Issa Israel broke down for me the vision of Dirty Triff:
“It was a term I coined while making music with B-Banga. I wanted to use a word to describe the lifestyle that I felt that the young artists of the city were going through while...
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09 January 2014
Guess what Joe Peppercorn's 12-hour Beatles tribute at the Bluestone the last Saturday of 2013 took me back to?
My Beatles-loving childhood? Well, of course. But that wasn't the biggest--or best--surprise of the night.
The music?...
09 January 2014
Everything I know about jazz I've learned from watching Treme on HBO. That fact not withstanding, I spent the evening of Wednesday December 18th, 2013 at the Brothers Drake Meadery and Bar absorbing the Ben Johnson Quartet. This experience...
19 December 2013
Christina C. (aka DJ ORORO) spins Funky/Disco/Soulful/Deep House. DJ Ororo is one of four people who, along with all their house heads, form ReStart, which they do at a lovely little spot called Brothers Drake. It's located at 26th E. 5th...
19 December 2013
It wasn't supposed to be this way, it really wasn't. You've GOT to believe me, I beg you.
But what you're about to read is the first negative review of a Christmas benefit in the history of this fascist construct of white male supremacy...
19 December 2013
R. Stevie Moore transformed Double Happiness into a grandpa’s living room Friday.
Before settling into a mixture of warm but warped melodies and stream of consciousness poetry the revered, and influential outsider musician walked around...
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