‘What passes for “soul” in Roxy Music is premeditated “fun,” which shores up
our most basic needs.’
March 29, 2019
Before singing “Paradise City,” Axl announced, “This is my last gig with Guns N’ Roses”
Originally published October 31, 1989
What if you love art AND baseball? In the Eighties, Voice critic Peter Schjeldahl had the answer.
Originally published October 12, 1982
Said the federal judge to Giuliani: ‘There is in your office a kind of overkill, a kind of overzealousness.’
Originally published October 24, 1989
A new section of the Voice Archives will look at advertising and its discontents
March 26, 2019
“Run-D.M.C.’s myth was like Rocky to everyone else’s Apollo Creed. It had to be a myth; no one could possibly be that square.”
March 26, 2019
“Forty-eight hours in the feeding cycle of New York City. There were Uzis, Public Enemy regrouping, and a clique of blond babes orbiting Axl Rose at the Cat Club. All of this connects. How was your week?”
Originally published August 22, 1989
No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. But what is a man's life worth if he isn't even on it?
Originally published July 5, 1973
"Always dug Run-D.M.C. because they dressed like they weren't ashamed to be identified with the stone B-boys"
Originally published April 9, 1985
Originally published December 12, 1978