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Our "Win A Date With Marnie Stern" Application

Hey, boys, check out this press release: Marnie Stern's on the market! WIN A RELEASE DATE DATE! Win An All-Expenses Paid Date With Marnie Stern On The Day of Her Album Release: March 19 Hipster guys, are you tired of seeing Marnie Stern have relationships with an endless array of losers and bores? ... 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, 10 - 1

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 10 - 1. (20 - 11 here.) The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten B ... More >>

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Monkees Fans, Let's Talk About Head

Tonight, Bell House will screen the Monkees' 1968 film Head. The group and their management thought it wise to keep copping the Beatles' moves, and the film was likely greenlit with the idea that it would be their Help! Thankfully, the Monkees -- fueled by their growing insecurity over being percei ... More >>

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Kent McCord: Hunky TV Icon Photo Montage

From 1968 to 1975, Kent McCord costarred with Martin Milner in the hit cop series Adam-12. McCord was a football playing stud who went on to appear in Elvis films and eventually landed the show, which launched his chiseled looks into the fame they deserved. I always loved his squinty eyes, high ch ... More >>

10 No-Brainer Rock Legends Never Nominated For The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame

This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>

Billy Joel (6) And Neil Diamond (3) Turn SOTC's March Madness Into A Songwriter's Battlefield

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Things get a bit more melodic (no offense, guys) as two of American pop's most prominent songwriters and members of the Lo ... More >>

Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo Unveils a 30-Years-in-the-Making Solo Debut

Lee is free

100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album

Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>

Davy Jones, R.I.P.

Davy Jones, the British singer who was a member of the sitcom-spawned band The Monkees, died of a heart attack this morning, according to TMZ. Jones was already a Tony-nominated actor when he auditioned for the group, having been honored for playing the Artful Dodger in a run of Oliver! that moved f ... More >>

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 >>

Live: Lee Ranaldo Plays It Straight At Glasslands

​Lee Ranaldo Glasslands Gallery Saturday, December 17 Better than: Another '90s band playing a '90s album start to finish. There wasn't a whole lot of noise from Lee Ranaldo's new quartet under the cloth clouds at Glasslands on Saturday, but there was plenty of crunch. Removing the art ab ... More >>

Brooklyn's Summer Concert Schedule Just Got A Whole Lot Joan Jett-ier

Joan Jett, Cheap Trick, the Monkees, Queen Latifah, Frankie Beverly and Maze, and Shaggy have all been announced as headliners for the 2011 series of Brooklyn Concerts, which are split evenly between the Martin Luther King Concert Series (held at Wingate Field) and the Seaside Summer Concert Series ... More >>

GROUP HUG

The peppiest '60s quartet reunites, almost in full

10 Postcards of Long-Forgotten NYC Restaurants

ioffer.com​1. Divan Parisien Restaurant, 33 East 48th Street - Even to its frequenters, the meaning of "Divan" was somewhat unclear. Some said it was French for "meeting place," others claimed it was Turkish and referred to the furniture of the Sultan's palace. Others took it to mean, as "div ... More >>

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The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over reason, we pleaded to our editors at the Village Voice to let us publish the No. 1 entry as one of t ... More >>

"This Conversation Is Making Me Nauseous": Watching MTV's The City

Uncle Jesse says hi On last night's episode of The City, the gang (regrettably sans Olivia and Allie) headed to South Beach for a change of scenery. It's too cold in New York for bare-ass bikini wear, and besides, this is what this clique does best: side-shot T&A and handsome, arm-candy dudes to og ... More >>

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

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Sweet Home Ad Nauseum

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A rare revival for Dennis Hopper's megalomaniacal, tripped-out western

Another Good Kick

Thrift-shop-dapper Scottish new wave revival standard bearers approach the perfect beat

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Last Ramones Standing

Marky and Tommy discuss Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, the documentary, the stage musical, the DVD, and drumming

The Joan Baez of Jazz

A great tradition strives to keep itself young by discovering its inner Melissa Manchester

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Five-Girl Armies and Finnish Martians Fall Through the Cracks

Where's Waldo?

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