Damon Dash

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New York City's Claims Against Damon Dash's DD172 Settled For Now

​Last week, the Voice reported on former Roc-A-Fella Records mogul Damon Dash's recent troubles with the law. The city brought a restraining order against the owners of 172 Duane Street, which used to house Dash's club/art gallery/rehearsal space DD172, as well as against Dash himself. They cl ... More >>

New York City To Damon Dash: We'll See You In Court

​Damon Dash—fallen hip-hop mogul, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records—had a club not so long ago in Tribeca called DD172. SOTC alum Zach Baron referred to it as "gallery-cum-illegal-performance-space-cum-goofy-artless-takeoff-on-Warhol's-Factory," and the Observer called Dash a "Wann ... More >>

Ariel Panero Memorial Show, Featuring Tough Knuckles, Class Actress, and Tony Castles, Set For February 4-5 at Death By Audio

​It was just a month ago that NYC lost Ariel Panero, the audacious 25-year-old promoter and musician known for throwing shows Damon Dash's basement in Tribeca, performing in the band Tough Knuckles, managing Grooms, and generally being a warm and ubiquitous presence in the local DIY scene. Fri ... More >>

Remembering Ariel Panero: Damon Dash, These Are Powers, Grooms, and More on the Man Behind Less Artists More Condos

Ariel Panero, doing what he did. Photo via Facebook.​The news began to circulate on Tuesday--Ariel Panero, the audacious NYC promoter behind Less Artists More Condos, had passed away suddenly, at the age of 25. Two days later, the details of what exactly happened are still in part unknown. But ... More >>

Live: Maluca and AraabMusik Headline Our Own Personal Fashion's Night Out

AraabMuzik, dropping jaws​During Friday's Fashion's Night Out spectacular, we were faced with a dilemma: Should we head to SoHo to elbow our way through boutiques for a free cupcake, attempt to walk in heels around the cobblestone of the Meatpacking District, or wait in mobs of lines uptown ju ... More >>

Bun B Is Not Playing Saturday Afternoon's Rock Yard Show; Big K.R.I.T. And Curren$y Will Pick Up The Slack

​Per the folks at Jelly comes confirmation that deified Houston rapper Bun B (whose new Trill O.G. rates either five mics or a 5.0, depending) is not performing tomorrow afternoon at the Rock Yard, but the show will nonetheless go on:

Watch Dipset's Jim Jones Perform An Extremely Awkward Set at Death By Audio

Photo of Jim Jones covering "Six Pack" at Death By Audio by Rebecca Smeyne.​Three weeks ago, Dipset capo Jim Jones pulled up at Williamsburg's Death By Audio at around 1:15 a.m. on a Friday night, unfolded his lanky frame out of the passenger seat, strolled through a crowd of befuddled punk ro ... More >>

Dipset's Jim Jones and Dame Dash Crashed Das Racist's Show at Death By Audio on Friday Night

Jim Jones gives punk rock the gas face. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​These are strange, wonderful times for hip-hop fans in New York. Former Roc-a-Fella mogul and Jay-Z cohort Damon Dash is running a modern day version of Warhol's factory out of a rented loft in Tribeca. Curren$y kills time a ... More >>

Damon Dash's Tribeca Loft Will Be Auctioned Off Tomorrow

The loneliness of a former property owner. Photo by Raquel M. Horn.​Rap mogul turned downtown striver Damon Dash may be resurrected in the pages of this week's Voice, in which Ben Detrick chronicles the executive's self-reinvention as a cuddly Warhol figure, but the past isn't quite through wi ... More >>

Q&A: Curren$y and Producer Ski Beatz (and Damon Dash) Talk Pilot Talk, BluRoc, and Eating at Bubby's in Tribeca

Jonah Schwartz​Sir Lucious Leftfoot and Teflon Don have (justifiably) monopolized the conversation in recent weeks, but there's at least one other new hip-hop album worth clearing earspace for: Pilot Talk, a soothingly mellow alternative from the Damon Dash-backed Tribeca transplant Curren$ ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Damon Dash Resurrected, Best Coast and Wavves, Wayne Coyne, Rick Ross, and More

Dame and Tallulah. Not pictured: Sienna Miller. Photo by Raquel M. Horn.​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick profiles the post-Roc-a-Fella edition of Damon Dash as he haltingly embarks on a kinder, gentler comeback. Elsewhere, Sean Fennessey dissects the two halves of California's pre-em ... More >>

Damon Dash Resurrected

Cast out of Jay-Z's kingdom, a notorious hip-hop mogul takes a kinder, gentler, hipper approach to reinvention

SMOOTH MOVE

Artists groove to the same beat in different ways

Tickets On Sale at Noon for "Secret" Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two Release Party This Saturday at the Hudson Hotel's Good Units Space

​Also on the bill? Spank Rock, MNDR, and the Tony Castles, as presented by our old friends Less Artists More Condos, their Damon Dash-assisted alter ego Under 100, Under 100's more politically correct cover name--The Dash Gallery--and the Giant Step dudes. 9pm--tickets are only available in ad ... More >>

Week In Review: Rock 'n' Roll Is Here To Stay

My compatriots are either in Texas for SXSW or Mexico for MtyMx (reminder to Zach: Do not buy or sell drugs) at the moment, but it's beautiful out in NYC right now so I am surprisingly not bitter about being left here to recap a week marred, unfortunately, by the death of power-pop god Alex Chilto ... More >>

Damon Dash on Good Day New York: "I Haven't Had Money In So Long"

