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Bushwick Inlet Park to Host “Brooklyn Live @ The Inlet” Concert Series This...
After spending all winter inside, wrapped in sweaters and blankets, and seriously suffering from Vitamin D deficiency, nothing sounds nicer than attending a big outdoor concert series in the...
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Forging Creative One-Off (or Not) Collaborations at the Hum Series
From left: Jen Goma, Zoe Brecher, Teeny Lieberson (Photos by Jane Bruce) Cross pollination is so hot right now, with all sorts of unlikely birds-and-bees happenings brewing in Brooklyn. Adding to the...
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5 Bands You Need to Know in Brooklyn’s Arabic Music Scene
c/o Brooklyn Gypsies via Facebook Arabic music is wont to pop up in Brooklyn without much fanfare—no pricey mural-tisements in Williamburg or wall-to-wall wheat-pasting in Bushwick—so if you’re not...
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Hey BK!: “Live” at the PC Music Pop Cube
Photo by Drew Gurian / Red Bull Content Pool The wait time for a selfie with QT was short. The whole thing, from impulse to acceptance to texting your friends with a tagged on “LOL”, took...
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Prophecy Fulfilled: Robin Carolan of Tri Angle
Photos by Samantha Marble Robin Carolan has been wearing black coats over black shirts with black shorts for years. “About a year ago someone started calling me ‘health goth,’” he says. “I was like,...
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Northside Music: Thursday
Ital at Baby’s All Right — Photo by Dylan Johnson HEALTH at Baby’s All Right — Photo by Dylan Johnson HEALTH at Baby’s All Right — Photo by Dylan Johnson HEALTH at Baby’s All Right — Photo by Dylan...
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Northside Music: Friday
The Very Best at McCarren Park — Photo by Sam Polcer Heems at McCarren Park — Photo by Sam Polcer Ex Hex at Music Hall of Williamsburg — Photo by Ben Rosenzweig Ex Hex at Music Hall of Williamsburg —...
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Northside Music: Saturday
Crowd at Against Me! at McCarren Park — Photo by Cole Giordano Cayetana at McCarren Park — Photo by Cole Giordano Cayetana at McCarren Park — Photo by Cole Giordano Mitski at McCarren Park — Photo by...
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Northside Music: Sunday
Future Punx at Cameo Gallery — Photo by Gretchen Robinette Crowd at Future Punx at Cameo Gallery — Gretchen Robinette Future Punx at Cameo Gallery — Photo by Gretchen Robinette Girl Band at Music Hall...
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“It’s a Home, Not a Band”: Hanging Out with Shirley House
photo via Shirley House’s Facebook With shows at the Mercury Lounge and Gramercy Theater, a residency at Pianos, opening for JD Samson and Rashaad Newsome, and as one of New Music Seminar’s 100 Artists...
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Meet Batala NYC, the All-Female Brazilian Drum Troupe That Might Play Gloria...
When Batala NYC first starts playing—seventy women moving as one group, following the hand signals of one conductor, and beating five different types of (mostly big) drums—people need a moment to...
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Gigawatts Festival Is Getting Bigger, But Doesn’t Want To Be The Next...
As an intern at a New York culture magazine in 2012, Danny Krug felt that new and captivating bands coming out of north Brooklyn weren’t necessarily getting their due. When he pitched the likes of...
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Daniel Kessler on Interpol’s Early Years: “There Were Lots of Reasons for Us...
Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler is convinced his band could have separated in its nascent stage. If Interpol met an early demise, he reasons, it wouldn’t have been an implosion born of clashing...
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How Clifford Ross Uses Music and Art to Express the Emotions that Words Can’t
Harmonium Mountain video still courtesy of Clifford Ross Studio We live our lives surrounded by people, but experience is individual. We use words to externalize ideas and feelings but, at best,...
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Burning Paris, or: A Night at the Latex Ball, the Best Party in New York
Latex Ball 2015photo by Anja Matthes “Who doesn’t like a ball?” A nine-year member of the ballroom scene, Omari Mizrahi, who also goes by Ousmane Wiles, sits in the Civil Service Café on Nostrand and...
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Widowspeak talk about Migration, Regional Inspiration and Their new Record,...
photo: Shawn Brackbill The dreamy soundscapes present on Widowspeak’s new record, All Yours, smack of the inescapable serenity of the Hudson Valley. The sounds bring to life rippling streams, weeds...
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Basilica Soundscape 2015 Preview: What to Look Forward to at Upstate New...
Photo by Matt Charland. This weekend, a disproportionate number of hip Brooklynites fleeing the last, gross days of city summer will land in Hudson, NY, a handsome riverfront hamlet with a regular...
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The Grrrls Are Back in Town
“Babes In Toyland Paris 1991” “Get out of my way or I’m going to shove!” Donita Sparks once threatened, demanding opportunities for which many women in the music industry are still impatiently...
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Beautiful Machines: Critter & Guitari’s Simple, Sculptural Synthesizers
Bushwick-based studio Critter & Guitari makes synthesizers that look more like toys or minimalist sculptures than serious equipment. It’s what you’d expect from company founders Chris Kucinski...
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A Light That Is Now Going Out: Mondo Will Host Its Final Party This Weekend
Miss Modular DJing photo by Michael Sharkey On a warm early September day, Dr. Maz sits and watches his son Julian play at the William Sheridan Playground in Williamsburg. Maz’s friend Kevin Wolfe...
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