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Whitney Houston, R.I.P.new
Whitney Houston, the big-voiced belter who dominated radio in the 1980s and '90s and whose cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Hot 100, passed away tonight at the Beverly Hilton.
The Village Voice |
Maura Johnston |
02-11-2012 |
Music
Beyonce, Nicki, and Merrill Get Optimisticnew
Finding the bright side of 2011.
The Village Voice |
Maura Johnston |
01-17-2012 |
Music
Amy Winehouse, R.I.P.new
Many in the online peanut gallery are saying that the death of Amy Winehouse was "inevitable"—that the gamut of her gossip-page-worthy problems was going to result in sadness no matter what. It is hard, as someone who has watched the music news cycle up close for the past few years, to think that she hadn't already had enough tragedy befall her, to wonder if this particular closing chapter wasn't preventable somehow by not rushing her back to the stage when she clearly wasn't ready, or if the point-and-gawk cycle was just too powerful.
The Village Voice |
Maura Johnston |
07-23-2011 |
Music
Tags: Amy Winehouse
Remembering The Best Record Store In Underground Hip-Hop Historynew
Fat Beats closed its New York branch on Saturday, Sept. 4th. For fans and underground artists, the demise of the store that dubbed itself "the last stop for hip-hop" feels like the loss of the music's spiritual home.
The Village Voice |
Phillip Mlynar |
09-08-2010 |
Music
Tags: Fat Beats, Gang Starr
Every Molly Has an Emo Albumnew
On the brash, brilliant, and thoroughly vexing Say Anything.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
01-25-2007 |
Music
The Backlash Variationsnew
On the endlessly repeating freeze/thaw cycle of the Cold War Kids.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
01-18-2007 |
Music
The Iron (Duncan) Sheiknew
A soft-rock titan unveils a brilliant exit strategy: Broadway.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
01-11-2007 |
Music
Flow Chartsnew
Akon's singer-who-awkwardly-raps routine was stolen and perfected by the ladies he covets.
The Village Voice |
Makkada B. Selah |
01-02-2007 |
Music
Beelzebabsnew
We take a harrowing look at Satanic motifs in the canon of Barbra Streisand.
The Village Voice |
Nate Cavalieri |
10-04-2006 |
Music
Not Your Average Losernew
We take a walk on the wild side with American Idol runner-up Constantine Maroulis.
The Village Voice |
Angela Ashman |
10-04-2006 |
Music
Out of Step, Out of Timenew
Black Flag, white guilt, and blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory documentary American Hardcore.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
09-27-2006 |
Music
Downer at the Rock 'n' Roll Clubnew
As CBGB takes its victory laps, a lifer reminisces about the death of an era.
The Village Voice |
Lenny Kaye |
09-13-2006 |
Music
Start Making Sensenew
We examine the beauty but hollow humanity of micromanaged Mac rock.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
08-30-2006 |
Music
Regress-to-the-Mean Girlsnew
The Pipettes give feminism, 60s pop, and foxy librarians a bad name.
The Village Voice |
Chris Ott |
08-23-2006 |
Music
Get Busy Livingnew
The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
08-23-2006 |
Music
