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This was a while ago. Sad day at the corner of 30th Ave and 31st St.

[mondoradiowmse]

07/24/24 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Without a Trace", featuring classic no wave and more. If you enjoy it, be sure to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself - No New York

Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - The Closet - No New York

DNA - Blonde Red Head - A Taste Of DNA

DNA - New New - A Taste Of DNA

Theoretical Girls - Parlez-Vous Francais - Theoretical Girls

Theoretical Girls - Electronic Angie (Short Version) - Theoretical Girls

Mars - 11,000 Volts - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978

Mars - Helen Forsdale - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978

Y Pants - Beautiful Food - Y Pants

Y Pants - Off The Hook - Y Pants

Judy Nylon And Crucial - Jailhouse Rock - Pal Judy

Judy Nylon And Crucial - The Dice - Pal Judy

ESG - UFO - Dance To The Best Of ESG

The Raybeats - Tone Zone - Guitar Beat

Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps - Boom In The Night: Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983

Dept. Of Sunshine - Space Tropics (Rapp-Sody) (Instrumental) - Rude Boys (Single)

James White And The Blacks - White Savages - Off White

James Chance & The Contortions - Disposable You (Live) - Soul Exorcism Redux

Material - Silent Land - Memory Serves

Laurie Anderson - Sweaters - Big Science

Brian Eno + David Byrne - Two Against Three - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Arthur Russell - Wax The Van - World Of Echo

Liquid Liquid - Optimo - Def Jam Recordings 30

Suicide - Rocket USA - Suicide

The Del-Byzanteens With Jim Jarmusch - My Hands Are Yellow (From The Job That I Do) - New York Noise, Vol. 2: Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984

Peter Zummo - Instruments IV: Sevenths - Zummo With An X

Elliott Sharp - Klops Lied (Meatball Song) - Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Kurt Weill

Rhys Chatham - Drastic Classicism - New York Noise, Vol. 2: Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984

The Golden Palominos - Cookout - The Golden Palominos

Kronos Quartet - Bella By Barlight - Winter Was Hard

The Golden Palominos - Hot Seat - The Golden Palominos

Swans - Stay Here - Filth

Swans - Weakling - Filth

Band Of Susans - Hope Against Hope - The Peel Sessions

Rowland S. Howard/Lydia Lunch - Cisco Sunset - Shotgun Wedding

Sonic Youth - Expressway To Yr Skull (Live) - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985

[jackiehadel1]

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART & GRAFFITI: DONT LEAVE ME IN THE COLD by SAYNO

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART & GRAFFITI: DONT LEAVE ME IN THE COLD by SAYNO

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[lookingforyou-nyc]

Optimo

[thedustyrebel]

Optimo Primo x Matt Siren

Chelsea, NY More photos: Optimo Primo, Matt Siren

[thesigntologist]

Honored to be apart of this group show in Brooklyn today with some amazing artists from around the globe. Thanks to @optimocigars @massappeal and the Biggie Smalls estate for the opportunity 🙏🏻 (guest list & contest are both closed) #biggiesmalls #christopherwallace #newyork #badboyrecords #brooklyn #nyc #newyorkart #vip #optimo #hiphop #biggieinspires #thesigntologist #raplegend #hiphopicon #biggie #ripbiggie #artshow #art #artshowcase #BKNY #artoftheday #biggieinspires #newyorkcity #streetart #streetsignart #streetsignartist #artnerd #art_spotlight #artistsoninstagram (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2WloJnlAnU/?igshid=351wmugjtk2a

[igazikutya]

Zajok a nappaliból – Grand Traxelektor 2019 / 2. Move!

