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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Broken Social Scene will headline this year's Siren Festival, the Village Voice-sponsored free sweatfest on Coney Island scheduled for July 19. Other bands on the bill: Beach House, Film School, and Annuals (remember them?). Bonus frequent-flyer points go to Times New Viking, who will play Siren on Saturday then fly out to Chicago for a performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival the next day. Full lineup after the jump.

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counterpoint

A Love That Shall Never Wayne

Lil Wayne will release The Carter III on May 13. Maybe. After all, the guy has spent the last two and a half years doing everything but making actual studio albums: seven or eight mixtapes, dozens of guest appearances, several arrests, and more hype than the"Loungin'" video*. Some of this attention has been warranted. The Carter II, his previous studio effort, is a good but not great record, with "Tha Mobb" ranking as one of the decade's finest rap songs and "Shooter" impressively meshing hardcore raps with a crossover sensibility (though Alan Thicke will forever out-class his son). Moreover, Wayne's ascendence benefited heavily from 2005's ignominious distinction as one of the worst years in rap history, with critics so strapped for music to ride for that they actually tried to convince themselves that Paul Wall and Mike Jones were good. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Jeff Weiss
3,405 views, 17 comments

Latest by encyclopediablack: @afriedman: Ah, J-Treds was awesome. Whatever happened to him? Also if people want to talk about wordplay, Breezly Brewin (Juggaknots/Weathermen/Indelible MCs) has to be mentioned. more »

Dan Weiss is a young writer who seems well-meaning and smart enough, but honestly, does he really think DFA associates Hercules and Love Affair's disco track "Blind" is really "a projected summer hit"—maybe in England or New York, and if so he should've said so—much less "a mélange of Primal Scream's 'Swastika Eyes' and Blur's 'Girls and Boys'"? Is this really as far back as Weiss can go with a record so swimming in '70s and '80s sonic signifiers? [Village Voice]

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lady, we've put up with a lot from you, but this needless beer bashing is the final straw

Courtney Love: "ive done LOADS of things with LOADS OF STADIUM ROCKERS"

Like many of us, Courtney Love wonders about certain choices Village Voice Media has made over the last few years. Twelve hours ago she was specifically irate over Voice music editor's Rob Harvilla's recent piece on the Foo Fighters, where Harvilla praised frontman Dave Grohl for his likeability by claiming that "in arena rock, as in politics, we vote for the candidate we'd most enjoy having a beer with" and that Grohl was the arena-rocker in whose company he'd most enjoy popping the top on a tall cold one. Courtney then attacked Harvilla's offhand dismissal of informed voting until her caps lock squealed like someone in Boy George's basement, comparing Harvilla's lede to a "Fox [News, presumably] talking point" and referring to the Foo Fighters as a "mediocre" band. Incensed that the general public perceives arena rockers as beer fans—"Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY."—Courtney went on to list all the things she's done with arena rockers instead of drinking beer, maddeningly teasing us by not including the names of the arena rockers in question. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,823 views, 27 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: You guys realize that probably 90 percent of those things she mentioned she did with Michael Stipe, who's been her BFF for about 12 years or so. In fact, I would guess it was everything except "having sex" and "doing more »

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The "Village Voice" Remembers Amy Winehouse Put Out A Record In The Last 24 Months

Well, that's it. Tag it and bag it. Unless I happen to notice a late-breaking entry from the Burlington Community Times tomorrow while getting my coffee, the publication of the Village Voice's Pazz And Jop poll marks the last of 2007's year-end lists, headed up by LCD Soundsystem (album) and Amy Winehouse (singles). Now let us never speak of either again.

THE GOOD: 2007 is over! Also Feist and Wilco were both kept out of the albums Top 10, plus an honestly surprising, kinda heartening Winehouse-over-Rihanna singles upset, if only by 4 mentions. (And even if No. 2 Rihanna spanked No. 3 "All My Friends" by a whopping 32 mentions.)
THE BAD: As with the Idolator Pop Critics Poll, Peter Bjorn and John earn a Top 10 placing on the singles list despite the evil "Young Folks" first whistling its way into our lives in 2006. Damned twee Swedes.
THE WHAAAA? Radiohead beats M.I.A. to the No. 2 albums spot despite an equal number of points, thanks to four more ballot mentions that break the tie. Not quite fraud at the polls, but clearly the electoral college is not the only voting system that needs reforming.

