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July 21, 2011
Full Truck America Festival Lineup Announced; /-, Bird Of Youth, And Real Estate Now On The Bill
The Truck America Festival—a three-day fest happening in the middle of September at the Full Moon Resort in kinda-up-there Big Indian, N.Y.—has announced its full slate of performers. Joining the already-confirmed Wye Oak, Hold Steady, and Okkervil River on the bill are a slew of ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Hip-Hop's Top Ten Otis Redding Samples
"Otis" fever is in full effect, thanks to the Otis Redding-sampling song from Jay-Z and Kanye West's much-ballyhooed Watch The Throne project leaking Wednesday night. The track's production, based around a slick chop of Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," might be the most impressive thing a ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Live: Rihanna Can't Stop Touching Herself
Rihanna w/J. Cole Izod Center Thursday, July 21 Better than: Being outside in weather that makes you feel like you're perpetually trapped in the car with hot air blowing on you while you wait "just a few minutes while the engine gets going" for the AC to kick in. A friend of mine recently ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Long, Long Legs Of Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday
A few weeks ago, my colleague Chris Molanphy broke down how "Super Bass," the late-breaking crossover smash from Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, presented a rare example of a hit album taking months to yield a top 10 single after moving major units out of the gate. But at the time, I was patiently ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Tom Aldredge (1928-2011); Consummate Supporting Actor
Tom AldredgeI did not realize the extent to which Tom Aldredge was a hero of mine till the news of his death on Friday, July 22, of lymphoma, at age 83, made me look back on his half century of performances, Off-Broadway and on, which brought me several important realizations: I realize that, des ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Frank Foster, R.I.P.
via Jazz Legacy Films Saxophonist, flautist, composer, arranger and educator Frank Foster died on Tuesday in his Chesapeake, Va., home. Born in Cincinnati on September 21, 1928, Foster's early jazz career was primarily in the Midwest, where he played tenor and soprano saxophone as a studen ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Beavis And Butt-Head Return To A Racier, More Snookified MTV
MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. You may have heard by now that Beavis and Butt-Head are returning to MTV—a real comeback after years of cruel teasing rumors, none of them particularly believable. Mike Judge an ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Michael Greif, Director, and Angela Wendt, Costume Designer, Revisit Rent
Joan MarcusSince 1996, the musical Rent has entered the musical theater pantheon, won a Pulitzer, and been praised, parodied, and panned (when it made its way to the screen). Now, three years after the show closed its Broadway run after 12 years in 2008, a revival is in previews at New World ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Matt Pinfield And 120 Minutes Return To TV; Will The Audience Follow?
MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Back when he was a music-obsessed teenager growing up on Long Island, and long before he started the influential music website Stereogum, Scott Lapatine never missed an episode o ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Live: The 106 & Park Tour Stops At Irving Plaza, Goes On Forever
The 106 & Park Tour: Diggy Simmons, Mindless Behavior, Lil Twist & Tyga Irving Plaza Thursday, July 28 Better than: a night spent without screaming. It's like a horror movie: I can still hear their screams. When I close my eyes, all I hear is screams. BET's 106 & Park is an after-school music vi ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
The Five Best Moments On Yo! MTV Raps
MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Debuting during the golden year of '88, Yo! MTV Raps revolutionized TV coverage of hip-hop music. Of course, hip-hop videos existed long before Yo! launched—Grandmaster Fl ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100
What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Live: People Gather To Watch Jay-Z And Kanye's Throne, See The Stars
The Throne (Watch The Throne listening session) Hayden Planetarium Monday, August 1 Better than: any listening session I've ever been to. Album listening parties have almost always existed as excuses to drink on the record company's dwindling dime, the music itself largely ignored; backgro ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Matt Pinfield, The Believer
The Throne (Watch The Throne listening session) Hayden Planetarium Monday, August 1 Better than: any listening session I've ever been to. Album listening parties have almost always existed as excuses to drink on the record company's dwindling dime, the music itself largely ignored; backgro ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Zach Braff Summers on 43rd with All New People
The Throne (Watch The Throne listening session) Hayden Planetarium Monday, August 1 Better than: any listening session I've ever been to. Album listening parties have almost always existed as excuses to drink on the record company's dwindling dime, the music itself largely ignored; backgro ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
