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Congrats to NAS on being chosen to headline Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain Festival. The Crown Heights’ born rapper recently unveiled a new track and video, The Season, at Run the Jewels’ RTJ2 release show at Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinemas. Run the Jewels is a collaboration of hip-hop artists Killer Mike and El-P (Fort Greene’s Jaime Meline)…Trigger Hippy, the Joan Osborne Americana/roots rock side project that the singer told Brooklyn Roads about in 2011 (Volume 2, Issue 3), has released its self-titled debut album. Osborne co-wrote eight of the 11 tracks…The Antlers’ fifth full-length studio album, Familiars is their best-reviewed release to date. Recorded locally at the band’s Antlercorp Studios it is also their highest-charting album, peaking at 73 on the Billboard Hot 200…Lucius has released Wildewoman Deluxe Edition digitally, with a physical edition coming out by Thanksgiving. Much of the album was recorded at Sounds Like A Fire in Ditmas Park. Just prior to the release of the original Wildewoman a year ago, Rolling Stone called Lucius “the best band you may not have heard yet”…
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Brooklyn-based artists dominated The Village Voice’s Best of NYC 2014 selections. These include: Best Rock Band, Low Fat Getting High; Best New Band, Iron Force; Best Metal Band, Pyrrhon; Best R&B Artist,Charles Bradley; Best Rapper, Ka; Best Bluegrass Band,Dubl Handi; Best Country Artist, Robert Ellis; Best Jazz Artist, Medeski, Martin & Wood; Best Punk Band, Ajax; and Best Songwriter , Zachary Cale…The Voice also named two Greenpoint venues, Saint Vitus Bar and the Manhattan Inn, as Best Rock Club and Best Piano Bar, respectively… Singer-songwriter, author and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo was awarded the Chair Citation by the Dag Hammerskjold Fund for Journalists on October 28. A Park Slope resident by way of Benin and Paris, Kidjo wowed the crowd with her Miriam Makeba tribute show at Carnegie Hall on November 8.Notable Quotes: “I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NYC. That city resonates within, always.” – Chicago founding member Robert Lamm, whose first musical training came as a member of the choir at Grace Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Heights.
