Back in December, the great folks at Okayplayer had the Roots, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, and a host of super talented others perform at that company’s sixth annual Holiday Jam at Brooklyn Bowl, and being in […]
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Author: William Ruben Helms
I'm a music blogger, critic and photographer, who has had articles and photos published in Premier Guitar Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Press, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog, Ins&Outs Magazine, The Noise Beneath the Apple, Glide Magazine, The Whiskey Dregs Magazine and others.
Superhuman Happiness at Mercury Lounge 12/31/12
Just as 2012 was coming to a close, I caught local funk act Superhuman Happiness perform a late night set at the Mercury Lounge. 2013 should be a big year for the band as Royal […]
If you know anything about jazz – hell, about music over the past 50-60 years or so – you know that the venerable New Orleans-based Marsalis family have made a tremendous impact on jazz and […]
Darwin Deez will be releasing his heavily anticipated sophomore album, Songs for Imaginative People, which Lucky Number Music will release on February 12th. As a bi tof a teaser for the new effort, Deez enlisted Edinburgh, […]
The video for the Neighbourhood’s lates single, “Let It Go,” offers a rather frightening, almost Twilight Zone look into suburban bliss – in other words, in this video it ain’t all it’s cracked up to […]
Megadon teams up with the Lost Boyz’ Mr. Cheeks and Nitty Scott MC for this new single, “World Premiere.” What I love about this particular track is that it’s jazzy beat, propelled by big drums […]
a Q&A with Morgan Christopher Geer, a.k.a Drunken Prayer
Singer/songwriter Morgan Christopher Geer has one of the more unique stories I’ve recently heard. Originally, from the San Francisco area, Geer is the son of a California mushroom farmer and a New Orleans folk singer. […]
French producer Jerome Ettinger has devoted himself and his career to exploring, preserving and spreading the sounds of the traditional music of Egypt. Assembling several world-class Egyptian musicians, Ettinger’s Egyptian Project fuses electronics with the […]
Crosstown Syndicate at the LIC Bar 12/31/12-1/1/13
This past New Year’s Eve, I caught local act, Crosstown Syndicate rock the LIC Bar in Long Island City, Queens with two sets of funky and soulful originals and covers. Naturally, that meant quite a […]
Last year, the Argentinian label ZZK Records released a compilation of Argentine, instrumental electronic dance music, Future Sounds of Buenos Aires. On the album, many of the artists mix traditional and rural South American folk music with […]
