From Little Richard to the Stones to the Stooges to the Hives , for me, rock ‘n’ roll is at its best when it’s raw and basic. It’s loud, swaggering, and in your face. To quote Lemmy, “Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t worth the name if it don’t make you strut.” It’s got a beat that’ll…
DJ Lily (Lily Boyland) is an honor student at Staten island’s Nicotra Charter school, starting her Junior Year, and an attendee of the Marnbaeksung Korean School. She is the host of Heart & Seoul: K-Pop Non-Stop, a monthly Makerparkradio program dedicated to her favorite musical genre. She recently shared some thoughts about Heart & Soul…
Dorcas Meyers was a vendor at our first block party in 2017. She has a wonderful beauty product company called “Roc-A-Natural“. We stayed in touch, and were recently talking, and she was telling me how she was trying to put together a free movie night in her community of Stapleton. Her hope was to motivate…
Every photo of me from the latter half of my high school years features short, moussed-up hair, big earrings, some retro skirt or clamdiggers, and an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt. Hail, Belinda, I wanted to be in the Go-Go’s. Wanna feel old? Beauty and the Beat, the pop album put out by I.R.S. (which smashed the vinyl…
You’ve heard time and again: music soothes the savage beast. I’ve said it many times myself. Guess what? That’s not exactly how it goes. The original phrase is “Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak…”. It’s from a poem written in 1697 by William Congreve. (Never…
Kitty here! I have been poking my nose in other DJ’s businesses around the hub this week- let’s dish. Vinyl acquisitions: what recently purchased records are you enjoying right now? Tom Ferrie (Nowhere Fast): Peaky Blinders OGS (3xLP) Kitty (The She Pop Show): Xenia Rubinos and Yolo Elizabeth Bennett (Staten Island Arts): the original Sesame…
It was a small, second-story room facing out onto the street that I grew up on. There were two windows, side-by-side, but the view seemed to be of absolutely no interest to its occupant. The blinds were always down, and sometime in the summer of 1974, just as I was about to become a teenager,…