Text and Photos by Maria Gotay

BushwickDaily.com presents “jojo‘s Mixtape- Sounds of Reggae: Past and Present” Happy 420 folks! These selections range from roots-reggae to dancehall to hip-hop, with a quick track from the 1940’s at the beginning.  The upbeat-rocking fundamental to reggae music is a well-suited template for meditation and medication, sometimes driving, sometimes laid-back.  The use of effects and […]

New releases for March 2012- mixed by jojoSOUL on BushwickDaily.com. These tracks are all new releases played at the WMC.  For those who aren’t DJs and dance-heads, the Winter Music Conference is a week of focus on the best DJs and dance music on the planet.  Tons of clubs, line-ups, pool parties, panels, you name it, […]

  This week’s mix takes me back to going record shopping for gigs, looking for new tracks to weave into an upcoming event.  Now, most record stores have closed, and buying music is done right from your laptop.  I used to drive into Manhattan on Friday nights, Sunday afternoons, and any other time there was […]

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Photographs by courtesy of The Bushwick Starr. Very few places in Bushwick give me this my-insides-are-all-made-of-cotton-candy feeling like The Bushwick Starr… Ok, ok,  maybe I am exaggerating a little here, because Bushwick is, in fact,  like a big candy store, and most of the places are simply sweet. However, one thing I know for sure. If Bushwick is a […]