Blog: The Village Voice: Sound of the City

"Below is a video we made to celebrate and get pumped up!" says Jelly NYC. Ok. Hey, internet people who think confronting nature in Williamsburg means getting drunk outside, there is another se... Continue reading "More Free Outdoor Shows: Jelly NYC Is Also Throwing Six Saturday Line-Ups in Williamsburg" >

Well, let's not say "reuniting." Writes drummer-turned-Del Posto pastry chef Brooks Headley: "It's not a reunion! It's a money losing labor of love!" Of all the bands from the first great Americ... Continue reading "Legendary Hardcore Band Universal Order of Armageddon Are Reuniting, Will Play Death By Audio on July 25" >

In this week's Village Voice, we get ready for Siren Festival by talking to Ted Leo about the rumors of his impending retirement (not true!), while Rob Harvilla attempts to sort through former Si... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: M.I.A., Ted Leo, Marissa Paternoster, Early Indie Reissues, and More" >

Squeeze/Cheap Trick Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, July 13 It's old-timer's power-pop night here at Radio City, where success is measured entirely by when and how often the crowd deigns to st... Continue reading "Live: Squeeze And Cheap Trick Revel In Their Ridiculousness At Radio City Music Hall" >

Welp. Can't say Maya doesn't go for it here -- pretty sure that's Suicide's Martin Rev himself bashing the keyboards while an army of M.I.A. lookalikes pout and preen through the most atonal and... Continue reading "Video: M.I.A. And Her Clone Army Do "Born Free" On Letterman" >

Let the Spinal Tap jokes begin: the Vivian Girls seem to have shed another drummer, their second after O.G. skinslady Frankie Rose. It was a couple summers ago that Rose split; since then, the b... Continue reading "Vivian Girls Part Ways With Their Second Drummer" >

The Tunnel, as you'll recall (?), was a famously wild Manhattan nightclub that played host to raucous, dangerous, and thus permanently legendary Sunday-night hip-hop parties, hosted primarily by t... Continue reading "Please Enjoy Complex.com's List Of The 75 Greatest Tunnel Bangers Of All Time" >

Iron Maiden Monday, July 12 Madison Square Garden There is, still to this day, an Iron Maiden dress code. It consists of denim. A black T-shirt with the band's logo in that inimitable Metal L... Continue reading "Live: Iron Maiden Murders Madison Square Garden " >

We're on record as feeling a bit grouchy about the way a magical, one-time-only Brooklyn evening got turned into a franchise by Japan's Boredoms. Once, 77BOADRUM--77 drummers on 07/07/07, playin... Continue reading "The Boredoms' 2007 77BOADRUM Performance at Brooklyn Bridge Park To Be Memorialized on DVD" >

After having their van and the $40,000 worth of equipment it contained stolen in Greenpoint last Thursday night, and subsequently writing a Double Rainbow-inspired series of verses by way of thank... Continue reading "Phosphorescent Are the Luckiest Band in All Of Brooklyn: Stolen Van, Equipment Recovered By Police" >

By all rights Tuli Kupferberg, who died Monday at age 86 after suffering two strokes last year, probably should have died decades ago. A poet, anarchist, pacifist, author, and co-founder of the ... Continue reading "Tuli Kupferberg, 1923-2010: The Fine Art Of Whittling It All Away To Nothing" >

Not from this show, no, but it is called "George Clinton humps an alien" George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic/The Ohio Players Wingate Field Monday, July 12 "Yes, it's me," croaks George C... Continue reading "Live: George Clinton Rasps His Way Through Another P-Funk Spectacular At Wingate Field" >

Last year, actress-comedian-writer-musici an Charlyne Yi won a screenwriting award at Sundance for the film Paper Heart, in which she plays a character named Charlyne Yi who sets out to make a d... Continue reading "Comedian Charlyne Yi Talks About Getting Booed, Shaving Her Head, and Her 'Pretentious' Poetry" >

Yes, fuzz-country sweethearts Phosphorescent lost $40,000 in gear when their van was stolen in Greenpoint last week, but in the end this tragedy has paradoxically only strengthened their faith in ... Continue reading "Phosphorescent Haven't Found Their Stolen Equipment Yet, But Are Very Grateful/Spiritually Reawakened Anyway" >

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass play homemade Frankenstein instruments that make beautiful and wild sproingi... Continue reading "Download: Buke & Gass, "Medulla Oblongata"" >

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And like that, r&b's first couple has split. Photos surfaced today of songwriter and love king Terius Nash, a/k/a The-Dream, frolicking in the ocean with a women who is not his wife. Said wife, ra... Continue reading "Saying Goodbye to The-Dream and Christina Milian's Love, via Twitter" >

The line-up announcement for this season's slew of Jelly NYC Pool Parties wasn't quite as mercilessly drawn out as Big Boi's solo record, but it certainly felt that way. Then, after breathles... Continue reading "Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party Kick-Off 2010" >

Not that there's not other things to talk about (The-Dream!), but we figure this is essential to your Saturday plan of attack. I might suggest that if SOTC were in charge Ted Leo would be both h... Continue reading "Here's Your Siren Festival 2010 Hourly Schedule" >

Big week around these parts. Not only does this Saturday, July 17 mark the tenth anniversary edition of Siren Festival, but in the lead-up to the big day, we're just announcing a fairly amazin... Continue reading "Free Siren Pre-Party This Thursday With Monotonix, BRAHMS, and Finger on the Pulse DJs" >

Let's just say that the Perpetual Misery of Cleveland has been in the news again lately, and acknowledge that no one was better at a) articulating it and b) rising above it than Harvey Pekar. ... Continue reading "Harvey Pekar, R.I.P." >