This Month's Dueling East End Music Festivals: How To Tell Them Apart
Take a holiday with Vampire Weekend at the MTK Music Festival. And go shopping! After many stabs at hosting multi-day music festivals on Long Island (Field Day Fest, we knew you when), August 2011, at least for now, brings us two festivals happening on the East End: Escape To New York kicks off tomo ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40
When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
New Yorkers Still Want to See Wicked
WikipediaEven after eight years, Wicked is still popular. (Sorry about that, we just had to.) HopStop calculated the top 10 Broadway shows New Yorkers have been going to see this summer, based on what theaters were most frequently inserted as HopStop destinations or starting addresses between ... More >>
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August 6, 2011
Beyoncé To Play Four Shows At Roseland Later This Month; Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday
Ellen von UnwerthThis morning Beyoncé's people announced that the singer would headline four nights at the Roseland Ballroom later this month—August 14, 16, 18, and 19—for a miniseries entitled "4 Intimate Nights With Beyoncé." During each show she'll apparently perform her stel ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Live: blink-182 Like It Hot And Wet At Jones Beach
Honda Civic Tour: Blink 182/My Chemical Romance w/Alkaline Trio Nikon At Jones Beach Theater Sunday, August 7 Better than: A five percent chance of rain. On the way to Jones Beach last night, leery of the weather that had cut short the final day of Escape To New York some 70 miles east, I checke ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Ten Trends That Watch The Throne Could Kickstart
It's way too early to have a critical judgment on Watch The Throne; didn't you read the rules? But since Kanye West and Jay-Z's colossal collaboration plopped into the raging waters of Internet opinion early Monday morning, I've been watching for ripples. Here are ten new things that Watch Th ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
The Top Ten "Otis" Freestyles
In the run-up to yesterday's release of Watch The Throne, the project's first official single, the Otis Redding-sampling "Otis," was re-done and freestyled over by many a rapper. So to tide you over until the physical version of Watch The Throne (packaged with a bonus CD-ROM containing a vec ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Inside the Bert and Ernie Marriage Campaign
Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie have been living together for 40 years. And now, an online petition demanding that Sesame Street allow Bert and Ernie to wed is circulating. As of this posting it has almost 4,500 signatures. "Let us teach tolerance of those that are different," the petition's d ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?
Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... More >>
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August 13, 2011
Bert and Ernie Have No Sexual Orientation?
That's what the Sesame Street producers swore in their response to the petition asking the two male roommates to get married. Said the officials: "Bert and Ernie are best friends. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?
"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Live: Beyoncé Wants To Make You (And You, And You) Happy
Myrna Suarez Beyoncé Roseland Ballroom Sunday, August 14 Better than: Feeling lousy about yourself. While waiting for Beyoncé to take the stage at Roseland on Sunday night, the audience at Roseland was treated to a video on loop; among its tableaus was a video of Beyoncé, in a convertib ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
My Near Brush With Broadway Immortality
Rent has returned to off-Broadway, as I noted in my review the other day. And that reminds me that in one of the original versions of the show's song "La Vie Boheme"--a bouncy chronicling of the people and things that have inspired bohemian culture--composer Jonathan Larson included my name! ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Why Is Canada's Food Network, Like, Way Better than Ours?
Better than America's?Food Network Canada might sound like a joke -- remember the hubbub over horse meat on Top Chef Canada? -- but its shows might actually be better than the U.S. Food Network's. Why else would we be importing so many of them?
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August 16, 2011
Ne-Yo Fancies Himself A Fantasy Object On His "Motivation" Flip
Singer/songwriter/all-around smoothie Ne-Yo is spinning the success of the very-beneath-him-but-still-huge Pitbull "Give Me Everything" into the release of a mixtape sometime later this month. Last week to give people a taste he released his take on Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Try A Little Tender ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That
Singer/songwriter/all-around smoothie Ne-Yo is spinning the success of the very-beneath-him-but-still-huge Pitbull "Give Me Everything" into the release of a mixtape sometime later this month. Last week to give people a taste he released his take on Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Try A Little Tender ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
After Big Success in L.A., Will "Art in the Streets" Make It Back to New York?
