In its time it was almost the sole arbiter of culture and taste for the arts, progressive politics and the lifestyle that came attached with them.” It was a window into an alternative universe that became our universe. “For a time in 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s, the Voice was the only voice of the counter-culture. Reached yesterday evening, Kaye told the Guardian that the final loss of the Voice meant that a period in New York history had now truly passed. The Voice became widely admired for the music criticism of Robert Christgau and Greil Marcus, who last week published Real Life Rock Top 10: Memories of Aretha, a typically esoteric ramble through the outer reaches of pop culture.Īmong the young writers drawn to the intellectual milieu of the Village Voice was Lenny Kaye, periodic music critic and guitarist with the Patti Smith group. Along the way, it received three Pulitzers and became known as home for some of New York’s best investigative journalists.īut it was most admired for its cultural criticism and as a beacon for bohemian life centered around New York’s Greenwich Village. The Voice was the country’s first alternative news weekly and once had a weekly circulation of 250,000. The company said it would retain eight of its 18 remaining staff to ensure that the publications’ six decades in production would continue to exist online as testament “to one of this city’s and this country’s social and cultural treasures”. “The only thing that is clear now is that we have not reached that destination.” “Where stability for our business is, we do not know yet,” he said.
Barbey tried to stem its losses by abandoning the Voice’s print edition last summer and publishing only online – a move that removed the paper from the sidewalk distribution boxes that were a fixture on New York street corners for generations.īut the switch to digital, as other publications have found, left a publication founded in 1955 by a group of investors including writer Norman Mailer, untethered to the physical world and still incapable of staunching the financial bleeding.īarbey said on Friday that his optimism that the Voice could be saved was no more than an illusion.
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