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Return of the Ruckusnew
Still unhinged after more than an ol' dirty dozen years, the Wu-Tang Clan stage a Shaolin family reunion.
The Village Voice |
Tom Breihan |
02-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Wu-Tang Clan
Listening in Real Timenew
This year's Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll pits eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
02-01-2006 |
Music
Looking for Blind Joe Deathnew
Earthly appetites: The brilliant and curious career of steel-string demigod John Fahey.
The Village Voice |
Andy Beta |
02-01-2006 |
Music
Tags: John Fahey
Three Times a Crybabynew
Adams mines American Beauty and Workingman's Dead respectably, but his attempts at early-'70s Neil Young piano ballads come off as tear-stained love letters to himself.
The Village Voice |
Michael Hoinski |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ryan Adams, 29
Hot-Towel Heavennew
An American Idol champ takes exurban road out with map and Bible.
The Village Voice |
Edd Hurt |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts
Slim Constraintsnew
Slim Shady's best-of set lets the mass market work in his favor.
The Village Voice |
Werner Trieschmann |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eminem, Curtain Call -- The Hits
Hot Little Weirdonew
The spunky, brainy Colombian sexpot rides her bicycle down the cobblestone street of your mind.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
01-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shakira
Not Giants in Those Daysnew
A video disc and a big pile of reissues make the case for a '70s prog cult band who were never pompous.
The Village Voice |
Barry Walters |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gentle Giant, Giant For A Day
Dazed and Confuzednew
Jim James's alienated roots maneuvers murmur mistily at the world beyond the Bonnarooskis.
The Village Voice |
Jon Dolan |
01-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: My Morning Jacket, Z
Meet the Transparentsnew
Russian lesbians get surly while burlesquers keep giving.
The Village Voice |
Allison Stewart |
01-11-2006 |
Reviews
Cat's Cradlenew
Bloat-rockers catch suburbia with born-again yarn tricks at December show in New York.
The Village Voice |
Nick Sylvester |
01-04-2006 |
Concerts
Hanukkah Outrocks Christmasnew
This year's Hanukkah could beat out the Christmas competition in New York, thanks to a burgeoning wave of musicians recording and performing individual takes on Jewish identity.
The Village Voice |
Elena Oumano |
12-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Master and Sacramentnew
In Tribeca, the greatest bluesman standing teases, withholds, and then whams his differentiations all the way home.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
12-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Riff Raff Kills Whitienew
Writer Riff Raff interviews two founders of Kill Whitie about their dance parties devoted to killing the whiteness inside.
The Village Voice |
Nick Sylvester |
09-09-2005 |
Concerts
Music Stores Mad at Starbucksnew
Starbucks has a six-week exclusive right to carry an acoustic version of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. The deal has angered members of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores.
The Village Voice |
Andy Gensler |
06-01-2005 |
Music
