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Past articles by Silas:

Outside Lands 2019 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever

Saturday saw Outside Lands' largest audience yet with a reported 90,000-plus concertgoers in awe of Childish Gambino's marquee performance. → Read More

10 Winning Places in NYC To Eat, Drink and Watch Super Bowl 50

Consider this list your culinary play-by-play for food, fun and games on Super Bowl Sunday in NYC. → Read More

Mumford & Sons Set to Open Forest Hills Stadium's 2016 Season

Forest Hills Stadium has just announced its first show of the summer, and Mumford & Sons will be kicking off its 2016 season on June 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on February 3, and the price will set fans of these folkies back $70 a piece. The show... → Read More

Chelsea's Flash Factory Is a 'Mixture of Congregation and Burning Man'

Michael Satsky was on the move. He had just left a meeting with the NYPD in which the nightlife connoisseur discussed details for January 23 – what was to be the grand opening for his newest venue, Flash Factory – and it was a long two days between Saturday and... → Read More

Parquet Courts Will Play a Secret Show Tonight At Baby’s All Right

Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts have just announced a last-minute show tonight at Baby’s All Right with Soda and B Boys opening. Baby’s is no stranger to announcing day-of gigs for high-caliber indie artists; just last December, Blood Orange popped by during the week of his two sold-out Apollo Theater performances, and... → Read More

Kanye West to Debut New Album ‘Swish’ With MSG Extravaganza

Yeezy season is approaching, and its surrounding hysteria makes Storm Jonas look like it was little more than a dusting. Kanye West has just announced t... → Read More

Norton Records Sets Up Shop in Prospect Heights

While the East Coast was battening down the hatches for a hefty weekend storm, specialty label Norton Records was doing the opposite: opening up shop. The independent outfit, which has made its name as the definitive provider of rockabilly reissues from the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies, unveiled its first storefront,... → Read More

Today Is Officially David Bowie Day in New York City

January 20, 2016 will officially do down in the online encyclopedia books as David Bowie Day in New York City. Tonight, before curtain call of the ... → Read More

These Are the Best Unexpected Covers of Eagles of Death Metal's 'I Love You All the Time'

These bands aren't as popular as Florence + the Machine or Imagine Dragons, but they've contributed lovely covers of "I Love You All the Time" to Eagles... → Read More

With Pork Belly Sandwiches, Bunk Links Brooklyn with the Other Brooklyn

It begins with the bread — an often-overlooked aspect of sandwich design, it brings condiments and meats together. For Giorgio Angelini, managing partner of Bunk Sandwiches (740 Driggs Avenue; 347-763-0434), bread is not only an introduction to a sandwich, but serves as an example of how a cherished Portland, Oregon... → Read More

How Hannah Montana & Ad-Rock Uncorked Champagne Jerry's Career

It’s two weeks to the day until Christmas, and the self-described “greatest rapper in the world” is living up to his name but in an entirely different context. Today he’s wrapping presents for his son. “It’s a big afternoon at the Champagne Quarters,” he says, offering the first of various... → Read More

After 17 Years, the Living Room Closes Its Doors

On December 8, the Living Room announced via Facebook that it will close by the end of the year. This announcement arrives a mere fourteen months since the music venue and club reopened in Williamsburg, a relocation made after originally operating for fifteen years in the Lower East Side. Staking... → Read More

You’ve Got Song: How Emerging Duo Stolen Jars Wrote an Album via Email

As long as they have WiFi, Stolen Jars can continue crafting their sharp indie pop indefinitely. Dropbox and emails are how Cody Fitzgerald and Molly Grund collaborate while living in separate states, and the duo compiled the material from the past three years into Kept, their splendid sophomore effort self-released... → Read More

Why Elvis Guesthouse Is an East Village Venue Worth Fighting For

Beneath Avenue A in the East Village lies an unmarked basement bar and venue. From the entrance, just about every square inch of the interior can be observed, save for the bathroom. It's a narrow chamber sporting baby-pink walls covered in a series of symbols and characters. One corner offers... → Read More

The Living Library Continues to Weave Music and Movement Together With Vol. 2

Sarah Kinlaw and Bryan Wade Keller Jr. didn’t launch their experimental art pop band SOFTSPOT for the sake of world domination. They just wanted to explore the world on a budget. “We started SOFTSPOT as a means to travel and not be broke. That’s essentially why we hurriedly finished up... → Read More

Is Elvis Guesthouse All Right?

Local dance rock group Controller were excited. They had just finished up their new album, No Future EP, and were all set for its release party at the East Village highlight Elvis Guesthouse, but in a matter of days everything spun out of control. First, they lost the lease to... → Read More

The Members of Peelander-Z Unmask Themselves for Revealing New Doc 'Mad Tiger'

Peelander-Z just wants to chow down on your smiles. It’s what invigorates the self-described “Japanese Action Comic Punk” band and fuels their erratic shows, which play out as gatherings of grins structured around animated rock ‘n’ roll, frequent moments of audience participation, and the bowling of a half-cephalopod/half-guitar creature called... → Read More

The Met Wants to Serenade You — Literally — With New Musical Exhibit 'Sonic Blossom'

At the heart of Lee Mingwei’s upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a simple offering: May I give you the gift of song? The question is an introduction into Mingwei’s interactive project "Sonic Blossom," which pairs museum visitors with a singer to create a one-on-one serenade of... → Read More

NYC Public School Students Get Discounted ‘Hamilton’ Tickets and Best Field Trip Ever

Somebody has finally thought about the children. Tickets to the hit Broadway musical Hamilton will be made exclusively available for 20,000 New York City public school students – for the right price of $10. The show’s producers have collaborated with the Rockefeller Foundation to make the initiative possible through a... → Read More

Brooklyn’s Autre Ne Veut is a Self-Described Electro-Pop 'Slut For Novelty'

In the northwest, heavily wooded corner of Manhattan sits the Cloisters, a museum devoted to the art of medieval Europe. It’s New York’s very own castle, filled with chapels, halls, and a decadent treasury room located downstairs. Amongst the riches of gold and silver, the treasury houses a nearly microscopic... → Read More