AltWeeklies Wire
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
Use Your Illusion Zeronew
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Guns N' Roses' two-disc opus by editing it down to one disc.
The Village Voice |
Maura Johnston |
09-19-2011 |
Reviews
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
Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Musicnew
Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even vagina (no judgments), but did you know that she's also a music nerd?
The Village Voice |
Jamie Peck |
03-31-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sasha Grey
Music Critic of the Year: @Discographiesnew
A puckering wit and more than 20,000 followers - those are the only facts we know about the Twitter account @Discographies, where the author summarizes the entire catalogue of a renowned singer or band in 140 characters or fewer.
The Village Voice |
Rob Tannenbaum |
12-28-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Twitter, Discographies
Why You Can't Hate Kanye Westnew
And love his new record, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, at the same time.
The Village Voice |
Zach Baron |
11-22-2010 |
Reviews
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
Unearthing a Trove of Classic NYC Salsa and Latin Soulnew
West Side Latino Records' mid-'60s-and-beyond heyday, encompassing classic salsa, boogaloo, and hard Latin funk, is now obscure to all but the most devoted followers—meaning it's exactly the kind of music Brooklyn-based Wax Poetics was created to document.
The Village Voice |
Ezra Gale |
04-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Queens of Englandnew
Why the British love the Scissor Sisters more than we do.
The Village Voice |
Tricia Romano |
02-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scissor Sisters
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
Pop Geniusnew
A power-pop majesty for the majestically powerless.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Never Hear the End of It, Sloan
The Iron (Duncan) Sheiknew
A soft-rock titan unveils a brilliant exit strategy: Broadway.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
01-11-2007 |
Music
Singles Going Steadynew
The hits of iTunes: Avril, Nelly, and the All-American Rejects.
The Village Voice |
Tom Breihan |
01-11-2007 |
Reviews
