Solar One, New York City’s first solar-powered arts and education center, kicked off its annual Citysol festival yesterday. In what the Times calls "Live Earth without the hype", the four d...
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"It's not ghetto music. It's not R&B. It's project music." Bounce Music is the grimey/ghetto dance music straight out of New Orleans. According to the film Ya Heard Me, "Bounce is not just...
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A powerful example of where creative and social worlds collide comes from Emmanuel Jal, a former child-soldier of Sudan who has incorporated his experience into his hip hop lyrics, and his solo albu...
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It all goes down tonight. The Canal Room, 4 bands of kids, 4 celebrity artists, lots of fun and a ton of good. In an early entrée to the Canal Room, four bands of students from Education Through...
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After hearing Pumpkin Patch spin at the NYC CFD, we had to find out a little more about the label behind the beats. And we’re not the only ones. Dgenetics Musics, comprised of four artists, Fior...
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So for the last six months we've been working through the night, under cars and in back alleys to bring you a new project. We've teamed up with NYC non-profit Education Through Music (ETM) to pre...
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We heart Hype Machine, so naturally we're psyched about this necklace bearing their bubble. But here's the kicker, it's made out of recycled vinyl records (guess not all vinyl's bad for you). Crea...
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