Every scene has a label everyone name-checks and a label everyone actually stole from. In New York house, the first is Strictly Rhythm. The second is Nu Groove, and it was already finished by the time most people learned to say it. Nu Groove opened in New York in 1988, founded by Frank and Karen […]
From a Fort Greene basement to Saturday Night Live, Geese are the most recent New York band to cross from independent obscurity to mainstream fame.
From SummerStage and Celebrate Brooklyn to Pier 17 and Hudson Yards, the 2026 summer rock and indie festival calendar across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Sin-é was a tiny Irish cafe at 122 St. Mark's Place with one cappuccino machine and no real stage. In 1992 it became Jeff Buckley's Monday-night residency and the room where Columbia signed him. The story of a forty-seat venue that launched Grace.
