News & Updates — Event

June 19 @ 9:00 pm | $5 Big Mean Sound Machine will be making their first ever appearance in Northampton, MA at Hinge this Friday night in celebration of their new 7″ on Peace & Rhythm, a split 45 with Super Hi-Fi. Fat Bradley will open. 9pm-2am. Details here. Big Mean Sound Machine are rooted in Ithaca, NY, but with members across the Northeast these folks have plenty of reason to deliver this humongous sound all over the damn place. A constantly-traveling brigade of funk-and-sweat, citizens armed with horns, guitars, synths and percussion all together in one Big Mean Sound...

VISUAL CLAVE 50 Years of Latin Album Cover Design Visual Clave documents the little known evolution of ‘Salsa Graphics’ and  the expression of Latino identities through the prism of album cover art over  half a century of music packaging and graphic design. This exhibit explores the evolution of Latin music album cover art over the last 50 years,paying critical attention to issues of identity and aesthetics through depictions of Hispanic people and cultures, with an emphasis on historical context and the unsung graphic artists who helped present Latin music — and its attendant socio-cultural themes — to the world. Visual Clave’s premise...

The mack daddy of USA record fairs is moving to Brooklyn this year! Catch the WFMU show this coming weekend at the Expo center. Andujar & Studebaker Hawk will be there selling. Come and say hello!Details here. Studebaker Hawk’s Discogs page can be found here. And be sure to catch the Drums & Dreams exhibit up at Bronx Music Heritage Center. The opening is Saturday. Peace & Rhythm fully representing!

A joint exhibit between Charlie Rosario and Peace & Rhythm’s Pablo Yglesias is now showing at the Bronx Music Heritage Center, with an opening reception on May 2, with music by DJ Andujar and Charlie Rosario with Los Rumberos Callejeros. More info at Bongohead’s blog. “I just put up a new art show with my friend Charlie Rosario last week in the Bronx at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab (1303 Luis Niñé Boulevard). We hung our work side by side, and collaborated on a shrine to the great conga players, percussionists, and rumberos of Cuban and Puerto Rican origin...

Release party for the brand spanking new full-length album by Ola Fresca!! Jose Conde‘s band has morphed into a hard-driving salsa unit and have been getting the dancers on the floor at every stop the past year. Come and celebrate the poppin’ new album Elixir at Drom, 85 Ave A, Manhattan on Wednesday, June 10. Also appearing will be Roman Diaz Rumba Ensemble, Ann Mazzocca‘s folklore-inspired choreography and DJ Turmix spinning salsa and boogaloo straight off of classic vinyl! Ola Fresca will be playing several gigs in support of the album and Peace & Rhythm will be pressing up a...