Underground NYC Hip Hop | YL – 2007
Chelsea native YL is reppin downtown Manhattan with true NYC swag, his flow is crazy and he’s super...
Artists Rise Against Islamophobia | Featuring New Music From Heems
Heems, Hamilton Leithauser, Mac DeMarco, Khruangbin, and more will be featured on a brand new compilation called Philia:...
Kele Okereke & Olly Alexander – Grounds For Resentment
Oily keys, lazy sax, match the sentiment on Kele’s Okereke‘s lastest single “Grounds For Resentment.” Slow Down, the...
Eyukaliptus – DIRTY 45’s
Oh it’s dirty alright, warbling keys, tapematic-stampling set to boom-bap that truly bounces with jubilance–that’s Eyukaliptus in a...
NIGHT TRAIN WITH WYATT CENAC & SAMANTHA RUDDY At LITTLEFIELD!
Night Train with Wyatt Cenac Going on its fifth year in Gowanus, certainly makes Wyatt Cenac’s Night Train...
Vinny Vegas Show Preview 7/29 At Pianos | The Last Great East Coast Post-Emo Band
For anyone who’s just moved to New York in the last decade, you likely aren’t as familiar the...
Trevor Forrest – Countless Ways
Lead singer of defunct Van Vega Trevor Forrest rises from the ashes with new single “Countless Ways,” a...
UPROSE | Brooklyn’s Oldest Latino Organization Against Gentrification Hosts Meeting 7/26
Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE...
Resisting Gentrification, Rezoning and Displacement in East Harlem | The Harlem Art Collective
The following feature comes from a brilliant NYC street art focused blog called Street Art NYC, “A range...
Show Preview + Exclusive Premiere | Arthur Moon, Hite, Raia Was
If you haven’t become familiar with the following artists and musicians, i’d be happy to say they’re not...
Sleeping Lion – Stop It
Man. There is a pureness to how Sleeping Lion crafts the modern electronica song, we featured/premiered the band’s...
JACK presents: Reparations for Whom? A community conversation on intersectionality
When divisiveness aims to mire a society, we depend on truth tellers and voices from the marginalized to...
Hoops For Justice 2017
“Hoops for Justice” is a basketball tournament in Flatbush that was founded in July 2013 in remembrance of...
Swet Shop Boys Mythologized With Trump’s Muslim Ban Efforts
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to forge ahead with a limited version of his ban...
Outdoor Summer Film Screenings
Even if you stumble upon a dud (looking back last week at Transmitter Park’s awful French film, complete...
The Bodega No One Remembers
(First published on Before It’s Gone Take It Back) There’s a bodega no one remembers. But I remember, I...
Denitia – Waiting
Denitia Odigie’s metamorphosis on her new single “Waiting” moves beyond the umbrella of Denitia and Sene‘s R&B feel...
Rainer Maria – Lower Worlds
Rainer Maria’s new single “Lower Worlds” is exactly the jolt of life I needed today in Brooklyn. The...
Hype Machine Reaches Out To Community For Fundraiser
Remember 2005? Hypemachine hit the freefall mp3 word online and found an early niche in organizing noise into...
Weekend Show Highlight (5.31-6.4)
What’s Going On NYC? Another great weekend of comedy, science shows, and music is exploding here at home,...
Kingpleaxure – World At Bay
This is it. Pop music from artists that indie music has borrowed from for ages presented by its...
Happy Birthday, Brother Malcolm An Op-Ed by Andre Henry
When white people want to shame me, they invoke his name. (The following is a guest article written...
New Yorkers: The New York Health Act Is Our Shot At A Single Payer Program
The New York Health Act – Single Payer Campaign Believe it or not, there is one proposal that...
No Carlos D, But Turn On The Bright Lights Tour Brings Interpol Home
That’s right, bummed as we are to hear Carlon D won’t return on this classic album tour by...
Diary – I Die
No fillers, just good music. That’s the Diary experience. “I Die” isn’t exactly the menacing track as suggested,...
BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN FESTIVAL 2017 LINEUP | PROSPECT PARK
It’s here, it’s really here, picnic blankets, some herb and booze under the stars, and the 2017 season...
Secret Project Robot Found A New Home
I remember staring at the odd installations in a venue a friend yanked me to last minute to...