On Monday: Girl Talk
Gregg Gillis, the sample-master known as Girl Talk, talks with Joel Silverstein about plans for a new album and his collaboration with New York based musician, Frank Musarra. That and more, Monday on YBNY.
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Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk
Photo by Andrew Strasser, courtesy of Pitch Perfect PR
Low Brow = High Brow
On Saturday, the well-styled graffiti and apparel shop, Low Brow Artique, opened a show of rapper Broke MC's art, featuring stencils and collage work as tribute to deceased cultural icons, i.e. Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Henson and Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita). Click through to the gallery to see an image from the Bushwick opening.
Records, That Is...
Meredith Zinn-Caraher photographed Carroll Gardens culture shop Black Gold's variety show last month. Click the image to view the gallery. Click here to read Zinn-Caraher's feature on Black Gold.
Future Shuttle Releases First LP
Since they played the YBNY Launch Party in 2010, the Brooklyn-based ambient synth band Future Shuttle has added two band members and shot an airy, beautiful video for the track "Feathermaster." Now, the all-girl group has released their first full-length album, "In To It," on New Images Records, and are celebrating the release tonight at Union Pool in Williamsburg, with Alice Cohen opening at 9 p.m. and Future Shuttle at 10 p,m,, followed by LFwind and Blondes DJing. Listen to the track "Astro Curio" below.
