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The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: The Complete List

Any list of the Greatest New York Rap Albums of All Time is, essentially, a list of simply the Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. The genre was invented here, after all, and over the years -- from early days to Golden Age and onward-- the city's hip-hop history has been an embarrassment of riches. Fas ... More >>

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 10 - 1

Any list of the Greatest New York Rap Albums of All Time is, essentially, a list of simply the Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. The genre was invented here, after all, and over the years -- from early days to Golden Age and onward-- the city's hip-hop history has been an embarrassment of riches. Fas ... More >>

Mr. Cuomo, You've Sure Got a Funny Way of Increasing Education Spending

Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended the state's impressive run of evading the fact that it owes New York City billions of dollars in educations funds. As we reported last week, the state has demonstrated an uncanny ability to pretend like the N.Y. State Court of Appeals didn't mandate that it pay the city ... More >>

Seth Rogen Takes His Centrum Silver in The Guilt Trip

Modern prematurity

Drop in Birth Rates, Rise of Single Voters Set Rightbloggers to Raving

The day-to-day business of rightblogging -- harrying Susan Rice, cheering on congressional Republicans, and so forth -- is not very satisfying to us, nor (apparently, from their tedious writing on those subjects) to them. So we were happy for them and for ourselves when some recent reports showed t ... More >>

Where to Eat, Donate, and Volunteer for Sandy Relief This Week [Updated]

Originally published 11/04/12 Your city needs you, reader! The simplest thing you can do to be helpful now, and in the weeks ahead, is to head to places hit by Sandy and eat (and drink!) at the small, independently owned restaurants and bars that have opened again. Your business will help them boun ... More >>

AraabMuzik - DCTV Firehouse - 10/18/12

Better Than: Assyrian Muzik The joys of, private, unheralded CMJ events: free drinks, no lines, no crowding, and no pressure to challenge yourself and connect with a new artist. It's a luxury seldom afforded in a world of door quotas, fire-code violations, and leaps of faith. See Also: - Best of N ... More >>

Your MTA Card Will Now Look Like a Mini-Billboard!

On January 25th, 1999, the first MetroCard vending machines were installed at subway stations across the five boroughs. Within a few months, the subway token was phased out of circulation as the simple swipe replaced the insert-coin-here system. We've had these shiny MetroCards ever since - whether ... More >>

FACE TIME

Audrey's other New York persona

Grass Widow Move Towards the Light

Internal Logic, space odyssey

Lana Del Rey's Top Six Hip-Hop Connections

She's no longer an Internet phenomenon, but the moody singer Lana Del Rey has turned into something of an infatuation for rappers, who are more than eager to collaborate and canoodle with her. In honor of her headlining a series of shows at Irving Plaza this week, here's a short list of her notable ... More >>

Ruggles of Red Gap

The Top 20 12-Inches Of 2011

The debate between digital digging and its analog analogue is the same useless arguing as the one pitting digital playback against the analog kind. In 2011, if it sounded good, it was worth listening to. The resulting stew was a mix of past and present where classic house met nu-disco and created a ... More >>

Merry Gingrich! Rightbloggers Brighten the Holiday Season with their Big Newt Fight

Maybe it's because of the holidays, but we're learning to stop worrying and love Newtmentum. Amazingly, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looks like the front-runner in the Republican Presidential race. This delights rightbloggers who enjoy Gingrich's cantankerous style. But it's not a ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

Jack and Jill

The Weirdest Pedophile Songs Of All Time

​Way back in the '60s, there emerged a bizarre musical genre--guys singing about their attraction to underage girls and how wrong it was! In 1967, Neil Diamond belted the suggestive "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." ("Please come take my hand/Girl, you'll be a woman soon/Soon, you'll need a man ... More >>

Everybody In Wu-Tang: The Gap Enters The 36 Chambers With Its Latest T-Shirt Offering

The jeans-and-tees emporium The Gap has paired up with musicians before; the likes of Luscious Jackson and Common have warbled holiday-appropriate tunes for them during the store's late-autumn shopping season ads, Daft Punk has danced for its denim, and even Willie Nelson has endorsed the brand. But ... More >>

AIDS AT 30

Dan Fishback comes of age

Women Have Finally Discovered Booze

​Back in the old days, before gender equality and such things, women who drank excessively were considered untoward, ill sots, the kind you wouldn't bring home to your mother, who only had a small sip of sherry when feeling poorly and then spat it out immediately. But today, the world has embr ... More >>

Nancy Upton Takes On American Apparel's Plus-Size Campaign and Wins: Q&A

Shannon Skloss​American Apparel's models are generally lithe and barely clothed, and never look to be above a size two. But the troubled fashion company recently launched plus sizes in some items, and an accompanying contest to find a plus-size model: Think you are the Next BIG Thing? Calli ... More >>

The Latest Foodie Kickstarter Plea: Let Art and Food Trucks Come Together At Last

One more food-truck fest​With non-food companies like the Gap capitalizing on the food-truck craze, it's only a matter of time before a car company gets in on the fun. For now, Jalopnik, the automobile news site, is testing the waters with Truck Yeah: A Mobile Meet Up, a food truck-slash-art f ... More >>