Look, OK, we've done our share of Dame Dash shaming--probably more than our share, if we're being honest--but can we just kind of all make a pact to let dude live? You know your hustle is a wrap when the three talking heads on Good Day New York are making fun of your divorce and ... More >>

Damon Dash's Basement, Where Facts Go to Die

These Are Powers play in the basement. Maybe. Who knows, really. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Truth is an ever-shifting creature in the confines of Damon Dash's infamous 172 Duane Street Tribeca loft. The venue began as Under 100, before we got the place (allegedly) shut down; shortly after that, ... More >>

Damon Dash's Under 100 Is Officially Back! Ava Luna Record Release Show There Tonight

We will all live to play more Big Buck Hunter in this space, guys. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​They told us we'd gotten it shut down. They told us that it was called DD172, and that it had become a "hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhatta ... More >>

Cancel That: Under 100 Is Officially Not Back, Tonight's Ava Luna Show Has Been Called Off Moved to the Silent Barn

Less Artists More Condos promoter Ariel Panero brings word: tonight's Ava Luna show with Suckers and Marnie Stern, heralded here just hours ago as the epic return of Damon Dash's Under 100 wonderland, has been shut down. Like we say around here, mea culpa. [Update: Silent Barn picked this one u ... More >>

Week in Review: DIY Snitchin

We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>

Week in Review: An Extra Side of Arrogance

R.I.P. Jay Reatard. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our American Idol recapper made it all the way to the BBC for calling Victoria Beckham's face "too crazy", we also tossed epithets in the direction of the Times, in solidarity with M.I.A., and toward Esquire, who this week were forced to ... More >>

Welcome to Damon Dash's DD172, New York's Last Line of Defense Against "Wack World"

The Under 100 office, not to be confused with this new DD172 thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Under 100, the DIY showspace run out of rap mogul Dame Dash's basement, may have disappeared into a December maelstrom of unwanted publicity, never to be spoken of again. But DD172--the suspiciously si ... More >>

WAX, ECSTATIC

Don't blink, or you'll miss Mos Def

Footage of Under 100's Final Show Surfaces

Well, probably the final show, anyway. [Update: Guess not. Word we just got says there was a Grooms, Ducktails, Talk Normal, and Marnie Stern show there last Saturday night. Has Dame changed his mind about shutting things down?] This These Are Powers/Cool Kids/Jay Electronica footage (not all from ... More >>

ABC No Rio Got An Anonymous Check for One Million Dollars Two Days Before Thanksgiving

No Dame Dash, no credit? Photo of punks outside ABC No Rio by Rebecca Smeyne.​Someone told me on the phone the other day that I'd "murdered the last DIY venue in Manhattan"--to which I probably should've retorted "second-to-last," as the nearly thirty year old punk space/community center ABC N ... More >>

Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul

Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>

Mea Culpa: How We Probably Got Dame Dash's Under 100 DIY Concert Venue Shut Down

Now Max B will never be able to break out prison and play Big Buck Hunter with Bradford Cox. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Well, it's not that complicated, really. A phone call from Under 100 promoter Ariel Panero broke the news yesterday: two letters from the community board, a soon-to-be irate la ... More >>

Photos of the Dame Dash DIY Hideout Under 100

Somewhere downstairs Erykah Badu is covering Pavement. All photos of Under 100 by Rebecca Smeyne.​Brief recap, from yesterday: Under 100, the city's newest and potentially only Manhattan-based DIY showspace, just happens to be located in the basement of one Damon Dash, former Jay-Z partner and ... More >>

The Wild and Wonderful Story of Under 100, the DIY Show Space in Dame Dash's Basement

Sleigh Bells perform at Under 100 in front of an extremely focused Ryan Schreiber. Photo by Rez Avissar/Pitchfork. Used by permission.​Greg Finch is the 20-year-old Pitchfork.tv intern who, along with Less Artists More Condos' Ariel Panero, runs Under 100, the DIY show space located in former ... More >>

Week in Review: Humming and Ready to Take Us On a Golden Ride Way Out Somewhere in the Yonder

​In the week we learned to our deep and lasting dismay what a Gummibar is, we counted down the worst songs of the '00s with the newly relocated F2K crew--peruse if you dare but do not blame us when you come in contact with something like "I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)," or are ina ... More >>

Here Is A Video of Sleigh Bells Playing in Dame Dash's Basement

"Infinity Guitars." Shot by some combination of Chocolate Bobka, Ray Concepcion, and Pitchfork's Tunnelvision, in the Pitchfork.tv affiliated rap basement/dungeon that is Under 100, about which we'll have more here shortly. Suffice to say that this is not where we would've imagined Dame Dash hangi ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rihanna, BlakRoc, Palin's Going Rogue, The Road, the Future of La MaMa, and More

Blakroc. This picture just stays being funny. Photo by Jonah Schwartz​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, Phillip Mlynar chats with the ... More >>

The Black Keys and Damon Dash Get to Know Each Other on BlakRoc

Week in Review: You Can’t Believe It

Jim Jones and Dame Dash Harness the Power of Words

Jamaican Mic Rocker Realizes Wet Dream

Status Ain't Hood is Worried About Beanie Sigel

Film

The Sound and the Grand Jury

Mock-doc rave flick deft but deafening, while Dash drug-biz pic sells Roc product, not plot

The Hiphop Cop

A Tale of NYPD's Rap Intelligence Unit

Fuck 'Em on the Dancefloor

Post-Disco Pervs Get Dicks in the Mix and Treat Cootchies Like a Maze

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Rave On!

The Princess Diaries

NY Mirror

The Highest, Most Exalted One

Aaliyah, 1979–2001

Playa Baiting