Let’s face it, CMJ can be overwhelming to anyone. So many bands, so many venues, so many options. Being sans employment and continuously recovering from the leg injury helped me out a bit in that field. Below are pictures from three of my favorite performances: [...]
So when hip-hop came to the Williamsburg Waterfront last Sunday, there were very few people to witness it. However, when it came back this week, there was barely an inch for the crowd to move. Electronic musician/producer Max Tundra and Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa rallied [...]
For the first time in several weeks, the sun was shining down on the East River State Park as hip-hop took over the Pool Parties for the first time this summer. Headlined by Oakland’s Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and featuring a dj set by the [...]
For the third straight Sunday, Mother Nature threatened to rain on the Pool Parties parade, but we were spared and treated to a bill featuring Simian Mobile Disco, The Fiery Furnaces, Dark Meat and The Netherlands. Athens, GA’s Dark Meat was the first act of [...]
Another July in Brooklyn and another Siren Festival, which continues to be one of the best things summer has to offer for the past nine years. As more people flock to Kings County to lay their heads, the more the crowd seems to swell on [...]
Sunday brought a quad-headed bill to the Williamsburg Waterfront that made the skies open up with the thunder and lightning mimicking the energy of the crowd, but unfortunately resulting in the headliners cancellation. After an opening set by Austin’s Latin funk band Grupo Fantasma, Health [...]
This past Sunday, July 19, marked my first experience with The Dirty Projectors, one of New York’s newest indie heroes. Due to a slight setback with my leg, I unfortunately missed the openers Crystal Antlers and Magnolia Electric Company, both of which would have been [...]
The JellyNYC “Pool Parties” came back into our lives with a bang on Sunday with the quadruple bill of pioneers Mission Of Burma, Canadian hardcore heroes Fucked Up, Baltimore’s Ponytail and Jemina Pearl, formerly of Be Your Own Pet. It could not have been a [...]
Wow. This was the best jam session so far. The night kicked off with Zoe Kravitz’ band Elevator Fight, and then Brownsville’s own M.O.P. ripping “Ante Up” and trying to get the crowd pumped up. The night featured guests such as DITC crew’s A.G. and [...]
Green Day at the Bowery. I couldn’t have imagined them playing at a venue this small the first time I saw them as a kid 15 years ago at the Nassau Coliseum. And after missing its surprise set after a Bellevue gig at CBGB years [...]
