Music

With the demise of Kim’s and the Barnard administration’s treatise on music piracy in undergraduate mailboxes, it seems that prospects for obtaining new music are slim.

On Sundays this summer, Bedford Avenue swarmed with hipsters heading west—of Bedford, that is. Every summer since 2006, McCarren Park Pool has been home to the vastly popular, free JellyNYC Pool Parties, though on August 25, the pool was unfortunately shuttered as a concert venue.

When Vampire Weekend debuted at number 16 on the Billboard charts, I was admittedly shocked. The band that had put out the self-recorded EP I listened to all summer was now a Billboard topper?

Frustrating music critics since 2002, RjD2 is nearly impossible to place neatly within a genre. His cut-and-paste masterpieces leap quickly from hip-hop to electronic to soul and back again. Nonetheless, RjD2 has become a superstar DJ with one of music’s most diverse fan-bases.

The Brazilian Girls headline the Studio B Rooftop Launch Party. Other acts are slated to perform, but does it really matter?

The Boredoms are a slippery bunch to pin down.

Sometimes the most surprising performance is also the best. On Wednesday, as part of a series of events focused on honoring Paul Simon’s musical legacy, Josh Groban sat down at the piano and played such a heart-wrenching rendition of “America” that some audience members stood up to applaud the young heartthrob.

When the term “indie” was first used in the music industry, it meant something very specific—a band or artist who was unsigned or signed to a small, little-known record label.

All baggy-jeans-wearing, boom-box-toting, hip-hop-loving suburban kids owe both their fashion and their attitude to Run-DMC.

The Ridgewood Masonic Temple is a historic wood-paneled old site in the middle of Brooklyn, which is not built for these kinds of shenanigans.