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Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

Hollywood Zion: 'Do the Reggae' at BAM

Five days of reggae royalty, mixing it up on-screen

Cast In Concrete #5: Taking In Bluegrass While Sitting On Prospect Park's Grass

Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records New York City's street musicians. If you'll be busking nearby soon and would like to appear in a future installment, please let him know. Who: Five dudes and one woman who do not have an official name When: July 2, 9 p.m. Where: Prospect Park, Grea ... More >>

The Burning Fleshtival: A Noise Fest With A "Longstanding Tradition Of Germ Transmission"

This weekend, Far Rockaway collective Red Light District will host the experimental/noise fest Burning Fleshtival in their home. The fest, now in its fourth year, will have more than 20 live performances, sets from eight DJs, and a few "special surprises." Among these acts, on Friday, Shams (Jonath ... More >>

Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel

A Very Occupy Wall Street Halloween

WarmSleepyOccupy BRAINS!​On Halloween, Occupy Wall Street got scary. That's certainly been the consensus of the Zuccotti Park press corps, which is more or less universally reporting a dark new trend to the occupation: the park's growing population of the drunk, the violent, and the mentally ... More >>

R.E.M.'s Reckoning

The band closes the book on their legacy

Q&A: Swans' Michael Gira On "Invoking The Demon Spirit" Of Lady Gaga And Letting His Daughter Sing On A Song Called "You Fucking People Make Me Sick"

Owen Swenson​ Swans are an NYC institution that should justly get handed the same props and congratulatory pats on the proverbial back Sonic Youth has collected in perpetuity. Michael Gira, the ringleader of Swans, Angels of Light, and Young God Records, has trudged along in the city's ever-ch ... More >>

Alex Benepe, Quidditch Commissioner, On the Upcoming Quidditch World Cup

​Alex Benepe is not a wizard, but the 25 year-old is nonetheless the first ever Commissioner of Quidditch and the founder of the International Quidditch Association. The Muggle version of Quidditch is an adaptation of the game played in the Harry Potter novels where players fly around on broom ... More >>

Another "Sex is Over" Trend Piece Rears Its Ugly Head

Samantha can't believe this nonsense. ​Again, this is happening. The "Sex is Over" trend piece is back in a new incarnation, and it still sucks. To recap: first we had the Observer, then that mind gem from Meg Wolitzer, and now another Times piece, this time by Erica Jong. "Is Sex Passé?" Jon ... More >>

"Live": Turntable.fm Goes From Zero To Woodstock '99 At #VIPFest

​ Hipster Runoff, Gorilla vs. Bear, Diplo Turntable.fm Monday, June 27 Better than: Listening to your friends DJ on turntable.fm. Turntable.fm is a newish "social DJing" site that basically brings the chat-room concept to the world of online radio stations. DJs can congregate in rooms and ad ... More >>

Michael Cirino Wanted to Butcher Himself Out of A Whole Steer for Meatopia

Mike Cirino, culinary madman. ​You might have heard of Michael Cirino, the culinary mastermind behind A Razor, A Shiny Knife, after his infamous L train luncheon landed on the pages of the New York Times. Now he's trying something equally as crazy: cooking an entire steer whole for the upcomin ... More >>

HEART AND SOUL

Local boy Mos Def plays for his community

Fleisher's Gets the Hollywood Treatment

kingstonnycalendar.orgJessica and Joshua Applestone at the New Amsterdam Market​Fleisher's, the upstate butcher beloved by sustainable-meat freaks, New Amsterdam Market loyalists, and Julie Powell, will soon be spreading its gospel to an even larger paying audience: according to the shop's la ... More >>

Best Films of 1970!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 3 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris The time has not only come, it is probably long past, to survey the moviegoing year of 1970 (itself either the last year of the '60s or the first year of the '70s), to p ... More >>

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 >>

Jimi Hendrix Finishes His Electric Lady Studio on 8th Street

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 25, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 26 Scenes By Howard Smith WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio was first announced, costs were cheerfully estimated at $350,000 to convert the old square dance premises of the Village ... More >>

