If you live in the New York metropolitan area, the temperatures have become frigid as it’s officially become winter – and many folks across the country can say the same thing. With summer seeming so […]
The 6th Annual Okayplayer Holiday Jam at Brooklyn Bowl 12/19/12 featuring the Roots, William Hart from the Delfonics, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Wild Belle, and others
I received this incredibly adorable invite to the 6th Annual Okayplayer Holiday Jam at Brooklyn Bowl featuring a little band you all may have heard of by the name of the Roots, with a ton of […]
With the bullshit that Clear Channel radio stations foist on to an unsuspecting public, I think we’re all desperately clamoring for some real hip hop from artists who spit real lyrics on top of dope […]
While at the Power 105.1 FM Studios, DMX was asked if he could spit the lyrics to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and X enthusiastically did it. So check out DMX rapping/singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." It’s […]
Dances and the National Rifle at Cake Shop 11/16/12
As you can imagine, the end of the year usually means frantically trying to catch up on – well, everything. Anyway, back in November I caught Brooklyn-based garage grunge rock act Dances, and the Philadelphia, […]
Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Alex Fin released a 4 track EP Mull that sounds and feels much like ethereal, fever dream. Tracks seem to come and go in waves … DJ 501 has remixed one of […]
According to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 was supposed to mark the end of the world as we know it. And astrologers have suggested that due to an astrological event that […]
a Q&A with the Linus Pauling Quartet
The Linus Pauling Quartet has been around for almost 20 years now, and in an age where the music industry and music fans have become increasingly fickle, their longevity as a band is something that […]
Brooklyn-based indie band, RAILBIRD recently released their Lucky EP and the tracks from the album come up at weird angles, and are glitchy to the point of seeming anxious and ill at ease. School of Seven […]
Hamburg, Germany-based duo Chris Burda and Martin Grimm, also known as, Collapse Under the Empire, released their latest effort, Fragments of a Prayer to critical praise. Continuing a rather prolific pace, the band will be releasing […]
Today marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the entire year in the Northern Hemisphere. And according to some (bizarre by all scientific accounts) interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, the end of the […]
Teen Commandments and House of Blondes at the Rock Shop 12/13/12
Just the other day, I was at the Rock Shop to catch a night of electronica music in the form of Teen Commandments and House of Blondes. Teen Commandments set was a little raw and […]
I can’t tell you how much I miss CBGBs, the old Continental, Coney Island High, and Brownie’s – all places I spent a lot of time in over the years. So with memories of those […]
Singer, songwriter, producer and activist Erin McKeown will be releasing her forthcoming, seventh album, MANIFESTRA on January 15th, 2013, and it reportedly brings both her political and artistic interests together. With the holiday season, McKeown recently shared […]
The Capsules “Our Apocalypse” is full of buzzing distortion, as their lead singer’s voice floats and darts about the beats with an eerie, ethereal feel. To me the song sounds quite a bit like Portishead […]