Matthew Young has gained notoriety among circles for his work as a keyboardist and vocalist with Body Language, one of this area’s countless electro pop outfits, and for his work as one half of Vacationer. Young has […]
Author: William Ruben Helms
William Ruben Helms is a Corona, Queens, NYC-born and-based African American music journalist, freelance writer, editor, photographer and founder of the DIY, independent music and photography site, The Joy of Violent Movement. Over the course of the past two decades, Helms’ writing and photography has been published in Downbeat, Premier Guitar Magazine (photography), Consequence, The Inventory, Glide Magazine.com (words and photography), Publisher’s Weekly, Sheckys.com, Shecky’s Bar and Nightlife Guide 2004, New York Press, Ins&Outs Magazine, Dish Du Jour Magazine, Aussie music publication Musicology.xyz (photography) and countless others, including his own site.
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Formed by Ishmael “Butterly” Butler, of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces continues Butler’s reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description of categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was […]
Gregory Ferreira has started playing professionally at 9 and has been in several bands in his native Boston, including the Chainletter, a band which was nominated for a Boston Music Award. In 2006, Ferreira moved […]
Much like David Bowie,Janelle Monae, Prince and others, the Montreal, QC-based Jef Barbara uses androgyny to play with and blur gender lines and roles – and like those artists that preceded him, Barbara has an uncommonly delicate, strangely […]
Rodrigo Amarante is better known for his work as a member of Little Joy and Los Hermanos will be releasing his debut solo effort, Cavalo on May 6 through Easy Sound Records. “Hourglass,” the album’s first single, […]
Produced by the great Madlib and featuring the legendary Snoop Dogg, “Cadillacs” is a single off the That’s My Work, Vol. 3 remix hosted by DJ Drama. Interestingly, the track has Madlib’s production style mimicking that of […]
Originally one half of the sister duo Festival and a member of the experimental prog project Ga’an, the Brooklyn-based electro pop artist Lindsay Powell now performs as a solo artist, under the moniker of Fielded. […]
Having just survived a potentially fatal van accident, the members of New Brunswick,NJ-based band Screaming Females showed up at for their set at the Hideout with a newfound sense of urgency and purpose, and they […]
Freddie Gibbs may arguably be one of contemporary hip-hop’s best and (shamefully) most unheralded emcees. Sure, his songs talk about the street life but with a stark, unvarnished honesty. Indeed, unlike most mainstream emcees who […]
Twintapes at Piano’s 2/19/14
Last Thursday was a pretty typical night for me in some respects – I first stopped at Rockwood Music Hall to catch a very dear friend of this site, Nicola play an acoustic set and […]
