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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
NY Magazine: How Brooklyn Became America's Music Capital
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.
And here's what they're calling the Top 40 songs of the Brooklyn sound right now.
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/61878/?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/61878/?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10
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