Tag Archives: brooklyn

Boy Crisis “Fountain of Youth” video shoot

If you are female and in Brooklyn this weekend, you can be in the Boy Crisis video for “Fountain of Youth”, to be directed by Jordan Fish ‘06:
We’re looking for female extras for a Boy Crisis video in Williamsburg, all day on SATURDAY AUGUST 8th. If you’re available this evening, there will be a rehearsal [...]

Francis and the Lights at NYC Apliiq Launch

What looks to be a sweet launch party for startup brand Apliiq is happening on Friday, January 2nd, at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.
Event organizer Steve Pristin ‘06 (of I Smell Like Money) promises an evening of music, dancing, drinks, party, laughs and high fives all around, with apliiq and karmaloop goods on display and available [...]

Francis and the Lights at NYC Apliiq Launch

What looks to be a sweet launch party for startup brand Apliiq is happening on Friday, January 2nd, at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.
Event organizer Steve Pristin ‘06 (of I Smell Like Money) promises an evening of music, dancing, drinks, party, laughs and high fives all around, with apliiq and karmaloop goods on display and available [...]

Santogold with Jay-Z on B.I.G. Soundtrack

Santogold gets some street cred by collaborating on Jay-Z’s new Kanye-produced track “Brooklyn (Go Hard)“, which is Track 7 on the soundtrack of Notorious, the upcoming Biggie biopic. The hook samples Santi’s “Shove It“, and she adds a verse towards the end.
An interesting cross-pollination of traditionally hipsta- and gangsta-identified BK neighborhoods, though sadly it seems [...]

Santogold with Jay-Z on B.I.G. Soundtrack

Santogold gets some street cred by collaborating on Jay-Z’s new Kanye-produced track “Brooklyn (Go Hard)“, which is Track 7 on the soundtrack of Notorious, the upcoming Biggie biopic. The hook samples Santi’s “Shove It“, and she adds a verse towards the end.
An interesting cross-pollination of traditionally hipsta- and gangsta-identified BK neighborhoods, though sadly it seems [...]

Brooklyn-via-Wes Bands in Nylon

Ok here is more beating you over the head with this Wesleyan/Brooklyn thing- page 132 of this month’s Nylon magazine features “Brooklyn Bands” as a reason to feel superior about being American: “In New York’s most populous borough, you can’t toss a PBR can without hitting a good musician.”
Repping Wesleyan among said bands are Amazing [...]

Brooklyn-via-Wes Bands in Nylon

Ok here is more beating you over the head with this Wesleyan/Brooklyn thing- page 132 of this month’s Nylon magazine features “Brooklyn Bands” as a reason to feel superior about being American: “In New York’s most populous borough, you can’t toss a PBR can without hitting a good musician.”
Repping Wesleyan among said bands are Amazing [...]

Wes Bands Headline Williamsburg

The sold-out Halloween show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn is almost entirely fronted by bands containing or composed of Wesleyan alums:

10/31 Music Hall of Williamsburg:MGMTAmazing BabyViolensBoy CrisisFrancis & the Lights

Links:MGMT/ Amazing Baby/ Boy Crisis/ Francis & the Lights/ Violens
[via Sophista-funk]

Wes Bands Headline Williamsburg

The sold-out Halloween show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn is almost entirely fronted by bands containing or composed of Wesleyan alums:

10/31 Music Hall of Williamsburg:MGMTAmazing BabyViolensBoy CrisisFrancis & the Lights

Links:MGMT/ Amazing Baby/ Boy Crisis/ Francis & the Lights/ Violens
[via Sophista-funk]

A Night Out With Santogold

The NYTimes’ Sunday Styles section features Santi White this week in its “A Night Out With…” feature, in which she lays down some rules to live by:
“I DON’T drink, I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke and I don’t drink after someone drinks my drink.” These are just some of the commandments prescribed and [...]

A Night Out With Santogold

The NYTimes’ Sunday Styles section features Santi White this week in its “A Night Out With…” feature, in which she lays down some rules to live by:
“I DON’T drink, I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke and I don’t drink after someone drinks my drink.” These are just some of the commandments prescribed and [...]

Alum Author Gets Prolific in Middle Age

Wesleyan-graduated artists seem to have been especially prolific recently – Gabriel Cohen ‘82, currently residing in Brooklyn, has published three books in different genres in the past year: “Boombox”, a literary novel about gentrification in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill; “The Graving Dock”, a more commercial crime novel; and “Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path [...]

Alum Author Gets Prolific in Middle Age

Wesleyan-graduated artists seem to have been especially prolific recently – Gabriel Cohen ‘82, currently residing in Brooklyn, has published three books in different genres in the past year: “Boombox”, a literary novel about gentrification in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill; “The Graving Dock”, a more commercial crime novel; and “Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path [...]