Fanatic Into Childhood Rage Fit

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Q&A: AWKword On Occupy Wall Street, The Power Of Protest Music, And Hearing N.W.A. For The First Time

N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" burst into Awkword's life thanks to his baby-sitter. The Manhattan-based rapper visibly remembers the day when his part-time watchdog turned up with a copy of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's anti-establishment rant; hearing the song kick-started his first forays into writing his ow ... More >>

BEATLEMANIA

Sing Beatles in the shower no more

Live: Don Fleming And The Folding Men "Remember" September 11

Brad Cohan​ Don Fleming and the Folding Men Mercury Lounge Sunday, September 11 Better Than: Watching Terrorist Motherfuckers Destroy The World Trade Center As Don Fleming told the Voice recently, the Velvet Monkeys/Gumball/B.A.L.L./Half Japanese dude and superproducer moved to NYC in 1986 ... More >>

The Olivia Tremor Control

Live: Paul McCartney Has More Hits Than Derek Jeter

Paul McCartney Yankee Stadium Friday, July 15 Better than: Watching Let It Be. "Who's this Derek Jeter guy?" Paul McCartney said after "Jet," the fourth song the opening night (of two) at Yankee Stadium. "I hear he's got more hits than me." That's debatable, as Macca put in a rather astounding a ... More >>

Awkward Moment at Awards Show

​Last night at the Drama Desk Awards at the Manhattan Center, a man who was part of the Beatles revue Rain--which had just copped an award--started chatting me up. He and his wife turned out to be really nice and they even slipped me a ticket to get up to the after party. Everything was love ... More >>

100 & Single: How Adele, Not the Beatles, Is The Music Biz's 2011 Redeemer

​ The music business spikes the football over its gradually improving sales the same week a certain U.K. chanteuse completes her conquering of the U.S. pop charts. Coincidence? Maybe not. The omnipresent Adele takes control of Billboard's Hot 100 this week; "Rolling in the Deep" finally evict ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #3: Cast of Glee, "Loser"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​The Fox show Glee might have been the most aggravating pop-cultural phenomenon of the year, what with its persistent conflation of the terms "stereotype" and "nuanced character who's really bringing something new to ... More >>

The Great Foodrock Trivia Quiz: Part One

​Last week, Edible Manhattan hosted the third of their trivia nights at Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, offering prizes as diverse as pounds of coffee, boxes of chocolates, locavoric wines, and, not surprisingly, bottles of Brooklyn Beer. The subject was rock music related to food. Edible M ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #19: Ringo Starr featuring Joss Stone, "Who's Your Daddy?"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Far be it from me to make life harder for the least embarrassing living Beatle... but, wow, someone just double-parked his Yellow Submarine in Creepytown.

Top Five Beatles Songs Guaranteed Not To Top The iTunes Singles Chart Today

​So the Beatles catalog is now available on iTunes. This is, contrary to your attempts to be contrary, A Big Deal. You may naturally (and not unreasonably) assume that everyone in the world already owns all the Beatles songs they'd ever care to own. You are mistaken. The iTunes chart run desti ... More >>

The Best Of The #beatlesasMP3s Hashtag

So Beatles-on-iTunes day is almost over. We all survived. No sales records were broken -- in fact, Dr. Luke would like to point out that Ke$ha remains atop the charts. And yet the day was a rousing success in terms of Twitter Comedy -- join us now as we survey the best of the #beatlesasMP3s hashta ... More >>

Your Favorite Beatles Song?

​As what would have been his 70th birthday approaches, John Lennon is getting a whole lot of posthumous hoopla -- like a movie, Nowhere Boy, about his early days; a documentary about his Gotham years, playing in the New York Film Festival; and a Beatles revue called Rain dripping down on Broad ... More >>

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band

THE BEATLES ARE BACK

Never-before-seen photos, like, actually

Paul McCartney and John Lennon in NYC: We Were Duped By the Maharishi

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 16, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 31 Scenes by Howard Smith THERE I STOOD, next to Paul McCartney and John Lennon -- calm, but without a thing to say. I wasn't intimidated, but more amazed I had managed to get through an endless skein of Be ... More >>

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 >>

'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' -- Fraudulent, or Most Creative Album Ever?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 22, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 36 Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper': The Album as Art Form By Tom Phillips A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the new Beatles album. Richard Goldstein, reviewing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in las ... More >>

Clip Job: Goldstein Talks to Simon and Garfunkel

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 3, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 3 The Sound of J.D. Salinger Clapping By Richard Goldstein We know about the sound of two hands clapping. We're pretty sure these days what one hand clapping sounds like. But what is the sound of J.D. ... More >>

Clip Job: The Beatles at Shea -- 20 Minutes of 'Teeny Screamers'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 1, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 46 Requiescat in Pace -- That's Where It's At By Jules Siegel For beautiful Beatles did their number at Shea Stadium last Tuesday night as 45,000 assorted teeny screamers, ladies of high fashion, secon ... More >>

'Beatles Complete On Ukulele Festival'

Revolution 2009: The Beatles Remasters

The new versions might not strike you as drastically different. Buy some anyway.

Clip Job: Eric Burdon, Animals, Generally Annoyed by Screaming Teens

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 17, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 48The Animals in NYBy Sally KemptonWith American hysteria over English rock-and-roll singers reaching new heights, the purveyors of entertainment for the young last week booked a series of English acts in two r ... More >>

Clip Job: Mekas Tamps Down Beatle Movie Mania

 Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 10, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 47Movie JournalBy Jonas Mekas"A Hard Day's Night" took our movie reviewers by surprise. Reviewers liked it. The Beatle fans like it. Crowther liked it. Sarris said it shook his film aesthetics. The movie wil ... More >>

What Paul McCartney on the Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Sounded Like From the Ground

The author's view Paul McCartney Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Wednesday, July 15 Like everybody else, the helicopters await Paul. First one, chopping ambiently over Broadway, then two more. When the 67-year old ex-Beatle finally comes onto the marquee roof of the David Letterman-occupied Ed Su ... More >>

MCCARTNEY GETS BACK

Baby, he's a rich man for a reason

Shit-Ton of Beatles Remasters Ahoy

© Apple Corps Ltd, 2009 Start taking bets on the Pitchfork scores now: The entire U.K. Beatles catalog, digitally remastered and gussied up with luxe liners, rare photos, making-of docs, and other rad effluvia, is out 9-9-09. Same date as The Beatles: Rock Band. Twelve albums, plus Magical Mystery ... More >>

Meat Mystery

I'd just finished an entire goat roti from Ali's Trinidad Roti Shop and felt rather sluggish, so I slithered across the street to the Goodwill Store. Bed-Stuy's is one of the city's largest, with row upon row of good and clean used clothes, a kitchenware section that might be the envy of ... More >>

The W Premiere and a Hustler Ball!

There's no business like Gaynor's show business; under the big top at Hustlaball

American Idol Week Five: More Beatles, Guh

American Idol Week Four: The Beatles? Really?

The Great Cover-Up, Part 1

Bring on the Backlash

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

Harmonic Convergence

Aussie teenpop sisters pit identity against intimacy for either sharp sentiment or caustic sap

'The Rodnees: We Mod Like Dat!'

Film

Bugging A Beatle

Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon

Shiva Shiva, Y'All

The Man Who Wasn't There

Web Sites Through History

Homepages From Across the Ages

The First Days of Disco

All Ears

Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Total Systems Failure

Always a big draw

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Punkest Band Around

Yeah, Yeah, NO!