Emily Daly
NEWS ROUNDUP: NYC Cabaret Law Repealed, CMA Gag Order & More
NYC Cabaret Law Officially Repealed Established in 1926 to prevent unlicensed dancing in NYC bars, New York’s “Cabaret Law” is finally on its last legs after City Council voted Tuesday to end it. Many have been quick to point...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Princess Nokia a Soup-er Hero, Music Industry Assault Allegations & More
Princess Nokia Stands Up To Racist, Goes Viral This week, a viral video showed NYC commuters standing up to a drunk guy on the train when he started yelling racist insults at a group of teenagers. At the end...
NEWS ROUNDUP: RIP Tom Petty, The Las Vegas Tragedy & More
RIP Tom Petty The well-loved songwriter passed away on Monday after suffering from cardiac arrest. He was 66, and less than a week before, gave a final interview where he discussed his recent 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers,...
NEWS ROUNDUP: RIP Charles Bradley, #TakeAKnee & More
RIP Charles Bradley Though he was able to tour up until the very end, even after battling stomach cancer, renowned soul singer Charles Bradley passed away over the weekend. He was 68. Nicknamed “The Screaming Eagle of Soul,” Bradley...
ALBUM REVIEW: Shilpa Ray Triumphs Over NYC With ‘Door Girl’
New York, the city that never sleeps, takes an especially hard toll on those who make its endless nights possible: the waiters, the bartenders, the ticket takers who silently put up with endless shit from drunken idiots. The service...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Market Hotel Is Back, NYC’s Cabaret Law & More
Market Hotel Ends Their Hiatus Bushwick’s Market Hotel will host shows again starting on November 1st, with yet-unannounced special guests playing the grand reopening show. It’s been out of commission while Todd P. and his crew secure the...
NEWS ROUNDUP: RIP Walter Becker, Holger Czukay & More
RIP Holger Czukay Holger Czukay played bass in the groundbreaking Krautrock band Can, which he founded with keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, guitarist Michael Karoli, and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. He passed away on Tuesday at age 79 at the band’s Inner...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Reactions to Charlottesville, Prince’s Pantone Purple & More
Music + Politics: Responses To Charlottesville The horrible events of last weekend show that change is necessary in this country. Here’s some ways the music world reacted to Charlottesville: Spotify is cracking down on racist bands. Yeah,...
NEWS ROUNDUP: RIP Glen Campbell, A Celebrity Reptile & More
Country Star Glen Campbell Dies After a tough battle with Alzheimer’s – chronicled publicly in heartbreaking 2014 tour documentary I’ll Be Me – country and pop star Glen Campbell died on Tuesday, at age 81. He was heralded for...
TRACK PREMIERE: Lily and Horn Horse “Next To Me”
Lily Konigsberg is one third of Palberta, a confusing, experimental, instrument-swapping trio based in upstate New York. Matt Norman creates intricate, instrumental compositions under the moniker Horn Horse. Fate brought them together when Matt went to his former...
NEWS ROUNDUP: The End Of The iPod, Required Listening & More
Read This: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women The list was compiled by various writers on NPR. The outlet calls it “an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record and hopefully the start of a new conversation…...
TRACK PREMIERE: Pine Barons Talk “Chamber Choir”
There’s a kind of yearning nostalgia in the songs of the Pine Barons, an earnestness that never feels forced even though it competes with an eclectic array of elements and influences. The Philadelphia-based band has a sound that meshes atmospheric...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Changes at MTV, Rodents + Rush & More
MTV Ends Its “Era” Of Longform Journalism The site has laid off a sizable portion of their editorial staff in a (possibly misguided?) effort to give millennials what they really want, a.k.a. “short-form video content.” An in-depth article by Spin...
ARTIST INTERVIEW: Friend Roulette Discuss ‘The Matt Sheffer Songbook’
A well-worn cliche is that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but Brooklyn band Friend Roulette has taken it a step further: their latest release, The Matt Sheffer Songbook, Vol. 1, is a collection of songs an old friend wrote,...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Goodbye Shea, Spotify Sponsorship & More
Shea Stadium Officially Closes All we’ll have left of 20 Meadow Street is fond memories, and the new nightclub that the landlord wants to open to replace the beloved DIY venue. Shea Stadium was going to have a few...
NEWS ROUNDUP: Yoko Ono’s “Imagine” Credit, LCD Soundsystem Shows & More
Yoko Ono To Receive Songwriting Credit For ‘Imagine” In a 1980 BBC interview, John Lennon admitted that his wife Yoko Ono deserved a co-credit for one of his most beloved solo songs, “Imagine,” since much of the ideas and...