Kétezertizenkilenc elektronikus zenei undergroundjának legtöbbet hallgatott és legérdekesebbnek ítélt művei hármas tematika szerint rendezve. (második rész)

Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3cCgKZ3autPSLenlyyER5w 1800HaightStreet – Infestation [Confess, EP, Lobster Theremin] 2000 And One - The Needs Of The Many [The Needs Of The Many, EP, OFF] Anthony Rother – Hyperbolic [Hyperbolic, EP, Psi49net] Anthony Rother - Inner Space Odyssey [Hyperbolic, EP, Psi49net] Anunaku - Bronze Age [Whities 024, EP, Whities] Anunaku – Temples [Whities 024, EP, Whities] ASC - Black Rooms  [Realm Of The Infinite, LP, Auxiliary] Black Merlin - Psych 73 [SFORMATOR 1, EP, Pinkman] Blawan – Gadget [Many Many Pings, EP, Ternesc] Blawan - Many Many Pings [Many Many Pings, EP, Ternesc] Broken English Club - The Modern Desire [White Rats II, LP, L.I.E.S.] Chants - Assiah Dance [Seven Spheres, LP, Astral Plane] Clouds - Another Day [Sharp Like A Razor, EP, Headstrong] Clouds - Arkhangelsk Nightmare [Sharp Like A Razor, EP, Headstrong] Cop Envy - Rat Break [Cotton, EP, Hypercolour] De Bons en Pierre - Frog Stoemp [No. 2, EP, Dark Entries] Desert Sound Colony - Can Can Wingspan [Can Can Wingspan, EP, On Loop] Developer – Buffalo [Four Corridor's, EP, Coincidence] Djedjotronic feat. Lokier - Are Friends Electric (Lokier Remix) [Are Friends Electric, EP, Boysnoise] Download - GUI goats [Unknown Room, LP, Sub-Conscious Communications] Echologist – Resistance [Resistance, EP, Anemone] Eomac - Being, Not Object (Eomac VIP) [Reconnect, EP, Eotrax] Eric Copeland - Beat It [Trogg Modal Vol. 2, LP, DFA] E-Saggila - My World My Way [My World My Way , LP, Northern Electronics] Exium – Unemotional [XX Part 1, LP, Nheoma] Franck Vigroux – Carre [Théorème, EP, D'Autres Cordes] Giant Swan - 55 Year Old Daughter [Giant Swan, LP, Keck] Giant Swan – YFPHNT [Giant Swan, LP, Keck] Goth-Trad - Bloody Dice [Knights Of The Black Table, LP, Daymare] GusGus - Fireworks (C.P.I. Remix) [Remixes Are More Flexible, Pt. 1, EP, Oroom] Headless Horseman - The Distress Subsided [Headless Horseman 008, EP, Headless Horseman] Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) [Gravity Remixed, EP, Samurai Music] Jensen Interceptor - EM Damage [SAFE, EP, Who's Susan] JK Flesh & Orphx - Mutagen (Live) [Light Bringer, LP, Hospital Productions] Kangding Ray - Polygon [Azores, EP, Figure] Karenn - Rek [Kind Of Green, EP, Voam] Kris Baha - Non For The Sane [Palais, LP, CockTail d'Amore Music] Luke Vibert - I Will Always Hate You [Valvable, LP, I Love Acid] Machine Woman - East Midlands Rave Tune [When A Machine Cries, You Get Petrol, EP, Take Away Jazz] Matrixxman & Physical Therapy - The Survivors [Threads, EP, Nonplus] Meat Beat Manifesto - Pin Drop [Opaque Couché, LP, Flexidisc] Om Unit & Kid Drama - Untitled 3 [Untitled Works, EP, Apollo] Pfirter - A Different Reality [The Empty Space, LP, MindTrip Music] Phil Kieran, Douglas McCarthy - Fall Rise (Druggs Mix) [Fall Rise, EP, Optimo Music] Pinch - Fortune Tellers [Border Control, EP, Berceuse Heroique] Plaid - Meds Fade [Polymer, LP, Warp] Pris – Aquarius [New Babylon, EP, Empathy Corp] Pris – Discovery [Sulphur City, EP, Empathy Corp] Red Axes - Kookoo Papa (Original Mix) [Sound Test, EP, Phantasy Sound] Redshape – Bishop [Android Malfunction, EP, Delsin] Retina.it - Memory Sensation [Formant / Neural Map, EP, Nonplus] Rex The Dog - Experimental Housing [Experimental Housing, EP, Soft Computing] Sam KDC - Trial by Fire [Omen Rising, LP, Horo] Soren Roi - Bishop Ford [Retrograde Amnesia, LP, BANK Records NYC] Soren Roi - More About Myself [Retrograde Amnesia, LP, BANK Records NYC] Stanley Schmidt - Critical History [Smart Replies, EP, Vienna] Stanley Schmidt - Smart Replies [Smart Replies, EP, Vienna] Test Dept - Full Spectrum Dominance (JD Twitch Remix) [Disturbance Disordered, LP, One Little Indian] Test Dept - Gatekeeper (Wrangler Remix) [Disturbance Disordered, LP, One Little Indian] Test Dept - GBH84 (Angst78 DDR mix) [Disturbance Disordered, LP, One Little Indian] Test Dept - Landlord (Living Totem Remix) [Disturbance Disordered, LP, One Little Indian] Thighpaulsandra - The Goat Owl [Practical Electronics With Thighpaulsandra, EP, Editions Mego] Tom Of England - Sniffin' at the Griffin [Sex Monk Blues, LP, L.I.E.S.] Tommy Four Seven - Aphelion (Silent Servant Remix) [Veer Remixed, LP, 47] UVB76 – Extend [Session Extend, EP, Tabernacle] UVB76 – Hajime [S A N, LP, Teenage Menopause] UVB76 - Itaewon [S A N, LP, Teenage Menopause] UVB76 – Nox [S A N, LP, Teenage Menopause] Vatican Shadow - The House Of The Followers (JK Flesh Remix) [American Flesh For Violence, LP, Hospital Productions] Zaliva-D – Calling [Calling, EP, SVBKVLT]

