The Velvet Underground

I Was A Teenage Jam Band Scenester: Coming Around On The Ominous Seapods And Other Life Lessons

Through a series of maybe not-so-unfortunate events, I was a teenage jam band scenester, which, when properly italicized and luridly capitalized, sounds like a sordid music-crit version of a '50s exploitation paperback. But the truth is, I wasn't seduced by drugs, sex, or anything else until college ... More >>

Patti Smith (11) Battles Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) For Downtown Supremacy

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. Last time around Patti Smith showed John Zorn who has the power, and Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground got all "Venus In ... More >>

Nas (4) Tangles With The Strokes (13) On A Hectic Thursday For SOTC's March Madness

​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—is a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>

Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) Match Wits With The Magnetic Fields (14) In SOTC's March Madness

​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—is a little jam-packed today. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full, updated bracket is here.) Here ... More >>

Exclusive: Stream Psychic Ills' Drony, Glazed New Album Hazed Dream

​Psychic Ills have been a New York zone-out institution for a few years now; back in 2006, the Voice even named them the best psych-rock band in New York. And while their musical output has certainly remained nothing short of impressive—a 12-inch through Australia's Spring Press imprint, ... More >>

Weapons, Women In Lingerie, And Lots of Theatrics

​No, that's not a night in Ozzy Osbourne's house. It's what the group Roma! serves, aiming for a sort of Velvet Underground version of Queen as interpreted by Fellini, Raymond Chandler, and a 1920s cabaret. They're damned good--and I don't just say that because the lead singer, Kenyon Philli ... More >>

The Black Angels: Reed Scholars

The Black Angels take time off from planning their festival to play ours

Live: Yo La Tengo (and David Byrne! and Glenn Mercer!) Come Together For Japan at Maxwell's

David Byrne and Yo La Tengo care. All photos by Jesse Jarnow.​Yo La Tengo Maxwell's Wednesday, March 23 Better than: Sitting home alone fretting about cataclysmic awfulness. It's been 26 years since Yo La Tengo played every Wednesday at Maxwell's, and a last-minute benefit for Peace Wi ... More >>

'Film Comment Selects': Where Klaus Kinski Dies for Your Sins

Moe Tucker On Her Tea Party Inclinations: "Anyone Who Knows Me Knows That I'm Not A Fool, A Racist, A Nazi"

​So TV-news footage of ex-Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker bemoaning our march toward socialism at a Tea Party rally surfaced online recently, triggering much dismay and "All Tomorrow's Tea Parties" pun warfare. Our good friends at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis tracked Tucker down at ... More >>

'To Save and Project': MOMA's International Orgy of the Newly Preserved

The Very First Consumer Guide: A Plus

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 10, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 39 Consumer Guide I by Robert Christgau Unless you are very rich and very freaky, your relationship to rock is nothing like mine. By profession, I am surfeited with records and live music. Virtually every r ... More >>

Re-Surrender to Jonathan Richman

The troubadour returns to regale you with tales of cell phones, lesbian bars, and smelly ponds

Week in Review: An Extra Side of Arrogance

R.I.P. Jay Reatard. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our American Idol recapper made it all the way to the BBC for calling Victoria Beckham's face "too crazy", we also tossed epithets in the direction of the Times, in solidarity with M.I.A., and toward Esquire, who this week were forced to ... More >>

All-star benefit for proto-Fug Tuli Kupferberg in Brooklyn

​On January 22, St. Ann's Warehouse will be hosting a benefit concert to help pay medical expenses for Tuli Kupferberg, the anti-war poet and all around wiseass who co-founded local heroes the Fugs. Whether because of their political activism (Kupferberg was arrested trying to levitate the P ... More >>

Cruelty-Free Pre-Thanksgiving with Lou Reed, Others at Tavern on the Green

​Planning to tuck into a nice, fat turkey this Thanksgiving? What are you, sick? Turkeys are your animal companions. Repent of your carnivorism in the traditional way -- with celebrities! On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Russell Simmons will host "Celebration FOR The Turkeys" ... More >>

Factory Whirl

The same ingénues, one new soundtrack

News Roundup: Nine Inch Nails, Peter King, Beck, Online Radio

-- After abruptly announcing that Nine Inch Nails's appearance at Bonnaroo last month would be the band's last US show ever, Trent Reznor has decided to let fans down a little slower. NIN will play a series of holy-shit-they're-playing-there club shows later this summer to mark the band's supposed f ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 74: Everett True DJ'd ATP Australia, Neener-Neener

In this week's installment of Hugs and Kisses, Everett True reports back on his DJ set, the one he was fretting over last week. One week less than last week nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia, part two So t ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 72: Quickspace, Stanley Brink, Alcohol-Fueled Snogging

LOU REED'S LYRICS

The Godfather of Punk signs your book

All Tomorrow's Parties: Now In List Form!

The Feelies Live at Battery Park

Mekas's Walden at Anthology

A grand project in preservation

Provincializm #15: Oxford American Music Issue

CMJ: Tee Pee Records Had A Party, 10.18.07

Breihan vs. Harvilla: Does Indie-Rock Need Rhythm?

Wide World of Warhol

Plus: Silence at BAM and Rogosin at Anthology

Hilly Kristal: RIP

Revenge of the Day-Job-Havin' Lifers

Folk Harpy Is Tricked Into Intermittently Amusing Us

Denver Dudes Channel Frank, Nancy, Lou, Bryan, and Siouxsie

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Safety First

Stocked with old favorites, a conservative Cannes proves Newton's Third Law of Motion

PH.Dotcom

What if professors could lecture 24-7? Blog culture invades academia.

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Nature Is a Vacuum

Mature pastoralists explore great outdoors, decide dead noise and emo boys are all right

Robert Quine 1942—2004

A sideman-soloist screaming to be heard, lost in despair

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Reality Czech

Love the Sun, Lasso the Moon

Goblets of Milk

Rocky Mountain Warhol

Crying Gamez

Roots Music Ping Pong

Roots Music Ping Pong

Enter Planet Love

Freedom of Depressed

Rubicon Beach

Sonic Youth in Occupied America