Unsane's press kit offered a quote from an unlikely source: The New York Times. The Grey Lady described the band's sound as representative of the East Village, which may be accurate if you're talking late 80's New York. Unfortunately since then the Eas... »
Instrumental avant-prog NJ based band Delicate Steve are currently putting the final touches on their sophomore album, due out later this year. After playing Webster Hall with Cult on Thursday, they will be playing a number of shows around SXSW and wil... »
Not to get all promote-y or anything, but ... »
A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google engineer told me to... »
Oh boy... this friggin' poll is so much work it becomes almost surreal... know what I mean? But we are getting there folks! We just uploaded the full list of artists nominated for our Best of NYC 2011 Poll for Emerging Artists. It's in the right column... »
The Wall Street Journal reports: The 307 national retailers tracked in the survey expanded to a total of 6,994 city stores this year, from 6,883 in 2010. About one-third of the chains had fewer city locations over the past 12 months, including American... »
A few days ago, I had a very filling lunch at Misoya Ramen with a friend. I’ve read around Chowhound that this ramen newcomer might be comparable to my favorite ramen restaurant Ippudo. Since I love to eat a soul warming bowl of ramen during the chilly... »
If you worked anywhere along NYC's longest street, you may have seen a familiar sight yesterday evening: the Occupy Wall Street protesters! They were back! Well, technically they never went anywhere. They've just "decentralized," as one organizer put i... »