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Optimo NYC #optimonyc #amartstop #nycstreetart #strangecaseofnosleep https://ift.tt/2MNAAVU

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September 1, 2019

CLICK HERE for the September 1, 2019 playlist

1.    Furniture - “Transatlantic Cable” (1983)

I stumbled across this band for the first time this week.  Led by Jim Irvin, who went on to be a British music journalist and also has a co-write credit on a Lana Del Rey song?  Only one EP is on Spotify, but I was so smitten with it I had to lead off with something from it this week.  I’m getting a David Sylvian-vibe.

2.    The Late Bronze Age - “King Greed” (1980)

Spotify credits this song to Col. Bruce Hampton and the Late Bronze Age, but when this record, Outside Looking Out, first came out, they were just the Late Bronze Age.  No offense to my hippie pals out there, but due to his frequent visits to the Georgia Theater back when it was a jam-band haunt I always assumed I would never want to have anything to do with Col. Bruce.  But nobody told me he was in a jazzy new wave band in the early 80′s that sounded like what I always wished Pere Ubu sounded like.

3.    Tesco Bombers - “Break The Ice at Parties” (1982)

London band with but one release, the 7″ from which this song comes, on Y Records, which also put out killer music from Maximum Joy and Shriekback.  I only know this from a compilation,  Cease & Desist: DIY!, put together by JD Twitch of Optimo, the legendary Glaswegian DJ team.

4.    Social Climbers - “Palm Springs” (1981)

NYC-band (by way of Bloomington, IN) who made one self-titled record and disappeared as far as I know, later reissued through the combined power of Drag City and Yoga Records.  Now you know as much as I do.  A lot of the album is more vocal-driven, but this track felt right to kick off a run of instrumental tracks coming up.

5.    Fernando Falcão - “Ladeira dos Inocentes” (1981)

Back to Optimo - they also run a label, Optimo Music, which has picked up a sub-label, Selva Discos, that is putting out some fantastic and forgotten Brazilian music--and that label has just reissued two private-press Fernando Falcão albums.  I first heard Fernando Falcão on the great Outro Tempo compilation a couple of years ago of avant-garde Brazilian music from the 80′s (the Os Mulheres Negras track from a few weeks back came from that compilation).  I don’t know what you call this music.  I like it when you don’t know what to call it.

6.    Ennio Morricone - “Seguita” (1971)

I’m not gonna pretend to know much about Morricone beyond what everyone knows (Italian film composer, did several Sergio Leone movies).  But I always love hearing his music, and I’ve always really liked the Crime and Dissonance compilation (from which this song is taken) of some of his lesser-known work put together by Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls and released on Mike Patton of Faith No More’s Ipecac Records.  This menacing jazz tune is from the movie Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura, if knowing that sort of thing is important to you.

