There are hundreds? Random fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_...
name your fav hip-hop track made before 2000.
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There are hundreds? Random fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_...
name your fav hip-hop track made before 2000.
Absurd assignment. But Abba Beastie Boys Clash Del Rey, Lana Eno Feelies Gaye, Marvin Husker Du Indigo Girls Janis Kendrick Lamar LCD Soundsystem Madonna New Order Oneida Public Enemy Queen R.E.M. Stones Talking Heads Ubu Velvet Underground Wonder, Stevie X Yorke's band Radiohead Zep
NEW QUIZ THING In an alternative universe, there can only be one band per letter of the alphabet. The band's name starts with that letter ("The" can be ignored, or not). So, it's a dystopia, for sure. Luckily, YOU get to decide WHICH band goes with WHICH letter, and is allowed to exist. Ready? Go!
favorite film for each year of the 70s (that I saw in the theater at the time) '70: Beneath the Planet of the Apes '71: Diamonds Are Forever '72: The Poseidon Adventure '73: The Sting '74: Young Frankenstein '75: Jaws '76: The Omen '77: Star Wars '78: Animal House '79: Apocalypse Now
favorite film for each year of the 70s 1970: the phantom tollbooth 1971: fiddler on the roof 1972: the poseidon adventure 1973: american graffiti 1974: (tie) earthquake/towering inferno 1975: jaws 1976: network 1977: slap shot (sorry, star wars) 1978: halloween 1979: apocalypse now
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Led Zeppelin (MSG) The Kinks (1st concert) Public Enemy Titus Andronicus LCD Soundsystem Talking Heads (1977 at NYU) Chappell Roan (Gov Ball) Clash (Bonds 1981) Sufjan Stevens (Xmas show at Bowery The Woofles at CBGB (RIP TBux)
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Queen Prince Muddy Waters Grateful Dead Reggie Watts Frank Zappa Bonnie Raitt Violent Femmes The Cure Sister Double Happiness
Led Zeppelin at MSG, 1977 Talking Heads at NYU's Loeb Student Center, 1977 Public Enemy at the Apollo, 1991 LCD Soundsystem at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 2010 The National at BAM, 2010
introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen nick cave manchester orchestra neil young the clash jeff rosenstock
artists/bands with the most records in my collection: Talking Heads (10) Rolling Stones (9) Neil Young (8) Led Zeppelin (8) R.E.M. (7) Brian Eno (7) Bob Dylan (7) Steely Dan (7) Feelies and adjacent (7) Elton John (6) The Clash (5) Stevie Wonder (5) Pet Shop Boys (5)
artists/bands with the most records in my collection: kevin devine springsteen the national qotsa the beatles modest mouse foxing manchester orchestra mountain goats
Chaos Walking and I can't even remember what that was BUT I definitely remember how great it felt and that people looked at their phones 🙄 gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
In my 20s (the 1980s-early 90s) I re-read James Ellroy's LA trilogy/quartet/quintet (Black Dahlia/Big Nowhere/LA Confidential/White Jazz/American Tabloid) every couple of years. Not sure how they hold up, but these are all deeply cynical books
Novels to re-read every decade or so, because you see something new and more insightful in them each time as you get older. The Austen canon certainly. Middlemarch. Anna Karenina. War and Peace. Crime and Punishment. Bleak House. Other suggestions?
Rolling Stones JFK Stadium 1978: 90,000 people, took way too much speedy acid, 16 years old, basically terrifying on the field so we found seats way up top and the sound was so bad you couldn’t even tell what song they were playing. I was a HUGE fan then, too, and it’s the only time I ever saw them
What’s the worst concert you’ve been to?
Here’s more of Joseph Szabo’s amazing photos of the day flashbak.com/26-great-pho...
artists seen live by letter Arcade Fire B52s Clash Devo ELP Feelies Glass Animals Haim Interpol Janet Jackson Kinks Led Zeppelin Major Lazer National 100 Gecs Public Enemy Q-Tip Chappell Roan Sonic Youth Talking Heads U.S. Girls Village People Walkmen xx Yeah Yeah Yeahs Frank Zappa
artists seen live by letter allman brothers beach boys cars devine, kevin elp foxing grateful dead hot tuna inxs jackson, joe kiss limp bizkit manch. orch nada surf oso oso pup rosenstock, j qotsa rem springsteen tbs u2 van halen the who x (not the band, i have no x) yes zz top
When we were little, in the early 1970s, my mom drove the three of us to Vermont for this, spent the night in the "way back" of our Volvo, and all my life I've joked about how austere the bread was. There was also a nasty burr fight amongst the kids back then, but I guess that's not a tradition.
"Next time take the train, asshole" https://hellgatenyc.com/david-simon-got-a-speeding-ticket-in-nyc
Couple of random unpubbed shots from yesterday's Hip Hop 50 Block Party on Fulton yesterday, see the rest on BK Mag https://www.bkmag.com/2023/08/06/brooklyn-celebrated-hip-hops-50th-with-a-huge-free-block-party-in-clinton-hill/
Do you plan on being really high in Ditmas Park anytime soon? Oh man do I have a good place for you to eat: Fatima’s Grill, starring 80 menu items all of which are like Hot Cheeto Shawarma Burrito. All the info’s at https://www.bkmag.com
If it were up to me we’d be eating noodles and sweet juicy pumpkin puffs by the ancient glacier rock formation in LIC. Or subscribe to @hellgateny.bsky.social and check out the excellent new Sofun on your own, I won’t be sad