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In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla sees the sorta resurrected Alice in Chains at Terminal 5, Stephen Deusner on the creative nonfiction of the Drive By Truckers' The Big To-Do, and Phil F... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Alice in Chains, Drive By Truckers, Regina Carter, Greenberg, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Jason Gross on how to fix--or blow up--the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Miles Marshall Lewis plays around with Gorillaz, Andy Beta talks with space-disco-and-beyond-p... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Fixing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gorillaz, Bob Blank, Liars, SXSW Cheat Sheet, and More" >

In the week we answered the question of whether or not it is possible to give a lapdance to the wavy abstract sounds of Animal Collective (it is not), we let Stripper Tweets tell the world what (... Continue reading "Week in Review: Bring It Back" >

In this week's Village Voice, our cover is Baz Dreisinger on reggae's civil war: Why Mavado and Vybz Kartel might be the Biggie and Tupac of Dancehall. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla watches John Mayer s... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Mavado vs. Vybz Kartel, John Mayer, Titus Andronicus, Sam Lipsyte, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla attends BAM's cheerfully random, surreally star-studded tribute to the Plastic Ono Band, Mike Powell listens to all three discs of Joanna Newsom's late... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Yoko Ono, Joanna Newsom, Glenn Branca, Little Boots, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla surrenders again to Jonathan Richman, Aidan Levy profiles New York's hardest working experimental musician, John Zorn, and Rachel Devitt takes on the d... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Jonathan Richman, John Zorn, Tinariwen, Fool's Gold, Shutter Island, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scot... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Yeasayer, Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Hot Chip, Speak Onion, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More" >

So this happened, and then current Voice print star NYCTaper--about whom you can read much, much more here--went ahead and vindicated certain editors over here, recording the entire set and getti... Continue reading "Download the Of Montreal/Solange Knowles Cover of "I Want You Back"" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla spends an enchanted evening with the Latin-pop superstars Aventura at Madison Square Garden, where things get wild indeed. Jesse Jarnow profiles local ... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Aventura, the Magnetic Fields, Patti Smith's Just Kids, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in sing... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Pazz & Jop 2009!" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old h... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla wrestles with Vampire Weekend's vastly ambitious, vastly improved Contra, Ben Westhoff hangs out in MOMA's outdoor sculpture garden with MC Paul Barman,... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Vampire Weekend, Ke$ha, MC Paul Barman, Rosanne Cash, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, we present the fourth annual Village Voice Jazz Poll: Francis Davis on the winners, led by Vijay Iyer's Historicity and Darcy James Argue's victory as best debut, fo... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: The Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Gabriel Orozco, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla stages a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the worst lyrics of the decade. Spoiler: the Black Eyed Peas are very m... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: The 10th Annual Voice Film Critics' Poll, the Decade's Best Theater, Art, Dance, and Books, Harvilla's 'Worst Lyrics of the Decade,' and More" >

It has come to this: a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the most appalling songwriting conceit of the past 10 years. With an assist from various online pals ... Continue reading "The Worst Lyrics of the Decade" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla ventures up to 30 Rock to have lunch with Jawbox on the eve of the D.C. punk band's one-off reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, while Jayson Greene... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Jawbox, Pill, Holiday Music Roundup, Best Books of 2009, Avatar, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla does the thing that probably everybody with a masochistic streak should probably do at least once, which is go to a Phish show at Madison Square Garden,... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Phish, G-Side, Phil Kline, I Slept With Joey Ramone, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, the Year's Best Graphic Novels, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes in for some belated nostalgia with the Pixies and Doolittle, Drew Hinshaw compares sexual pervert artistes R. Kelly and Devendra Banhart, Jason Buh... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: The Pixies, R. Kelly and Devendra Banhart, Victim in Pain at 25, Up In the Air, and More" >

In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, P... Continue reading "This Week's Voice: Rihanna, BlakRoc, Palin's Going Rogue, The Road, the Future of La MaMa, and More" >