Blog: The Village Voice: Sound of the City

Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The i... Continue reading "The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened" >

Yesterday, Twitter's most dangerous man took to to Ustream in order to clear his good name and tell his side of the "bullshit arrest," i.e. when he was stopped by a member of the NYPD last week ... Continue reading "Ice-T On Being Arrested By That "Punk Bitch" Cop: Next Time "Wait Until You Find a Body in My Trunk"" >

Yes, Sunday's frightful weather conspired to scotch the free Cap'n Jazz show at Williamsburg Waterfront, hastily relocating the trailblazing Chicago crew to Brooklyn Bowl and shutting out plenty ... Continue reading "Download: Cap'n Jazz's Full Set Sunday Night At Maxwell's, Courtesy of NYC Taper" >

Unfortunately, there's no "I think I'm Nicki Minaj!" moment here, but everyone's favorite identity thief still acquits himself just fine on "Your Love (Remix)," the latest permutation of Nicki Min... Continue reading "Listen: Rick Ross/Nicki Minaj, "Your Love (Remix)"" >

Rap mogul turned downtown striver Damon Dash may be resurrected in the pages of this week's Voice, in which Ben Detrick chronicles the executive's self-reinvention as a cuddly Warhol figure, but ... Continue reading "Damon Dash's Tribeca Loft Will Be Auctioned Off Tomorrow" >

Wax Poetics reported yesterday that Melvin Bliss, singer of one the most sampled songs of all time, 1973's "Synthetic Substitution," has died. The list of artists who've borrowed from the track... Continue reading "RIP Melvin Bliss, Creator of "Synthetic Substitution"" >

Most American listeners probably know Brazilian singer-songwriter Seu Jorge as the soft-spoken dude singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. ... Continue reading "Q&A: Seu Jorge And His Raucous New Band Update Brazilian Music For 2010" >

Flaming Lips Monday, July 26 Central Park SummerStage Not to gas on at length about the weather here, but holy shit Monday night in Central Park was just gorgeous, idyllic and temperate and absu... Continue reading "Live: The Flaming Lips Bring Their Cannons, Their Crowd-Surfing Bubble, And Their Monkey Impersonations To Central Park" >

So. M.I.A. at Governors Island Saturday night: unpleasant experience. M.I.A. in 2010: a series of unpleasant experiences, many not necessarily her fault, etc. etc. Now comes word that she'll make ... Continue reading "M.I.A. Is Now Threatening To Do A Free Make-Up And/Or Penalty Concert" >

Yesterday was the third week of this summer's eight Jelly NYC Pool Parties, and with Lightning Bolt, No Age, and the return of emo stalwarts Cap'n Jazz, the bill was one of the summer's best ... Continue reading "Photos: Pool Party with Cap'n Jazz, Lightning Bolt, and David Cross" >

M.I.A.'s Saturday performance at HARD NYC did not go well. Like, kind of spectacularly not well. Her headlining set at the festival was the evening's low point, by all accounts; her sound, in pa... Continue reading "Is M.I.A.'s 2010 Cursed?" >

"I'm MIA's protégé: My name is Rye Rye!" yelled the young rapper from Baltimore at the onset of Saturday's Hard Festival. Unfortunately, it's been a long, long, terribly long year for her mentor.... Continue reading "Live: Fortunately, M.I.A. Was Not The Only Performer At Governors Island's Hard Festival" >

Nostalgia was the order of the day in Williamsburg yesterday, as packs of suspiciously old ex-hardcore kids roamed the pastures of Brooklyn to see the iconic '90s indie band Cap'n Jazz reunite a... Continue reading "The French Horn of Sadness Plays For Thee: A Word About All Those People Who Didn't Get Into the Cap'n Jazz Show Yesterday" >

Die Antwoord Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday, July 25 Yo-landi Visser, one-half of the notorious internet phenom South African rap project Die Antwoord, has a thing for spanking her own gold,... Continue reading "Live: Die Antwoord Kick Our Writer In the Head at the Music Hall of Williamsburg" >

Lil B and Das Racist Santos Party House Saturday, July 24 Look, with apologies to Noz, we're not even going to pretend to fully understand the Lil B phenomenon. We like it. We just, while standin... Continue reading ""You Know Who I Feel Like? I Feel Like I'm Motherfucking Mel Gibson!": The Ten Greatest Things Lil B Said Saturday Night at Santos Party House" >

Free Energy/Best Coast/Loose Limbs South Street Seaport Friday, July 23 By Liz Colville Tonight, as with pretty much every outdoor show these days, you had a choice: melt in the sun or drown in... Continue reading "Live: Best Coast And Free Energy Sweat It Out At South Street Seaport" >

Break out the good china, everybody: Our least favorite record-reviewing conceit has returned, wherein very probably apocryphal New Yorker stereotypes say incomprehensibly insipid things about th... Continue reading "New York Magazine's "Jukebox" Feature Returns To Mercilessly Antagonize Us Yet Again" >

Everyone's favorite real-life-gangster-impersonati ng fabulist dropped by late Friday night to do the "I think I'm Big Meech" one with everyone's favorite late-night band: Guitarist Captain Kirk,... Continue reading "Watch Rick Ross And The Roots Do "B.M.F." On Jimmy Fallon" >

In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support ha... Continue reading "Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black" >

According to Drake, anyway. In reality, he seems stuck around the 850,000 mark--close, maybe even inevitably close, but not there yet. Should he finally limp across that line (at the rate he's s... Continue reading "Drake's Thank Me Later Goes Platinum" >