In Review | Fatimah Asghar’s Let Me Love Me Series
In January 2015, poet Fatimah Asghar started a project called Let Me Love Me, the project described as...
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Underground NYC Hip Hop | YL – 2007
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Artists Rise Against Islamophobia | Featuring New Music From Heems
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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
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=363199092 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] Oh it’s dirty alright, warbling keys, tapematic-stampling set to...
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
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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
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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
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Rainer Maria – Lower Worlds
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=197136046 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] Rainer Maria’s new single “Lower Worlds” is exactly 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
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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
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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...