NEWEST BROOKLYN BOUND

Brooklyn Bound: Charli XCX Live at Converse Rubber Tracks

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Somewhere between the April release of her excellent True Romance LP, lots of summer festival dates and a major North American tour, kicking off in August, we caught up with Charli XCX in Brooklyn. After … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: Interview with Charli XCX

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Charli XCX joined us at Videology in Williamsburg for this episode of Brooklyn Bound, to talk about the role of movies in her writing process, ’90s film styling and the importance of a good DVD … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: An Exclusive Download from Pure X’s Rubber Tracks Performance

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Austin’s Pure X doesn’t spend much time in New York outside of touring so the band understands the importance of leaving a good impression on a Big Apple audience. The real hard part though, making … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: Pure X Live at Converse Rubber Tracks

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Pure X‘s Crawling Up The Stairs dropped less than a month ago and in the time since the band has been zig-zagging across the country, spreading the C.U.T.S. gospel, powered, as we learned recently, by … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: Interview with Pure X

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When we spoke with Pure X at the Williamsburg location of Juice Press, the band told us that they bring a juicer with them every time they go on tour. If you’re wondering (like I … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: GrandeMarshall Live at Converse Rubber Tracks

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At only 19 years old, GrandeMarshall is one of Philidelphia’s youngest and brightest hopes for the next rapper to break nationally after Meek Mill. Most refreshing is how different the two sound when compared, Mill, … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: Interview with GrandeMarshall

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GrandeMarshall is a Philadelphia rapper who’s Twitter account currently has a display name of “It’s Pull Up!” The phrase is a reference to “PMS,” a song from his Mugga Man mixtape, released in April, and … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: An Exclusive Download from GZA’s Rubber Tracks Performance

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After GZA dedicated a recent afternoon to teaching us about chess, he strapped his Converse up tight to rock the Rubber Tracks stage. With a career spanning some 20-plus years, he had plenty of material … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: GZA Live at Converse Rubber Tracks

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The video for the original “Crash Your Crew” from GZA’s 1999 album Beneath The Surface features skateboarders going ham in a skate park while GZA (and Hell Razah) warn of their wrath under the voice … read more »

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Brooklyn Bound: Interview with GZA at Chess Forum

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For the lastest edition of FADER and Converse’s Brooklyn Bound, we sat down with legendary Wu-Tang MC, the GZA, who chose Greenwich Village’s The Chess Forum to talk about his love for the game of … read more »

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