Woody Guthrie

Free Will Astrology: May 8-14, 2013

Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Bounces Back

From Totonno's limited roster of toppings, we ordered Italian sausage and garlic. Coney Island's ancient pizza parlor Totonno's reopened recently after a five-month hiatus following Hurricane Sandy, which flooded the premises and did massive damage. Two years ago this month, the venerable pizzeria ... More >>

Jeffrey Lewis

Red Hook Restaurants and Bars Struggle to Reopen After the Storm

On Sunday afternoon, musicians played Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan songs as they walked down Van Brunt Street, stomping their feet and singing. Usually these guys come with their banjos and harmonicas to Sunny's, the beloved, family-owned bar on Red Hook's waterfront, but it's one of the many places ... More >>

Tom Morello

'Woodyfest'

Live: The Songwriters Hall Of Fame Awards Roll Back To The '70s

43rd Annual Songwriters Hall Of Fame Awards Marriott Marquis Thursday, June 14 Better than: Disco roller derby. If you closed your eyes and listened to the parade of songs and familiar voices emanating from the Marriott Marquis' luminary-packed sixth-floor ballroom last night, you might have tho ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Dreams Of A Giant Jam Session May 1

"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>

Pete Seeger (5) And The Rapture (12) Bring SOTC's March Madness Tournament To The People

​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—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>

CALIFORNIA STARS

A talented crew takes on Woody Guthrie

New York's Crackdown on Brooklyn DIY Spaces

Tom Morello Plays Occupy Wall Street

Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street this morning.​Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, made an appearance at Zuccotti Park this morning to play for Occupy Wall Street Protesters. "First they ignored you," Morello told the crowd. "Then you got pepper-spraye ... More >>

The Live

The King's Speech: How Therapy Saved Monarchy

John Biz

Live from Shepard Fairey's "May Day" Opening at Deitch Projects: Fab 5 Freddy, Rick Ross, and a Topless Breastfeeding Lady

all photos by Sam HorineShepard Fairey has a motorcycle posse and it includes Rick Ross. Shepard Fairey's "May Day" show opened this past Saturday. The promotional noise from Deitch Projects' send-off has been near-deafening, amplified by the hubbub around Fairey's rabidly targeted, heavily guarded ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 26: Beastie Boys, "In A World Gone Mad"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Everyone in our generation will never forget where they were when they heard about the greatest tragedy to ever occur on American soil: The Beastie Boys forgot how to rap.

Clip Job: Dylan Meets the Press

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 25, 1965, Vol. X, No. 23Dylan Meets the PressBy J.R. GoddardFour years ago a thin, aquiline-faced boy of 19 got off the subway from Hibbing, Minnesota, to come up for air in the Village, bearing with him no more than a battered guita ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

THIS LAND IS PETE'S LAND

A progressive hero celebrates the 9-0 with a few friends

Crime Un-Stoppers: Times Says DAs Flubbed Mortgage Scams

New York City prosecutors remained asleep at the switch while mortgage rip-off artists took huge bites out of the Big Apple, reports The Times's Michael Powell this morning in a great top-of-the fold read.Almost a decade after HUD declared the city a foreclosure fraud "hot zone" and schemesters bega ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

Reviving Lead Belly

A hefty collection of articles and photos plumps up the legacy of the blues great

Where's Our Depression Party Evite?

Holy Shit: Slash, Perry Farrell, Tom Morello, Les Claypool, Wayne Kramer, Alexi Murdoch Onstage Together @ SXSW

Roughing It

Road worrier Sullivan hits the highway with his family, while McPhee keeps on trucking

History Lessons

Brazil, Beliz, San Antonio, Soho, Mother Africa—all journeys into paradise

Swing Me Back Home

The career-launching music of another kind of '60s counterculturalist

Frank, Black: Film Noir's Hard-Boiled Cool as All-American Art

Aerosmith Guitarist Makes Sure You Flunk the DualDisc Test

Close-Up on Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Workers of the World, Your Spirit Don't Come Cheap

Soho shop sells 'real construction worker jacket'—for only $400!

Boxing Days Are Here Again as the Summer Elbows Throw

The Story Not the Song

Youngish protest Bobs confront reality, pitch in to help Kerry get elected and govern

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Folk the Pain Away

Friends of Kimya and Adam Call Antifolk What They Want

Attack of the Chickenshits

Steve Earle Practices Rock and Roll Leftism for Its Own Sweet Sake

Anchored by Ballads

Peggy Seeger, First Woman of Folk, Returns to New York

Kissing a Mule

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El Fanático

Woody Guthrie's Second Life

Folksinger, Wordslinger, Start Me a Song

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Hat Tricks

Girl Groove

The Right Crowd

Just Folks

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