New York Proposal 1, the Constitutional Convention Question, is on the ballot in New York as an automatic ballot referral on November 7, 2017. A constitution...
The foremost figure in musical Afro-futurism and space-jazz Sun Ra are releasing a posthumous compilation sometime this month, leading with "Kingdom Of Thun...
If there was ever a glaring moment where I realized why I left my job at JFK Airport at Terminal 5 to start Elevtr, (which at many moments have felt like pushing a boulder up a hill), this past week Gothamist and DNA Info being torched by billionaire...
Nawa El Shazly is blowing my damn mind this evening, prepare for filmic experimental Arabic desert jazz that'll make you wonder what's in your drink. Nawa ...
FLANNEL ALBERT (Albert Joo) is a hip hop artist based in Brooklyn these days but his journey started in music as young as age four studying classical piano &a...
Outraged? Do something about it.
The Creative Resistance recently produced one of the best illustrations of the crisis festering inside of New York State. New York should be a Democratic-Blue state right? Wrong. Thanks to rouge (or my favorite term ...
Check out Brooklyn-based singer/songwriters Lucia “Loosh” Stavros of Green Glass hitting the road in a few days on October 27th with Maria Neckam. The sol...
Kinda Cooper has kindly contributed this piece to Elevtr follow her work on Medium.
A Bangladeshi immigrant teen living in Jackson Heights, Queens, is ...
Less than three weeks ago, grassroots organization El Grito De Sunset Park established an all volunteer-led effort with a call for donations to be delivered to a storefront space in their Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
The group who has don...
Spotify is releasing a new project titled "I'm With The Banned" that is one part a collaborative music series and another part music documentary. The serie...
Destiny Nicole Frasqueri better known by her stage name Princess Nokia turns out to be the now infamous soup tosser in the viral Gothamist video featuring New Y...
Lanz is the project of multi-instrumentalist Ben Lanz, who’s played in The National, Beirut, Sufjan Stevens’ band, Gabriel & the Hounds and much more.
"Super Arrow" pays homage to his daughter of the same name, watch above as Lanz i...
Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her & Drown, recently recounted in hyper-omnipresence like he does well with a Time Out New york article pub...
House of Yes & Bushwick Open Studios presents a free show all weekend titled ART TRUCKS! Free entry w RSVP bit.ly/2esisCL. Combing Street Art in experiment...
CALLING ALL FRIENDS & LOVERS OF JUSTICE
This fall Mayday Space and Starr Bar are celebrating their anniversaries! Mayday enters its third year hosting cutting-edge movement orgs and community programming while Starr Bar starts a new year of po...
Tangina Stone is the Canton, Ohio-born and Brooklyn-based singer we had a lively interview with last year. She finally released her debut full-length album, E...
Alsarah was born in Sudan and fled with her family during the 1989 coup (by then soon-to-be) President Omar al-Bashir. They headed to Yemen and fled to Bo...
This untitled EP follows the release of 2015’s full-length Seraph, 2014’s Worth EP. These records saw Mas Ysa touring with Hundred Waters, Phantogram, Deerhunter, Young Fathers, Julianna Barwick and others, but life can hit you fast, this release...
Check out Queens band FRIGHTNRS latest single titled, "Lookin." The four piece just oozes cool, taking the vintage vinyl vibes of Jamaican rock-steady and ...
Thousands in NYC Rally and Sit In NYC In Response To DACA Repeal
NY 9-5-2017 | Text RESISTE to 41411. #SinDACAsinMiedo #Somos11Millones #MiLaborMiFamilia...
Photograph By: Chloe Massey
Jatinder Singh Durhailay's work exudes the cornerstone of what the modern Asian artist must do and do well: evoke diaspora while excelling in the form in which they participate. Durhailay is a multi-media artist based ...
Eric Weiner, founder of The Wild Honey Pie, and I exchanged some words a week or so ago, we found out we live on the same block in Greenpoint, and I learned a...
"Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or d...
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 2017
This weekend brings NYC some fire summer concerts. Friday we got Kendrick at Prudential Center in all its glory, comedian Russell Peters holding it down for your weekend comedic relief, an annual MJ dance party at Irving, whil...
Arooj Aftab will be performing with and celebrating some of her favorite musicians in a marathon of noir chillwave ambient post-rock heal me neo-sufi goodne...
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 2017
Whether it's Reggae Fest happening at B.B. Kings that you need to give you feel good vibes, or the indie rock blow out at Brooklyn Bazaar, there are tons of great shows happening tomorrow in NYC! The aforementioned feature...
