Category: Features
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Truthers are a new Brooklyn band, perhaps supergroup, made up of members of the bands […]
Van, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Audrey, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 81° LOW 65° Opening this weekend: Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (see it at IFC) and Snowpiercer (see it at Nitehawk). Jeff Koons retrospective opens to the public […]
Stanislav, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Michael Molinari of Studio Bean about Choice Chamber, a game that gets broadcast online to live viewers who can influence events. Not every game […]
Elliot, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Evelyn, Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Steve Bates metaphorically symbolic Concertina melds conceptual art into a functioning instrument. The piece uses a coil of barbed wire, electronic charges and radio transmitters, along with actual concertina samples, to create a droning, strangely beautiful music. Neural Magazine recently profiled the project, writing about Bates’ inspiration: In the jungles of Central America legend tells that rebel groups […]
T. Berry has wandered the New York underground since the ’70s, telling his unique blend of rap, spoken word and traditional black folk tales to anyone who will listen — most often, the intoxicated. Adam Forrester recently described T. Berry’s singular art for Feature Shoot: But what makes T. Berry’s street performances so unique and striking […]
