The NYC/Brooklyn music scene (NY Mag)

"....fearless sincerity, devotion to craft, agnosticism about digital technology (which is to say, they use it but don’t fetishize it), profound musical curiosity, ingenuity at using the human voice as an instrument, and an uncanny ability to reproduce their complex material in live performance (in no small part because this is where the money is).

These also happen to be the qualities that define the most exciting aspects of the local scene, the vast swarm of artists who inhabit the bars, clubs, and unlicensed loft spaces of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and beyond. Is there a 23-year-old alive in northern Brooklyn who’s not making music right now? It may be a good deal harder to get rich in the music business than it was a generation ago, but that doesn’t seem to have deterred anyone. What are they all after?"

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