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Stereo Systems

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Live: Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience Crashes In Brooklyn

    Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience Irondale Center Wednesday, April 4 (Not) better than: Standing up. Outer space is just like sitting uncomfortably on a concrete floor while gazing up at a disbanded church's raggedy ceiling that also happens to be peppered with holes poking through to t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    Kid Koala

    Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience Irondale Center Wednesday, April 4 (Not) better than: Standing up. Outer space is just like sitting uncomfortably on a concrete floor while gazing up at a disbanded church's raggedy ceiling that also happens to be peppered with holes poking through to t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 7, 2012

    'Mr. Saturday Night' w/ Archie Pelago

    Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience Irondale Center Wednesday, April 4 (Not) better than: Standing up. Outer space is just like sitting uncomfortably on a concrete floor while gazing up at a disbanded church's raggedy ceiling that also happens to be peppered with holes poking through to t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 8, 2012

    BEAT THE BEAT

    The couple that fist pumps together, stays together

  • Music

    November 16, 2011
  • Music

    September 28, 2011

    Geoff Barrow's Sour Rhymes

    The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    X-Ray Eyeballs

    The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2011

    'Summerstage Festival: ChocQuibTown+Rita Indiana+Ursula 1000+Que Bajo?'

    The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

  • Voice Choices

    June 22, 2011

    'Summerstage Festival: RAM+Group Doueh+Baloji'

    The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Kool Herc's Top Three Old-School New York Hip-Hop Venues

    ​Kool Herc plays the genesis figure in hip-hop's fable; the first party the Jamaican-born, Bronx-raised DJ threw in the recreation room of his building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in 1973 is credited with formalizing the genre. From behind two turntables Herc spun the short, percussive sections of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Live: JayCeeOh Prevails At The Slightly Ridiculous McDonald's "Flavor Battle"

    Best DJ-booth setup of all time. Pics by Puja, more below.​The Flavor Battle Arena Tuesday, January 11 Better Than: A Chik-fil-A DJ battle. We're secretly reveling in the recent emergence of DJs as hip purveyors all that is "cool." So when we heard that McDonalds and Complex were throwing a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2010

    'Free the Music Presents Brothers' Vibe'

    Best DJ-booth setup of all time. Pics by Puja, more below.​The Flavor Battle Arena Tuesday, January 11 Better Than: A Chik-fil-A DJ battle. We're secretly reveling in the recent emergence of DJs as hip purveyors all that is "cool." So when we heard that McDonalds and Complex were throwing a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2010

    'Ninja Tune XX Anniversary Presents Amon Tobin+Kid Koala'

    Best DJ-booth setup of all time. Pics by Puja, more below.​The Flavor Battle Arena Tuesday, January 11 Better Than: A Chik-fil-A DJ battle. We're secretly reveling in the recent emergence of DJs as hip purveyors all that is "cool." So when we heard that McDonalds and Complex were throwing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Details About Why Bull Moose Saloon Booted The Gays

    ​You read here about how the HK bar Bull Moose Saloon decided to cater to a gay crowd, until the owner had a change of heart and banished them from the premises. Well, Jake Levy, who was involved in the boite's reimagining, just gave me the inside scoop, as it involved a friend of his who he' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Last Night: A Wednesday Night Out On The L.E.S., Featuring A Secret Entrance, Wobbly Dancers, And One Awful Bouncer

    ​Above, the scene at Ella; below, the nefarious Corona-based secret door at Stay. Pics by Puja. ​New York City's downtown party scene adheres to a finely tuned set of rules. It's one of those things that everyone understands and no one talks about--a delicate balance of power that's main ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Central Park SummerStage Finds A New Way To Avoid Antagonizing Its Neighbors: A $250,000 Soundsystem

    The Dirty Projectors last summer, apparently pissing someone off royally. Pic by Abbey Braden.​Folks on Fifth Avenue apparently complained, so this summer, when Pavement finally arrives to play those shows you bought tickets for a half-year ago, a new quarter-million-dollar soundsystem will en ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2010

    'Uptown/Downtown Presents Todd Edwards, Michna, Reid Speed & Maluca'

    The Dirty Projectors last summer, apparently pissing someone off royally. Pic by Abbey Braden.​Folks on Fifth Avenue apparently complained, so this summer, when Pavement finally arrives to play those shows you bought tickets for a half-year ago, a new quarter-million-dollar soundsystem will en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

    ​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    Que Bajo?!

    ​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    'Reggaeholics: Who Dem Ah Say Di Gals Can't Play?'