Singer/songwriter/all-around smoothie Ne-Yo is spinning the success of the very-beneath-him-but-still-huge Pitbull "Give Me Everything" into the release of a mixtape sometime later this month. Last week to give people a taste he released his take on Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Try A Little Tender ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Live: Black Moon Bring Enta Da Stage To Southpaw
Black Moon Southpaw Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Funkmaster Flex's 2007 Fourth of July weekend '90s marathon mix. 1993 was a very good year for hip-hop. Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief, Lords of the Underground, and the under-recognized Rumpletilskinz all made their debuts, while Cypress Hil ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"
Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
ROCK WITH YOU
Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Live: Kendrick Lamar Arrives In New York, Takes Over S.O.B.'s
Kendrick Lamar S.O.B.'s Wednesday, August 31 Better than: bringing back that old New York rap. "There are two rules for a Kendrick Lamar show. First rule: everybody put one hand up. Now everybody put two hands up." Those were Kendrick Lamar's instructions as he led us into his third song of the ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Diamond Head
Kendrick Lamar S.O.B.'s Wednesday, August 31 Better than: bringing back that old New York rap. "There are two rules for a Kendrick Lamar show. First rule: everybody put one hand up. Now everybody put two hands up." Those were Kendrick Lamar's instructions as he led us into his third song of the ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Live: Lauryn Hill Gives Her Debut A Makeover At Rock The Bells
Rock The Bells: Ms. Lauryn Hill Governors Island Saturday, September 3 Better than: Lauryn Hill's performance at Rock the Bells last year. Creating a classic album is a double-edged sword. Fans expect its songs to be performed the same way in perpetuity, regardles ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave
Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Live: Electric Zoo Brings PLUR (And Snoop Dogg's DJ Alter Ego) To New York City
The up-and-coming artist known as DJ Snoopadelic. Electric Zoo Randall's Island Sunday, September 4 Better than: Did someone already reference the Labor Day shootings? Eesh. Electric Zoo—the dance music festival that's parts techno, house, trance, disco, bass, "electro," and any other somew ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Fall Arts: The Merce Cunningham Company Dances to an End
The up-and-coming artist known as DJ Snoopadelic. Electric Zoo Randall's Island Sunday, September 4 Better than: Did someone already reference the Labor Day shootings? Eesh. Electric Zoo—the dance music festival that's parts techno, house, trance, disco, bass, "electro," and any other somew ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Q&A;: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003
This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>
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August 24, 2011
'93 TIL INFINITY
This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>
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August 24, 2011
SHOCKWAVE
This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Fall Dance Picks
This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>
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August 24, 2011
WILD ANIMALS
This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>
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September 10, 2011
Sexy Tiger Love Triangle Results in Murder
via WikipediaA three-year-old Malaysian tiger in captivity at the El Paso Zoo killed her mate after she became jealous of his blossoming relationship with another tiger. Reuters has all the steamy details of this crime of feline passion that occurred Thursday afternoon. Seri attacked and kill ... More >>
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September 11, 2011
100 & Single: Considering The Album-Chart Class Of 9/11, 10 Years Later
A king of hip-hop, retaking the penthouse of the album chart with his latest blockbuster. A middle-of-the-road rock band, reviving a turn-of-the-'90s "alternative" sound that's now squarely mainstream. A sexagenarian legend who debuted in the '60s and who still captures Boomers' hearts and ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Live: Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, And The Academy Is... Sweat It Out At Terminal 5
Cobra Starship w/ Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., Versa Emerge and A Rocket To The Moon Terminal 5 Friday, September 9 Better than: Facing the Fashion Week crowds. Fueled By Ramen—the label that brought its particular brand of emo to the MTV mainstream in the mid-aughts thanks to the l ... More >>
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