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  • Music

    May 23, 2012

    Midyear Report: 12 for '12

    A dozen of the best singles from the year so far

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    12 For '12: A Dozen Songs From This Year That You Should Hear Right Now

    In this week's Voice I offered up a midseason report of sorts, listing 12 particularly outstanding tracks from this year. Here, for your listening pleasure, are the 12 songs in streamable form (via a combination of YouTube and Soundcloud so as to not lock anyone—or any songs—out). Happy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 25, 2012

    Spiritualized

    In this week's Voice I offered up a midseason report of sorts, listing 12 particularly outstanding tracks from this year. Here, for your listening pleasure, are the 12 songs in streamable form (via a combination of YouTube and Soundcloud so as to not lock anyone—or any songs—out). Happy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 11, 2012

    Suckers

    In this week's Voice I offered up a midseason report of sorts, listing 12 particularly outstanding tracks from this year. Here, for your listening pleasure, are the 12 songs in streamable form (via a combination of YouTube and Soundcloud so as to not lock anyone—or any songs—out). Happy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    CHILLER INSTINCT

    Neon Indian gets strange

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Live: Weezer And The Flaming Lips Share And Share Alike At The PNC Arts Center

    By Nick Minichino Weezer/Flaming Lips w/Yeasayer PNC Bank Arts Center Thursday, July 28 Better than: Not seeing Bush at the Bowery Ballroom. It's extremely easy to forget the advantages of an large-scale concert if you've gone, say, a decade eschewing such shows. Massive venues with lawn seatin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Wayne Coyne Talks Flaming Lips/Lightning Bolt EP: How It Came About, How To Hear It

    ​While The Flaming Lips might currently be without a contract at Warner Bros., there are signs that the relationship is far from expired—including but not limited to the fact that their handler there still hooks up email interviews, for example. At a Boston in-store appearance on Tuesda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Hear Yeasayer's New Song, "Devil And The Deed"

    Yeasayer stopped by Conan last night to debut "Devil And The Deed," a taut, herky-jerky track that uses the upper ranges of lead singer Chris Keating's voice to fine effect and has a lovely, tinkling keyboard break. The band's on tour right now; their headlining show at Terminal 5 on June 18 is sold ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 18, 2011

    Fang Island

    Yeasayer stopped by Conan last night to debut "Devil And The Deed," a taut, herky-jerky track that uses the upper ranges of lead singer Chris Keating's voice to fine effect and has a lovely, tinkling keyboard break. The band's on tour right now; their headlining show at Terminal 5 on June 18 is sold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Coming To The Local Sheds This Summer: Lots Of "Heritage Acts" And Country Stars (And Yeasayer)

    Yeasayer. Here's hoping things are a bit warmer than this for their shows this summer. ​Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    It's Monday, And Already Many Record Store Day Items Have Been Resold On eBay

    Money, honey. ​The "Hallmark holiday for music nerds" festivities of Record Store Day are a little less than 36 hours past, and as predicted, the speculators and collectors were out in full force on Saturday. And some of them are already seeing returns on their waiting-in-line investments! eBa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

    Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    The Top 10 NSFW Music Videos of 2010

    ​ One major downside to 2010: There's a pretty good chance you lost your job. The good news, though, is that the concept of NSFW no longer applies, and so today, while your former co-workers are stuck in their cubicles, bored to death and forced to pass around OK Go's latest YouTube meme, you ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

    All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Week in Review: Bootcut Shorts

    May we all look this relaxed in this situation. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week the words "Kanye West" became synonymous with social media, the rapper performed at Facebook while dissing Twitter, performed at Twitter while dissing his mother's old boyfriends, then joined Twitter, a thing he t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Live: The Flaming Lips Bring Their Cannons, Their Crowd-Surfing Bubble, And Their Monkey Impersonations To Central Park

