Village Voice | Music

According to legend, last fall, some 30 members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's nominating committee secretly convened deep in the woods with hooded robes and torches, sealing their love for the Rolling Stones with a blood oath. Or, OK, maybe they just got together around a conference table, ...

So South by Southwest is upon us again, whereupon thousands of fledgling bands (and this year, for some reason, Stone Temple Pilots) descend upon Austin, Texas, which, shockingly enough, has enough clubs, parking lots, and seedy back rooms to accommodate them all. Often, it seems like 75 percent ...

The sound that Grand Central Station emits on a national holiday is a curious hush of reverberating air, rather than the usual, manic rush-hour orchestrations. Which means that while seated across from legendary Latin/jazz/funk/disco/No Wave/pop recording engineer Bob Blank at a nearby restaurant...

Long ago, back in '02, when a wee chap would download songs at a painstaking 128 kb/s off Kazaa, there was this band called Liars, who had this song called "Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That," in which seven-foot-tall Aussie frontman Angus Andrew mumbles something about hobbies fi...

If Gorillaz ever took themselves completely seriously, would it spell doom for their infectious virtual-band whimsy whimsy, or make for some iconic, classic postmodernism? Originally just a playful side project for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, the animated quartet captured creative lightning in a bottle ...