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The Soulquarians: A Cultural Revolution in Soul and Hip-Hop
The late 1990s seemed like a revival for musical styles that had lost their prior appeal while also propelling…
ChamberQUEER 2025 Pride Festival: Queer Ancestry Across NYC
ChamberQUEER will celebrate Pride Month 2025 with Queer Ancestry, a festival highlighting LGBTQ+ excellence in…
New York Series: The Reflections “Union Sq.”
Brooklyn's indie rock duo, The Reflections, have released a video for "Union Sq." today, Thursday, July 25. It is…
New York Series: Bayside ‘Montauk’
While anyone who has had their heart broken knows that in time it is possible to love again, the song provides a…
New York Series: Billy Joel “New York State of Mind”
Among the songs that celebrate New York City, "New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel, from his 1976 album…
New York Series: The Beastie Boys ‘An Open Letter to NYC’
The overall message of the song is about how the cities’ fortitude comes from diversity, and that no matter what…
New York Series: Jennifer Lopez ‘Jenny From The Block’
It gives young listeners hope that, although they may be from a bad area and the future looks bleak, there is a way…
New York Series: Joni Mitchell ‘Woodstock’
Woodstock, for some reason, impressed me as being a modern miracle, like a modern day fishes-and-loaves story. For…
New York Series: Tom Waits ‘Downtown Train’
He is stuck living the same night over and over again, hoping for something new, but nothing new ever happens. In…
New York Series: Bruce Springsteen ‘New York Serenade’
Springsteen is an artist who writes for the workingman, the underdogs, and the underbelly of society. He writes to…
New York Series: LCD Soundsystem ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me…
He thumbs his nose at the city and the life he lives, but eventually concludes at the epiphany that maybe New York…
New York Series: The Rolling Stones ‘Memory Motel’
Everyone needs a vacation sometimes, even rock legends in their prime living outlandish fantasies common folk…
New York Series: The Ramones ‘Rockaway Beach’
“We started off just wanting to be a bubblegum group,” said Johnny Ramone. “We looked at the Bay City Rollers as…
From Bleecker to Ludlow – Change Documented Through Song
When writing about a specific place at a specific time, one manages to preserve that specific time in the art they…
New York Series: St. Vincent ‘New York’
"It’s very silly to make something like David Bowie’s death about me—it has nothing to do with me—but I will say…
New York Series: Lou Reed ‘Dirty Boulevard’
With New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic and parts of the city drifting towards a point of depression not…
In Focus: Organ Fairchild Jams Rochester
Buffalo-based jam band and winner of 2021 NYS Music March Madness, Organ Fairchild paid a visit to Rochester on…
Now Seems like a Good Time to Revisit “Which Side Are You On?”
With the moment in American history that we are experiencing right now - the return to the highest office in the…
The Warnings of Past Leaders: Gil Scott-Heron’s Revolution, Now Our Own
In times of revolution, those in upheaval look to the leaders of their communities for guidance and support. The…
New York Series: Rick James ‘Below the Funk (Pass the J)’
Many artists on the cusp of reaching their creative aspirations look forward, not backwards, to create their…