Last Sunday while at the Metropark NJ Transit station, I bought a ticket, begged their slow ticket vending machines to go a little faster, and ran up three flights of stairs with two heavy bags (a […]
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Big Daddy Kane at Summerstage — Herbert Von King Park/Tompkins Park 6/12/13
Big Daddy Kane Summerstage – Herbert von King Park/Tompkins Park 6/12/13 As a child growing up in the 80s, I spent a great deal of time watching MTV. In particular, I watched a lot of Yo! […]
Sinkane and Femi Kuti at Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage 6/23/13
Sinkane and Femi Kuti Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage June 23, 2013 Last Sunday afternoon was a gorgeous summer afternoon – incredibly, bright sunlight, with cerulean blue skies and puffy clouds but uncomfortably hot. I think that […]
The New Music Seminar Festival NY Day 2 — Hess is More, AVAN LAVA, the Pearl and the Beard, and the Drums at Webster Hall 6/10/13 and Chateau Marmont at Piano’s 6/10/13
The New Music Seminar Festival Day 2 – Hess is More, AVAN LAVA, the Pearl and the Beard and the Drums Webster Hall June 10, 2013 I was back at Webster Hall for the second […]
New Music Seminar Festival NY 2013 — Day 1: Ahmir, Etivan, 2AM Club, Baby Bee, and the Soul Rebels at Webster Hall 6/9/13
New Music Seminar Festival NY 2013 Day 1: Ahmir, Etivan, 2AM Club, Baby Bee, and the Soul Rebels Webster Hall June 9, 2013 The New Music Seminar can trace its history back to the 1980 […]
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I was in the Bedford Stuyvestant section of Brooklyn, walking to Tompkins Park – oh wait, it’s Herbert von King Park now – to catch Big Daddy Kane perform as part of this year’s Summerstage […]
Roi and the Secret People at Arlene’s Grocery 6/8/13
Last week was the start of a very busy period for me, a roughly week and a half period where I’d be covering live music every single night; most of it stemming from covering the […]
Michael-Louis Smith at DROM 6/4/13
Michael-Louis Smith DROM June 4, 2013 Guitarist, Michael-Louis Smith, along with his backing band of Diallo House (bass), Stacy Dillard (tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone), Ismail Lawal (drums) with the addition of Victor Gould (piano) […]
Red Bull Music Academy Presents: The DFA Records 12th Anniversary Event at Grand Prospect Hall 5/25/13
Red Bull Music Academy Presents: The DFA Records 12th Anniversary Event Grand Prospect Hall May 25, 2013 Back during an unusually chilly Memorial Day Weekend, I was at the gorgeous Grand Prospect Hall in Park […]
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Occasionally, the old New York that i once loved is hidden below the surface of new developments and chain stores – and it’s still beautiful and extremely weird but it seems to be disappearing before […]
Untitled 5/30/13 – 6/2/13
The last few days have been a whirlwind of activity which is actually not particularly unusual for my life, especially if you consider the fact that I have a full-time job as an editor at […]
Fania Records — Armada Fania Pop Up Store and Club at the 1896 featuring DJ DNGR GRDN, DJ Wasabi and DJ Louie Vega 5/25/13
Fania Records, often described as the Motown of Latin music, had a rather unique series of events from May 22nd – May 25th, to celebrate the label’s release of a compilation of remixes of their […]
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Memorial Day Weekend this year was incredibly busy. Friday night, I was at Fania Records’ Armada Fania Pop-Up Store and Club Party at the 1896 in Bushwick, Brooklyn with world famous DJ Louie Vega spinning […]
FLOWN at Secret Project Robot 5/17/13
A couple of weeks ago, I was at Secret Project Robot in Bushwick, Brooklyn to catch FLOWN’s Album Release show for their vinyl Eye of God/Yearlong Eclipse 7 inch. Check out some photos from the show below. […]
Berth Control at the Bowery Electric 5/17/13
Berth Control Bowery Electric May 17, 2013 I had last seen Berth Control play a set at Williamsburg venue Goodbye Blue Monday last year, and as we all know, a lot of things can happen […]