This week we’re bidding farewell to summer at Sunday Best, playing in a big warehouse party on Saturday and checking out Sleep at the Masonic Temple on the holiday. Here’s the rundown of all the week’s plans.
Tue, Aug 31: Digger’s Delight: Final Summer Park Jam
St Nicholas Park (500 St Nicholas Ave, Manhattan) / 5p / free / more info / directions
Continue reading “Other Nights of the Week: The End of Summer”
WFMU’s Diane Kamikaze celebrates Hardcore History Day (not a real holiday yet… but soon!) with a special edition of her radio show.
Her guests include Tony Rettman, author of Why Be Something You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 and Meatmen singer Tesco Vee, alongside a slew of other punk-rock luminaries and fixtures from the Touch & Go zine
The whole gang will crowd into the studio to answer your questions and spin a rare seven-inch or two. Tune in today from noon to 3pm. And if you miss it, fear not. FMU always archives.
One of the great photographers of jazz, Herman Leonard, died last weekend. He was 87. Fred Kaplan offers up a lovely obit at Slate, describing Leonard’s seminal New York years and his late-in-life return from obscurity. Check out a slide show of some of Leonard’s best work, alongside classic shots by William Gottlieb and William Claxton.
We may live for the bassline, but we can get down with some otherworldly abstraction. For anyone else in New York who shares that sentiment, here’s a heads up: Don’t miss Miguel Frasconi and Denman Moroney at The Stone tonight.
These two gifted experimentalists will showcase their new collaborative album, Gleam, by creating strange sonic textures from shards of glass, ringing bells and the innards of a piano. The video above captures Frasconi coaxing beautiful sounds from what looks like an entire back bar. His parents must have had their hands full…
Despite album sales continuing to head the way of the dodo, 2010 is quietly shaping up to be a banner year for hip-hop. And though rap isn't something you often hear emanating from Mister Saturday Night's speaker stacks, we're still paying attention.
Thanks to the ever-growing community of internet rap nerds, unconventional MCs have been empowered like never before to bypass the major labels and direct their latest head-nodders straight to the people. We've rounded up a handful of our favorite Web-only mixtapes from the year so far, for your downloading pleasure. Continue reading “Our Favorite Rap Mixtapes of 2010, Pt. 1”