Tag: Music
In less capable hands, the improbable mash-ups of Beyonce and Phoenix would sound terrible — but album after album, Girl Talk turns his mixes into bass-heavy, body-bouncing, party-fueling tracks. If you’ve ever wondered how the delicately layered samples interact with each other, you can get an idea by playing this visualizer, set to Girl Talk’s […]
Here’s some stuff to do tomorrow. None of it sucks. If you really want to get weird with it we recommend the 8-hour noise set by Silent Servant, if you haven’t thought of a costume yet, dress up as an emoji and hit Transfer gallery’s art party and if you want to keep it low-key […]
Though they weren’t the source of the original leak for eponymous album Run The Jewels, El-P and Killer Mike got ahead of the game this time around, releasing their new album RTJ2 online in the wee hours of Friday morning. The album isn’t commercially due out until October 27 by label Mass Appeal Records, but […]
What if you could transform a single subway performance into a city-wide orchestra? That’s what producer Anita Anthonj and director Chris Shimojima succeeded in doing in their short film Signal Strength (embedded above), which used Wi-Fi to connect performers across nine different stops in New York City. On a sunny September morning, 11 performers were […]
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 72°F LOW 59°F In theaters: Michael Keaton gets real weird with it in Birdman, Guillermo Del Toro does animation in The Book of Life, Jason […]
The Village Voice’s annual “Best Of New York City” list came out today. They got a lot of shit wrong. Newark Airport sucks. Who the hell can afford to shop at Paragone? Big Bar is not a dive bar and there are no dive bars for blocks anywhere near it. And don’t even get us […]
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 64°F LOW 54°F In theaters: Critically acclaimed indie Whiplash, latest Bill Murray doing Bill Murray stuff in St. Vincent. Edward Snowden documentary premiere, Citizenfour at New York […]
“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. Today’s playlist comes to you from Nancy Whang who, with John MacLean, makes rump-shaking electro-disco music […]
“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. Today’s playlist comes to you from New York-based heavy post-punk three-piece Nap. Nap is two […]
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 78 °F LOW 60 °F In theaters: Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side starring Andre 3000; Björk: Biophilia Live at IFC. Andrew Durbin’s “Mature Themes” book launch with readings Harry Burke and Juliana […]
