Celebrating the 45th anniversary of Grammy winning dub & reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry’s landmark 1973 album “Blackboard Jungle Dub”, the world’s first dub album, Scratch, now 82 years young, will embark on a tour across North America performing his studio masterpiece live in its entirety for the first time,

Tune Yards new album is an unflinching examination of modern identity, intricately rendered in the manically infectious way that only Tune-Yards can. Drawing on a recent foray into DJing and inspired in part by C.L.A.W. (Collaborative Legions of Artful Womxn), her radio show highlighting female-identifying producers, I can feel you creep

As I’m writing this it has been 20 minutes since police began raiding my neighbor’s crib. This isn’t the first time, but with the daunting cloud of gentrification looming over my neighborhood of Washington Heights I’m positive it’ll be one of the last I’ll experience. I’ve witnessed my fair share

Hello, Broke-Ass readers! On Round 1, we covered one of the biggest draws of New York Comic Con: Cosplay. This round, we’re gonna take you into the world of yet another huge draw at NYCC every year: Celebrities. Each & every year, NYCC is packed to the brim with celebrities

There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress thinking he’s got what it takes to shantay down the runway just because he’s seen every season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while practicing YouTube makeup tutorials. There’s a

The hit live stand-up comedy show Cheaper Than Therapy has been routinely selling out Union Square’s Shelton Theater for years, delivering rapid-fire LOLs like every 20 seconds and racking up 275 Yelp reviews with a five-star average. The show celebrates its fifth anniversary this weekend, marking five years of cheap-date

Sweet 16 and Thirsty Thursday Twenty-Firsty have both passed, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t celebrate your birthday now that you’re “over the hill.” Age is just a number, after all, and maybe you still want to go down the slide in your double digits. Here are 11 ways

witches, drinks, bluegrass, films, photos, prints, performance and even an ‘underwater, multimedia experience’.  So dive in, the waters just right…and it ain’t even Halloween week yet.