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WATCH: TELECOM Shares Video For “Ramon”

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Better Records, Brooklyn, Danger Mouse, DFA, J. Cole, Karen O, Sean McVerry, TELECOM

The single from Brooklyn mainstay pays homage to ’60s Britpop

Bluegrass Hip Hop Rap

WATCH: Gangstagrass and Kosha Dillz Wish You A “Happy Chinooka”

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments antisemitism, Brooklyn, Chanukah, Gangstagrass, Hanukkah, Happy Chinooka, Hip-hop, Kosha Dillz, Rap music, Rench

Bluegrass and hip-hop come together to fight antisemítism this holiday season

Electronic Indie Rock Pop

WATCH: Lizzy Young Shares Video For “Everything is Beautiful”

December 5, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Brooklyn, Electro, Everything is Beautiful, Lizzy Young, Moondog, Not That Bad, Paris, Pop

New album, Not That Bad, comes out December 9th

Experimental Indie Rock Noise

WATCH: Martin Bisi Collective Celebrate Gowanus and Urban Autonomy

October 13, 2022 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Blind Idiot God, Brooklyn, Cop Shoot Cop, Elliott Sharp, Foetus, Gowanus, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, Live Skull, Lydia Lunch, Martin Bisi, Material, Sonic Youth, Swans, The Autonomous People Of The Last Street End Of Gowanus, The Last Street End Of Gowanus, Unsane

The Autonomous People Of The Last Street End Of Gowanus performed and created a flag of secession against gentrification

jazz

ALBUMS: William Parker’s Tones of Home

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments AUM Fidelity, Billy Bang, Brooklyn, Gerald Cleaver, Jazz, Joe Morris, Leena Conquest, New York, Universal Tonality, William Parker

The excellent Universal Tonality calls back to the legendary free jazz leader’s early ’00s era

Indie Rock Psychedelics

LISTEN: Secret Machines Reissue 2008 Eponymous LP

August 9, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2008, Brandon Curtis, Brooklyn, Jim Sclavunos, Secret Machines, Tony Visconti, TSM Records

Celebrated Brooklyn act shares first single, a revamped version of “The Fire Is Waiting”

Rock

Jack White: Taking Us Back at Barclays

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Jack White, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes

Third Man’s Renaissance Man brought big hits and deep faves to an electrifying performance in Brooklyn

Disco Latin

LISTEN: The “He Said She Said” of Brooklyn’s Underground System

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments "Nobody Loves Me But You, Brooklyn, Disco, Domenica Fossati, EP, He Said She Said, Into The Fire, Peter Maston, single, Underground System

The group’s new EP, Into The Fire, comes out on May 6th

Music Journalism

EDITORIAL: John Hinckley, Jr. Does Not Deserve Your Attention

April 15, 2022April 17, 2022 Ron Hart 2 Comments assassin, Brooklyn, Family Ties, John Hinckley Jr, Market Hotel, New York City Breakers, political assassin, presidential assassination, Rodney Dangerfield, Ronald Reagan

The failed presidential assassin is an even bigger failure as a songwriter

Experimental jazz Post-Punk

Cinema Cinema and the Art of the Punk Improvisers

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Brad Cohan 0 Comments 2021, Brooklyn, CCXMD II, Cinema Cinema, Man Bites Dog, Nefarious Industries, Thor Harris

The South Brooklyn DIY duo and jazzer Matt Darriau make for perfect partners in free-improv crime

Hardcore Heavy Metal Indie Rock Noise Post-Punk Punk

ALBUMS: Unsane’s Journey Through The Past

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments Bad Lieutenant, Brooklyn, Chris Spencer, Heavy Traffic, Improvised Munitions & Demo, Lamb Unlimited, Taxi Driver, Unsane

Brooklyn’s most brutal band rediscover their salad days with Improvised Munitions & Demo

Bluegrass Hip Hop

WATCH: Gangstagrass “Ride With You”

November 4, 2020November 5, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020 Election, Affirmative, Bluegrass, Brooklyn, Gangstagrass, Hip-hop, Ride With You

Fresh off a white hot election special on their Twitch channel, the only hip-hop bluegrass group that matters drops a hope bomb with one of the year’s best singles

Electronic Funk jazz Latin Psychedelics Records Soul

The Hermetic Composer’s Dream

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Brooklyn, Coronavirus, Four Tet, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Kieran Hebden, Seth Applebaum

Four Tet, Ghost Funk Orchestra and the power of splendid isolation

Festivals

5 Acts to Catch at Mondo.NYC 2019

October 16, 2019October 17, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Brooklyn, CMJ, Mondo NYC, Pillow Queens, TAUK, The Accidentals, The Fleshtones, Wanderers

Now in its fourth year, the founders of CMJ continue to bring the Music Conference life back into the New York City area

Punk

CONCERTS: Les Chats Noir

July 26, 2019July 30, 2019 Eric Davidson 0 Comments Australia, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bowl, Cutie, Eamon Sandwith, Get this in ya, Gnarcissists, New York City, Nirvana, Oi, Queensland, Smoko, The Chats, The Hives

Queensland, Australia’s The Chats arrive in The Big Apple, declare New York “a piece of shit” at first ever show at the Brooklyn Bowl

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