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9:30 AM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Jess Harvell
890 views, 5 comments

apologies to the half-dozen talented village voice media employees

The (Unannounced) "Worst Village Voice Media Music Writer" Contest Has A Frontrunner

You (hopefully) have better things to do with your day than read the bold and edgy blogs the New Media folks at New TimesVVM have slapped all over their newsweeklies' sites. Of course, when you're gathering material for your day at a music blog, you comb even the least likely corners of the Internet for content. Of course, any Internet that would allow someone like me to pontificate on the music world ten times in a day is inherently dubious, but we stumbled upon a blogger in the VVM chain who is managing to bring shame to the industry itself. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By dangibs
1,212 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: Ugh, shades of Brent DiCresenzo. more »

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(Not) Rock-Critically Correct: "Village Voice" Flunks The Intern's Test

And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct—except this time we've made a few changes to the feature. After the jump, our non-anonymous correspondent critiques the most recent Village Voice music section, where she used to be an intern. More »

2:40 PM on Thu May 31 2007
By idolguest2
2,789 views, 58 comments

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"Village Voice" Blog Writes Even Worse Headlines About Bad Headlines Than We Do

A quick recap: For the past few months (we think), one of the music bloggers over at the Village Voice—a NYC-based publication that specializes in coining zingity-zang catchphrases—has been occasionally dropping the term "assholator" (it's a combination of "asshole" and "idolator," FYI). We generally just ignore it, as it's yet another whiffed attempt to further our meager little war-of-words, and because we ignore the VV music blog anyway. But today's little missive doesn't make any sense: Granted, we specialize in bad headlines—revel in them, in fact—but this one wouldn't make it even on our most desperate days. Here's why: More »

1:46 PM on Fri Apr 20 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,228 views, 9 comments

Latest by Nicolars: Are we supposed to be surprised by the dimwitted sadstresses VV media hires these days? I thought it was a job requirement. more »

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Sadly, The "Voice" Has Left Us Off Their Guest List

As longtime fans of snarly guitar hero Mary Timony, we were planning on seeing her as many times as we could this week, but we only knew about her showcase late Saturday night. So we got even more bummed about our Thursday 15 minutes ago, when we found out that we could have capped our frustrating day with sets by Timony and the always-exhilarating Oxford Collapse. Turns out the two of them were playing a bash for the Village Voice that was both unadvertised and Bravery-free. What, did our invite get lost in the mail? So sad. More »

3:56 AM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By mjohnston
436 views, 1 comment

Latest by MTS: Crap, I thought you knew about this, Maura! Someone told me about the show 2 weeks back. Me = Worst Friend Ever more »

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The "Village Voice" SXSW Line-Up: This Explains A Lot

We knew the Voice's music cred was shriveling, but yikes—the Bravery? Why not just have one of the editorial interns fart into a helmet, and call it a night?

5:15 PM on Wed Mar 14 2007
By Brian Raftery
828 views, 13 comments

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Which Journalist Should Write The Next Glowing Ultragrrrl Profile?

As this week's Village Voice cover story proves, it's hard to find a NYC writer who doesn't have some sort of connection with Ultragrrrl—even if it's just through random nightlife socializing. And since we'd love to read an Ultra piece that takes an outsiders' stance, we asked several high-profile scribes about whether they have enough distance to remain truly objective. Their responses after the click-through. More »

12:58 PM on Wed Mar 14 2007
By Brian Raftery
2,386 views, 20 comments

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Avril Lavigne Prepares To Aim Middle Finger At "Village Voice" Writer

We don't expect New Times NYC the Village Voice to take the antics of Canadian eyeliner fiend Avril Lavigne seriously, but that didn't stop us from being left dumbstruck by Garrett Kamps' review of Lavigne's new single, which reaches crit-dickery levels that we haven't seen in at least a few weeks. The review in full: More »

4:10 PM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By mjohnston
1,280 views, 7 comments

jackin' pop

Roller-Hockeying "Voice" Editor's Attempt At A Verbal Cross-Check Deserves A Penalty

