DAILYSESSION

By Vintage Vinyl News

Devo is back on their original label, Warner Brothers, signing what is being called a worldwide groundbreaking partnership. Warner will handle all parts of the band’s career including recordings, touring, merchandising, web presence, promotion, licensing and endorsements. [Read More]

By Jefferson Siegel – Downtown Express

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. 

An art collective called Lowbrow Society for the Arts put Thoreau’s words into practice when they held an art show aboard rolling mass transit two weeks ago.  
“Move! A Wearable Art Gallery and Celebration on a Subway Train” found more than 100 musicians, artists and other costumed performers packed into the last three cars of a J train to Brooklyn as participants painted, sang, danced and performed acrobatic displays. [Read More]

By Vintage Vinyl News

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) saluted the best of the year in urban music on Thursday night at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Lincoln Center at its annual Urban Awards.  The big winners were T-Pain and Lil Wayne who shared the Songwriter of the Year and Polow Da Don and Kanye West who both received Producer of the Year.  Song of the Year went to No Air by Erik Griggs, recorded by Jordan Sparks and Chris Brown. [Read More]

Halcyon, a bastion of cultural connoisseurs, based in Dumbo, Brooklyn has spent ten years educating and celebrating their community.  Rooted in DJ culture, halcyon is home to an ever-changing global sampling of street art, urban fashion, alternative literature, transformative technology, unique design and, of course, music, in all it’s forms, from Jazz to Techno.

It’s home to a family of passionate creatives obsessed with the pursuit of quality, open to the insight of collaborators and committed to the advancement of the craft. It’s home to unbridled imagination, uninhibited exploration and unrestrained discovery. Most of all, though, halcyon is simply home to relaxed, unpretentious good times wherein it all comes together… the halcyon experience. [Read More]