MUSIC ARCHIVES

Live: Still Swooning Over The Backstreet Boys (Well, Most Of Them, Anyway) At Hammerstein Ballroom

August 5, 2024

Testament’s Alex Skolnick Went From Geek to Guitar God

by Linda Leseman

August 5, 2024

Bad Brains: Hardcore of Darkness

“Never mind the Sex Pistols, here come something for the ass. Namely, the Bad Brains. Baddest hardcore band in the land, living or dead”

Originally published: April 27, 1982

Lester Bangs: The Rolling Stones’ Nostradamus

Back in 1980, the brilliant rock critic was already lauding the Stones’ longevity, but even he couldn't have predicted that the band would still be touring in 2024.

April 29, 2024

That Which is Fundamental: Julius Eastman, 1940 – 1990

“The system was rigged against him. It's the same old Scott Joplin/Charlie Parker story, only with a different person. Julius is just another in the line of black geniuses who get squashed in this particular hemisphere.”

Originally published: January 22, 1991

Jethro Tull, 50 Years On. Should We Care?

With Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull on tour in 2023, we turn to an archive piece from their Golden Anniversary jaunt, in which we pointed out that the Voice never much liked the lads from England. Is it time to give the old sod on the park bench a break?

Originally published: September 10, 2018

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Work It Out in the Louvre

The personal becomes the classical.

Originally published: June 20, 2018

Detour on the Road to the American Dream

Attention Hollywood and Broadway producers: Who wants the rights to this story?

June 28, 2022

Punk ’77: A Cult Explodes—and a Movement Is Born

“I haven’t been this excited about rock and roll in at least 10 years. First it was isolated artists, then a vanguard, but now it looks like a movement.”

by Robert Christgau

Originally published: October 24, 1977

The Sweetest Sounds: Dirty Honey are Putting the Roll Back in Rock

“I grew up listening to bands like the Black Crowes, Aerosmith, and the Rolling Stones”

by Brett Callwood

August 12, 2021