Week in Review: A Safe Atmosphere

Those flower pots aren't going to replace themselves. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that 25,000 people converged on a South Street Seaport venue meant for only about 10,000, were denied a free Drake concert, and promptly began rioting, we dodged metal chairs, watched as Police Commission ... More >>

Live: Norah Jones Survives A Downpour, Inaugurates Celebrate Brooklyn! 2010 At Prospect Park

She's up there somewhere. Pic from @cvbryant​Norah Jones Prospect Park Bandshell Wednesday, June 9 "Let's go get wet!" announces Norah Jones, accepting some sort of award during the mercifully be-tented Celebrate Brooklyn! pre-show gala minutes before taking the Prospect Park Bandshell stage ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 2: Artists Against AIDS Worldwide, "What's Goin' On (Fred Durst's Reality Check Mix)"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Super lame songs by charity "supergroups" have been the most expensive form of self-parody ever since Bob Geldof scribbled the word "Do" in "Do They Know It's Christmas." Since its mid-'80s "We Are The World... A ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 12: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. OK, we all agree that Phil Collins is for wussies--but there's got to be some middle ground, right?

RED CARPET REUNION

Pass the cranberries and the fiddle

Gay Panic on The Set of Taking Woodstock

​ Poor Ang Lee. First his Brokeback Mountain didn't win Best Picture, apparently because some voters were too repulsed by the cornholing theme to even stick the DVD in the machine. But at least that was behind closed doors. Now gay panic has made it onto the major networks with Demetri Martin- ... More >>

Weiner Continues Senior Town Halls; Accused of Communism, Delaying Lunch

Anthony Weiner is no longer getting away with short-notice, low-impact health care town halls. He went to a senior center in Midwood yesterday and, per the Daily News, got an earful of finely aged rage. "I came to eat and I came to eat on time," one retiree said. "They are having chicken marsala tod ... More >>

Week in Review: Costumes Are Relatively Minimal But There Is No Nudity Involved

This kind of behavior is really unacceptable. APW photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week a shiny pair of crispy white shoes ventured out to New Jersey and All Points West, never to return, we joined the rest of the rainsoaked masses in saluting the Beastie Boys, who weren't there, though they di ... More >>

Is Janet The Most Annoying Jackson?

Plus Nancy Giles plays with her hair. And acid redux: Elliot Tiber and Demetri Martin talk about Taking Woodstock.

All Points West Friday: No Sleep Till Jay-Z

For maximum poetic impact at the otherwise sodden, mudsoaked trench-fight of All Points West 2009's first night, let's go straightaway to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose luck it was to climb onstage at the precise moment the sun fought back, through the clouds, and then commenced immediately to set. Th ... More >>

Under the Toque: Keller to Set Up Shop on the West Side; Chefs on Drugs

Thomas Keller is rumored to be opening a new restaurant on the West Side. One of the new high-rise buildings in Chelsea is the alleged location for the Per Se chef-owner's new venture, which is expected sometime in the fall. [The Feedbag] The latest in the Mr. Chow saga comes from his attorney, Ala ... More >>

"A Willie Nelson 4th of July" at Anthology

If you hate Willie Nelson, you hate America. Happy 4th!

Oldtimer Recalls Prospect Park Zoo, 1965

Vetiver's Thing of the Past

Young folkies get back to their roots, mercifully

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Dan Flavin: Light White, Light Heat

A breakthrough 1964 solo show, recreated

Gimme "Indie" Rock

Another payola settlement promises us better, braver radio. Let's not get too excited just yet.

The Rage Against the Machine Reunion: Some Historical Perspective

The Death and Possible Rebirth of Alt-Rock Radio

Body English

Golden guitarist burns tunefully to the center of his own groove

Music

It's a Small World: Farrell's Man-Child Cut Down to Size

NY Mirror

Healing Science

Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

Music

Everyone Hates Miss Popular

Alien

Stinkonia

The Atrocity Exhibit

They Came From Within

Target Practice

The Low (Cost) Road to Fashion

Music

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Girls Interrupted