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12 O'Clock Track: Lotion, "Rock Chick"
Remember Lotion, Thomas Pynchon's favorite band? Who shoulda, coulda made it, like their 90s contemporaries Archers of Loaf?
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A Refreshing Glass of Haterade
Maura Johnston on the fifth worst song of the decade, which (fair warning) involves the Chipmunks.
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Anatomy of a summer jam
Jazzy Jeff on the perennial popularity of "Summertime"
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, Sep 22, 2010
Asthmatic Kitty's Love/Hate Thing With Amazon
What may be behind the indie label's attempts to steer you away from a three-dollar record.
by Miles Raymer
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, May 12, 2011
Better than a Silver Bullet
A bootleg compilation proves that Bob Seger made his greatest music before he got famous.
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, Jan 20, 2010
Das Brilliant
Das Racist on what it's like being an Internet meme
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, Aug 31, 2006
Fire yr idols
Robert Christgau fired by the Village Voice
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, Apr 25, 2012
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Foxy Shazam and the Accidentally Racist Single
Rock revivalists accidentally revive an icky part of rock's past
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, Feb 22, 2012
Give 'em the finger
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, Nov 10, 2005
On the Records
Two rock writers wade neck-deep into a favorite album.
by Bob Mehr
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, Nov 30, 2006
Pollapalooza
Idolator challenges the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop with a new year-end critics poll.
by Peter Margasak
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, Mar 4, 2010
So Who Listens to Hinder?
How strip clubs prop up shitty postgrunge.
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, Jul 12, 2010
The Stages of Grief: Love King Edition
A social-networking service mourns the marriage of The-Dream and Christina Milian.
by Miles Raymer
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, Feb 5, 2010
Thus Spake Robert Sietsema . . .
Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema weighs in at the Columbia Review of Journalism on the need for pro reviewers.
by Mike Sula
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, Oct 28, 2010
Time Out Shines a Light on the Underground; the Underground Does Not Approve
On the blowing up of spots, aka What Not to Publicize
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'He scoffed and assured me that my paper was nothing like the
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, Dec 31, 2008
Village Voice Jazz Poll
The Village Voice publishes its 2008 jazz poll, and this year I'm part of it.
by Peter Margasak
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, Nov 29, 2006
Village Voice poll moves to IndieWire
Former Village Voice film editor Dennis Lim will continue the paper's annual critics' poll on the Web site IndieWire.
by J.R. Jones
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, Dec 3, 2009
You Know What They Say About Assuming
Critic Stewart Voegtlin takes a wrongheaded swipe at Pelican in the Village Voice.
by Miles Raymer
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