The Rolling Stones

10 Movies That Stars Don't Want You To See

And that works out really well because you will have very little desire to see them once you hear what they are. We're talking about too-bad-to-even-be-culty items like an amateurish Kiss TV movie, a weird little Leonardo DiCaprio/Tobey Maguire stunt, and a sucky Rolling Stones documentary classic ... More >>

24 Songs To Get High To For National Weed Day

Not that I'm endorsing this or anything. But with National Weed Day coming tomorrow, it's a good time to toke--I mean take--notice of which songs would be the best to inhale to. If that were allowed.

'The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film'

A beggar's banquet of Rolling Stones films

The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling—Ireland 1965

Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge hardcore rascals in D.C. (she felt more at home with the stoners); she scurried off to New York City at ... More >>

Bobby Womack

Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

'Stones Fest'

Marianne Faithfull

"Take Me By The Tongue" As A Come-On: Sexy Or Kinda Gross?

​Well, "Moves Like Jagger," the Voice-synergizing duet between Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera that raises the sexual specter of the Rolling Stones frontman while, some hope, making people forget about Aguilera's overall pretty terrible 2010, has landed. It's an uptempo track with a riff that ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: High And Low Culture, From The Met To The Cover-Band Depths

​ 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 past weekend was a glorious cultural swan dive for Debbie and me that started uptown in the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sailed down throu ... More >>

Theodora Richards Gets Community Service For Graffiti, Pills, Weed

​Theodora Richards, model daughter of the Rolling Stones' Keith, followed in the footsteps of every famous offspring ever by looking really stylish in court as she was barely punished for a decadent, albeit victimless (and sort of cute!) crime. The 25-year-old (now 26) was caught scribbling a ... More >>

Mummified Slices of Roberta's Margherita Pizza Still Edible After One Month

​The way it came about was this: After a foray to the sainted Bushwick pizzeria, I found myself with two slices of the pie remaining. But when I got home, I forgot about them and recycled the carton with the newspapers. When the quantity of paper and packaging became so great I could no longe ... More >>

Rolling Stones Make Post-Altamont Return to NYC

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 30 Oh, the dazzle of it all By Patrick Carr The Stones were magnificent. Everybody thought so. Thank Christ. Report on the Stones ploughing their own multi-multi-million dollar Suez Canal of rock 'n' roll, ... More >>

Liz Phair Reviewed Keith Richards' Life

​As it turns out, Mick Jagger did not pen a response to the new Keith Richards autobiography, Life, and accidentally send it to a journalist, who published it on Slate. That was a joke (though the writer now calls his facts "fairly incontrovertible"). But Liz Phair, whose canonical album Exile ... More >>

In the Wake of Altamont: Who Hired the Hell's Angels?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62 Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday by Grover Lewis SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>

ALTAMONT: An Eyewitness Account of the 'Day of the Angels'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 11, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 61 Day of the Angels: Let It Bleed! by Grover Lewis ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY, Alameda County, California -- All across the scalded brown hills looming above this seedy, out-at-the-elbows drag strip located 50 ... More >>

SEX, DRUGS & FILM

Rock 'n' roll legends caught on camera

Bettye LaVette+Peter Wolf

Justin Bieber Tops MGMT, Plus An Analysis Of The Best-Selling (Well, Maybe) Record Store Day Singles

​This week's album chart has in its first two positions the two biggest stories in pop music last week. Once again, the pole position was assumed by Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, whose first full-length, My World 2.0, sold 92,000 copies--only the second time this year that the No. 1 album h ... More >>

Swedish Twee-&-B Duo jj Cover "Birthday Sex." Why?

​You may have noticed that Zach and Camille--SOTC's daily stewards--aren't posting today, because they're on some kind of spiritual retreat that I'm not privy to the details of. As a guest, I'd be remiss in not writing an amorphous think piece that will fall through the cracks between more web ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Top 12 vs. the Rolling Stones: Siobhan Magnus Turns Into An Awesome Goblin; Tim Urban Carnival Cruises Through "Under My Thumb"

Siobhan Magnus, unleashing her inner goblin. Credit: Michael Becker/ FOX. ​Top 12 week is where the real American Idol competition supposedly starts. Everyone's worked out their jitters, most of the no-chancers have been cut, and the singers finally have to start submitting to theme weeks, ide ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 12 Results

Michael Becker/ FOXTim Urban, not the worst this week.​ Even though we've been watching this show for three months, Idol apparently only began last night. The contestants got to sing on a bigger stage, and had to make something out of the Rolling Stones songbook instead of the total freedom to ... More >>

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker -- Cream Plays NYC

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 5, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 51 Cream: They Play Blues, Not Superstar By Richard Goldstein It's Saturday night at the Village Theatre, New York's sad-eyed answer to the Fillmore-Avalon scene. Under the marquee, Slavs gape and Ratner' ... More >>

How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Tips on how to expand its reach—or blow it up entirely

FUNK ‘N’ ROLL

Dance in the alley

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

ICON STATUS

A photographic history of rock 'n' roll

Good Morning, Mick Jagger's 1969 Letter to Andy Warhol

​That right there is a lovely bit of correspondence between Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, the man who would later design the super-iconic cover to the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. Although really, they could've just printed this letter verbatim and called it a day. [Letters of Note]

Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder

Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

Things I Learned Watching Shine a Light

No Context for Old Men: Things I Learned Watching Shine a Light

Shine a Light: Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again

Laurent Tourondel's Last Meal: Not a BLT

Laurent Tourondel's last meal

. . . is raw, drunken, and oh so lonely

Dirty White Boy

Cold as ice, Pete Doherty is willing to sacrifice his love

Letters

Go Weird

California cavepunks fight imaginary enemies with real dirt

Kiss the Sky

Austin indie band effortlessly achieve completeness the sixth time out

Talent of Wealth

Wily wiry men start themselves back up with good album, innovative dance steps, ticket price jokes, and a corporate blimp

Back to the Boys' Club

Sheriff arrives, the Strokes are sent home, drunks from Down Under take over the garage

A Mighty Wind

Garage Punks Discover New Wave and Kick Out the Cans

Screaming Is Free

The Winner Takes It All

Rubbers Full of Soul

Crimes and Misdemeanors

God Bless the Infesticons

Dear Diary

Death Rock 2000

Shtick Figures

Wielding Ass to the Monks' Neanderthal Thump