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The story of the independent music artist is usually marked with challenges and hopes of eventually ‘making it big’ and signing a record contract with a major label. For rapper J.R. Clark, his path as an independent artist has brought challenges, but also success without a major label deal. Here’s how J.R. Clark found stability and success as an independent […]
Since Italy opened up after the pandemic, newspapers are full of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs and restaurateurs claiming a shortage of young people willing to work and their over-expectation of salary, vacations and days off. This wave of criticism towards Gen Z has tended to portray the latter as a bunch of slackers and idlers, who prefer to benefit from […]
On May 12, Brooklyn Music School (126 St. Felix Street) presented a new concert titled “New Music in New York,” featuring new original pieces of contemporary music that focus on peace and the environment—including “Dissolve, O my Heart” by Missy Mazzoli, “Peace” by Jessie Montgomery, and “Lyrica Nova, Op.59 No.3” by Ukrainian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952). The concert also marked […]
The Long Play festival, which ran in various venues around downtown Brooklyn from April 29 to May 1, was created to replace the previous Bang on a Can marathon, an annual single-stage daylong free presentation usually in Manhattan. Over three days at 10 venues, more than 60 acts represented a mix of contemporary composition, jazz-based improvisation and updatings of folk […]