NYU
Le1f, Mykki Blanco & Kingdom playing $5 NYU show on Thurs
Local rappers Le1f and Mykki Blanco are teaming up for a show with electronic musician Kingdom at NYU’s Kimmel Center on Thursday (2/19). The show’s presented by NYU Program Board and NYU LGBTQ Student Center, and it’s free for NYU students and only $5 for the gener…
Walter Schreifels began Dead Heavens residency w/ Without and Cayetana (pics), speaking at NYHC book discussion
Post-hardcore legend Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Rival Schools, etc) began a residency for one of his two recently-formed bands, Dead Heavens, at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus last night (2/…
Chance the Rapper planning Social Experiment live-band LP, LP ft. Frank Ocean, Andre 3000 & J Cole, playing NYU show
Chance the Rapper got plenty of deserved buzz off of 2013’s Acid Rap mixtape, and he’s planning to change things up pretty significantly for his next release, Surf, the debut album from his live backing band The Social Experiment, which Chance says is really the brainchild of trumpet player Nico “Donnie Trumpet” Segal…
NYU students are 'hipsters', says Spotify data on college listening habits (Cornell likes to 'chill')
Spotify released the listening data for students at universities throughout America, and as the college section of USA Today points out, NYU ranked #1 in what Spotify considers “hipster” music:We don’t need Spotify data to tell us NYU is cool…
Jamie xx, Ghostface Killah & Ratking @ NYU (pics)
Jamie xx wrapped up a North American tour at Hopscotch this past weekend (9/6) after hitting NYC’s Electric Zoo the weekend prior. In between, he returned to NYC for NYU’s annual mystery concert at the Skirball Center on September 3 with hip hop veteran Ghostface Killah and hip hop newcomers Ratking…
Jamie xx on tour, playing NYU Mystery Concert w/ Ghostface Killah & Ratking this week (dates)
Jamie xx w/ The xx in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
The annual NYU Mystery Concert takes place this Wednesday (9/3) at the Skirball Center, and the lineup is secret no more…
Woods expand tour, opening for War on Drugs in Brooklyn, releasing new non-LP single (listen) --- stream & dates
Woods @ Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin)
In the band’s own words: “Fresh off of the release of their eighth official album, With Light and With Love, Woods are pleased to announce a new single for Captured Tracks due July 8th featuring two brand new non-album songs, “Tambourine Light” and “Tomorrow’s Only Yesterday,” meant as a companion piece to the album…
The World Is A Beautiful Place singer David Bello releasing EP (stream a track); TWIABP played NYU's Strawberry Fest (pics)
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die isn’t really a band with a clear frontman or a standout member. Several of the band’s many members take on vocal duties, and their whole sound is really a pretty communal thing…
Titus Andronicus played NYU's Strawberry Festival (pics, video, setlist); Liam Betson releasing a new album (trailer)
Titus Andronicus headlined NYU’s free, afternoon Strawberry Festival this past Friday (5/9) with a set that included a few favorites (“A More Perfect Union,” “In A Big City”), a cover of The Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” and a lot of new material off the upcoming rock opera the band have been talking about…
Titus Andronicus and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die playing NYU's Strawberry Fest
Titus Andronicus at Terminal 5 in 2013 (more by David Andrako)
NYU‘s annual Strawberry Festival is back for its 29th year with a typically great lineup of NJ punks Titus Andronicus and Connecticut emo collective The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die…
