Last week, SF Weekly made a desperate plea to save a Brooklyn woman from a dire fate indeed. Marian Berelowitz wrote to the New…
Last summer, Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls wowed the tiniest music blogs and The New York Times with a mix of '60s surf-rock, shit-tons of…
Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Kingdom is unafraid to indulge in guilty musical pleasures like mixing American R&B and U.K. garage divas Aaliyah and Jazmine…
Sprawling Brooklyn outfit the Phenomenal Handclap Band may touch on the neo–No Wave thump popularized by DFA Records, but the eclectic octet draws on…
The music of Brooklyn art-drone quartet Psychic Ills has been described as “shamanic,” with its compositional approach compared to astral traveling. The cover of…
Comedy may be tragedy plus time, but sometimes a tragedy is so immense that it can only devolve into savage farce. Donald Margulies' The…
You can easily call Richie Havens a folksinger. He is, after all, an acoustic-guitar–playing Boomer. But you can't call him typical: His distinctive style…
Marco Benevento has been whipping up a joyful maelstrom of heavily processed Hammond B-3 organ and Wurlitzer electric piano since first joining forces with…
Sharon Jones is the queen of funk, the godmother of soul, the preacherwoman of sweat-steeped gospel. Hailing from Georgia via Brooklyn, the vocalist gives…
Brooklyn's Thorns of Life is the stuff of punk fantasy. Frontman Blake Schwarzenbach rose to icon status via the raw sincerity of San Francisco's…
