NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring The Rub & Dave Nada
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We’re handing the reins to this Friday’s moon-rockingest edition of One Step Beyond at the American Museum of Natural History Museum to Dave Nada and The Rub. Have we mentioned that New York Magazine calls One Step Beyond the “Best Museum Party in NYC?” Why on Earth would anyone miss it? Besides, it’s at a museum so that means you get smarter while you party—guaranteed. Buy your tickets now.
Freeload: DJ Ayres’ Michael Jackson Mix
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It’s easy to make jokes about MJ, but he has made some of the best songs basically ever, even up through the weird later period of his career when he had to hide his face in videos and maybe made a deal with a Sultan somewhere or something like that. DJ Ayres doesn’t want us to forget, so he put together this chronological mix that you can download for 0 dollars and 0 cents below.
Download: Rub Radio Michael Jackson Mix
NYC: Stick Your Rap Face in a History Lesson
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For real though? Unless you are an Originoo Gun Clappa or your government name is Curtis Fisher, there’s a pretty good chance you could use some brushing-up on your hip-hop history. But New Yorkers both old-school and land-rushin’ can get a FREE lesson this evening for zero dollars at the Hip Hop History Party with THE RUB and DJ Lindsey (recently fashionably profiled in the NY Times!), celebrating the final show in a decade of radio home-schooling the Rub has been streaming for free on Brooklyn Radio. (Here’s 1990 and 1991: for the rest up to 1999, just switch up the year in the URL, no?) Earn street-valuable Retro Kid swag dolares, up your standing with hot rap nerds, and discover why ye olde heads sometimes get salty at the minimalist lyricism of new New York wordy rappinghoods under the age of 18: it’s not their fault! They had Nas! Now go and put down a Kid n’ Play on the dancefloor for us. (P.S. Everything you hear tonight was invented by Prodigy.)
Rubbin’ to the ’90s
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Two years ago, at THE RUB DJs’ NEW YEAR’S EVE party in Brooklyn, the trio’s countdown-to-midnight was a slaying throwback set of the greatest-ever hip hop songs, year by year, starting somewhere in the late ‘80s. Because we had already consumed enough champagnes that we were hallucinating double Doctor Dres and Ed Lovers, we cannot remember if it was DJ Ayres, DJ Eleven, or Cosmo Baker spinning at that moment, or if they actually even started in the 1980s. But we do remember it was amazing. And ever since, we have been unwavering in our trust of the Rub DJs’ cavernous crates—and fortunately for all beatlovers, rhyme historians, and retro kids, they have parlayed the idea they mined so deftly that night into The Rub History of Hip-Hop” on Brooklyn Radio—an essential playlist of rap’s classic joints, broken down by year. This week they celebrated 1994 – Smif N Wesson! Dru Down! Group Home! FADER fave Ill Al Skratch! Before you know it, you will be “lamping” on deep BK rooftops, lighting Ls and dialing DJ Evil Dee on the 2-way just see what’s good. Click here to stream the last decade, and tune in next Monday to hear 1995.
Download their shows spanning 1979-1989 here.
Read Brooklyn Radio’s interview with Ayres, Cosmo and Eleven about the series HERE.
