While in the dog days of summer it’s tempting to feel incredibly burned out by sun, booze, and an overload of summer shows, think back. Way back. To 2005 in fact. When you belted out All American Rejects lyrics guilt free in the shower. When Tyson Ritter told you to move along, you jumped. For Fun. For Freedom. To […]

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If you’re like us, you want the weekend to arrive promptly and loudly. Lucky for you, we know where all the parties are at! Check out the top 10 concerts we’ve rounded up this weekend, including a free “barn burner,” a Bangon! Party, Hardcore Fest at The Knockdown center, a Sunday night chillout show, and […]

Take a look around, Bushwick

This week’s Friday First features the exclusive premiere of track “Right World” of debut album from Shy Hunters

SXSW may be fading into our rearview mirror but the hangover that came along with it isn’t

This week’s Listening Party features the Santa Barbara boys Gardens & Villa and their upcoming show  next Tuesday at Music Hall of Williamsburg.  Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going. Featuring someone we’ve been jamming out to and we recommend to the masses, each Listening Party artist has an upcoming show at a […]

The weather is warm! The weather is rainy! You wore too many layers! Your shoe has a hole! You want to drown your sorrows! You want to smoke on the back patio but it’s not open! WAH

CMJ has come and gone in a fury of five booze-fueled days

It’s pretty much felt like fall ever since we pulled those jackets out from the back of our closets sometime in mid-August

 by Loren DiBlasi & Maria Gotay

The past two weeks have tested our strengths, our limits, and our air conditioners

By Maria Gotay & Loren DiBlasi

By Maria Gotay & Jenna Aranda

Balkan Music BUSHWICK SAYS… is back. I document lives of Bushwick residents and strangers through random pictures, quotes, stories, and anecdotes. This week I met a collection of Balkan fans, some bread enthusiasts, and some button-fly dissidents. “I’m kinda into the Balkan scene.” “Wait, wait, wait, that’s a thing?” “Not really. I like the sound.” “Really? […]

NEW YEARS EVE! NEW YEARS EVE! I’d chant it from the Empire State Building if only they wouldn’t handcuff me and take me somewhere not as bright and sparkly

Enormous warehouse parties you will remember for the rest of your life

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

Have you noticed that Bushwick has been suspiciously silent lately? That’s because the neighborhood is bracing itself for the biggest event of the year

By Maria Gotay

Perhaps you have noticed the workers on Bogart and Varet in Bushwick working like busy bees… And most likely you have noticed the wooden 1920s style bar being created in front of your eyes when coming from the Morgan subway stop