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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

NY Magazine: How Brooklyn Became America's Music Capital

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NY Magazine's cover story about how Brooklyn became America's music capital.

The borough of Kings has produced the most fertile music environment seen in New York since CBGB in the seventies, and the scene’s newest hero is David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors: a Wagner-loving taskmaster not afraid to mix strains of folk, hip-hop, classical, jazz, and African pop.


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