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Queens rapper Rome Streetz’s new single “Cocaine Coltraine” is hitting the airwaves, a must-listen for any jazz hip-hop fan. The single comes from his upcoming album, Sock It To My Pocket, out on July 17. Rome Streetz originally…
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NYC-based harpist, singer-songwriter, and composer Stephanie Babirak shared her new single “Moon River” on May 22. Additionally, she has an upcoming album, Rotten Fruit, that will be released on June 12. “Moon River” is connected…
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New York City-based singer-songwriter Mark Ambor released a new single, “New York Confident,” on Friday, May 22, a folk pop song that reflects pride in the city. Produced alongside frequent collaborator Noel Zancanella and…
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New York rock trio Joudy released their new single “Three Dollar Bill” on May 20. The track comes ahead of their upcoming album Permanent Maintenance, which will be released on July 24 through Trash Casual. The band will also play an album…
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New Yorker Brian Cullman is a true rock ‘n roll Zelig. Like the character from the Woody Allen film of the same name, Cullman has built friendships with a remarkable array of figures central to the past six decades of popular music, from…
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Music has always been a vehicle for telling stories – of love and heartbreak, of history and fantasy, and much more. Sometimes the stories can be related in a tuneful single lasting under three minutes. In other cases, beginning in…
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While his work with The Cars produced some of the best-known music of the New Wave ‘80s, many facets of the life of the band’s resident genius, Ric Ocasek, remain a mystery – one as tall as the man himself. With his unexpected death in…
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For the third show of Trey Anastasio Band's inaugural Winter Tour, the band arrived in New York City for a show at Roseland Ballroom, on Friday, February 23, 2001. And being back in Manhattan would also allow Anastasio and Co. the…
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From 1986 until 2014, David Letterman would close out his final show of the year with a Christmas episode that featured the one and only Darlene Love. Over the span of those 28 years, Love would perform her holiday hit "Christmas (Baby…
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After two previous shows at SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island in 1967 and '68, the Grateful Dead returned to the campus gymnasium in 1970 on October 30. It was billed as two separate shows with two separate admissions. This marked the first…
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Legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, born and raised in New York City, is dead at age 95. The jazz legend, nicknamed the "saxophone colossus,” died Monday, May 25 at his home in Woodstock. Credit: Tom Beetz Throughout…
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Rob Base, best known for classic hip-hop tracks "It Takes Two" and "Joy and Pain", has passed away in a private battle with cancer. The rapper, born in Harlem, celebrated his 59th birthday on May 18. The news was shared by Base's family…
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Guitarist, singer and jam band icon, Bob Weir, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday evening. He was 78. Weir performed for more than 60 years, defining a generation through his music, giving a multitude of fans worldwide a connection and…
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