Thursday night, the group is planning on playing Violent Femmes in its entirety at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield. But the fact that they're playing off the LP's 30th anniversary isn't the hook; it's simply the fact that they're even playing togeth...
Constantine Maroulis, the American Idol alum turned Broadway leading man, is over the snobbery of today's mainstream-leaning indie rock that's bred in areas like Williamsburg. "That's why I like the decadence of going and hearing great fucking songs ...
See also: Win Tickets to Blink 182's Show at Music Hall of Williamsburg!There the cover sat. Porn star Janine Lindemulder sensually grinning, forcing a blue latex glove on her right hand, enormous boobs exposed in an intricate red bra covered only sl...
The 11.4 square miles of Hernando, Mississippi has seen its fair share of talented musicians, including Jerry Lee Lewis, and guitar pioneer Paul Burlison. In more recent years, though, a younger, but no less prolific musician calls the town home: Dru...
Girls Against Boys For last week's print edition of the Voice, I wrote about the return of NYC's Girls Against Boys--at one time perhaps the "It"-iest of all the '90s alt-rock underground It-bands--who are back after more than a decade of self-im...
"New Jersey is so boring," says the blonde whirlwind known as Karen O, hanging out at home in Manhattan. She's reflecting on why she moved from the Garden State, where she grew up, to New York City a little over a decade ago. "To have something so cl...
Not Blink 182 Blink 182. You know them. You love them. And we'll have a lot more about them and their Wednesday show at Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow and Thursday. But these tickets we're giving away, they were made possible out of the kindn...
of which is below. It's got everything: a toilet paper strewn basement performance, dangerous plastic bag-on-head action, close up shots of guitar necks, yawning, plaid pants, plaid shirts, gratuitous whammying of a whammy bar. Watch it below! See a...
See also: Dissecting the Politically Charged Subtext of Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop" Video Miley Directly Addresses the Camera with Tears in Her Eyes White wall. White nails. White teeth. White skin. Miley positions herself in the eye ...
Fan, My daughter is in a teen band.Ages are 15, 15, 15, 17.They had their first paying gig and we are expecting more.For the gig, a payment by check went to one of the parents who then dispersed the funds.This caused concern about how to report t...
Sometime in the last 20 years --the origin is generally understood to be the 1993 Seattle Mariners--baseball players started to get to choose the music that plays before coming to bat. (Pitchers also get warm-up music on the mound.) This was a welcom...
'Let's say we're DJing at a party and everyone's getting bored, and you need to pick it back up," says musician and teacher Natalie Elizabeth Weiss--a recent fellow with the Brooklyn Philharmonic who has shared a stage with LCD Soundsystem and the D...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Tuesday, 9/10: Kendrick Lamar Williamsburg Park 5:30pm, $35 With Jay Z sacrificing his hyphen to the artistic world and Yeezy pursuing the train of h...
Chances are no one currently knows what Aaron Carter's horny level is. It is a secret the Backstreet-brother and Shaq-conquering crooner keeps heavily guarded. What we do know is that Carter performs Tuesday at Teaneck, NJ's Mexicali Live, and that h...
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...
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