The Sudden Resurgence Of CBGB
In 2006 one of the most renowned music venues in the country shut its doors. But now it looks like CBGB -- the venerable East Village hard rock in...
In 2006 one of the most renowned music venues in the country shut its doors. But now it looks like CBGB -- the venerable East Village hard rock in...
Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.08.2012
Yauch was not only a musical pioneer with Beasties; he was an activist and humanitarian. Wherever there was injustice, there was Yauch, wherever there was a voice to be given to the voiceless, there was Yauch.
Posted 04.25.2012
The non-profit group Original Music Workshop is gearing up to open a new music venue on Williamsburg's North 6th Street,already home to many of the n...
Posted 03.16.2012
More than five years after CBGB shuttered its doors, ending three decades of legendary punk performances to transform into a high-end John Varvatos bo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.08.2012
NEW YORK -- The crowd at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night was there to see Gotye, the alter ego of Belgian-Australian musician Wouter De Backer, pl...
Posted 12.09.2011
Jonathan Toubin is in critical condition after being run over by a cab in Portland, Oregon on Thursday. The New York City based DJ was staying in t...
AP | By MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.14.2011
-- "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever" (Faber and Faber), by Will Hermes: New York City might have be...
Joe Schraufnagel | Posted 12.27.2011
Throughout the past couple months a slew of NYC bands, Making Friendz, Light Asylum and Little Victory to name a few, have been sexing up downtown barroom dance-floors with a take-no-prisoners punk rock swagger.
Marissa Moss | Posted 12.24.2011
Last week in NYC, amidst the 15-minute sets of guitar fuzz and vocals sometimes indecipherable from keyboard wahs, at times, the "CM" in CMJ could have stood for Country Music.
Posted 12.13.2011
Pitchfork is planning to take on the New York music scene with a CMJ-esque festival in February 2012. The online music publication has teamed up with ...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.27.2011
I was happy to hear an NPR feature this weekend on Mason Jar Music, a new collective of young producers/musicians in Brooklyn, who have their own twist on getting access to abandoned buildings and recording and filming there.
Laura Cococcia | Posted 08.19.2011
Emily believes in the power of intuition to guide her, adoring her inspirations, but not a slave to the rules of what must define a songwriter. I'm thrilled to share more about the world behind her story.
Lydia Hughes | Posted 08.15.2011
Wil is jocular and affable, someone who doesn't seem to take himself too seriously. For this reason I made the assumption that his band might be just a little better than amateur. How wrong I was.
The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011
BlackyII is Bobby Picciotto, a DJ living in Brooklyn who's been spinning for a few years now and just returned from mini-tour of Puerto Rico. He makes...
The Huffington Post | Josh Fleet | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Sackler-Berner occasionally lands a gig as an extra on television. Like in 2009, when he played "Band Member #1" on an episode of Law & Order:...
The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Brent Katz has been performing in New York bands since Giuliani was in power. His first successful outfit the Harlem Shakes, in which Brent played dru...
Posted 05.25.2011
JAPANTHER AT THE ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS from Scott Cramer on Vimeo. Monday's Japanther show at the Big Apple Circus was eventually shut down when the ...
Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.25.2011
The Dig plays sci-fi style rock and mixes it with early indie, so think early REM or Pavement meets Muse or Editors.
flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Like many music-loving New Yorkers, we've been mourning the bizarre disappearance of our favorite NYC TV series: New York Noise. Its weekly dose of cl...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Since its founding, New York has been an evergreen inspiration for musicians, from Gershwin to Dylan to the Beastie Boys. "Empire State of Mind," Jay...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The New York Philharmonic says it will receive a $10 million gift from philanthropist Henry R. Kravis to endow its composer-in-reside...
Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.15.2012