Erykah Badu, best known for her eccentric style and cerebral music, is a Grammy- award winning American soul singer and songwriter. She’ll be doing a DJ SET as DJ Low Down Loretta Brown alongside Mr. Kweli, who’ll also be doing a DJ SET. This show is SUPER LEGIT!

  Don’t forget you can get all this awesomeness delivered to your inbox every Thursday afternoon by joining the BAS mailing list. BELLS ATLAS, GUY FOX, Brass MagicFRI. 08/29 | 8:30PM @ RICKSHAW STOPI happen to be a huge Bells Atlas fan. The lead male and female vocals are raspysmokey, yet genteel

Friday Mrs. Skannatto + Shipwrecks Play Brooklyn Knitting Factory Did you not win tickets to our giveaway? No worries. It’s only $10 ($12 at the door) to catch this amazing night of ska-rock at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory. The show begins at 8pm. Also, the Yonatan Gat Band will play the

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  “[At 88-years-old], Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation in Itta Bene, just outside the Mississippi delta town of Indianola. He used to play on the corner of Church and Second Street for dimes and would sometimes play in as many as four

  “While many artists have come and gone, why have Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings only continued to grow steadily in popularity around the world? How can they continue to sell-out huge theaters, headline festivals, and sell hundreds of thousands of records year after year with neither major label support

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

  Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews describes his music as supafunkrock. It’s definitely funky, but it’s also influenced by rock and has some R&B elements, thanks to his co-producer and Oakland native, Rafael Saadiq. Andrews says that “not only does Saadiq co-produce, but he becomes a member of the band, playing a variety