Love in the key of G train: Two Brooklyn Valentine’s playlists for lovers and broken hearts
Hello, friends and lovers. Valentine's Day is uponst us. It's a day that means a lot of things for a…
Category: Music
Musicians Talk Making It: Williamsburg’s Big Quiet on how to get so popular people throw bras at you
Marisa Cerio, frontlady of Williamsburg-based Big Quiet says that the best way to get started in music is just to…
New Music Tuesday: NYC natives The Prettiots herald dark-cute pop
This week, we talk to Kay Kasperhauser of Brooklyn-based duo The Prettiots, recommended for fans of ukuleles, Sylvia Plath, temporary tattoos,…
New Music Tuesday: DIY one-woman band of Bushwick’s Emily Wells
Greetings! I, Lilly Vanek, am here with the triumphant return of New Music Tuesday, where we introduce you to the…
Musicians talk making It: Bushwick’s Fern Mayo says ‘It’s a sharing economy. Be kind to people’
It's our second installment of Musicians Talk Making It, where we sit down with a local Brooklyn musician to talk…
Musicians talk making it: Brooklyn punks CUTTERS say ‘there is an audience for everything’
We live in a city rife with creativity. Creativity takes many forms: from your cousin’s girlfriend selling her homemade succulent necklaces at…
Don’t pay to play! 8 music venues you can book for free
Imagine that you're a musician in New York City, home of 8,000 bands trying to play the same venues, and…
Hip-hop, punk and a pizza fest: The 11 best sub-$10 shows in Brooklyn in November
In case anyone forgot, we live in New York City, home of some of the best live music in the…
The stupid things people say to female musicians in NYC
My mom was a drummer in a 90s girl band, which played everywhere from my hometown of Baltimore to CBGB to…
Billing me softly: Got no dough? Put these songs on the stereo
The rent may be too damn high, but music is practically free these days. If that's not enough to cheer…