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 pu...
Chelsea native YL is reppin downtown Manhattan with true NYC swag, his flow is crazy and he's super young. Further abridging himself from mainstream rap tod...
Heems, Hamilton Leithauser, Mac DeMarco, Khruangbin, and more will be featured on a brand new compilation called Philia: Artists Rise Against Islamophobia. One of the feature tracks finding Heems of Das Racist & Swet Shop Boys railing boldly ...
Oily keys, lazy sax, match the sentiment on Kele's Okereke's lastest single "Grounds For Resentment." Slow Down, the Bloc Party frontman sings while Olly Alex...
Oh it's dirty alright, warbling keys, tapematic-stampling set to boom-bap that truly bounces with jubilance–that's Eyukaliptus in a nutshell on DIRTY 45's...
Night Train with Wyatt Cenac
Going on its fifth year in Gowanus, certainly makes Wyatt Cenac's Night Train a beast of a comedy show! The Brooklyn-based comedian's wry sense of wit may have accumulated on New York's radar when he joined the John St...
For anyone who's just moved to New York in the last decade, you likely aren't as familiar the what post emo even means. Emo surely rings a bell, but it's likely...
Lead singer of defunct Van Vega Trevor Forrest rises from the ashes with new single "Countless Ways," a mix of new millennium electro soul with the raw DIY ...
Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood...
The following feature comes from a brilliant NYC street art focused blog called Street Art NYC, "A range of artworks and writings — by members of th...
If you haven't become familiar with the following artists and musicians, i'd be happy to say they're not only playing a show together, but that we're premieri...
Man. There is a pureness to how Sleeping Lion crafts the modern electronica song, we featured/premiered the band's last EP in 2016.
"Stop It" cuts from a similar cloth, vocals that lift like arias, and grounding drum machines set them off, the...
When divisiveness aims to mire a society, we depend on truth tellers and voices from the marginalized to speak up and educate us. When all people committed ...
“Hoops for Justice” is a basketball tournament in Flatbush that was founded in July 2013 in remembrance of Shantel Davis & Kimani Gray, two young li...
Photo By: Sachyn Mital
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to forge ahead with a limited version of his ban on travel from six Muslim majority countries into the United States, before an October case will settle the matter once a...
Even if you stumble upon a dud (looking back last week at Transmitter Park's awful French film, complete with 10-minute long pauses between an on-screen couple ...
Denitia Odigie's metamorphosis on her new single "Waiting" moves beyond the umbrella of Denitia and Sene's R&B feel (the stellar collab she manifested on wax with Brian Marc last year). For those that have heard her even before that with her ...
Rainer Maria's new single "Lower Worlds" is exactly the jolt of life I needed today in Brooklyn. The coffee didn't help, the jackhammer across the street is...
Remember 2005? Hypemachine hit the freefall mp3 word online and found an early niche in organizing noise into smooth waters. It's hard to believe they managed t...
What’s Going On NYC?
Another great weekend of comedy, science shows, and music is exploding here at home, from the prolific musings of rapper ODDISEE at the Highline Ballroom, to the legendary soul sound of Charles Bradley & His Extraordinair...
This is it. Pop music from artists that indie music has borrowed from for ages presented by its own diaspora, spoken in its own voice. Ayan Sanyal producer/si...
When white people want to shame me, they invoke his name.
(The following is a guest article written by award-winning musician, artist, activist, and producer A...
The New York Health Act – Single Payer Campaign
Believe it or not, there is one proposal that could cover all Americans for all needed services and save money. And it is now that we must explore that proposal. Studies have shown that national ...
That's right, bummed as we are to hear Carlon D won't return on this classic album tour by Interpol. Luckily supporting Interpol for the Turn On The Bright ...
No fillers, just good music. That's the Diary experience. "I Die" isn't exactly the menacing track as suggested, instead it's quite uplifting in tempo and s...
It's here, it's really here, picnic blankets, some herb and booze under the stars, and the 2017 season of BRIC's annual free summer concert series.
Opening night is June 7 with Lake Street Dive while some of our highlights include YEASAYER | PO...
