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Vernon Reid

Q&A: Vernon Reid On Artificial Afrika, Playing With Photoshop, And Creating An Afrodelic Experience

Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the leader of the hard rock/metal band Living Colour. Before that, though, he was a fixture on the New York avant-garde scene, blending rock, jazz and noise as a member of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, duetting with Bill Frisell on the albu ... More >>

PLANET ENO

Two tributes to a musical icon

A Mash Note to Fishbone in Everyday Sunshine

Two tributes to a musical icon

Top 10 Must-See Acts At Winter Jazzfest 2011

Vernon Reid, up to something​Without a guide, Winter Jazzfest can make you pretty crazy. On Friday and Saturday night, five venues -- Le Poisson Rouge, Zinc Bar, Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, and the Bitter End -- will feature a total of 68 short sets (new performers take the stage every h ... More >>

The 2011 NYC Winter Jazzfest Announces Dates, Venues, Several Dozen Artists

Robert Glasper, bringing along his continuing Experiment​As we have previously opined, January's annual two-day Winter Jazzfest is one of the season's signature live-music events, packing an ever-expanding number of downtown clubs (five this year) with an ever-expanding cabal of folks inexplic ... More >>

MAKE SOME NOISE

A 12-hour workout for your ears

Living Colour

A 12-hour workout for your ears

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

A Deeper Shade of Shoegaze

Vivid art-rockers Apollo Heights craft 'soul songs for people who hate our music'

Sekou Sundiata, 1948–2007

Vernon Reid remembers the seminal black artist and activist

All in the Family

Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

To Serve and Protect: A Freestyle Series Rumbles On

Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

No Brocolli

Brain-metal only puzzling when it covers axman's noggin

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Brain-metal only puzzling when it covers axman's noggin

License to Ill

Black journalism in the pages of the 'Voice'

Preservation Scuzz

Hey hey punky way: How CBGB and New Orleans increase a skeptic's respect for history

Gypsy Part of Town

Come savor the beaty delights of European multiculturalism, Arabski kjuchek included

Mo' Money

Tsunami benefits and political parties, oh my! Stars shine.

Squirt You

August precedents, timely details, and timeless novelties you will find nowhere else

Band in My Head

How Mojo, Bitches Brew, and Butch Morris inspired a funktional African American family unit

Sometimes Lyrics Suffice

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

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Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

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Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Hail Fellow Well Set

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Supplement

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Blacked Out

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

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Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

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Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

Jam On It

Hippies, Jazzbos, and Beat Junkies Build One Nation Under a Mutant Groove

Born Under a Bad Sign

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

Minstrels All

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

To E or Not to E

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

Flesh and Spirit

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

Yoga to Go

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

The King of Coonology

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

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Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

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Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

The Vibrancy of Rhythm

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

Baby Gets Back

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

Consumer Guide

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

Scores To Settle

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

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Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

Jazz Listings

Compiled by Ginger Adams Otis

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Compiled by Ginger Adams Otis

Out of Time

Compiled by Ginger Adams Otis

Fade to Black

Bewitched, Beloved, and Bewildered

Betwixt and Downtown

Bewitched, Beloved, and Bewildered