To recap: Yesterday, we were forwarded a splenetic rant purporting to be the lead essay for the Village Voice's forthcoming Pazz & Jop Poll; we figured its hackery and misdirected vitriol made it too over-the-top for it to be legit; then we found some curious Microsoft Word info that made us wonder if it was, lord help us, actually considered for publication. Today, we've received a few tips alleging that the piece did, in fact, come from a source inside the Village Voice Media empire; according to our sources, the essay was penned by VVM bigwig/roller hockey enthusiast Bill Jensen (pictured), then rejected by New York-based editors Rob Harvilla and David Blum, before being sent to us. Who leaked it our way, and whether or not this is just some boneheaded attempt at viral marketing for the VVM poll, is still a mystery; for now, let's all take comfort in the fact that a higher-up at the nation's largest chain of weeklies can't tell the difference between us and our New York-centric, stalk-happy siblings. Way to keep your fingers on that "hyper-local" pulse, guys. More »

1:42 PM on Thu Feb 1 2007
By mjohnston
960 views, 5 comments

Latest by Clarence Rosario: Look, by "gay" I don't mean...you know...gay. I mean, like, "retarded". more »

jackin' pop

"Westword" Wha?: The "Village Voice" Vitriol Mystery Continues

Earlier this evening we opened the Microsoft Word copy of that slam-filled Pazz & Jop essay we received today—we needed a chuckle—and while checking out the "Properties" window, we found a curious attribution under the "Last saved by" field: The username "westword." Westword, for those of you who haven't been keeping tabs on Village Voice Media's ever-expanding empire, is the Denver-based link in the alt-weekly chain; it's enough of a coincidence to make us wonder if we were wrong in dismissing the whole brouhaha as a prank on the new kids. (A few of VVM's editorial higher-ups seem to call Denver their home as well.) Any ideas on who might have leaked this to us, and why, can go to the usual address; for now, we're going to play with the "track changes" function and see what else we can turn up. More »

10:22 PM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By mjohnston
267 views, 4 comments

Latest by brainchild: *yawn* more »

jackin' pop

The "Village Voice" Doesn't Know Jack

A short while ago, a tipster sent us a lengthy screed that's purportedly the opening essay of this year's Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll. It's a defensive, angry little rant that's directed at our own Jackin' Pop poll, and we have no idea if this is real or not. But what the hell. More »

2:22 PM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,673 views, 30 comments

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Hip-Hop Blogger Has A Beef With "Village Voice"

A few days ago, one of our commenters pointed us in the direction of a lengthy post on hip-hop blog DallasPenn.com regarding Village Voice hip-hop writer (and blogger) Tom Breihan. The missive takes specific issues with some of Breihan's writing—that he uses the n-word proxy "ninja" a little too frequently, that he prefers Lil' Wayne over Jay-Z—but it all comes down to whether or not a white guy like Breihan should be writing about hip-hop to begin with. They even label him a "wigster," short for "wigger" + "hipster." And just in case you don't get the point, there's also a minstrel headshot. Subtle! More »

9:50 AM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Brian Raftery
373 views, 35 comments

Latest by DrewRicketts: Black music writer here to concur with StarJones' post. Yeah, that's right, I'm a critical, discerning, East Coast-raised hip hop fan BUT, more importantly, my P.O.V. will hardly get the tread that Breihan's does. Although I do not think it more »

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Someone Actually Impressed By 'Idol' Reject

You're forgiven if you thought for a second that Kip Winger was death-grinning at you from the cover of this week's Village Voice; in fact, that rictus belongs to American Idol cast-off Constantine Maroulis, who was the inexplicable recipient of a lengthy profile in today's issue. Part BlackBerry ad (nine mentions!), part rewritten bio, Angela Ashman's story takes the idea of the puff piece to hilariously depressing levels. Her surprise at Maroulis' falling from bookers' graces after he sang his last Idol note—what do you mean no one wanted him to model??—should have been a tipoff for the rough waters ahead, but we weren't really prepared for the pie-eyed descriptions of free bottle service and Donny Osmond encounters that followed. There may be an interesting story hidden inside someone's post-Idol career, but this relentlessly straightforward take on Maroulis' C-list lifestyle was enough to make us wish we were reading another Shakespeare-biting takedown. More »

11:27 AM on Wed Oct 4 2006
By mjohnston
1,147 views, 7 comments

Latest by Hott_Riot: Expect a defamation lawsuit any moment from Kip Winger's legal team. more »

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Christgau is X'ed Out By The Voice

As sort-of expected, longtime music critic Robert "The Dean" Christgau was fired today from the Village Voice, supposedly for matters of "taste" (Gawker has the statement). More »

5:18 PM on Thu Aug 31 2006
By Brian Raftery
77 views, Comment