Tag: 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. Stephen McBean of Black Mountain has pulled some of the best talent to collaborate on […]
The late rapper J Dilla’s custom-made Minamoog Voyager synthesizer has been recently donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The synth — along with 11 other objects used by the contributors to American music history, from Chuck Berry to Chuck D — will be shown at the “Musical Crossroads” exhibition, to inaugurate the opening of […]
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 80° LOW 67° Opening this weekend: Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo and The Purge: Anarchy. Open house at Body Actualized Center for the rest of the month. Free wifi, coffee, mate 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. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. High-fructose Seattle grunge-pop quartet Tacocat released their first LP, NVM on Hardly Art earlier this year […]
“Yung Lean is part of rap’s long tradition of doing it all wrong,” ANIMAL’s Brandon Soderberg wrote about the Swedish internet rap darling a few months ago. Stylistically, maybe, but at Yung Lean’s victory lap show last night in Brooklyn it was clear he’s doing something right. His fans, pastel weed-leaf printed kids out on […]
“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. Dub Thompson are an LA band that, with help from Foxygen’s producer Jonathan Rado, are quickly […]
“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 […]
“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. Craft Spells sophomore LP, Nausea, was created during a difficult time in songwriter Justin Vallesteros’ […]
On June 27, 1988, Mike Tyson obliterated Michael Spinks in 91 seconds — one of the fasted heavyweight title fight KOs ever. The legendary fight ended with Spinks physically and mentally defeated, slumped on the floor, terrified. Yesterday, The Awl posted a fascinating, passionately-written tidbit about Tyson’s entrance music. While Spinks entered to Kenny Loggins’ “This Is It,” Tyson came out to John Balance […]
“Enjoy the Science,” the newest release from 8 Bit Operators includes Depeche Mode’s greatest hits, as covered by C64-remix, gwEm, Herbert Weixelbaum, Aonami, Bacalao, Gameboy Music Club, Firestarter and more. We kind of wish there wasn’t any singing on it, especially not in auto-tune on ComputeHer’s “Strange Love” but Inverse Phase’s “Behind the Wheel” is pretty great. Stream on Bandcamp. For […]
