Artist: downtown

listening to this and writing cover letters, tryna get up in nyc.  get the tracklist @ prefix .

The Dogs, Distance & Suicide at The Circus, St. Marks Place, NYC, October 1971 Sonny Vincent Sonny Vincent is one of those New York guys...the type of musician who has always been around...played the right places at the right time with the right acts, but for some reason never really made it (although you wouldn't know that from his discography [...]

El esperado nuevo album de Major Lazer Free The Universe se esperaba para mediados de febrero via Mad Decent/Downtown , pero éste se encuentra retrasado y se estrenará hasta finales de mes. En esta producción hay colaboraciones de  Ezra Koenig de Vampire Weekend , Amber Coffman de Dirty Projectors , Shaggy , y más. Para que la espera no sea tan dificil  Major Lazer estará realizando una serie de mixtapes, el primero es  Lazer Strikes Back Vol. 1  [...]

Country band, Lady Antebellum, released the visuals of their crazy catchy single "Downtown," produced by Paul Worley and the band. Watch: Buy "Downtown" on (Amazon MP3) [[ This is a content summary only. Click on the titles for full stories... ]]

The following is a demo video produced for Hilly Kristal, creator and owner of CBGB - possibly sometime in the 80's(?). This is one playlist made up of seven parts. Thanks to Godlis for pointing to it.

Photos: Cheeky Bastard on January 17, 2013 , with Shreddie Mercury , and more , at The DL .

Designer Drugs.

Major Lazer, Diplo's collaboration side project, will be releasing their upcoming album Free The Universe on February 19 under record label Mad Decent/ Downtown. The moombahton outfit has have shared the album's tracklist and cover artwork over Facebook and Twitter . The album features a number of artists such as Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig; hiphop cacophony, Tyga; dubstep producer, Flux Pavillion, and pop star crooner, Bruno Mars. Below is the tracklist and above is the [...]

As the year closes out, each day we're revisiting one of our favorite songs of 2012: From her eight-song mini LP Downtown , Erin Passmore 's "Into the Woods" is, we opined, "an inspired stunner that manages to sound both intimate and epic at the same time, Passmore's upfront and center voice a warm, impassioned complement to the grand instrumentation building, then crashing around her." A multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the fine Canadian indie band Rah Rah, Passmore stepped out solo with some help from [...]

Photos: Cheeky Bastard on December 13, 2012 at The DL, with Gigamesh , Punches, Sean Glass , RekLES , and more!!

La marque New Yorkaise Downtown nous dévoile une nouvelle collection de casquettes. En tout et pour tout huit nouveaux modèles dans un design vintage avec des lignes épurées, des couleurs pastels ou vives, et surtout une qualité remarquable. De quoi préparer l'été comme il se doit en commandant dès maintenant sur la boutique en ligne de Downtown .

Photos: Cheeky Bastard on November 8, 2012 , with Nancy Whang from LCD Soundsystem , Vito from The Rapture , Sean Glass , and more!

The previously announced Major Lazer track "Jah No Partial" has been released. The song will appear on their upcoming album Free the Universe , due out February 19th on Mad Decent/Downtown. It samples Johnny Osbourne's "Mr Marshall" and features Flux Pavilion with additional production by Schlachthofbronx. Not much to be said except, it's a banger. Find it below along with the Major Lazer crew discussing the making of. Major Lazer talking about the making of track:

Sacramento Press about my show at The Coffee Garden A night with Talvik was soothing relief after a workday. Sacramento press attended my show at The Coffee Garden the other night and you can read all about what they thought about the show here . So you missed it? Aawwww, too bad, but you can still catch my second show in Sacramento in Friday 10/19 at Zuhg [...]

Low Fidelity - The Photographs of Bobby Grossman 1975-1983 by Bobby Grossman Bobby Grossman The recently published Low Fidelity - The Photographs of Bobby Grossman 1975-1983 is a hugely credible addition to the steadily growing collection of catalogs, books & films looking back at the mid-70's thru mid-80's. Bobby Grossman definitely pushes the envelope of hip. [...]

Photos: Cheeky Bastard on October 11, 2012 with Luke Jenner of The Rapture , Sean Glass , Alex English , and DJ Daniel Alcala , at The DL .

Download : Malibu B - Downtown by KEEPREAL for creatives www.keepreal.org Malibu B - Downtown Some more : 20 June 2012 -- Explosions in the Sky - Postcard From 1952 (oddlogic rework) 3 January 2012 -- Troumaca - Layou 6 December 2011 -- Soosh - Take My Hand 20 October 2011 -- Kouta - Orinda EP

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On the set of Wild Style with Patti Astor: This luscious color-drenched photo by Cathy Campbell from Wild Style , 2:00AM outside the Dixie, South Bronx. LEE (Quinones) and I are about to get held up by the three "Bad Guys" in the rear, great story about this in the book. Excitement is building for the NYC party Oct. 6 ! Pre-order today to save $10. off the bookstore price, be on the VIP Door List and be guaranteed a book. What's to lose shorty? Head [...]

Here's an item I neglected to include in last weeks post about upcoming Art/Music related events - The Fun Gallery, run by Patti Astor, was probably ground zero for the explosion of art and galleries in the early-80's East Village. Opened in 1981, Astor was responsible for some of the first, if not the first exposure on a gallery level for such artists as Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000, Lee Quinones, Keith Haring, and many others. Anyway, Patti will be publishing a memoir soon, Fun Gallery: The [...]

Here is the new video from the Tom Tom Club which features quick cameos from Debbie Harry & Richard Hell. "Downtown Rockers" is an unapologetic nostalgic love letter in the form of a list to the NYC music scene of the 70's. A nice return to form from one of the nicest couples I've ever had the pleasure of meeting...For buying & social links visit tomtomclub.net .