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The Coup (Band)

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Live: The Coup Lets The Music Speak For Itself At Brooklyn Bowl

    K. Leander Williams/tru2blupix​The Coup Brooklyn Bowl Sunday, September 25 Better than: Waitin' on class warfare. "Somebody's holding up a sign I wanna endorse...'Occupy Wall Street'!" When the Coup's Boots Riley uttered that statement a third of the way into his set last night, the audience ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 14, 2011

    CULTURAL REVOLUTION

    The Coup take over Brooklyn Bowl

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Here Is A World-Record-Seizing Rap Song Containing 30 References to Potatoes, Which You Can Hear Live Tonight At Joe's Pub

    ​"I pioneered a subgenre of rap called 'potato rhyming.' My name's ToTs, and I rap about potatoes." And so the legend begins. Michael "ToTs" Heagerty has officially beaten all you slackers to setting the world record for "Most Potato References in a Rap Song." The song is called "Crispy," the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    Heed the Siren! Here comes the 9th Annual Siren Music Festival and related content: Gleefully hostile, says Rob Harvilla of Future of the Left. On new album: acoustic guitar. Problem? "It's irrelevant what old fans or old bands think," says Falco. "If anything, it makes it more exciting to push i ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2009

    Nine Inch Nails+Jane's Addiction

    Heed the Siren! Here comes the 9th Annual Siren Music Festival and related content: Gleefully hostile, says Rob Harvilla of Future of the Left. On new album: acoustic guitar. Problem? "It's irrelevant what old fans or old bands think," says Falco. "If anything, it makes it more exciting to push i ... More >>

  • pazzandjop

    January 30, 2007

    One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even These

    Random obsessions and vexations, born of both young tyros and inexplicably still-rocking old people

  • Music

    November 7, 2006

    Coup Thing

    Hot One's poli-sexual riffs assail the G.W. Bush cabal

  • Music

    May 23, 2006

    Shooting His Mouth Off

    Comic Communist spins Saddam theories and tells us where he got his shoes

  • Specials

    June 28, 2005

    Letters

    Comic Communist spins Saddam theories and tells us where he got his shoes

  • Music

    June 21, 2005

    The Cotton Club

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Music

    October 12, 2004

    Do-Gooders Do Good

    The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

  • Music

    December 16, 2003

    Missy E for President

    The Augustus Pablo of the mainstream underground takes her private pleasures public

  • Music

    November 25, 2003

    Music

    The Augustus Pablo of the mainstream underground takes her private pleasures public

  • Music

    October 7, 2003

    Spellbinder

    Six years later, incorrigible hip-hop perfectionist Lyrics Born has his crowd-pleasing say

  • NYC Life

    August 5, 2003

    Listings

    Six years later, incorrigible hip-hop perfectionist Lyrics Born has his crowd-pleasing say

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    Foucault's Turntable

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    December 31, 2002

    Inkblot Integer-Hop

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Specials

    September 17, 2002

    Letters

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    December 4, 2001

    Fourth Annual Real-Life Consumer Guide

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    November 6, 2001

    Party to the People

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    October 23, 2001

    Going Down Easy

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    October 16, 2001

    Go See The Doctor

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Music

    September 18, 2001

    Talking World War III Blues

    A Hard Rain Starts to Fall

  • Music

    July 31, 2001

    Rock 'n' Rai

    A Hard Rain Starts to Fall

  • Music

    March 27, 2001

    A Time to Refrain From Embracing

    Oozing Pus, Monster Trucks, Bleeding Brains, Broken Glass, and Beaver

  • Music

    April 18, 2000

    True to Their Schools?

    Oozing Pus, Monster Trucks, Bleeding Brains, Broken Glass, and Beaver

  • News

    August 31, 1999

    It's Nation Time. Again.

    A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets

  • Music

    March 2, 1999

    Two Realists

    A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets

  • Music

    February 9, 1999

    Wandering Minstrel

    A new vanguard of rap activists takes to the streets

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