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Twelve Artists You Have to See at Ende Tymes

By Ray Cummings
Revisiting Paul Anka's "Having My Baby"

By Chaz Kangas
NYC's Memorial Day Weekend 2013 EDM Party Guide

By Jay Stephens
The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend

By Brittany Spanos
The Ultimate List of Free Summer Concerts in NYC

By Jay Stephens
10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.
Q&A: Andre Nickatina on Mac Dre

By J. Pablo
French Montana's Excuse My French Almost...

By J. Pablo
Cheap Trick Care About NYC Metal/Hardcore

By Brian McManus
Meet Music's Next Superstar: Shia LaBeouf

By Brittany Spanos

Action Bronson

Welcome To The Quiet Storm: A Primer on Drumless Rap

By Phillip Mlynar Tue., Nov. 27 2012 at 8:00 AM

Categories: Action Bronson, Alchemist, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, Party Supplies, Roc Marciano

Roc Marciano

Boom-bap be damned! The latest micro-movement in hip-hop involves rappers layering their rhymes over production that either ditches the idea of using drums entirely or mixes any errant snares so low down in the mix as to be barely audible. Hooked around the interchangeable Action Bronson, Roc Marcy and Alchemist trifecta, here's a primer on the quiet storm that's beginning to define the tail-end of 2012's rap schedule.

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Last Night

Live: The Cops Shut Down Fool's Gold Day Off; DJ A-Trak Throws Out More T-Shirts

By Jeff Rosenthal Tue., Sep. 4 2012 at 12:00 PM

Categories: ASAP Ant, ASAP Rocky, Danny Brown, Flatbush Zombies, Flosstradamus, Fool's Gold, French Montana, Jeff Rosenthal, Last Night, Live, Nick Catchdubs, Party Supplies

Brook Bobbins

Check out our slideshow from the party.

Fool's Gold Day Off: ~~French Montana,~~ Danny Brown, ~~Brothers Macklovitch,~~ Just Blaze, Flosstradamus, Flatbush Zombies, Nick Catchdubs, Ricky Blaze, Party Supplies, #BEEN #TRILL, Telephoned, and more
City Winery
Monday, September 3

Better than: Rain.

Last year, free shows flooded the city, with each night bringing mostly the same crowd but different publicists; an endless bacchanalia of sights and sounds and RSVP emails. Drink taps flowed like fire hoses; beautiful women instinctively flocked. Heineken served hot dogs and beer ahead of shows by Kanye (in a Brooklyn bank-turned-arena), J. Cole (at the Bowery Ballroom) and Pusha T (at Santos); they also stuck TV on the Radio (atop a downtown billboard. Bacardi had Childish Gambino in Terminal 5 and Ciara at South Street Seaport. Red Bull hosted Dipset, Black Moon, Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep and Slick Rick in their respective boroughs. Jadakiss did an entire set amongst shoppers at the Apple Store in June; a few months later, Nike gave Nas a microphone while Carmelo Anthony holograms seemingly exploded out of the Hudson. 2012, in comparison, has been... quiet, don't-wake-the-baby level quiet.

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Handy Guides

Party Supplies' Five-Step Guide To Making Music From YouTube

By Phillip Mlynar Wed., Mar. 21 2012 at 11:00 AM

Categories: Handy Guides, Party Supplies, Phillip Mlynar

Action Bronson (left) and Party Supplies.

"I'm like a magician!" says Party Supplies, the Williamsburg-based producer who rolls with the Fool's Gold label and whose latest output is Blue Chips, which he recorded with Flushing's finest, Action Bronson. When lauding his musical sorcery, Party Supplies is referring to his talent of making entire songs out of samples and snippets he's fished up from out of the pop cultural depths of YouTube. It's a set-up that he and Bronson mined for Blue Chips—and one that he insists more producers would do well to take advantage of: "I've been on a YouTube mission for a minute and really try and tell other people how amazing it is for producers and especially rap producers." Then he adds, "But I know how to make things magically work through all of the tips and techniques." Here's Party Supplies' five-step guide to making sweet music from the mass of media on YouTube.

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