    ​Wayne Coyne, hard at work. Pics by Rob Trucks.​Flaming Lips Monday, July 26 Central Park SummerStage Not to gas on at length about the weather here, but holy shit Monday night in Central Park was just gorgeous, idyllic and temperate and absurdly perfect, especially given the endless st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: The Tilda Swinton Moment

    ​How time flies, right? Eighteen years ago, Sally Potter had her breakout as the writer-director of Orlando, which also starred then-breakout Tilda Swinton. Now, for this week's Village Voice cover story, Melissa Anderson talks with Potter and Swinton about Orlando about their continuing caree ... More >>

  • Music

    July 20, 2010

    49 Years of Wisdom From Wayne Coyne

    The Flaming Lips frontman would rather make shitty art with good people than the inverse

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    'SPIN25 Presents the Flaming Lips'

    The Flaming Lips frontman would rather make shitty art with good people than the inverse

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Q&A: Henry Rollins Talks With Ex-MTV-VJ Iann Robinson About Why Black Flag Won't Reunite and Why He'd Rather Be 49 Than 20

    Musician/actor/talker/personality Henry Rollins has been in touch Iann Robinson for years, long before Robinson's days as the MTV VJ Horatio Sanz once spoofed on Saturday Night Live. Since Henry Rollins headlines Irving Plaza tonight and tomorrow, we asked Robinson to get his old acquaintance on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    And the Guest Curator of All Tomorrow's Parties NY 2010 Is . . . Jim Jarmusch!

    Thanks And the list of ATP NY guest curators, so far, goes like this: My Bloody Valentine, 2008; Flaming Lips, 2009; Jim Jarmusch, 2010! Just having the dude there last year was amazing, having him curate is a total other thing. Tom Waits, anybody? Also, more band announcements below, including Son ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

    You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Bow Down to Michael Buble, America

    ​Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2009

    Os Mutantes

    ​Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2009

    THE PRESENT, TOMORROW

    Psychedelic lineup ushers back ATP

  • Music

    September 1, 2009

    An Oral History of All Tomorrow's Parties

    In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    Stardeath & White Dwarfs

    In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk

  • Voice Choices

    July 22, 2009

    POSITIVE FEEDBACK

    Follow the rainbow to a pot of mutant fuzz

  • Voice Choices

    June 17, 2009

    CRASH!

    The next big newest band to ruin your hearing

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Wayne Coyne on What To Expect From ATP NY 2009: Muhammad Ali Punching Bag, Syd Barrett's Dead Body

    Over Christmas break, Fader's T. Cole Rachel visited Wayne Coyne in his "Wizard of Odd" compound to talk about Christmas on Mars, 2009, and what to expect when the Flaming Lips curate this year's All Tomorrow's Parties New York. This is going to be so much better than Justin Timberlake in a dolph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2007

    Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

    Over Christmas break, Fader's T. Cole Rachel visited Wayne Coyne in his "Wizard of Odd" compound to talk about Christmas on Mars, 2009, and what to expect when the Flaming Lips curate this year's All Tomorrow's Parties New York. This is going to be so much better than Justin Timberlake in a dolph ... More >>

  • Music

    March 28, 2006

    Lip Gloss

    Acid-eating Okies keep the reverb and bunny suits, can the chemistry

  • Music

    August 30, 2005

    New New Wavers So Exuberant You Could Call Them Ric Five

    Acid-eating Okies keep the reverb and bunny suits, can the chemistry

  • Music

    February 15, 2005

    The Great Thaw

    Married Minnesota Mormons ditch mumbling, hit the town

  • Music

    June 22, 2004

    Lollapalost

    Where to catch your favorite bands now that the big show is canceled

  • Music

    October 14, 2003

    Microscopic Paw Prints

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

  • Music

    August 19, 2003

    And We All Shine On

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

  • Film

    October 29, 2002

    Uncontrollable Urges

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

  • Music

    October 9, 2001

    Because I Got High

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

  • Long Island Voice

    September 28, 1999

    headline

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

  • Music

    June 22, 1999

    Lifting Up the Sun

    Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues

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