    ​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2010

    'Basic NYC Presents Ben Sims'

    ​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Dre Day: A Fine Holiday Only Slightly Marred By The Whole Wet-T-Shirt-Contest Thing

    all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithThat illustrious Wet T-shirt contest Dre Day--the holiday, not the song--was first celebrated in 2003. Life Sucks Die magazine's Andrew Broder had recently released a song called "What a Day Day" (under the pseudonym Fog), soliciting a slew of puns from his coworkers: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Times Talks Vinyl with J&R, Best Buy; Downtown Record Store Owner Has a Different Take

    ​The New York Times says vinyl is hot again. Not only old-fashioned record sales but also turntables sales are up. (The 35 percent lift in LP sales still doesn't put vinyl above 1 percent of the music market, but it's exciting nonetheless.) They talk to J&R Music, which normally sells CDs, an ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2009

    'Verboten Presents Ida Engberg'

    ​The New York Times says vinyl is hot again. Not only old-fashioned record sales but also turntables sales are up. (The 35 percent lift in LP sales still doesn't put vinyl above 1 percent of the music market, but it's exciting nonetheless.) They talk to J&R Music, which normally sells CDs, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Live: Tears, Mind-Blowing Routines, And Intense Unity At The Roc Raida Tribute

    ​ DJ Scratch, doing the classics, to robust crowd approval. Pics by Puja Patel, more below.​ Roc Raida Tribute B.B. King's Thurday, October 22 The line outside B.B. King's last night for the Roc Raida tribute--celebrating the beloved turntable king who died September 19--took up half an ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2009

    'Basic NYC Presents Jeff Mills'

    ​ DJ Scratch, doing the classics, to robust crowd approval. Pics by Puja Patel, more below.​ Roc Raida Tribute B.B. King's Thurday, October 22 The line outside B.B. King's last night for the Roc Raida tribute--celebrating the beloved turntable king who died September 19--took up half an ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    Robert Glasper Experiment

    ​ DJ Scratch, doing the classics, to robust crowd approval. Pics by Puja Patel, more below.​ Roc Raida Tribute B.B. King's Thurday, October 22 The line outside B.B. King's last night for the Roc Raida tribute--celebrating the beloved turntable king who died September 19--took up half an ... More >>

  • Music

    July 28, 2009

    How to Be a Japanese Reggaephile

    Step one: Move to Kingston or Brooklyn, and try not to get killed

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2009

    IN THE DUB

    Reggae returns to Santos'

  • Voice Choices

    March 11, 2009

    Bernard Fowler+Tackhead

    Reggae returns to Santos'

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Daptone Records Robbed; Impending Rod Stewart Session in Jeopardy

    Daptone flagship crew Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. CREDIT. From Brooklyn Vegan comes the dismaying news that retro-soul titans Daptone Records suffered a traumatic break-in over the weekend at their Bushwick headquarters, leading to a tremendously heartbreaking list of lost (and uninsured) equi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Daptone Records Robbed, Imperiling Rod Stewart Sessions

    Daptone Records, the Bushwick analog recording mecca used by Amy Winehouse and the Dap-Kings, got robbed last night, reports Brooklyn Vegan. The haul is impressive: Fender amps, computers, turntables, phone and modem equipment, mics, turntables -- even their Baldwin organ was "tossed and is probably ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 4, 2009

    Michna

    Daptone Records, the Bushwick analog recording mecca used by Amy Winehouse and the Dap-Kings, got robbed last night, reports Brooklyn Vegan. The haul is impressive: Fender amps, computers, turntables, phone and modem equipment, mics, turntables -- even their Baldwin organ was "tossed and is probably ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 24, 2008

    Voodoo Culture Clash New Year's Eve

    Daptone Records, the Bushwick analog recording mecca used by Amy Winehouse and the Dap-Kings, got robbed last night, reports Brooklyn Vegan. The haul is impressive: Fender amps, computers, turntables, phone and modem equipment, mics, turntables -- even their Baldwin organ was "tossed and is probably ... More >>

  • Music

    May 8, 2007

    More tough talk from America's catchiest badasses

    Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight

  • Music

    October 3, 2006

    Pure Percussive Pleasure

    Kenny and Louie's joyous retro reboots dominate clubs and living rooms alike

  • Music

    February 7, 2006

    Celebrity Spin

    Rock Stars Are Not DJs—But DJs Are Rock Stars

  • Music

    December 27, 2005

    House Call

    Brooklyn outsider performs surgery on Jamaica's formula

  • News

    May 25, 2004

    King of Clubs

    David Mancuso's Disco Wonderland

  • Music

    March 23, 2004

    Outcats Inc.

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • NYC Life

    November 5, 2002

    Listings

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • NYC Life

    July 2, 2002

    Listings

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • Home

    June 4, 2002

    Don't Stop Living in the Red

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • NYC Life

    February 12, 2002

    Listings

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • Music

    February 5, 2002

    Play Mixy for Me

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Listings

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • NYC Life

    February 6, 2001

    Listings

    The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

  • Music

    September 19, 2000

    Dancehall Daze

    Toasters Catch Fire, Burn Down Wall

  • Theater

    July 13, 1999

    Garage Music

    The Wooster Group’s Emerging Artist Series

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