We're not sure what Lady Gaga really looks like anymore, but we know this collection of fan art doesn't resemble her at all. We swear this lovely nerd (above) was in our graphic design course, not on the VMAs. "Miss Gaga" Digital Art Print by Pollyp...
Don't say we never spoil you. This week we have a comedy show entirely based around Saved By the Bell, a deaf stand-up set relayed through ASL, and the comic cream of England's Cambridge University swinging through town with deeply intellectual dick ...
From the moment singer Aluna Francis stepped on stage in a white, boxing-esque robe with the other half of her electro-R&B; duo George Reid, the pair had already won. In front of a sold out crowd at the Bowery Ballroom, the U.K.'s AlunaGeorge played t...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 9/6: Depeche Mode + Bat for Lashes Barclays Center 7:30pm, $49.50-$129.50 The unlikeliness of Depeche Mode's continuous existence colors t...
Denzel Curry sits on the couch with his friend Raul, who's in the middle of a sketch. Another friend, producer Ronny J, stands by the sink, just watching. A few seconds later, Curry reaches for an Xbox controller and scrolls through Netflix to pick T...
This Saturday, September 7th at the Westchester County Center, comedy legend Bill Cosby will be performing his time-tested classic brand of stand-up. From the stage to the television to on record, The Cos has touched several generations with his many...
In a perfect world, jukeboxes aren't Top 40-spewing robots, those glowing ATM-like contraptions hooked up to an infinite Internet playlist that charges $2 a song and inundates you with too many choices to the point where you're just playing The Outfi...
Neko Case and Kelly Hogan have got stage banter to a stand-up science. "Somebody brought me ice! Who knows I'm in menopause?," said Case's longtime backup singer at a private, pink-lit, sweltering performance of Case's new record, The Worse Things Ge...
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Believe it or not, it's now been 20 years since Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered, changing the way '90s kids saw the world by combining teen drama with dinosaur robots. It also introduced a generation to the ...
Mac Lethal Whether you first saw Mac Lethal serving sucker MCs at Scribble Jam, fiercely and independently touring with his Black Clover Records imprint or rapping while flipping pancakes, chances are some time in the past decade he's entranced an...
This is easy: You're going to click through (what is essentially) a slideshow of drawings of adorable little line characters. You'll look at the pictures and see if you can figure out what famous rap song it represents. Click the hyperlink underneath...
YC The Cynic released his excellent GNK album last week, and now we're proud to premiere the video to the storming "The Heaviest Cross." It's a track the Bronx-based rapper calls "one of the more introspective records on the album," and he describes ...
Some time ago Voice writer David Thorpe learned Jim Beam was putting on a contest which would give fans of Kid Rock the opportunity to be Rock's personal bartender during his slow moving STD delivery system across the states Rebel Soul tour. Thorpe, ...
Where there be drugs, there be songs. The Velvets will rhapsodize their smack, Redman will tell you How to Roll A Blunt... musicians just can't help writing odes to the junk that messes 'em up. But where is the Meth songbook? The charts aren't exactl...
[Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.] Nitty Scott MC is currently building on the buzz of her RapFix Live cipher performance during the VMAs by r...
Look, I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining why I just put the word "twerk" in some of the world's classic works of literature. Like, there's no logical or social commentary here, this isn't about Miley Cyrus, this isn't about education, th...
See also: The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month Dawn of Midi play (le) poisson rouge Tuesday, 9/3.The Brooklyn-based trio--bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani, and percussionist Qasim Naqvi--borrowed the album title from the moon of Eris...
Punderdome 3000 host Jo Firestone Puns: You love them or hate them. Not much middle ground there. But the folks who love the art of the pun love it quite a bit, so much so that there are actually pun competitions all over the world. In fact, Brook...
P.O.S. and Astronautalis are Four Fists Doomtree/Rhymesayers MC P.O.S. and indie-rap favorite Astronautalis have taken their frequent collaborations to the next level by officially becoming a duo by the name of Four Fists. We have the premiere o...
Dear Fan, My band Close To Modern has been together for six years; we are based out of Las Vegas, NV. 2012 was a great year for us. We played shows in L.A., SF and Phoenix, our SXSW set got us a tweet from Carson Daly, and we released our EP in Sept...
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