7.    Sons of Kemet - “My Queen is Harriet Tubman” (2018)

One of several projects of Shabaka Hutchings, a British saxophonist and restless collaborator.  Seems to exist somewhere between jazz and afrobeat, with two drummers pounding out frenetic rhythms.  The album this comes from, Your Queen is a Reptile, was The Wire magazine’s #1 album of 2018.

8.    75 Dollar Bill - “Tetuzi Akiyama” (2019)

75 Dollar Bill started as a guitar and drums duo but have expanded to something much different, playing music that seems steeped in the traditions of some mythical country.  This song is like the blues on acid.

9.    5ive Style - “Pledge Drive” (1999)

5ive Style was a Chicago supergroup (if a supergroup can consist of people no-one has ever heard of): John Herndon (Tortoise, Poster Children) on drums, Leroy Bach (Chicago man-about-town, later in Wilco) on bass, Jeremy Jacobson (one-man-band The Lonesome Organist) on keys, and the inestimable Billy Dolan (later of Heroic Doses) on guitar.  Dolan is one of THE great unsung guitar players of the last, I don’t know, 40 years, and you get a taste of that here.

10.   Orange Juice - “Two Hearts Together (10″ Version)” (1982)

Whether you like this song will determine whether we can be friends.  Not really, but I will die on the Orange Juice hill.  Orange Juice was a Glasgow indie-pop band that most people only care about for their early singles and first-draft of their first album, when they were a scrappy, lo-fi band on Glasgow indie-lable Postcard Records.  But I prefer Orange Juice after they signed to Polydor and became an over-produced also-ran.  This Caribbean-inflected non-album single came between their first and second albums on Polydor, when the band had shed its original guitarist and drummer and added Malcolm Ross on guitar (from Edinburgh’s Josef K) and Zeke Manyika on drums, a Zimbabwe-born multi-talented musician who later recorded with The The and The Style Council, and who in my opinion was a catalyst for the best phase of Orange Juice’s career (but who otherwise seems to be a footnote in most people’s Orange Juice histories--to the extent other people have Orange Juice histories). 

11.    Archer Prewitt - “Gifts of Love” (2002)

Archer Prewitt is best known as the lead guitar player for The Sea and Cake, but made several solo albums of his own in the late 90′s/early 2000′s.  No one would ever accuse The Sea and Cake’s bossa-nova inflected, jazzy post-rock of being “hard,” but Archer’s albums really veered into 70′s soft rock territory, in the best way possible.  There’s a lot to like about this song, but the string-laden outro may be the best part, so good that I’m always disappointed when it fades out so soon.

12.    The Clientele - “Bookshop Casanova” (2007)

The Clientele are a long-time Merge Records band that’s never really caught fire like some others, likely due to their spurts of inactivity and seeming reluctance to tour the U.S. in any meaningful way.  Their catalog is deep at this point, full of poignant moments of beauty and deceptively complex arrangements that invite repeat listens.  This song, though, is probably the closest they ever got at translating what they do into something that might catch a casual listener’s ear at first blush.  

13.    Howard Ivans - “Red Face Boy” (2013)

Howard Ivans is the alter-ego of Ivan Howard, co-leader of another Merge Records band, The Rosebuds.  While The Rosebuds always rooted their genre-experiments in the world of indie-rock, the Howard Ivans persona allows Howard to go full R&B, with wonderful results.  This was one of the first singles put out by Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb Records, and they went all out, with horns arranged by White and strings arranged by Trey Pollard, all cut to tape in Richmond, VA.

14.   BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah (ft. MF Doom) - “Ray Gun” (2015)

BADBADNOTGOOD is, as far as I can tell, a bunch of nerds from Canada who play really inventine funk, soul and jazz music, and they made a whole record, Sour Soul, backing Ghostface Killa from Wu-Tang Clan.  I haven’t dived in too deep yet, but really like this song featuring the legendary MF Doom.  Doom and Ghostface have been teasing a collaborative album for years under the name DOOMSTARKS, but so far, nothing.

