April 2010 archive

RIP Guru: Beloved Music Pioneer Passes Away at 43

Rapper and music visionary Guru passed away on Monday at age 43, from complications due to cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NYC.

AKA Keith Elam, Guru was one half of Gang Starr, his fruitful collaboration with DJ Premier. Jazzmatazz project saw him working with a long list of Read more...

On The Record: Producer Jim Keller On Demander’s Future Brite

EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: NYC rock trio, Demander, officially release their second full-length record, Future Brite, today. This bad-ass East Village band has a refreshingly hard-edged, melodic rock sound, combining the sweet (Kathleen Hanna-meets-Karen O) punk-rock-howl of lead vocalist/bassist, Karen Kanan Correa, the thunderous rock drumming of Sivan Harlap and Read more...

Rufus Wainwright & The Making of “Songs for Lulu”: A Tale of Five Pianos at Sear Sound

HELL’S KITCHEN: Only the eclectically exacting environment of Sear Sound would do for the likes of Rufus Wainright. When it came time to record the purely fascinating sounds of the newly released All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu, NYC’s bastion of sonic succulence was the natural choice.

Consisting only Read more...

1 4 5 6 7 8 15

sponsored