Tag: Music
The plan to rename the corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets — the site of the Pauls Boutique album cover photo — in the Beastie Boys’ honor was voted down by the local community board. Debated lasted 90 minutes at last night’s CB3 meeting, according to DNAinfo, before the board decided to reject the “Beastie Boys Square” proposal. LeRoy […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s list comes from Juan Wauters, former frontman of New York City garage rock stalwarts The Beets. Wauters draws heavily from Latin American music of the 1960s and 1970s, including several tunes — like […]
In conducting the interviews for this piece, something became clear: The reason that so many people care so deeply about end of 285 Kent, is that 285 Kent was more than a room where bands played. At 285 we witnessed the collapse of genre barriers in real time, as internet rap stars mingled with hardcore […]
Several bus stops along the Bronx’s Southern Boulevard will become impromptu listening spaces under a plan approved by Robert Steel, Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for economic development. The new stations, proposed by the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation and designed by the Design Trust for Public Space, will play music that nods to the Bronx’s cultural history […]
The latest tools in the New York Police Department’s youth-arresting, gang-fighting arsenal are YouTube and SoundCloud, according to a New York Times report detailing how the NYPD uses rap videos to investigate shootings. “It’s a double-edged sword,” says Patrice Nelson, who manages several local rappers, about the police surveilling music. “If you have that much passion and […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s list comes from the excellent, long-running Brooklyn punk band Japanther, selected a slew of scrappy rock and hardcore, as well as some outliers like Kate Bush’s excellent “Wuthering Heights” and an effortless-seeming […]
Perfect pitch–the ability to identify a musical note without any context–is something of a golden egg among musicians. You either have it or you don’t, and if you do, you’ve got a serious leg up on the competition (especially if you’re a singer or play jazz or classical music). If you don’t, it’s generally been […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Vampire Weekend’s “Step,” one of the best songs of 2013, just got a pretty great rap remix featuring Danny Brown, Heems, and Despot. On the heels of that track, […]
You may have seen this video of a woman positively losing her shit on an American Airlines flight to Tampa. Apparently spurred by the recent death of her mother, the woman shrieks “God you are my savior” over and over and over, unfazed by her fellow passengers’ attempts to assuage her grief. It is scary, […]
Aspiring noise-rock shredders would do well to head to Other Music on October 28, when former Sonic Youth guitarist and current solo artist Lee Ranaldo will be giving a free clinic on the instrument. He is a very good guitar player. I’m thinking about going. The ads for the clinic excellently parody local guitar hero […]
