The Get Down

After the flop that was HBO's Vinyl, Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series The Get Down turned out to be a nice surprise -- a coming of age story set against the burgeoning hip hop and disco revolutions, that was both visually and musically adventurous...

The Get Down, the ambitious, pricey new musical drama set from filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliette) debuted on Netflix today...

The song samples The Jackson 5, and premiered on Ebro Darden's Beats 1 show (along with an interview).

The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's upcoming musical drama about the birth of hip hop in late-'70s Bronx, will premiere its first six episodes on Netflix on August 12.

For folks wanting TV shows about the music scene in New York in the 1970s, it's going to be a full year. HBO's Vinyl, from Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, appears to focus on the rock side of things, and debuts on February 14...

FOX's pulpy hip hop music biz drama Empire has been a surprise smash, making rap a suddenly hot commodity on mainstream network TV. That's good news for Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, who had been trying to bring a hip hop series to the screen for the better part of a decade...

Pinback at ACL 2013 (more by Tim Griffin)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...

The 2012 edition of Calgary, Alberta festival Sled Island is set to take place from June 20-23 at venues throughout the city. This year includes over 200 bands performing at 30 venues plus a large comedy schedule, film screenings, and art shows...