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				<title>Hunter Hayes - Webster Hall - 6/18/13</title>
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			 Hunter Hayes w/ Ashley Monroe and Striking Matches
Webster Hall
Tuesday, June 18

Better Than: The shows my band was playing when I was his age.

It can be tough playing a two-hour headlining se...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:06 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Nick Murray</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>LIVE REVIEW: Hunter Hayes at Webster Hall</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>The Time LL Cool J Rapped as a Genetically Modified Shark</title>
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			 Thursday night, veteran rhymesmith and mic controller LL Cool J leads the charge of hip-hop's all time greats, including Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul, for a night of rap royalty at Rose...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Chaz Kangas</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>LL Cool J&apos;s Most Bizarre Moments</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>What Artistic Movements Do These Rappers Exemplify? </title>
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			 Stylistically, rap has exploded, and the pieces fall everywhere from the mind-bogglingly complex to the unbelievably simple, from the brazenly dissident to the unapologetically mainstream. Rappe...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Noah Hubbell</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>What Artistic Movements Do These Rappers Exemplify? </featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Rancid Can Do No Wrong: A Guide to Their Bands, Sideprojects, and Collaborations</title>
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			Rancid are an institution. Fervently punk rock roots mixed with songs catchy enough for people who've never seen the inside of a squat, these Californians ain't fuckin' around. But while we take ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Rae Alexandra</author>
			
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				<title>Fashion-Forward (and Courtney Love Approved) Starred are Ready to Explode</title>
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'I'm on the Elliott Smith diet," jokes Liza Thorn. "When he was really strung out toward the end, he only ate ice cream." It's midnight on a Thursday, and both members of Brooklyn-via-Los Angel...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Jamie Peck</author>
			
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				<title>Steve Gunn Added to Our 4Knots Music Festival Lineup</title>
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			 Just last week we ran a feature about Kurt Vile guitarist Steve Gunn's wicked good new solo album, Time Off. We really like it. So much, in fact, we asked Gunn if he would mind playing an early ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:20:23 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Brian McManus</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Steve Gunn Added to Our 4Knots Music Festival Lineup</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Who Said It: Kanye West, Donald Trump, Steve Jobs or Joffrey Baratheon?</title>
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			 Twice last week people the world over stopped what they were doing to quote Kanye West via Twitter. First from his interview with New York Times;  "I am the nucleus," "I just want dopeness," "It...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:15:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Brian McManus</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Who Said It: Kanye, Trump, Jobs or Joffrey?</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Everyone&apos;s Covering &quot;Get Lucky,&quot; Some Better Than Others</title>
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If the world has learned anything at all this summer--besides what's in your online browsing history, thanks NSA!--it's that Random Access Memories by Daft Punk is perfection in a digital bottl...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Jay Stephens</author>
			
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				<title>Yeezus: Innovative or Simply Another Example of the Mainstream Aping the Underground?</title>
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			As you might have noticed, Kanye West's feverishly anticipated Yeezus arrives today. If you're reading this, chances are you were aware that Yeezus leaked last Friday, and maybe you've already be...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Ryan Leas</author>
			
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				<featured_headline><![CDATA[<em>Yeezus</em>: Innovative or Aping the Underground?]]></featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Ask Fan Landers Slug From Atmosphere: How Old Is Too Old to Break Into the Rap Game?</title>
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			Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a public...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Jessica Hopper</author>
			
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				<title>Hanson Brew a Beer Called MmmHops</title>
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			This month, lovers of beer and irony  everywhere have been thoroughly enjoying the fact that everyone's weirdest kid band, Hanson, have not only grown up, come of age and started playing music ag...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:00:29 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Rae Alexandra</author>
			
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				<title>Introducing ZUUS, the Voice&apos;s New Music Video Partner</title>
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			 The Voice is happy to announce our partnership with ZUUS Media. Through the ZUUS widget, you'll be able to watch a playlist of music videos hand-selected for Voice readers. Check it out after th...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:12 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>ZUUS Media</author>
			
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				<title>The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 6/17/13</title>
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			 For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.
			...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Brittany Spanos</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>This Week&apos;s Must-See Concerts</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Chrisette Michele Wants You to Propose to Her on Vine</title>
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			 Newly Brooklyn-based R&B chanteuse Chrisette Michele released her fourth studio album last week. Titled Better, the project is headed up by the sultry slow-jam single "A Couple Of Forevers." As ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:10:06 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Phillip Mlynar</author>
			
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				<title>A Track-By-Track Analysis of Black Sabbath&apos;s New Album 13</title>
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			Last week, Black Sabbath released 13, their 19th studio album. In case you haven't heard, it's kind of a big deal. This is the first album since 1978 to feature original lead singer Ozzy Osbourne...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Linda Leseman</author>
			
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				<title>These Are the Worst Band Names in Indie Rock</title>
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			 This past Saturday, at the soon-to-close Maxwells, Scottish indie quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks performed. It served to remind us just how great a band this is. Sadly, we frequently forget, ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Rae Alexandra</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>These Are the Worst Band Names in Indie Rock</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Baths - Webster Hall - 6/15/13</title>
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			 By Jonah Bromwich

Better Than: a performance of The Magic Flute being interrupted by a robot invasion.

Complaining about low quality sound after the concert of an artist you like is kind of li...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:42:09 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Sound of the City</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>LIVE REVIEW: Baths at Webster Hall</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Dead Prez React to Kanye&apos;s New York Times Comments About Them</title>
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			 Thank God for the remix. Without it Dead Prez and Kanye West may never have established a working relationship and thus shared a certain kinship. Although his contribution to the seminal Dead Pr...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/06/dead_prez_react_to_kanye.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:14:46 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>J. Pablo</author>
			
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				<featured_headline><![CDATA[Dead Prez React to Kanye's <em>NYT</em> Comments]]></featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Mark Rose &quot;Looking Forward to Cracking a Beer&quot; With Freshly Reunited Spitalfield</title>
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			 In Chicago during the early millennium, pop punk and emo bands reigned supreme and helped produce heavy hitters like Fall Out Boy who left a massive mark on alternative rock and paved the way fo...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:26:48 -0500</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>Q&amp;A: Mark Rose on Spitalfield Reunion</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Ben Weasel Punched Two Women, So Why Do I Still Want to Watch His Band?</title>
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			 Remember that time Screeching Weasel's singer Ben Weasel lost his freakin' mind onstage and punched, not one, but two women? On camera? And very obviously on purpose? And then had to be held bac...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
				<author>Rae Alexandra</author>
			
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