Local Music Spotlight: P.H.0
Brooklyn’s silkpunks subvert, reshape, and redefine what it means to be East Asian in a Western setting
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One-Hit Wonders: The Cardigans
The Cardigans were fringe artists with a rich library who had one song cross over out of nowhere. It never happened again.
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Wu-Tang Basketball
If New York’s Wu-Tang Clan were a basketball team, what would that look like?
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The Top 9 Places to Hear (and See) Experimental Music in Brooklyn, According to Musicians
The Brooklyn avant-garde music scene is no longer burgeoning; it is flourishing.
Lyrical Economy and the Art of Subtle Songwriting
Many songwriters are lauded for their descriptive lyrics. It’s rarer for a lyricist to do the same thing within a much tighter word budget.
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Self Control
Let’s take a trip back to 1984. Hair was big, pants were tight, Dallas was on TV every Friday, and two recording artists on either side of the Atlantic deployed a most unusual strategy.
Radio Free Brooklyn presents: “Changüí, Music of Cuba”
Come join RFB on a musical journey into the heart of Cuba’s Changüí country with RFB host Gianluca Tramontana.
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#RFBinTribute: Millie Small
In the mid-1960s, teenage Millie Small’s hit song, “My Boy Lollipop,” helped pave the way for Jamaican music and musicians (especially ska), to become internationally popular.
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RFB Artist Interview: Noah Dreiblatt
“I’ve always thought if you can’t laugh into the abyss, it’ll laugh into you.” Experimental pop artist Noah Dreiblatt talks to RFB’s Girl Wunder about his debut solo album, Doomscrolling, on the eve of his appearance on this week’s (05/07) Virtual Voyager!
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RFB Artist Profile: LoveHoney’s New Album Release
Lovehoney frontwoman Aly Quiñones on what it was like for the band to create their new album (releasing 02/14/21) while the Covid-19 pandemic is still, sadly, a thing, being a little brown grrrl in a band making noise — and the William Burroughs quote she lives by.
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