The 10 Most Overplayed Party Jams

This should probably not be how you do it.​It's a common dilemma of the booty club: You're buzzing off the overpriced drinks, two-stepping with the opposite sex. The lighting is right and you're getting closer and closer to each other... and then DJ Lack-of-Direction throws on some bullshit. Y ... More >>

Dirty-Water Dogs Get an Upgrade; The Gap Launches a Taco Truck

​Good to Go Organics hot-dog carts specialize in organic, grass-fed beef franks and locally sourced toppings. For many Manhattan moms, they are good enough to break the no-street dogs rule. [NY Times] Trace and Trust is a boat-to-table initiative that connects chefs and fishermen and lets the ... More >>

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The Fringe Festival brings the end of summer to life

Saturday In New York: The Waste Of Paint Team Hits Up The 4Knots Music Festival

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend, Debbie and I turned our attentions inwards, to the Village Voice's own 4Knots Music Festival at South Street Seaport. As always, the Seaport was a str ... More >>

430 Times Normal Radiation Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant; Indian Point Operators Consider Changes; William Shatner Is 80

​• Soil tested 25 miles from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday had radiation at "430 times normal levels" as reported by Japan's Science Ministry. Tokyo Electric's executive VP has visited evacuees in the area to apologize for the situation. In addition, it seems that multipl ... More >>

The 10 Best Posse Cuts of 2010 (So Far)

​Posse cuts are like friendlier versions of the WWE's Royal Rumble -- a platform designed to showcase all of the stars in the game, both up-and-coming and certified. Think back to the Main Source's 1991 "Live At The Barbecue," featuring Akinyele, Joe Fatal, and the debut of a rapper named Nas, ... More >>

The Gap's Old Logo Has Returned, Outraged Design Nerds Rejoice

​The Gap changed their logo to an uglier logo, and everyone freaked out. Now, the very large clothing corporation that has endeared itself to the sheep who shop there and other people who don't consider the way they cheer for massive billion-dollar corporations who contribute to the status quo ... More >>

The LIRR's New "Gap Rap" Disappointing Compared to Debut Swine Flu Effort

​Because rapping is by far the best way to communicate a public service message, the Long Island Railroad -- which has had a number of people sustain injuries and/or die by falling into the gap between the platform and train despite signs and announcements warning them otherwise -- has a new r ... More >>

The Real Sugar Hill Records Story: In-House Drummer Keith Le Blanc on the Myths Surrounding Rap's First Label

​"I don't think the true Sugar Hill Records story has ever been told because there's so much skull-duggery attached to it," says Keith Le Blanc, the one-time in-house drummer for Sugar Hill Records. The pioneering New York label, which brought hip-hop to the world's ears in 1979 with the Sugar ... More >>

The Voice Fashion Crew Weighs in on Lourdes' New Juniors Line

​As if the Material Girl's eldest spawn wasn't busy enough with her new enrollment at LaGuardia High and her ever-changing parental visitations with her real poppa, step-poppa, and baby Jesus, little Lola, ahem, Lourdes, is also debuting a Juniors clothing line via Macy's on August 3. On Wedne ... More >>

Are Brooklyn Fashion Designers Being Ripped Off by Urban Outfitters?

Images via Racked.Click to enlarge.​If you've never been, Urban Outfitters is basically like The Gap, but for hipsters (or people who want "that look"). And if you've never been, the Brooklyn Flea Market is a wonderful place for local designers to show off their wares! It is also, via The Broo ... More >>

Let Us Fondly Recall A Time When Kanye West, And The Music Industry, Were Full of Unblemished Promise

​Please enjoy this fantastic Kanye reminisce from friend-of-SOTC Sean Fennessey, centered on the heady College Dropout days of 2004, and featuring links to several early mixtapes from rap's favorite pariah of the moment. A fine complement to Kanye's own recent wistfulness. Representative sampl ... More >>

War on Christmas Update: Boycotts, "CHRIST-mas Tree" Give Jesus Team an Advantage

Jesus Draws First Blood in War on Christmas: AFA Approves "Unambiguous" Gap Ad

While the godless holiday ads were a novel opening for the X-in-Xmas Team in this year's War on Christmas, the game is not afoot until someone has retrenched under pressure. So we give a point to the Christers, as the American Family Association has announced it is "officially ending its boycott ... More >>

Breast Intentions

The Brooklyn Museum surveys the world's female artists

Grandma Godsend

Hand-knitted scarves—minus the knitting

I Smell Dead People

If you visit 'Bodies: The Exhibition' do so slowly, and with great care

Cheap Cashmere for Boring Fatties

Japan's biggest retailer brings bland sweater joy to Soho

Denim Dilemma

Designer jeans are over—almost

Free Again

The revolution of 1969 never came, but the 'Free America' series has now been reissued

One-Bedroom Apartment in London Terrace

Good Old Boys

Master Class

Jimmy Heath Gets His Due

Dub for Dummies

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

Docked

Soho Resurgent

Stores and rumors of stores

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