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Northside Festival Grows Up

For fans of indie music, Brooklyn's Northside Festival has always been the scruffy little sister to CMJ, filling the clubs of Greenpoint and Williamsburg each June with a woolly mix of […]

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Brooklyn, Brooklyn Takes In The Avett Brothers

by Brian Corliss Photo credit: Billboard.com The Avett Brothers brought their distinctive brand of Southern rock to New York City Friday night for an incredible show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center that was both chaotic

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Ear Heart Music: Del Sol String Quartet Performs New Works

Picture this: Veteran Bay Area string quartet visits New York with a program of recent work incorporating elements from a variety of musical traditions, presented with evocative stage lighting and

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Stars of the Lid and Wordless Music Orchestra at Brooklyn’s Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

More than 1,100 souls trudged their way through the snow last night to the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in South Brooklyn to hear ambient duo Stars of

Tags: ambient, brooklyn, new music, Stars of the Lid, Worless Music Orchestra

Jacco Gardner at Death By Audio

by Nick Fallon Psychedelic rock is definitely on its way back, and Jacco Gardner is going to be one of the names that you'll need to know in this musical

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New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks 2013

The NY Phil made their triumphant return to the Borough City of Brooklyn (thanks for the correction, Marty Markowitz) last night for the first of their annual series of Concerts in

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Erykah Badu Causes “Quite a Disturbance” with Brooklyn Philharmonic

by Melanie Wong Photo credit: Benjamin Sutton Grammy Award-winning "Queen of Neo-soul" Erykah Badu joined forces with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn-based composer Ted Hearne this past weekend at BAM's Howard

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Bodyparts, Thrillington, Marcos Napa & Jonathan Pfeffer at Secret Project Robot

by Craig Brinker Last night's show at Bushwick's Secret Project Robot was a typical Brooklyn lineup of atypical bands, featuring Afro-punk headliners Bodyparts celebrating the release of their newest LP, Sell by

Tags: Afro-Peruvian, Bodyparts, brooklyn, electronic, experimental, indie rock, Jonathan Pfeffer, Marcos Napa, Secret Project Robot, Thrillington

New Yorkers Gravitate towards Diarrhea Planet at Death By Audio

By Melissa Caruso On JEFF the Brotherhood’s Infinity Cat label, you’ll find Diarrhea Planet, a band that sounds like what would happen had Beavis and Butthead moved to Nashville and

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