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No One Trusts the Tastes of Teenage Girls, But Should: Why Justin Bieber Is the Next Beatles

At what point did teen girls suddenly just become wrong? "Serious" music fans seem to have universally accepted a critique of quality that befalls any artist who willingly sells to the rabid teen girl market and stigmatized the fans who dare to sometimes be male or at least above the age of 18. It's ... More >>

Our 20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

We covered a lot of music ground in 2012. You loved all of it. But some stories were more read than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year. Thanks for reading. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Country Alb ... More >>

Our 20 Most Popular Stories of 2012, 20 - 11

We've covered a lot of music ground in 2012. And you loved all of it. But you read some stories more than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year, from 20 - 11. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Country Al ... More >>

12 Songs for 12/12/12

Well, shit--JUST when we'd finally recovered from 11/11/11, here comes the titanic saturnalia we like to call 12/12/12! So hey, here's 12 songs with "12"/"twelve" in the title, because what the fuck else.

Street-Gang-Turned-Band Ghetto Brothers Attract "All Classes, All Races, All Ages" Years After Making Hip Hop History

"I didn't think this would ever happen, but now that it has, it reminds me of what my father always told me: 'It's never too late,'" says Benjy Melendez. The 60-year-old South Bronx native is positively giddy as he holds a copy of the newly reissued Power Fuerza -- the one and only album that Melend ... More >>

Donna Summer, R.I.P.

In the two-family house where I grew up in Bensonhurst, the two musical acts I heard most often, blasting from stereos at the top and bottom of the house, were the Beatles and Donna Summer. The former was more my parents' speed, although my teenaged cousins who lived downstairs played the Fab Four ... More >>

Q&A: Melvins' Buzz Osborne On Freak Puke, Digging Fox News' Greg Gutfeld And Not Trusting People Who Don't Like The Beatles

Iconic avant-metal-punk royalty Melvins are fast approaching their third decade of meting out its uber-prolific anthemic maelstrom of sonic heaviosity with uncompromising, valiant experimentalism, and things aren't slowing down for these influential and ageless Cali riff kings. Despite the onslaught ... More >>

Live: The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World Gets Honored At The Bell House

Still Better Than The Beatles: A Tribute To The Shaggs / A Benefit for the Fremont, N.H. Historical Society & 250th Anniversary Committee The Bell House Friday, April 13 Better than: The Kraftwerk tribute. YouTube recently declared a new Worst Band Ever. Whether or not the hapless outfit from ... More >>

Live: Fiona Apple Can't Help It At The Bowery Ballroom

Fiona Apple Bowery Ballroom Monday, March 26 Better than: Holding it all in. Before Fiona Apple took the stage at the Bowery Ballroom last night, Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" pumped out of the speakers, its flirtatiously skipping beat booming throughout the packed room. The tale of a ... More >>

Paul McCartney Opens The Book Of Love Songs With Kisses On The Bottom

What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>

ASK, DON'T TELL

NPR adds another game 
show to its waves

100 & Single: LMFAO's Pair Of Chart-Toppers Suggest Stardom, Guarantee Nothing

​The national star-making machinery only begins to take you seriously when you command the field more than once. Just like, say, GOP presidential candidates, pop acts can't chart one strong number and assume dominance is permanently theirs. They've got to come back on top, week after week, sur ... More >>

Alarm Will Sound

Paul McCartney Wins Kennedy Center Honors and Maybe All of 2010 As Well

Though the gala was weeks ago, CBS just got around to airing the annual Kennedy Center Honors award show. Among the honorees? Bill T. Jones, Jerry Herman, Merle Haggard, Oprah Winrey, and Paul McCartney, to whom Steven Tyler can be seen paying awkward, shrill tribute to above. Which makes us wond ... More >>

A Brief Catalog of All the Other Musicians Marnie Stern Has Dissed

Marnie Stern will cut you. Photo by David Torch.​Local guitar wizard Marnie Stern is making a wonderful bid right now to become the Kanye West of indie-rock--she's cocky but shy, confident but self-deprecating, and more musically savvy than she gets credit for, even as she constantly pays homa ... More >>

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 25, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 63 Scenes by Howard Smith I WAS IN TORONTO last week to do an interview for WABC-FM with John and Yoko Ono Lennon; one of the reasons the Lennons were there, as you probably already know, was to announc ... More >>

PRETTY IN PUNK

The cool prom you always wanted

The "Animated Albums" Tumblr Is Pretty Rad

​Here you go. Album covers rendered as animated GIFs. London Calling is my favorite thus far, but look out for the Beatles. And Gary Numan. (Via Rich Juzwiak, who, if he decides to start contributing, look out.)

Drink Up Buttercup+Blood Warrior+Beat Circus

Clip Job: Newfield -- MacDougal at Midnight

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives April 8, 1965, Vol. X, No. 25 McDougal at Midnight: A Street Under Pressure By Jack Newfield MacDougal Street at midnight. Homosexuals cruising, pill-buyers waiting, transvestites parading, and tourists watching. Aging Kerouac heroe ... 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 >>

MOVING TO INVADE

Two French street artists take over Chelsea

News Roundup: Peter King vs. Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Panic at the Disco, Rihanna

--One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

Lit Seen: A Heavy Rotation Playlist

Pink air! Origami irony! Writers on the albums (and songs) that shaped them.

The Easy Star All-Stars+Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

More Apocalyptic Discourse with Appetite for Self-Destruction scribe Steve Knopper

'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 55: Jeremy Jay

Live: Rutlemania at the Blender Theater the Gramercy at Your Mom

Fine Whine

Os Mutantes' Mutantes Live—Barbican Theater, London, 2006

Tropicália stars live in Technicolor, 40 years later

Noise from the Front

For the week of December 27, 2006–January 2, 2007

Pain and Juice

A grand tour of Brazilian pop that critiques sexism as it goes

Tragic Circles

Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness

1965

What's in a Name? 'Lennon' Offers Less of John Alone Than of John and Yoko.

Brits Not Quite as Silly as Their Moniker Suggests, For Once

Evolution of Man

Brooklyn sibling duo proves that shy adolescence is ageless

Gawky Geek Turns More Mundane But Lets His Chaos Light Up Your Living Room

A Touch of Grey

Unlimited supply, EMI, there is no reason why, if the label sues there's sure to be a fight

A Mighty Wind

Garage Punks Discover New Wave and Kick Out the Cans

Not Hop, Stomp

The Onslaught

Recombinant Rock in the Valley of Dub

Where the Streets Have No Shame

Storied Lives and Strange Bedfellows

Rubbers Full of Soul

Let's Get Busy in Hawaiian

100 Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes

Wrigley's in the Trashcan

James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves

The Way We Dress Now

How The '60s Changed Fashion Forever