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Founder Of Elevtr Talks The ‘Three Storms Of Your Youth’ Dispatches From NYC
When the first storm hits, you are hardly prepared to face the power and complexity of obstacles you never prepared for—it smashes your vessel capsizing you onto the shore. In versions of the Holy Grail myth, we see the young prince wander away from his kingdom drawn by...
The Four Quadrants Of Change
We are in an unprecedented time. The American Government has fully exposed itself to either be woefully ineffectual or worse,...
Top Events March 10th-15th 2020
Monday, March 09 2020 7:00 PM Moses Sumney @ Public Records (233 Butler Street) 9:00 PM Reverend Vince Anderson and the Love Choir @ Union Pool (484 Union Avenue) Tuesday, March 10 2020 6:30 PM Baba Ali @ Mercury Lounge...
An Early March Sultan Room Diaspora Show Not To Miss
For those that haven’t been over to Brooklyn’s Sultan Room, the odd story of our new neighbors Varun Kataria and Tyler Erickson...
TOP EVENTS FEBRUARY 17th-23rd
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 2020 11:00 AM Sunday Storytime! Esmé Shapiro, “Alma and The Beast” @ Community Bookstore 12:00 PM Uncut...
TOP EVENTS OCT 1-6th
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 01 2019 7:00 PM Pass The Porn: A Cinematic Social Experience @ House of Yes (342 Maujer Street) 7:30 PM Built to Spill – Keep It Like a Secret @ Webster Hall (125 E. 11th Street) 7:30 PM...
Top Events Sep 13—22nd
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 2019 Check out the great shows in NYC the week ahead complete with a weekend with Bloc...
Raavi & the Houseplants, Verdigrls, Seldomo & more play Sunnyvale Friday
Sunnyvale is 7 mins from the Grand Street stop of the L and still hosts some great DIY bands. This...
Five Things You Can Do About Gentrification in NYC
Because taking on gentrification in New York is still relevant and necessary. Because duopoly politics have failed and continue to fail to address the rapid inequality and housing justice of New York. Tom Angotti’s 5 point recommendation is still not...
No Small Dreams: Music For Immigrant Rights | December 12th 2017
On Tuesday December 12th join Music and Collective Action students at Eugene Lang College presenting No Small Dreams: Music For Immigrant Rights. This event...
That Time We Walked Into Chase Bank In Williamsburg With A Marching Drummer
This year has been crazy to say the least. I actually first realized the tall guy in a pink hoodie...
Tangled Bliss and Beautiful Soup | Exhibit By Three Woman Of Color Ending Soon In Bushwick’s Selena Gallery | Amie Cunat Mika Horibuchi Florencia Escudero
Selena Gallery is a small art gallery located in Bushwick Brooklyn dedicated to highlighting work by people of color. Their latest exhibit presents, “Tangled Bliss and Beautiful Soup,” an exhibition bringing together three female artists exploring perception and the play...
White Man On a Pedestal Kenya (Robinson) and Doreen Garner | Pioneer Works | Through Dec 17th, 2017
White Man On A Pedestal(WMOAP), a two-person exhibition by Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson), ending December 17, 2017. WMOAP questions...
Kahlil Joseph | Lyricism, Complexity, and Affective Power of Black Musical Traditions | New Museum
Artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph conjures the lush and impressionistic quality of dreams with particular reverence for quotidian moments and...
Photographer Claude Guillaumin Captures Local Political Climate In NYC From 1967- 1971
Between 1967 and 1971, Claude Guillaumin immersed himself into New York and Washington’s important demonstrations. He captured on the other side of the ocean from his home in Paris historical moments and demands such as The Women’s March: for...
Heems, Nadia Tehran, Jelani Sei Show Preview | Live From Elsewhere
Punjabi rapper Himanshu “Heems” Suri of Swet Shop Boys (formerly of Das Racist) will be performing at Elsewhere, new Bushwick...
A Look At Masstransiscope in the Abandoned Myrtle Ave Subway Station
This art installation by MTA Arts for Transit is one of our favorite reuses of an abandoned station. Closed in 1956,...
The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project seeks to rename NYC’s Williamsburg Bridge to commemorate Rollins’ musical sabbatical there from 1959-1961
The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project, was started by jazz enthusiast Jeff Caltabiano in March 2017. It aims to commemorate Sonny Rollins and bring attention to his sabbatical from 1959 to 1961, when the then 28-year-old would practice up to 16 hours...
Flannel Albert | From Portland To Korea To New York City
FLANNEL ALBERT (Albert Joo) is a hip hop artist based in Brooklyn these days but his journey started in music...
An Inside Look At The NYPD’s Surveillance Of Muslim Communities
Kinda Cooper has kindly contributed this piece to Elevtr follow her work on Medium. A Bangladeshi immigrant teen living in...
Spotify’s I’m With The Banned series
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 series will include music from American musicians collaborating with artists from the six Muslim-majority countries targeted...
The National/Beirut collaborator Ben Lanz Exclusive Premiere | Lanz – “Super Arrow”
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...
What Has Junot Diaz Been Up To? Thinking Of New York Of Course!
Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her & Drown, recently recounted in hyper-omnipresence like he does well...
Tangina Stone Show Preview | Live From Rockwood Thursday Sept 21st
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, Elevate, so get ready for an amazing night of introspection & soul. Tangina even had the chance to even...
Mas Ysa Survives Head Injury Releases Album & 16 MM Film
This untitled EP follows the release of 2015’s full-length Seraph, 2014’s Worth EP. These records saw Mas Ysa touring with...
Jatinder Singh Durhailay | Graphic Artist Highlight
Jatinder Singh Durhailay‘s work exudes the cornerstone of what the modern Asian artist must do and do well: evoke diaspora...
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 “a call to arms for all people of color to shape a public dialogue on our bodies and our journeys with self-love,”...