Rob Harvilla

Around the Voice: Dum Dum Girls' Past Gets Unwrapped

I Will Be reluctant to answer questions about my past​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.Owl City has a song called "Hello Seattle" and Seattle Weekly likes that fact.The story b ... More >>

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I ... More >>

Around the Voice - Metallica, Metallica, and more Metallica

Number One with a Fragment

Hip-hop dominates the charts but the resurgence in modern music is propelled by its subgenres