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...
Let's be honest: summer isn't funny. Relaxation? Happy folks on beaches? Beautiful people in swimwear, flaunting their lack of body shame? Urgh. Thank God it's officially over and New York comedy fans can get back to what they do best: laughing at hu...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 9/2: Fool's Gold Day Off NY Williamsburg Park 2pm, free with RSVP Captured Tracks isn't the only Brooklyn-based record label capitalizing on ...
Soda bans, smoking bans, fast-food shaming--having a guilt-free good time in New York City has been as difficult as finding a french fry cooked in trans fat. But with Mayor Bloomberg's nanny state on its way out, it's time to put down that gluten-f...
[UPDATE: Today's Electric Zoo has been canceled after two reportedly die of drug overdose.] Two questions, ladies. 1) Do you have an ass? 2) Can you twerk so hard you could churn butter with it? If you're a YES on both, Diplo needs your help. This...
Orrin Evans These are the best jazz shows in NYC in September. Orrin Evans Pianist Orrin Evans of Philadelphia recently co-founded the artist collective Likemind, and for six nights at Jazz Standard (Sept. 3-8) he'll give a good idea of its bre...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 8/30: Bat for Lashes + Barbarian Webster Hall 8pm, $30 A few days before Natasha Khan, the woman behind Bat for Lashes' temperamental and ...
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