A new proposal to create 24-hour "nightlife districts" has been put forward in New York City.

Inspired by similar such areas in Berlin and Amsterdam, the move comes as part of a bid to help nightlife businesses get back on their feet as they reopen following over a year of sustained COVID-19-enforced closures. New York’s current licensing rules restrict alcohol from being sold at venues past 4am.

Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan and more feature in a new exhibition on early ‘80s New York music, which opened Friday 11th June.  

Held at the Museum of the City of New York, 'New York, New Music: 1980-86' promises to examine "the seismic creative revolution of New York City in the 1980s",  spanning formative house music and hip hop, the punk and new wave of CBGB, the last days of disco as once was and more. 

A new documentary about Larry Levan and Paradise Garage is available to watch online now.

Resident DJ at New York's Paradise Garage for a decade, the late Larry Levan, who died in 1992 aged just 38 years old, presided over a 'Saturday Mass' congregation of devoted dancers who listened to him define the art of DJing. 

TOKiMONSTA is heading to Brooklyn this May to play a special show as part of DJ Mag's 2020 Best Of North America Tour.

The New York City DJ Mag Presents show is the first to be announced in a run of dates that will see a number of DJ Mag favourites playing shows around the continent later this year.

TOKiMONSTA will DJ at Brooklyn venue Baby's All Right on Friday 1st May, with the night set to run from 11pm to 4am. Support will be announced at a later date, while further shows across the US and Canada will also be announced in the coming months.

Björk has produced an AI-assisted choral piece to be played in the lobby of New York City hotel Sister City.

Titled 'Kórsafan', the piece uses Microsoft AI to put together sounds pulled from 17 years worth of choral recordings made by Björk herself. It follows on from a similar installation at the hotel by Julianna Barwick last year. 

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is opening a new cafe in Brooklyn called Daymoves.

It's Murphy second venture into the restaurant business having also opened up a wine bar called The Four Horsemen in Williamsburg. The new cafe will involve the same team of owners and will open up next door to the wine bar.

If you’ve ever felt like simply looking at art wasn’t quite immersive enough, a new installation that lets you hear the artwork is something you might need to see.  

That’s the idea behind British multidisciplinary artist Oliver Beer’s new Vessel Orchestra, which turns 32 sculptures, vessels, and decorative pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art into a musical instrument.

How, exactly, does Beer play a bunch of priceless artefacts from the 8th century B.C. without accidentally turning them into dust? 

The Notorious B.I.G. is to have a Brooklyn street named after him.

The Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation revealed that the Fulton Street intersection between Gates Avenue on BK's St. James Place - where the New York rapper once called home - will formally be changed to Christopher Wallace Way on 10th June

The news came on what would have been the New York rapper's 47th birthday.

Born Christopher George Latore Wallace, Biggie was born in 1972 and was murdered in 1997, aged 24.