Big news! Bandcamp Daily for the last 10 years has been shining a light on artists all over the world who are using Bandcamp to connect with fans. It’s with great excitement that East Village Radio announces that Bandcamp is expanding again, with a brand new weekly live-in-our-booth radio show exclusive to our station, starting […]
Acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee will be the special guest on East Village Radio this Friday, October 11th. Since his debut in 1969 with Underground Railroad with Joe McPhee Quartet on CjR, and the stunning follow up, Nation Time in 1971 on the same label, McPhee has made significant contributions to the creative jazz […]
Sachiko Kanenobu was said to be the first Japanese female singer/songwriter directly influenced by Western folk-rock conventions: Joni Mitchell, Pentangle, Donovan all played into a wonderful 1972 release Misora, reissued in the recent decade by Chapter Music as well as Light In The Attic Records. A marvelous recording, her relocation to California and surreal career […]
Miles Davis’ “Doo-Bop”, Tribes’ “Low End Theory”, Guru’s “Jazzmatazz”, The Roots: the early-mid 90s sparked a whole new genre, a movement toward an experimental fusion between live hip hop & funky free form jazz. During that exact time frame, Rhasaan Oyasaba—a recent college grad, a musician, a producer—finds himself moving to New York and together […]