15.    Baby Huey - “Hard Times” (1971)

Larger than life at 400 lbs. and dead at 26 due to heroin, Baby Huey was not around long enough to make much of a mark.  But he did manage to record one full-length, produced by Curtis Mayfield, from which this song comes (the song was also penned by Mayfield).  There’s an amazing, nearly 10-minute performance of “A Change is Going to Come” on there too, but there wasn’t room this week (I reserve the right to put 10-minute long songs on this playlist, though).

16.    Craig Finn - “Something to Hope For” (2019)

I was never much of a Hold Steady fan -- I appreciated them more than I liked them.  But I feel like frontman Craig Finn is really coming into his own on the solo side of things, and the album he put out this year, I Need a New War, has some great moments, including this earnest, soul-inflected tune.

[deepartnature]

Marcus Glitteris on Curating “Home Grown” at Village Works with: Optimo NYC, Marina Reiter, BC1, Nora Timbila, A. Candela & More

“Lower East Side native Marcus Glitteris is not only an intriguing self-taught artist but a passionate curator, as well.  Largely influenced by New York City’s Downtown club scene, he teems with the energy that permeated it. Earlier this week, I stopped by Home Grown, an exhibit he curated at Village Works in the East Village, and posed a few questions to him. Can you tell us something about your vision in curating this exhibit? Its main focus is to showcase the varied works of a wide range of artists who live or have lived on Manhattan’s Lower East Side or East Village. And what about this wonderful space? Village Works is the name of this new gallery. Designated specifically as a space to showcase NYC artists, it sells rare art books, as well as art. My friend, Joe Sheridan, is the creative director here. We know each other from the night life scene, but since, Joe has since ventured into the the artist community and invited me to curate here. This space used to be an architectural firm. ...”

Street Art NYC

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EVG Etc.: Curbing broker fees; celebrating Alan Vega and Suicide

[Avenue B plywood antics via Brucie]

The latest on the epidemic of NYC store closings, plus signs that some landlords are relenting and lowering rents (NYCitywoman)

City Council members Carlina Rivera and Keith Powers introduce legislation to limit brokerage fees for apartment rentals (CBS New York)

Celebrating the music of Alan Vega and Suicide at Bowery Electric tomorrow night (Dangerous Minds ... official site)

Politicos joins NYCHA tenants in calling for more federal funding (amNY)

"Russian Doll" and the late-night deli vibes (Eater)

Man with boxcutter keeps destroying the Phoebe artwork around the East Village (Instagram)

Workshops for the ECOLOGICAL CITY: A Cultural & Climate Solutions Action Project start on Saturday (Official site)

The hits and misses at Violet on Fifth Street (The New Yorker ... previously)

Tompkins Square Park through the years (Off the Grid)

The No Bar opening at the Standard East Village: "Can New York's Queer Nightlife Scene Feel at Home in a Hotel Chain?" (Bon Appetit ... previously)

More about the Indian cuisine at Dhamaka, one of two full-service restaurants opening at Essex Street Market later this year (Eater)

A new restoration of comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" starts Friday (Metrograph)

Who's buying vinyl these days? (CNET)

...and the store under that Optimo Cigars signage on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street is currently gutted...

Might be a good time to revisit the glorious summer of 2012... when the awning belonged to the unforgettable Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's action-packed combo ...

[Photo from 2012 by Bobby Williams]

Source: http://evgrieve.com/2019/02/evg-etc-curbing-broker-fees-celebrating.html

[mondoradiowmse]

07/12/23 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: Untitled ("Drastic Classicism"), featuring classic no wave and more. If you enjoy it, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself - No New York

Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - The Closet - No New York

DNA - Blonde Red Head - A Taste Of DNA

DNA - New New - A Taste Of DNA

Theoretical Girls - Parlez-Vous Francais - Theoretical Girls

Theoretical Girls - Electronic Angie (Short Version) - Theoretical Girls

Mars - 11,000 Volts - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978

Mars - Helen Forsdale - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978

Y Pants - Beautiful Food - Y Pants

Y Pants - Off The Hook - Y Pants

Judy Nylon And Crucial - Jailhouse Rock - Pal Judy

Judy Nylon And Crucial - The Dice - Pal Judy

ESG - UFO - Dance To The Best Of ESG

The Raybeats - Tone Zone - Guitar Beat

Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps - Boom In The Night: Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983

