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John Grant Sings About Living With HIV on New Album Pale Green Ghosts

John Grant is approaching his life honestly. In the lyrics of his latest solo album Pale Green Ghosts, the former frontman of The Czars sings about being an openly gay man who is also HIV positive. Grant was in town last week for a show at (Le) Poisson Rouge, and though our conversation veered into ... More >>

Picture This: Our 5 Can't Miss Book Events Get Graphic

Tamara Shopsin Spoonbill & Sugartown Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free Shopsin's new memoir is arranged the way any harried artist's journal might be--in fragments, drawings, photographs, and asides--and surprisingly all the more cohesive for it. Mumbai New York Scranton (Scribner) highlights the underlying c ... More >>

Rebellious Reads: 5 Book Events You Don't Want To Miss

"Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic" The National Arts Club Mar. 13, 6:30, Free If you actually expend thought on something like the excessive (still developing) ado over Anne Hathaway's Oscar dress, it's true that Katherine Hepburn begins to appear very rebellious indeed. Today the film legend might emb ... More >>

Shout Out Louds - Music Hall of Williamsburg - 3/11/13

Better Than: Blasting "Very Loud" very loud while driving down your old street with all the windows down. It's been three years since the last time Stockholm's Shout Out Louds came through the United States on tour, and about as much time has passed since the release of their last record. Now, the ... More >>

Parquet Courts: Band on a Wire

The Brooklyn band makes the familiar sound new again

New York Fashion Week SS13: Liberty Ross Models at Alexander Wang's Glow-in-the-Dark Show; Edun Attracts Alicia Keys, Michael Stipe, Gina Gershon, and a Couple of Strokes

"Alicia! Alicia! Over here!" shouted the front-row photographers at Alicia Keys, who had just arrived at Moynihan Station to see the EDUN show. Decked out in sunglasses, a white blouse, and white jeans with black tuxedo stripes, she pulled another woman with long brown hair into the shot. "Who's th ... More >>

Live: Real Estate Comes Home To Webster Hall

Real Estate w/R. Stevie Moore, Andrew Cedermark Saturday, August 11 Webster Hall Better than: The thousand times I have listened to Real Estate's Days. In front of shifty blue stage lights on Saturday night, Real Estate keyboardist Jonah Mauer squinted at his bandmate, guitarist Matt Mondanile. On ... More >>

Live: Devin Squeals And Pulses In Surprising Fashion At 4Knots

Devin, Doldrums 4Knots Skippers Stage Saturday, July 14 Better than: Expected. For real. Clouds blocked the sun yesterday afternoon as Devin's set came to a close. The bass player lay on his back, inching his way across the stage like a caterpillar, thrusting his hips into the air. Next to the sta ... More >>

SOTC's March Madness: The Quintessential New York Musician Tournament

Sound of the City's monthlong tournament to determine the quintessential New York City musician (since 1955, the year of the Village Voice's founding) is taking over our site all March. The full schedule and results (as of March 23) below; you can also follow along with our bracket.

The Ramones (1) Take On Anthrax (16) In The Queens Division's First March Madness Matchup

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. The first pairing in our Queens division pits its top s ... More >>

Q&A: Disappears' Brian Case On Krautrock, Sonic Youth, And Ascending Rapidly And Metaphorically Into The Stratosphere

​ As a sobriquet, Disappears strongly implies some sort of vanishing point: stillness, quiescence, minimal house music. The reality, of course, is different the way a sledgehammer differs from a ball-peen hammer. On record, this Chicago quartet is all presence: a shuddering combustion-engine s ... More >>

Live: LCD Soundsystem Say Goodbye, For Once and For All

Got three hours and 41 minutes? LCD Soundsystem, Liquid Liquid Saturday, April 2 Madison Square Garden Better Than: Seeing the Strokes there on Friday. Midway through the evocative "Someone Great," James Murphy wiped his cheek with his hand. Maybe he was crying. Or maybe he was sweating. It could ... More >>

Second Times Square Screen-Jacker Tells Us How He Did It

On Tuesday night, Toronto entrepreneur Adi Isakovic projected images from his smartphone onto a giant advertising screen in Times Square. This is the multimedia stunt de jour; a marketing team gained virility (that's the term for when your video goes viral, right?) when they performed a hoax with th ... More >>

Photos: The Village Voice/Frank 151 SXSW Party, Starring Wild Flag, Wu-Tang, Erykah Badu, Donald Glover, Yelawolf, and More

Wu-Tang, who else? All photos by Nate "Igor" Smith​The Wu-Tang/Wild Flag encore of champions never quite went off the way we hoped it would, but Donald Glover's rapping alter-ego Childish Gambino did make a cameo appearance, Yelawolf took off his shirt, and fireworks shot off down the block, w ... More >>

Top 10 Guitar Hero Tracks To Commemorate The Series' Untimely Death

No thanks​As announced yesterday, Activision is pulling the plug on their Guitar Hero franchise, signaling the end of the iconic plastic-guitar video-game series, which began in 2005 and has since offered six main games and countless expansions. To celebrate this weird, wonderful be-your-own-r ... More >>

Draft the Walkmen High

The finest drunk-sounding American rock band around perseveres, buzzless

Holy Crap! Zac Posen's 24-hr Shopping Extravaganza With Maggie Gyllenhaal and Parker Posey

Angela Ashman​ "It's a dream!" Zac Posen excitedly said about his new Target line launch party last night, which kicked off the 24-hour shopping event -- going on until 11 p.m. tonight -- at a pop-up store in the New Yorker building. And indeed it did feel like a dream as we -- Voice fashion ... More >>

Love, Angst, and Robert Pattinson In Remember Me

The People vs. Vampire Weekend

How a band so polite and so rapturous inspired that much hatred

CMJ: Japanese Motors and Friendly Fires at Pianos, In Broad Daylight

Elizabeth Peyton Would Like to Show You Some Lifestyle

'Live Forever''s glamour clamor

Department of Eagles' In Ear Park: One Local Record To Be Excited About That's Not Dear Science

Hugs and Kisses 52: Mick Turner

Punch Brothers' Punch

Bluegrass suites, with a touch of emo

Live: Vampire Weekend, Not Sucking

The 'Grass Grows Greener on the LES

Bluegrass jams take hold in Manhattan, amateur pickers both invited and encouraged

No Context: White Williams at the Mercury Lounge

Letters

Bring on the Backlash

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

Live Music in New York is Crap

Famous

NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards

Animalize

Talking with John Mikl Thor, rock gladiator

Mofos Unite

Records, blowjobs, and blackouts: The filthy bash turns five

Identity Crisis

Three American Idol alumni follow up the process in their own, vaguely individual ways

Scaring the Sharks

Agile ingenue and extraterrestrial outsider experience life

Music

Rockin' Van Dyk

The French Inhale

It's Over

Brain Damaged

Page (Sic)

Yankees Go Home

The Bombers' Current Run Officially Ends

NY Mirror

Celebs Take Manhattan

Blige: Queen of Street Couture

Slim Swanee

The Sunset Chronicles

50 Ways to Leave Your Decade

Fourth Annual Real-Life Consumer Guide

La Lutte Continue

Looking for a Mindset at CMJ’s Special Apocalypse Edition