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Week of JUL 17 Finding Hip-Hop's Beginning in Afrika Bambaataa's 40,000-Deep Record Collection Rachell Morillo Endless rows of brand-new white cardboard boxes stacked chest-high greet you as you walk into Gavin Brown's Enterprise, a posh art gallery on Greenwich. An amber-haired archivist in his early 30s gingerly scans the contents of one the boxes, fishes out a vinyl record, and hands it to me. It's a dog-eared and dusty copy of the Shaft in Africa soundtrack, the last in the trilogy of films, largely forgettable in comparison to its ubiquitous, self-titled progenitor. I hand the record back, and he... Read More >> Advertisement Music Blog: Sound of the City 2 Chainz Advice: When the Guns Come Out, Run July 18, 2013 Though critics may argue 2 Chainz's music is a "lesson in thematic narrowness," the man once referred to as Tity Boi [even by his own parents] makes some strong points to the contrary. Talk with Chain... Read More >> The 21 Biggest Egos in the History of Pop Music July 18, 2013 Egos have been around for a long time. Odysseus had an ego, Louis XIV had an ego, Wu Zeitan had an ego. For as long as we've recorded history, there have been people feeling themselves, sometime for g... Read More >> The Midwest Comes to Greenpoint With Lake Street July 18, 2013 The announcement that some musicians from the Midwest were opening a Greenpoint bar called Lake Street after a major thoroughfare in Minneapolis got some mixed reactions online. Comments ran the gamut... Read More >> Why Alice Cooper is Wrong About Mumford & Sons July 18, 2013 In a recent interview with Fuse, Alice Cooper said calling Mumford & Sons a rock band is an "offense to rock 'n' roll." Boy oh boy! Now, we love us some Alice. He's a legend (and former boss). In fact... Read More >>		Share & Email Connect Upcoming Shows THU 7:30pm The Tiger Lillies+Cynthia Hopkins at Prospect Park Bandshell   FRI 8pm Justin Timberlake+Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium   SAT 7pm Jonas Brothers at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater   SUN 7pm Sound It Out at Greenwich House Music School   MON 6pm fun.+Tegan and Sara at Pier 26   TUE 6pm Train+The Script+Gavin DeGraw at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater   WED 5:30pm New Order+Holy Ghost! at Williamsburg Park   Featured Events FRI 08/02 4:30am Enter to win VIP tickets to Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell

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