Newkirk - I Want My Steak And We're Outta Here - Funk City

James White And The Blacks - White Savages - Off White

James Chance & The Contortions - Disposable You (Live) - Soul Exorcism Redux

Material - Silent Land - Memory Serves

Laurie Anderson - Sweaters - Big Science

Brian Eno + David Byrne - Two Against Three - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Arthur Russell - Wax The Van - World Of Echo

Liquid Liquid - Optimo - Def Jam Recordings 30

Suicide - Rocket USA - Suicide

The Del-Byzanteens With Jim Jarmusch - My Hands Are Yellow (From The Job That I Do) - New York Noise, Vol. 2: Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984

Peter Zummo - Instruments IV: Sevenths - Zummo With An X

Elliott Sharp - Klops Lied (Meatball Song) - Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Kurt Weill

Rhys Chatham - Drastic Classicism - New York Noise, Vol. 2: Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984

Kronos Quartet - Bella By Barlight - Winter Was Hard

Kronos Quartet - Forbidden Fruit - Winter Was Hard

The Golden Palominos - Cookout - The Golden Palominos

The Golden Palominos - Hot Seat - The Golden Palominos

Swans - Stay Here - Filth

Swans - Weakling - Filth

Band Of Susans - Hope Against Hope - The Peel Sessions

Sonic Youth - Expressway To Yr Skull (Live) - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985

[jackiehadel1]

BROOKLYN (BUSHWICK,) NEW YORK STREET ART: $1.28

BROOKLYN (BUSHWICK,) NEW YORK STREET ART: $1.28

Mr. Never Satisfied https://www.instagram.com/dis_satisfied/?hl=en Phlegm https://www.instagram.com/phlegm_art/?hl=en Space Invader https://www.instagram.com/invaderwashere/?hl=en Cost https://www.instagram.com/cost/?hl=en ENX https://www.instagram.com/enx108/?hl=en Buff Monster https://www.instagram.com/buffmonster/?hl=en El Pez https://www.instagram.com/pezbarcelona/?hl=en Lucky…

[lookingforyou-nyc]

Optimo

[thedustyrebel]

Optimo Primo

Greenwich Village, NYC More photos: Optimo Primo, Graffiti & Street Art

[isthespiceoflife]

Almost Summer, Almost...

Yo! “Something in the Water” -- a 3-day festival of music (+Pop-Up Church n’ so much more!) in Virginia Beach, VA on April 26, 27, 28. Now this is ‘myour’ kinda line-up! Dive in.

NEW YORK CITY

The Vibes Are High On 4/20

The Chef Table Brunch

HOT 97 EASTER WEEKEND 420 Takeover

Frunt Stage "420" Showcase

420 BKLYN BBQ Bash

420 Spring Party

GRN DAY 420 Day Party

Meditiation 420 - A Green Gold Event

LOS ANGELES

420 Reggae On The Bay Cruise

Hops & Vibes on 420

420 Bash On The Grass

420 Every Day

Engine 420

UP IN SMOKE 420

BrushTokes 420 Friendly Painting Session "Rasta Sunset"

420 ft. Herbal Rootz

4/20 Paint Party

420 Festival

MIAMI      

420 CELEBRATION: EXPO & FESTIVAL

afroDisiac: 420 Edition

Canvas & Cannabis 420 Edition

4/20 Devil's Harvest

Nu Earth Day 420 & Earth Day Celebration

420 Comedy Night at Gypsy Moon Vapin Brews

420 Full Moon Paddle and Saturday Night Party (Kayaks and SUP's)

Kaya Fest

COLORADO

Stick Figures - Red Rocks Show

Mile High 420 Festival

Colorado 420 Festival 2019 #SEVL

MaryJane & Mimosa: SUNDAY AFTERNOON

BOSTON

420 Brunch

Manifesting Meditation a 420 Event

420 on 4/20 at 4:20

4:20 BRUNCH

HOUSTON

420/Love Festival

S.U.C. 420 Festival

The Official 420 Festival After Party

Munchie Madness: 420 Silent Rooftop Party & Movie Viewing

FREE SMOKE: 420 Affair

Don’t hide, get high -- as in rooftop high @The WIlliam Vale Hotel, in Williamsburg, for “Full Spectrum” 4/20. It’s more than just an elevation of your mind. But for $55, I could...

