NY Press: Battle of the Bands & Best of Manhattan

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Posted in NYC | music on October 6, 2006

NY Press: Battle of the Bands & Best of Manhattan

NY press "BEST NEW ANNOYING HOMEGROWN MUSIC TREND"
"Hip-hop began in the South Bronx with plenty of energy and originality, but lately it’s grown stale. The 'hip' has mostly 'hopped' off into the history books. Reggae suffers from the same problem: beat for beat, we’ve heard it all before—well, most of it anyway. Thanks to reggaeton, the two styles have merged under the same heading to form an unbelievably bland and repetitive new category of music. Sure, the Dem Bow beat, around which the reggaeton rhythm centers, gets the booties bouncing, and that Daddy Yankee song 'Gasolina' is too damn catchy for its own good; but if we have to wake up one more time to those monotonous thumps blasting outside our windows on a Saturday morning from speakers hooked up to the bicycle of a passer-by, heads will roll." [NY PRess - The Best of Manhattan]

And speaking of free NYC weekly papers and Raggaeton.

Also - The NY Press is having a battle of the bands. Entries must be in by October 20th. Flyer below...

NY press

Salon is having a battle too

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Posted on October 6, 2006 2:43 PM

Comments (5)

Maybe the New York Press should have a Battle to Be Relevant or a Battle to Stop Blowing instead. I'd go to that.

Posted by Nate | October 6, 2006 2:49 PM

no way...ny press has been relatively decent over the last decade...beats the new village voice.

Posted by sam | October 6, 2006 3:05 PM

ny press is such a fucking bummer. im not against cynicism, but these guys just NEVER TURN IT OFF

Posted by nick | October 6, 2006 5:15 PM

i remember digging gurewitch's cartoons. and when they ran maakies. that was pretty much it. and oh yeah, russ smith's column, if only for the (befuddled, inarticulate, disjointed) counterpoint it offered to the rest of the rag's lefty 20-something snark.

Posted by cw | October 6, 2006 8:54 PM

So what new annoying homegrown music trend(s) did reggaeton beat out to be dubbed the best?

Posted by Mama Met | October 6, 2006 11:21 PM