Blog: Consequence Of Sound

“Could be a weekend with Jaar sort of thing,” my editor said. I was assigned an excuse to pass on Madonna’s halftime show and spend my Super Bowl weekend with ambient noir&B wunderkind Nicolas Jaar . The barely legal beatmaker and aesthetic tastemaker—who also studies at Brown University, spins at school parties, and runs his own record label, Clown & Sunset—performed Friday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and Sunday afternoon at MoMA's PS1 in Queens. The latter also functioned as a launch party for multimedia production house Clown & Sunset Aesthetics , the parent company of [...]