Moniker Art Fair returns to NYC May 1-5, in the Soho/Noho neighborhood area, so ya donekno...

“Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome” (May 5 – Oct. 6) kicks off soon @Mt. Wilson Observatory (near/above Pasadena, CA) n’ these are the spaces that make U tolerate any genre of music because the venue is so mind-blowing!

So what if U missed Coachella again this year, there’s so much more -- including Beyoncé’s latest release n’ even throwback a bit further, to the 90′s. Yes, all those iconic black films such as the above Boyz, Boomerang, Set It Off, n’ more featured @BAM in Brooklyn, NY. Titled “Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema”, it runs from May 3-22.

Sat, May 4, 2019 the City of Los Angeles will officially unveil “Obama Blvd” in honor of the 44th POTUS, intersecting with Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, creating one of the most significant African-American points of interest in the country. Establishing a "Presidential Row,” that is, Washington Blvd, Adams Blvd, Jefferson Blvd + Obama Blvd in America’s 2nd largest city. Doug E. Fresh, Yo-Yo, BJ The Chicago Kid, Battlecat, Kurupt, Alex Isley, Gavlyn, T-Lyons, Baby S, DJ Tee, Verbs, Dj Qwesscoast & more will help U celebrate!

Significant in BK, eventually n’ gradually bit by bit, touching the world “Mister Sunday” is back. Peep dates below.

Sunday, May 19th // Mister Sunday: Optimo All Day @Nowadays Sunday, May 26th // Mister Sunday Memorial Day Weekend Special with Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter at Nowadays Sunday, May 26th // Mister Sunday Afterparty with Gui Scott and Nascii from Gop Tun Indoors at Nowadays Monday, May 27th // Mister Saturday Night at Where Are My Keys? at Marble Bar in Detroit Friday, May 31st // Justin Carter with Tasker and Gene Tellum Indoors at Nowadays Sunday, June 2nd // Mister Sunday with Eamon Harkin and Beta Librae at Nowadays Sunday, June 9th // Mister Sunday with Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin at Nowadays Sunday, June 16th // Mister Sunday with Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter at Nowadays Sunday, June 23rd // Mister Sunday with Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin at Nowadays Sunday, June 30th // Mister Sunday Pride with FNV and Lex Rodriguez at Nowadays

A connoisseur of fine food and equally fine music, May 15, sees Matador bring both worlds together when he hosts a feast for body and mind at an exclusive event that marries his artistic yin and yang: music and food. Outside of that exclusive, catch Matador this May: 17th Sound Nightclub | LA | US
 18th Halcyon | San Francisco | US
 19th Quartyard | San Diego | US
 21th Tracks Nightclub | Denver | US
 25th Gather Festival | New York | US
 26th Paradise | Montreal | Canada

Upcoming Tour Tyler Dates:

5/31 - New York, NY @Governor's Ball

6/21 - Dover, DE @Firefly Music Festival

You're invited -- THIS FRIDAY (May 31st), to our debut night of DJs, LIVE performances, visuals, food n' more...called "LIVE FORM", we present BK recording artist/creator: @thomaspiper LIVE n' alive! 🎹 🎤 🎶 • DJs for the night include: yours truly, @djpelau {(LA)} || @heyessay1 {(UK)} || @jahmedicine {(BK)} 🎧 • Host: @comrade_cav 🎙 • Hungry? Of course: @wadadlijerk 🍗 • No excuses: 🙌🏾 FREE 🙌🏾

One of the country’s best, most ground-breaking n’ highly successful (weekly) LIVE showcase of indie artists, “It’s A School Night�� shifts to a more massive space, Avalon in H’wood for it’s biggest show of 2019. Catch moi for the opening DJ set before indie standouts Valentina (her LA debut!), COASTCITY, Chelsea Jade + Arms Akimbo (for their EP release) rock, groove n’ do da do!

Can U believe the Tribeca Film Festival 2019, is already upon us? From next week (April 24-May 5), be on the look out for D’Angelo’s “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo” documentary, as well as “The Remix: Hip-Hop and Fashion”, “Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation” n’ tons more. Check my blog for more on Ali’s “What’s My Name?” too.