Email Author Nick Murray

2012 Stories by Nick Murray

• UNTAMED BEATS

  published August 29, 2012

  Where to start with this one? Basically, it goes like this: In 1882, machinist Matthew Maguire proposed a Monday off in honor of those laboring... More >>

• Put Cha Back in It

  published August 22, 2012

  All hail DJ Sliink! The Jersey club producer and party starter from Newark has been 
on a tear this year while releasing not only his... More >>

• MUENSTER MASH

  published August 22, 2012

  These days, no one raps about food quite like Rick Ross, the superstar label head who drives his Maybach to Chick-fil-A in one song and wakes up... More >>

• VOODOO NIGHTS

  published August 15, 2012

  Need a good reason to head out to Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater tonight? We have two. First, there’s Mary J. Blige, the queen of... More >>

• FROM CANADA 
WITH LOVE

  published August 15, 2012

  Most famous for the official “Lotus Flower” remix that Radiohead commissioned for last year’s TKOL RMX 1234567 project, Jacques... More >>

• THE JAMAICAN SENSATION

  published August 15, 2012

  Whether you lived in Kingston or rural America, Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock was 
one of the biggest albums of 2003, moving hips both on... More >>

• Suburban Blues

  published August 8, 2012

  Released in October to almost across-the-board praise and reappearing two months later in a variety of “albums of the year” lists,... More >>

• SMALL-TOWN GIRL

  published August 8, 2012

  On Saturday, nearly 100,000 screaming, cowboy-hat-wearing fans will fill the Meadowlands to hear two superstars—Kenny Chesney and Tim... More >>

• BLOW YOUR HEAD

  published July 25, 2012

  Founded some six years ago, Diplo’s label Mad Decent has grown from releasing barely heard baile funk and Baltimore club to helping break... More >>

• NEW NO LONGER

  published July 25, 2012

  Since the release of his band’s eponymous debut, The xx production wiz Jamie xx has kept himself busy, first crafting the Far Nearer... More >>

• FLIGHT SCHOOL

  published July 25, 2012

  Few have navigated the unstable terrain of contemporary commercial hip-hop better than Pittsburgh’s Wiz Khalifa: After lurking through the... More >>

• LORD KNOWS

  published July 25, 2012

  Anyone with even a passing interest in hip-hop has heard the name Just Blaze shouted over an old soul sample or a triumphant horn crescendo on... More >>

• WE TRIPPY MANE

  published July 25, 2012

  Although tonight’s party is a celebration of the release of Gatekeeper’s new Exo full-length, that didn’t stop the... More >>

• SWEET LIFE

  published July 25, 2012

  Upon the release of his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, in February of last year, few knew much about Frank Ocean. With a few Google searches,... More >>

• SUMMER SHARE

  published July 18, 2012

  Remember the good ol’ days, those postcollegiate summers of listening to Pavement’s Wowee Zowee on repeat and knocking commercial... More >>

• The Rise and Fall of Westchester Punk

  published July 25, 2012

  For the past couple of years, if you've wanted to learn about Westchester punk, you've had to travel to the Bronx. There, at the now-defunct... More >>

• NO LABELS

  published July 18, 2012

  One sign of 20-year-old Angel Haze’s freshness? The number of labels and categories her critics and admirers have attempted to pin on her, a... More >>

• SPACE JAM

  published July 11, 2012

  As much as we welcome the Nets, nothing says New York quite like street ball, and nothing says street ball quite like Rucker Park, the legendary... More >>

• ALL ABOARD

  published July 11, 2012

  Last year, the inaugural 4Knots Music Festival brought Titus Andronicus, the Black Angels, Eleanor Friedberger, Mr. Dream, and hundreds of... More >>

• SCHOOL'S OUT

  published July 11, 2012

  Five years after the release of Songs, and six after the breakout Love Is Real, John Maus remains something of an enigma, a man with short songs,... More >>

• BRING IT BACK

  published July 4, 2012

  SummerStage’s annual visit to Crotona Park is one of the highlights of summer in the Bronx, a week of sun, barbecue, and music, much of... More >>

• QUARANTINE THE PAST

  published July 4, 2012

  There are plenty of questions floating around CBGB Festival. For starters: Who is this for? Was this inevitable in our retro-drenched society?... More >>

• ROCK THE BOAT

  published July 4, 2012

  When it comes to hip-hop, the words “all white” will forever be associated with the dress code at Puffy’s legendary Hampton... More >>

• MALE BONDING

  published July 4, 2012

  Le Tigre fans wondering if that great New York City trio will ever make another 
album are in good hands with JD Samson’s outfit,... More >>

• GET CRAZY

  published June 27, 2012

  Three years ago, “Shots” was the most annoying thing you’d ever heard, a neo-crunk banger that seemed to be in constant rotation... More >>