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koolgrap

Lead single 'Fly Till I Die' sees the Queens MC team up with fellow hip-hop legend Big Daddy Kane

Kool G Rap has announced details of his sixth solo album. The Queens, New York MC, who began his career in the mid-’80s as one...

Premiere: Alien D ‘Giggle’

NYC labels link up as Sweat Equity co-founder Alien D makes his solo debut on Sorry Records

Alien D will release a new EP via New York’s Sorry Records this week. Listen to the opening track, ‘Giggle’, below. The DJ and producer...

Lauren Flax: intention is everything

After years of devotion to New York's club scene, Detroit-born Lauren Flax is more passionate than ever, with acid techno tracks to be perfected, causes to be fought, and lives to be saved through her harm reduction initiative. This month, she shares her journey with Bruce Tantum

It’s a Friday night at Brooklyn’s Public Records, and Lauren Flax is in her element. The dancefloor is packed, the room is dark, the fog...

Beyoncé's 'BREAK MY SOUL' remixed by Honey Dijon, Nita Aviance and Terry Hunter: LISTEN

The lead single from 'RENAISSANCE' is a house music melting pot

Beyoncé has released a selection of remixes of the single 'BREAK MY SOUL', the lead single from her seventh studio album, 'RENAISSANCE'. Honey Dijon, The...

New record store, Octopus Records, opens in Brooklyn

The previously online-only vinyl shop opened a storefront on Irving Street in Bushwick this past weekend

There's a new record store in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighbourhood. Octopus Records, an online vinyl shop originally launched in 2019, opened its own storefront last week...

jamesk

It drops via Anthony Naples and Jenny Slattery’s Incienso imprint in September

james K has announced details of her forthcoming second album, 'Random Girl'. Accompanying the announcement is the video for lead single 'Eiv Mude', which you...

Brooklyn Record Exchange

The new site is located at the Greenpoint office of partner label Mexican Summer 

Brooklyn Record Exchange has opened a new store in New York City. The team opened their first shop three years ago, operating in the same...

Recognise: Analog Soul

Two decades since they realised their destinies lay in music and DJing, NYC-based twins, Analog Soul, demonstrate their expansive and funk-filled sound for the Recognise mix series, and share their journey with Ria Hylton

Some 20 years ago, Jacky Sommer switched US coasts and headed east to New York. The Oakland native had just scooped a highly sought-after spot...

Legendary New York club director Steve Adelman announces memoir

Adelman ran several iconic venues including Limelight and Tunnel in the 1980s and 1990s

New York club director Steve Adelman has announced details of his new memoir. Having run four of the NYC's biggest clubs - Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium...

Collage of photos taken by Bill Bernstein

Bill Bernstein dedicated three years of his life to capturing the essence of the ‘70s New York disco scene. Here, Simon Doherty talks to him about some of his most iconic photographs, including images of Studio 54, Larry Levan, Odyssey Disco Club Dancefloor — made famous by Saturday Night Fever in 1977 — and more

The year was 1977. The disco scene was peaking, bringing with it unprecedented levels of euphoria. A specific set of sociological conditions (post-Stonewall riot, post-onset...

New club, Paragon, opens in New York

From the team behind the indefinitely closed Bossa Nova Civic Club

A new club, Paragon, has opened in New York. Paragon is a multi-storey space located on Broadway in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighbourhood. It's the newest project...

Fresh Kicks 173: Olive T

New York’s Olive T records an hour of mood-lifting, ceiling-smacking house and techno for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Anna Wall about her varied early influences, her The Lot Radio show and her evolving musical output

Olive T is an underground hero in her hometown of New York. Releasing on widely respected imprints such as Nervous Records and Mike Simonetti’s 2MR...

nyc_new

More than 75% of the city's residents fully vaccinated

New York City has lifted its vaccine requirements for entertainment venues. From 7th March, clubs and live gig spaces, as well as bars, restaurants, and...

jammasterjay

It comes 18 months after two men were charged with the 2002 killing of the New York DJ

The murder trial of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay has been scheduled for September. 18 months on from two men being charged with the 2002 killing...

Betty Davis Dies

RIP to a trailblazing artist

Betty Davis, a pioneer of the late-1960s and 70s funk scene, has died aged 77. According to Rolling Stone, close friend and ethnomusicologist, Danielle Maggio...

KIM ANH ‘HOUSE OF VIRGO’

New York’s Kim Anh launches her CAN U NOT TALK label with four cuts of sumptuous vocal house and breakbeats. Hear the thumping ‘House of Vertigo’ now

New York-based DJ, producer and vocalist Kim Anh will launch her new label, CAN U NOT TALK, this week with the release of her ‘After...

A GoFundMe has been launched to raise funds for venue, staff and tenants of the building 

Brooklyn venue Bossa Nova Civic Club will be shut for a “notable amount of time” after a catastrophic fire in its building, it has been...

A limited-edition version of the release includes a fragrance inspired by rave culture

DJ Python has announced details of a new EP, 'Club Sentimientos Vol 2', on New York label Incienso.

The producers first solo record since 2020's 'Mas...

The statue is located in the New York Borough of Queens

A solar powered statue of LL Cool J is on display in New York.

Currently installed at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, the Bronze...

Jayda G, Hodge, India Jordan and more will play the club over the coming months

New York club Elsewhere has revealed the line-ups for its upcoming winter party season.

Across December, January and February, the Brooklyn venue will host the...