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Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

Top 12"s of '12: Last Looks, People

Welcome to 2013. Welcome to the future. 2013 is not like other years. It's different. It's a whole new world. A world in which Grammy Nominee and general music visionary Al Walser is not only still alive, but will lead us all to redefine our very idea of art (seriously, think about it). A world i ... More >>

Mission of Burma

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"Beware The Spectre Of Polyphony": Seven Innovations That Have Been Accused Of Killing Music

People have been concerned for a very long time with what's killing music. The current boogeyman is undoubtedly Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software that can both sweeten off-key voices and create new vocal effects. Some have long protested its ubiquity: It will kill real vocals! Live performanc ... More >>

Q&A: Jonathan Toubin On His Record Collection, Moving To New York In The '90s, And Wanting To Make Culture

Some DJs are quiet, let-the-music-do-the-talking types, but not Jonathan Toubin. Interviewed for this week's Voice profile, the 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty host was enthusiastic and opinionated, generating a novella's worth of transcript. More highlights from our conversation are below, as Toub ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Bruce Springsteen And Mick Jagger Stop Making Pop Hits, Start Inspiring Them

It's been a busy year for Bruce Springsteen. In March, he released Wrecking Ball, his seventeenth studio album and tenth release to top the Billboard 200, and after packing in arenas across America throughout the spring, he took the E Street Band to Europe. His name is also in a top-40 entry on the ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Habibi, Natural Child, Liturgy, And Zola Jesus Bring Catharsis To Manhattan

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 we found ourselves in the rare situation that all the shows we wanted to see were in "the city": one at the Lower East Side's anachronistically good Cake Shop, ... More >>

A Death in the Family: Anthology Honors David C. Stone

'Tune in Screening: Psychedelic Moving Images From Socialist Yugoslavia 1966-1976'

Cold War films of desperate abandon

Why Do Mexicans Come to This Country Illegally Instead of Legally?

And how can we finally secure our border with Mexico?

Ten Hip-Hop Covers Of Rap Songs

​Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>

Brooklyn Cliches Simmer in Ham Juice in White Irish Drinkers

Last Night: Ariel Pink Hosts The Even More Befuddling Second Night Of Lincoln Center's Rock And Roll Circus

A just slightly confused Ariel Pink. Pics by Rebecca Smeyne, more below.​Rock and Roll Circus, Night II Starring Ariel Pink, Amazing Baby, Saint Motel, Aska, and Nick Zinner Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center Tuesday, January 4 Better Than: Last night? . . . And we're back for night two of The We ... More >>

Peter Saul's Thrilling Tastelessness

Haunch of Venison helps the painter celebrate five decades of luridness

Quasi

Interview: The Dutchess and the Duke's Jesse Lortz

The Dutchess and the Duke, a Seattle duo whose sound people like comparing to the very early Rolling Stones, had barely played live when Sub Pop's boutique label Hardly Art offered them a record deal. In the 18 months since their debut She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke, Kimberly Morrison and Jesse ... More >>

Let's Renegotiate! 'Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture' at the Kitchen

Irony? Sincerity? The venerable Chelsea venue cooks up an uneven mix of paintings on painting.

Booze News: Soothing a Stuffed Belly with Amaro; Pairing Wine with Pumpkin Pie

​ Feeling overstuffed? No country can match Italy for the sheer variety of digestive liqueurs, called amari, which can soothe a fully belly at the end of a big meal... something you might want to look into this holiday season. [NY Times] Two cases of MacKinlay's Rare Old Whisky that Ernest Sh ... More >>

Clip Job: Brownmiller Hangs with Junkies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 22, 1965, Vol. X, No. 40 Washington Sq.: 'Man, That's My Living Room!' By Susan Brownmiller Friday night. The New York University people meet with Park Commissioner Newbold Morris and representatives of the Police Department's Fi ... More >>

Clip Job: Eric Burdon, Animals, Generally Annoyed by Screaming Teens

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 17, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 48The Animals in NYBy Sally KemptonWith American hysteria over English rock-and-roll singers reaching new heights, the purveyors of entertainment for the young last week booked a series of English acts in two r ... More >>

Bad Brains to Be Embalmed Once More On Film

Given that, pace Obama, we're already in a rearguard fight against the insanely ubiquitous culture of our elders--the Rolling Stones, marijuana, VW buses--it's more than a bit demoralizing to see our cultural heroes aspire to the same plinth status. Above is a trailer for Bad Brains: The Movie, wh ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 65: The Boys' To Hell With The Boys

The Truth About De-Evolution

Devo interrupt your dodgeball game

Live: The Verve at MSG

1968: The Year of Living Dangerously

A look back at a year when the whole world was watching

Like a Complete Unknown: I'm Not There and the Changing Face of Bob Dylan on Film

T Party

Hey, kids—the band is not Irony Maiden

They Might Be Giants' The Else

Brooklyn pop lifers stave off a slump, again

'Rolling Like a Stone'

Atonal, amoral garage rock at its finest, trashiest

Demon's Claws's Satan's Little Pet Pig

Peter Whitehead Was There

From the beat poetry slam to Pink Floy'd coming-out party, filmmaker never missed a '60s happening

Sympathy for the Devil

The American Music Awards: A Running Diary

Perverted Norwegian sailors penetrate the shitty of Satan

We Have to Deal With It: Punk England Report

Prefab 8-Track Muscle-Car Classics for Indie Kids and Country Fans

Stand Up Comics

Talking with Joe Sacco, the innovator of contemporary comics journalism

Chapels of Love

Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

Runny-Nosed Midwesterners Beg Mom for More Junk Food

Das Bootlegs

Hunting down verboten DVDs and videos on the Internet

La Dolce Vita: A Sicilian Men's Club That Plays the Buzzcocks

Todavia Tres Hombres

On my way down to Mexico, there was trouble on the rise

Siren Song

'Vice' Squad

This Year’s Remodel

The Long Haul

Roto-Roots Rock Flushes Your Troubles Down the Drain

Bunk