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The People of Googa Mooga

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Must-See Concerts This Week

By Brittany Spanos
Portugal. the Man and Danger Mouse's Not-So-"Evil" Friendship

By Hilary Hughes
SNL Sound-Off: Kanye West

By Hilary Hughes
The Troll Power of Mac Mill and Sean Price Together

By Phillip Mlynar
LIVE REVIEW: Kurt Vile at Bowery Ballroom

By Harley Oliver Brown
LIVE REVIEW: Charles Bradley at The Apollo

By Hilary Hughes
This Weekend's Must-See Concerts

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We Did Mushrooms at the Bronx Zoo With Andy Animal

By Jamie Peck
Best Bands With John Dyer Baizley Album Art

By Linda Leseman

Children Of The Night

Meet World's Fair, the Rap Kids From Queens

By Phillip Mlynar Thu., Feb. 21 2013 at 3:15 AM

Categories: Children Of The Night, Phillip Mlynar

World's Fair

Tonight, the World's Fair hip-hop collective will be bringing their brand of ruggedly charming rap to the Knitting Factory. Broadcasting from Queens, the crew caught a profile bump last year with the release of Children Of The Night's stellar Queens... Revisited mixtape and are set to build on that buzz with a World's Fair full-length project slated for later this year. In the meantime, here's your World's Fair primer, courtesy of Remy Banks and Prince SAMO.

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New Releases

Children Of The Night Wave The New York Flag On Queens... Revisited

By Phillip Mlynar Fri., Mar. 30 2012 at 9:00 AM

Categories: Children Of The Night, New Releases, Phillip Mlynar

"I find myself walking to work and I can see the sun rise right over Queens Boulevard, and I say to myself, why hasn't Queens gotten a trophy in a very long time? I mean, I feel like we deserve to shine right now, don't we? We got a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful team and I can see us parading down Roosevelt Avenue right now..."

So goes the spoken opening to "'86 Mets," a song from Queens rap trio Children of the Night's new freebie mixtape, Queens... Revisited. It's a worthy motivational plea, but it's one that might not be needed for long, with the city beginning to feel an invigorating wave of hip-hop releases. Hometown artists like the Flatbush Zombies, 17-year-old Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew, and Das Racist's Greedhead army are garnering attention with resolutely east coast-styled music, while the scene's most charismatic, Action Bronson, deserves to follow Crown Heights' unruliest, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, into the major-label leagues.

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