Here Are The Best Spots For Listening to Adele's New Album While Crying in...
One of New York’s most laudable qualities is its access to anonymity. In a city of nearly 8.5 million people, it’s easy to go unnoticed or to never be seen again by someone. (Think about all those...
View ArticleHere's a Look Back at Bob Dylan's Best NYC Concerts
Bob Dylan is a New Yorker. Sure, he may have come here from Minnesota, but just like thousands of transplants before and after him, Bob Dylan used the magic of New York City to transform himself and...
View ArticleNovember's Best Noise Music: Bambi Kino Duo, M.NOMIZED, Ox Hunger
Typically I've used this space to connect the picks for a column to the present season in a general way, but this month, it feels more important to veer in a somewhat different direction. What I am...
View ArticleThese New Yorkers Made The Best Holiday Albums Ever
Few musical genres inspire as much rapid affection and hatred as holiday music. Perhaps it’s because it’s seemingly all we hear on an endless loop whenever we decide to venture out into any sort of...
View ArticleThese 10 NYC Bands Could Totally Play the Star Wars Cantina
“I’ll drop everything.” This, according to J.J. Abrams, was composer, actor and Hamilton-mastermind Lin Manuel Miranda’s initial response when asked to create a new cantina song for Star Wars: The...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Interesting Metal Albums of 2015, Unranked
There are those who say metal offers the broadest musical canvas for experimentation, and there are those who find it limiting. Both camps are correct. On one hand, extreme music can blow any barrier...
View ArticleNetflix and Chill This Christmas With These Streaming Movies for Music Fans
No matter what festivities you celebrate in December, one thing is true: the holidays are exhausting. Once all the gifts have been given, parties attended, feasts cooked and eaten, and quality time...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Most Popular Village Voice Online Music Stories of 2015
The year is quickly coming to a close and we're looking back on the year-in-music. From rap beef to Halloween jams, these are the Village Voice music stories that you couldn't get enough of in 2015....
View ArticleHere Are the 36 Best Noise Tracks of 2015
If you're like me, you're ready for 2015 to bite the dust, give or take a couple movie premieres. It was a rough year in micro and macro senses, one aptly matched by the 36 picks to click (and click...
View ArticleThese Are NYC's Best Live Music Moments of 2015
We came, we saw, we grooved, we gyrated, we moshed, we headbanged, we crowdsurfed, we cried: 2015 is over, and it was exhausting and worth every moment spent singing along at a concert instead of...
View ArticleThese Are the Best Unexpected Covers of Eagles of Death Metal's 'I Love You...
Where do we go from fear? After the attacks on Paris in November 2015 at their Le Bataclan concert, Eagles of Death Metal practiced what they preached and turned to rock ‘n’ roll. In honoring the...
View ArticleDavid Bowie's Best Live Music Moments in NYC
Like thousands of music fans all over the world, David Bowie fell in love with New York because of the Velvet Underground. He would visit the city for the first time in 1971, coming over to do press...
View ArticleHere Are the Best Love Songs Inspired by NYC
Ours is a city that's easy to fall in love with, easy to fall in love in, and easier still to break your heart or nurse it back to health. New York City has proven to be a timeless muse for artists of...
View ArticleFebruary's Best Noise Music: Tattered Syntax, See Through Buildings, Naughty
Photograph of Tattered Syntax by Micaela Tobin. Within most of us, the month of February induces spasms of denial. We want - no, we need - to believe that the worst of winter is over, that the weather...
View ArticleApril's Best Noise Music: Bergegas Mati, Christian Mirande, Theo Nugraha
Sometimes what we want from noise is a total absence of nuance; just get to the point, we beg. Blow the doors off! Detonate the bomb, already! This month’s featured selections lunge for the jugular...
View ArticleUnpacking the Hip-Hop Heritage of HBO's 'The Night Of'
HBO's miniseries The Night Of concludes Sunday evening after eight episodes. The series begins in Jackson Heights, Queens, when a nice college kid named Nasir Khan borrows his father's yellow cab and...
View ArticleDev Hynes Just Keeps Getting Better at Dancing — Here Are the GIFs to Prove It
Ever since he dropped his Lightspeed Champion handle and started making sultry nouveau r&b as Blood Orange, Devonte Hynes has slowly been coming out of his shell. Not necessarily as a musician — by...
View ArticleAn Exhaustive Guide to Rick Ross's Masters of Ceremony
When hip-hop’s premier fabulist Rick Ross brings his Masters of Ceremony show to Barclays Center this weekend, he'll fill the stage with a truly peculiar lineup of more than a dozen of the genre’s...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Protest Songs of 2016
The year began with a prominent lefty website bemoaning the death of protest music; we disagreed, and boy, do we need that stuff now more than ever. Nothing is going to get better if Donald Trump is,...
View ArticleThe Music We Missed in 2016
John Escreet The Unknown (Sunnyside) Even in an era of diverse jazz piano greatness, John Escreet stands apart. His music is a dark, ruminative panorama, a stark contrast to the pointed rhythmic...
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