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July 16, 2012Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>
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May 8, 2012Spiritualized w/Nikki Lane
Terminal 5
Monday, May 7
Better than: Being in the ICU for six months I would imagine.
Bands that have truly seismic musical moments can never maintain that streak for long—not necessarily because their music declines, but because of a fickle and ever-changing publ ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 29, 2012Music infiltrates the fashion world,
like always
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November 28, 2011We've had extensive coverage of the "99 percent" here at Runnin' Scared, but starting today we're going to try something new. Knowing they just don't get their fair share of time to speak to traditional media outlets (and certainly, they never get the ears of politicians), we'd like to open up a for ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 26, 2011Voice Choices
September 14, 2011Voice Choices
June 22, 2011Blogs
June 13, 2011
Tickets to Paul McCartney's July 15 concert at the new Yankee Stadium, which will serve as something of a b-side to the concerts he played at the Mets' new home in 2009, go on sale at 11 a.m. today, with post-service-charge prices ranging from $42.25 to $293.90; there are also a bunch of VIP packag ... More >>
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April 27, 2011Blogs
February 24, 2011At least Beatlesmania is over. Credit: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.A quick word of advice: By all means, watch Still Bill, the new documentary about Bill Withers. It's great, and it's on Netflix Instant and everything. Just don't watch it immediately before watching American Idol. If you do, you'll find ... More >>
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February 9, 2011Voice Choices
January 19, 2011Blogs
December 8, 2010Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. His senseless murder on December 8th, 1980 was hard to sort out at the time--"the anonymous eating the famous like a cannibal feasting on testicles," as Robert Christgau wrote in these pages--and not much easier to parse now. In memory of ... More >>
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November 24, 2010Voice Choices
November 17, 2010Blogs
November 4, 2010While uncluttering the house one day, I found a Michael Jackson chocolate bar -- dark chocolate, mind you -- on a shelf, though I have no idea where I'd originally attained it.
Must be the Jesus juice.
Wherever the thing came from, this discovery had me moonwalking for joy, and I assumed I ... More >>
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November 4, 2010...Is that I don't have to see every single show anymore!
I was so conscientious as a voter that I would sit there and watch everything that crept down the turnpike just on the off chance that it might end up getting a nomination or two.
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September 21, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
May 7, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 19
Scenes
by Howard Smith
WHEN I INTERVIEWED George Harrison last week for ABC-FM radio, we of course got to talking about the big Beatles blow-up. Here are some key excerpts that give Harrison's view of what ... More >>
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May 26, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
September 26, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 50
Homecoming
by Richard Goldstein
I came back from Chicago swimming in revolution -- or at least in my expectations of it. Radicalized, I rounded the media in search of rhetoric. I wore my face phleg ... More >>
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April 7, 2010Andrew Garcia: cornball bubblefunk. Photo by Michael Becker / FOXFirst things first: Two hours? To hear nine people sing for a minute and a half each? That is some ridiculous shit. Is FOX that starved for programming? They couldn't have lopped off like half an hour and run an old episode of P ... More >>
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March 23, 2010ATL tough guys the Black Lips (that's them to the left) holler unpolished, unapologetic garage punk at Brooklyn Bowl, and with additional, extra-musical shenanigans involving bodily fluids and nudity, how could you miss it? Or, bask in the afterglow at the Bowery Ballroom as London quartet th ... More >>
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December 24, 2009Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
August 25, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 45
John, Paul, George, Ringo: Cool Duel with the Press
By James Kempton
A press conference is where photographers jostle for the same shot as the one in the files and the reporters ask questions about th ... More >>
Film
November 10, 2009Voice Choices
October 27, 2009A photographic history of rock 'n' roll
Blogs
September 9, 2009In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Fall Arts Guide: Dan Weiss on the Jane Austen alt-rock of Brooklyn locals the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Jed Lipinski in conversation with George Packer on the occasion of the author's forthcoming Interesting Times: Writings From a Turbulent ... More >>
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September 9, 2009Fall Arts! Along with looks ahead at the various season highlights, Aaron Hillis interviews Juliette Binoche. Robert Shuster contemplates Sarah Anne Johnson. Jed Lipinski reads Interesting Times: Writings From a Turbulent Decade by George Packer. Dan Weiss takes in The Pains of Being Pure at ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2009Blogs
August 21, 2009--Them Crooked Vultures surprised fans by playing Belgium's Pukkelpop music festival yesterday (check out fan reports here). The band played the second stage between sets by Beirut and Wilco. The night before, the Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/John Paul Jones supergroup played their second gig at a s ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 8, 2009Blogs
June 3, 2009 --Paul McCartney hasn't performed much lately, favoring one-off gigs instead of touring. (In April, he performed a Beatles-heavy set at Coachella). But New York fans will get a chance to see the Wings legend (kidding) when he performs July 17 and 18 at Citi Field, the Mets' new home. McCartney has ... More >>
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May 11, 2009The folks at Continuum and 33 1/3 continue to put on a clinic in the uninspiring and potentially dire realities of publishing in 2009: The final 33 1/3 slate is out, 11 books as compared to the original, optimistic promise of 20, almost all of which focus on records about which you are already proba ... More >>
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April 20, 2009David AtlasLeonard Cohen: hymnal, transcendant
Clubs editor Stacey Anderson sojourned in Indio, California this past weekend for Coachella. She already covered the frantic play-by-play over at our Twitter, so we asked her to wrap-up the festival with a by-the-numbers guide to her three days in the ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 7, 2009Blogs
December 26, 2008
This is a good cause -- One Laptop Per Child, which strives to put computing power into the hands of needful children -- but it uses a "voice and video image of [dead man John] Lennon" to promote it. The former Beatle, dead for 28 years, tells us that, though dead, he wants to give every child " ... More >>
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December 4, 2008Voice Choices
July 29, 2008When NYC’s artists were rock stars
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February 11, 2008Theater
January 29, 2008Lorca, London, and the Beatles: the doyenne playwright's new work
Specials
January 8, 2008Film
September 4, 2007Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust
Music
February 13, 2007Specials
October 18, 2005Columns
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October 21, 2003Dance
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March 14, 2000Teenpop Encyclopedia 2000
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