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February 3, 2011
Live: Todd Snider Takes Us All For A Beer Run At Joe's Pub
Todd Snider Joe's Pub Wednesday, February 4 Better Than: Any stand-up comedian you could've seen tonight Todd Snider never says "I wrote this song"; it's always "I made this up." Crucial distinction. He takes his craft too seriously to use so formal a word as "write" to describe the genesis ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?
In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Interview: Famed Bob Dylan Violinist Scarlet Rivera On The Chance NYC-Street Meeting That Changed Her Life
"Fortunately, I didn't have too much time to think about it." Scarlet Rivera may well be the most famous post-Band musician to play behind Bob Dylan. Two reasons: a violin that stands out more than, say, even the most stylistic bass or drum set, and one hell of a story. In February 1976, Pe ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Here's Our "Bob Dylan In New York City" Video Series, Complete And Uncut
So we've spent the week revisiting old Greenwich Village Bob Dylan landmarks, thanks to the tireless work of SOTC writer/interviewer Rob Trucks and video guru Jeremy Krinsley; they've dropped by the Gaslight, Jones Street, Cafe Wha?, and the Washington Square Hotel, among various other Dylano ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Week In Review: Bob Dylan Is Waiting In A Van Outside Your House
Photo via Fred W. McDarrah, there from the start.Yes, it was Dylan Week here at SOTC, a veritable orgy of Greenwich Village-scouring videos (with installments covering Cafe Wha?, Jones Street, the Gaslight, and Washington Square Hotel, or just enjoy the whole thing in one shot here), along wi ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Dylan In NYC, Day 4: Haunting The Washington Square Hotel And The 8th Street Bookshop
For the last day of our video series covering New York City's Bob Dylan landmarks (which has already covered places like the Gaslight, Jones Street, and Cafe Wha?), we step away from places where he lived and posed and played, instead curling back to Washington Square to find the place he met ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Dylan's Voice Archive: Nobody Likes Him In His Hometown
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories. Already we've seen a stage-crashing, fruit-throwing Mods vs. Rockers brawl at one of Dylan's early electric shows and a glowing review of the kinder, gentler Blo ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
A Word From Todd Snider: What Would You Say If You Met Bob Dylan?
"i'm hoping if i ever meet bob dylan that i don't end up pinned under a garage door."To continue our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we've asked folk singer/jovial Renaissance Man Todd Snider for his thoughts on Dylan's legacy, and his intimidating ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 3: Revisiting The Gaslight, The Village Gate, And More
Try and guess which famous song Bob wrote at this spot while you enjoy one of the six best margaritas in New York City. Pic by Trucks.All this week we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in Manhattan; with Cafe Wha? and Jones Street behind us, day three of our video tou ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Bob Dylan's New York City: Why It Never Got Better Than 1961
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we're rolling out a host of essays, videos, old Voice clips, and assorted fanfare. Here, professor, author, and critic David Yaffe explains why 1961 was the year Dylan could never forget, and never duplicate. A simpler time ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Bob Dylan In NYC, Day 2: Revisiting Jones Street And 161 West 4th
Tic Tac Toe wasn't there at the time, no. Pic by Trucks.As Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we move now to the second Jeremy Krinsley-helmed video in our week-long celebration. Today's tour stop features 161 West Fourth Street, the site of Dylan's fi ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Dylan's Voice Archives: In Praise Of The Kinder, Gentler Blonde on Blonde
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories. Yesterday we encountered a stage-crashing, fruit-throwing Mods vs. Rockers brawl at one of Dylan's early electric shows; today it's Richard Goldstein's glowing r ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Bob Dylan Arrived In New York City 50 Years Ago Today
Photo by the incomparable Fred W. McDarrah/Getty ImagesBob Dylan's life is short on concrete facts and figures, very much by design, but the experts seem to agree on this one: The man born Robert Zimmerman arrived in NYC on January 24, 1961, exactly a half-century ago. He immediately started ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Bob Dylan In NYC: Revisiting Cafe Wha? And 94 MacDougal
Pic by Trucks.Today marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City: To celebrate, each day this week we'll be taking you to a different landmark integral to the half-century-old Bob-in-NYC story, hosted by the most deadpan voice-over guy in history (that'd be me) and filme ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Dylan's Voice Archives: Mods And Rockers Face Off In An Epic Orgy Of Stage-Crashing And Fruit-Throwing
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories about the man, the latter starting with this piece, first published on September 2, 1965, on the tension between Mods and Rockers at an early show during the divi ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You
You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet
You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>
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February 3, 2009
The Bonnaroo 2009 Lineup's Secret Weapon
If you're real lucky maybe she'll rip off her afro wig mid-song and slam it down on the stage. I myself have never braved the differently hygienic masses at Bonnaroo, Tennessee's annual long-weekend hippie/hipster soiree. But the announcement of this year's lineup -- held June 11-14 in Manchester, ... More >>
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November 7, 2006
Troublemaking Texas Troubadour Loses the Election, Wins the War
If you're real lucky maybe she'll rip off her afro wig mid-song and slam it down on the stage. I myself have never braved the differently hygienic masses at Bonnaroo, Tennessee's annual long-weekend hippie/hipster soiree. But the announcement of this year's lineup -- held June 11-14 in Manchester, ... More >>
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August 8, 2006
Devils We Know
Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops
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October 11, 2005
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Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops
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August 3, 2004
Looking Past Differences
Don't let the young Republicans put you in jail or the restless hipsters scare you away
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February 3, 2004
The Dean's List
Don't let the young Republicans put you in jail or the restless hipsters scare you away
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August 26, 2003
Not Joshing Around
You Mean Rouse, Right? No, I Mean Joplin. Maybe Ritter. But for Damn Sure Not Kelley.

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