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Week of MAY 11 Tyler, the Creator's Boy's Club Mehan Jayasuriya For an album so undeniably 2011, Tyler, the Creator's Goblin sure starts off sounding a lot like 1993. The first words we hear him spit on Goblin are "I'm not a fuckin' role model"—a slightly altered version of Charles Barkley's notorious Nike commercial from Clinton's first year in office, as well as the driving discourse of Tupac Shakur's fiery second album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. It's a strangely out of time way for Tyler to introduce himself, and it's not a look the fashion-consci... Read More >> Advertisement Music Blog: Sound of the City The 10 Best Hip-Hop Album Skits May 12, 2011 This next joint is getting lit for a tradition in hip-hop long since passed--not Iceberg sweaters, but album skits. There've been so many awful ones that the handful of good ones weren't enough to kee... Read More >> American Idol Gets Inspired To Believe In Itself May 12, 2011 American Idol seems like it should build toward a big finale, but it never works out that way. Instead, the real excitement surrounding any season of the show usually peaks around the time of its firs... Read More >> Live: Jay-Z Cheers Up Kanye West At MoMA May 11, 2011 Kanye West Museum of Modern Art Tuesday, May 10 Better than: The obscenely long line outside. (There may still be people waiting to get in.) Even if you're put off by the tortured, why-so-serious vibe... Read More >> Who Are The Modern Weepers? May 11, 2011 Yesterday Brooklyn Vegan posted a query about about British act playing Mercury Lounge on May 27; the act goes by the name the Modern Weepers, and the Merc site claims that the Mancunian act is "well ... Read More >>		Connect Upcoming Shows FRI 05/13 9pm And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead+Surfer Blood at Music Hall of Williamsburg   SAT 05/14 7:30pm 'Essentially Ellington' at Avery Fisher Hall   SUN 05/15 7pm Hiro Suzuki Band+Dan Stevens+Dante Mazzetti & Warren Malone at Banjo Jim's   MON 01/24 10pm Jim Campilongo Electric Trio at Living Room   TUE 05/17 9pm 'Hip Hop Appreciation Tribute to Kool Herc & 50th Born Day for Melle Mel' at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill   Featured Events MON 05/16 4:30am The 56th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Presented by Stella Artois at Webster Hall   SAT 07/16 4:30am The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival at South Street Seaport, Pier 17

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