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The following is an adapted excerpt from Duff McKagan's new memoir, How to Be a Man.
I didn't dare bring up the words "SUPER" or "BOWL" during the season, but the moment the clock ticked to 00:00 during the 2014 NFC championship game in Seattle, I ...
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Daveed Diggs of Hamilton
We hold this truth to be self-evident: Busta Rhymes, Guys and Dolls, Nirvana, and the Founding Fathers of the United States of America have one man in common, and that man is a rapper named Daveed Diggs.
Diggs stunned aud...
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Eleanor Friedberger
In the merch booth hung a white T-shirt adorned with bright letters spelling out a collection of cryptic two-word phrases: REAL ONE, LONE EAR, LEAN ROE, descending to a singular name, Eleanor. For fans of the former Fiery Furna...
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Kiesza
In the early weeks of 2014, Kiesa Ellestad left her adopted hometown of New York City for the United Kingdom. Unaware and unsure of when or if she'd return, she was more than a bit apprehensive to leave the city where she says she "found he...
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Alex Story and Doyle
Last night, punk icon Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein and his band ravaged Saint Vitus with a set of songs both new and old for metalheads and punks alike. Beer cans sailed through the air; agitators flailed in an aggressive...
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Lpsley
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
Monday, 5/04
Lpsley
Baby's All Right
8 p.m., $12 - $15
One of the U.K's most hotly tipped acts for 2015, Liverpudlian singer/songwrite...
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Wiz Khalifa on Saturday Night Live
Wiz Khalifa's extracurricular activities -- smoking pot, tweeting from jail, enacting tabloid drama, smoking pot some more -- garner as much, if not more, attention when compared with his music. While Blacc Holly...
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Damon Albarn of Blur reaches out to the crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
What a difference a decade makes.
A decade-plus, really. When last I saw Blur it was the summer of 2003, in what was to be one of their very last American outings of...
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Chaz Bundick, a/k/a Toro y Moi
The final lyrics of the song "What You Want," the opening number off Toro y Moi's recently released fourth studio album, What For?, ask a rhetorical question: "Does anyone know where we go from here?" It's often voic...
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Randy Blythe's "The White Monkey King Destroys the City"
Randy Blythe is most recognized for his escapades with Virginian metal band Lamb of God, but this week reveals another side of the charismatic frontman. His first photography exhibition, ent...
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Toro y Moi
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 5/01
A World in Trance Festival
Roulette Brooklyn
Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m., $30
An ecstatic array of non-elec...
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Andrew W.K.
[Editor's note: Every week, New York City's own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose, or -- no surprise here -- a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com...
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Mark Ronson DJs at Verboten, 4/30/15.
Mark Ronson made a name for himself by championing the voices of others.
At the tail end of 2014, Ronson collaborated with Bruno Mars on "UpTown Funk!," the explosive leadoff single from Ronson's latest albu...
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Spandau Ballet play the Beacon Theatre 5/2/15.
Spandau Ballet percolated up from a bubble and toil of glitter and glam called the Blitz Club, a postpunk haven that thrived in London's Covent Garden in the late Seventies. They weren't the only band...
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Mumford & Sons, from left to right: Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane, and Winston Marshall
In this week's music feature, Mumford and Sons -- Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane, and Winston Marshall -- sat down with the Village Voice in a S...
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Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam at Denver's Pepsi Center, October 2014
Update:
A grassroots effort to bring legendary rockers Pearl Jam to Forest Hills, Queens, has raised over $139,000 via Tilt since November 2014. Inspired by the earlier communal eff...
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Jay-Z (or Ja-Z) performs at Coachella 2014.
Amid backlash and company growing pains, Jay-Z -- or should we say Ja-Z? -- and Tidal have just announced an exclusive concert on May 13 in New York City for subscribers of the streaming service. The v...
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Sophie B. Hawkins
Nineteen ninety-two was a watershed year in music. Nirvana's Nevermind hit No. 1. Frank Zappa played his final public performance. Sinad O'Connor ripped up the pope's pic on Saturday Night Live. Bobby Brown wedded Whitney Housto...
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Lane Moore of It Was Romance does not identify as adorable.
Lane Moore found direction in a fateful, tear-filled bus ride in her then-home of L.A., and it was all thanks to Stevie Nicks.
"This is insane, but she used to talk to me in my head af...
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Celebrate Brooklyn!
Summer in New York is fast approaching (kind of), which means we all want to get outside and make sweet love to the blooming trees and sun-flecked grass as much as humanly possible. There will be plenty of excuses to do so, of ...
