Co-Op 87 Putting a Good Spin on Vinyl
The sidewalk outside the entrance to Co-Op 87, covered with crates and boxes of $1 records, feels like your old college buddy’s apartment: stockpiles of stuff that live where it lands. But inside there’s a sense of cozy calm, like a warm library. That is, if libraries played loud post-punk albums.
Music: In Search of That Brooklyn Sound?
By Keith Higgons As we all recover from the CMJ Festival, which brings together bands from all over the world, I started thinking about bands like the recently retired R.E.M. and Pearl Jam,…
Nicole Atkins: Blues Girl
By Stacey Brook Nicole Atkins’ music has always leaned heavily on early 70s psychedelia and heaping doses of gutteral blues and leaping, honeyed soul, but her latest album Mondo Amore is also infused…
TV On The Radio: Broadcasting Loud and Clear in Nine Types of Light
By Benjamin Lozovsky On the evening of August 17, TV On The Radio performed to their seemingly loftiest height. With buzz steadily growing around blogs and social networks about a special event in…
Silicone Sisters Rock Band From Brooklyn
Photos and story by Luisa Caldwell Silicone Sisters, the self proclaimed “rock band from Brooklyn” played on Friday night at The Local 269 on East Houston (the former location of the lesbian hip bar…
The WG Goes to SXSW
Because we weren’t bringing you enough initials already, the WG News + Arts will be covering SXSW (South By Southwest) this week, straight from the eye of the cultural hurricane. In our fair…
Living, Breathing, Screaming Jazz Every Tues at Coco 66
St. Anthony’s Church strikes ten, and in the back room of Coco 66 in Greenpoint, heavy formica bar tables and flimsy matchbook chairs are the only audience members for three jazz musicians, a…
