Tina Turner

Celine Dion Wins Drag Contest

"Why the long face?" I joked to drag contestant Trannie Oakley at last night's So You Think You Can Drag? at New World Stages, where I was a judge along with author/promoter Justin Luke and Wicked's Kyle Dean Massey. Trannie had just done an astounding number as Celine Dion, capturing her power, gr ... More >>

Lionel Knows Best: 10 Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

By Mike Seely [Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle.] With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation's first black president, it seems fitting to cast a spotlight ... More >>

Fall Guide 2012: Books

Live: Starring Drops Caps, Sparkle Prog At Spy Music Fest

Starring, Dustin Wong & Dan Friel, White Out, PC Worship 285 Kent Saturday, July 7 Better than: Next week's Crimson ProjeKct appearance, perhaps? It may have ended with a dazzle, but this Northern Spy Records-curated night of intriguingly difficult music did not commence auspiciously, at least for ... More >>

Sherry Vine's Favorite Variety Shows Of All Time

Drag star Sherry Vine -- the Elizabeth Taylor of downtown and the Gaga-spoofing YouTube queen -- is hosting a variety show for Here TV called She's Living for This. Well, I'm living for Sherry's favorite variety shows of all-time, and she generously obliged me with them since we both love a high-co ... More >>

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

And The New Miss'd America Is...

Sabel Scities, the Portland-born dazzler who regularly plays at Stonewall and other NYC clubs! Miss'd America is the annual Atlantic City beauty pageant that has become way more enjoyable than tired, old Miss America. (The latter has gals dressed weirdly like hos as they perform classical music an ... More >>

The Best Comebacks In Showbiz History

They were washed up, kaput, as ovah as the macarena! And then they rose up from the ashes of disdain and said, "Ha!' And we applauded like madmen. The best comebacks ever are:

Live: Alabama Shakes Reintroduce Themselves To New York

Benjamin Lozovsky​Alabama Shakes Lakeside Lounge Friday, December 10 Better than: Alabama (the band and the state). The banks of the Mississippi swell and contract in a brutally accelerated pace, not unlike the current cycle of Internet-fueled indie stardom. Channeling the bona fide heart of ... More >>

LOVER & FIGHTER

What would you give up for freedom?

American Idol Elton John Week: Who Knew? Probably A Lot of People! But Not Thia Megia and Her Horrific Zombie Smile!

Michael Becker / FOXJames Durbin makes the piano catch fire for no reason This week is Elton John week on American Idol, and it's the same week Elton John is hosting and playing musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Why so much Elton John all of a goddamned sudden? Did God hear "Rocket Man" on his ... More >>

Q&A: Soul Singer Willie West On Jimi Hendrix, The Meters, Lousy Blaxploitation Flicks, And His Overabundance Of "Stage Gab"

"Like I'm supposed to just stand up there and sing and look mean and play music and not entertain people! I could not do that." Knocking 'em dead in 1966​Back in the '60s, hanging around outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown, Jimi Hendrix took off the pink bandana he was wearing and pres ... More >>

Jomama Jones Returns to the U.S.A.

Or at least to Soho Rep

Maysles Brothers Release 'Gimme Shelter,' One Year After Altamont

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 19, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 47 Scenes By Howard Smith IT WAS A LONG WAY from Woodstock to Altamont. Knowing upfront what happened at Altamont gave a grim undertow to "Gimme Shelter," the Maysles Brothers' documentary about the Ston ... More >>

Live: M.I.A. Encounters (And Conquers!) Further Adversity At Terminal 5

Doing a lot better now, thanks. Pics by Jason Gross, more below.​M.I.A. Terminal 5 Monday, September 27 Better Than: Getting drenched at her last gig. Listen, Maya, if you don't like this review, don't Tweet my cell. You're having a shitty year, but everyone else has, too. Yours is just more ... More >>

Results of Librarian Sex Survey about as Exciting as Librarians Actually Having Sex

Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?​Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>

LL Cool J, satanist: Studies in Crap presents Dancing With Demons

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Dancing With Demons: The Music's Real Master Author: Jeff Godwin Date: 1988 ... More >>

Marianne Faithfull

'Madcap Manhattan' Series at Film Forum

You know you're a NYer when . . . you recognize locations in these movies. Ba da bum.

CHILL OUT

Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

Q&A With Cute Person Justin Tranter

Justin HyteJustin Tranter is a rock star (he's lead singer of the glammy Semi Precious Weapons) AND a jewelry designer (his sexy FETTY line sells at Barneys NY and Barneys COOP). He's ALSO a perfect subject for this widely read blog! So, in between bouts of rubbing sea kelp into my hair, I cornered ... More >>

American Idol Top 8 Results: No Future in Sight for Scott MacIntyre

Frank Micelotta / FOXBye, Scott! When "Year You Were Born" is an Idol episode theme, anything should happen, but last night's predictable mess yielded just one surprise: Simon Cowell's standing ovation for the swishiest contestant in history and new Bill O'Reilly foe, Adam Lambert. So, which boring ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got into Fights!

Live: Tina Turner Celebrates Her 69th Birthday in Newark

Hugs and Kisses 56: Robert Forster, formerly of the Go-Betweens

Donna Summer's Crayons

The (other) queen is back, multi-octave bazooka and all

Madonna's Hard Candy

A half-centenarian provides more porny pop excellence

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Download: Ike Turner, 1931-2007

Wednesday 8/9

Simply Not the Best

River deep, play shallow: Tina tuner keeps on burning

Outward Is Heavenward

Presenting gospel's modern sounds in praise and worship

Music

Do Dew the Crabtown Clam

Baltimore Breakbeat House Trax Are the New Everything

Dance

Theater

Where There's Smoke

The Sunset Chronicles

Sophisticated Biscuit

Guess Who’s Coming to Dharma

Black Women Embrace Western Buddhism

Body Rock

Love Wars Resurrection

The Big Switch

Transsexuals, Without the P.C.

The Memory of All That

Dendy Serves Rum and Cock at the 'Altogether Different Festival'

Widows on the World

NY Mirror

Rock in a Hard Place

Style Slumps at the Met

Shape Shifter

How a Butt-Boosting Silicone Injector Got Busted

Pyramid Scheme

Of Course