It’s been a momentous three years for Alexander Ebert. In the short amount of time, he has reexamined his life and his musical direction. Coming from the raucous pop of Ima Robot, the musician created a side project based around his alter ego, Edward Sharpe. This band, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, released its debut full-length Up From...

Lineup Already Includes: The Black Keys, TV On The Radio, Umphreys McGee, AraabMUZIK, Snoop Dogg (performing Doggystyle the album with special guests). July 28th + 29th on Randall's Island, Further artist announcements coming May 21st. The inaugural Catalpa Festival is striving to be a pioneering New York festival, unique in its programming, a...

One characteristic of human culture is our need to classify and categorize things, mostly to distinguish or separate them from one another. Political beliefs, societal norms and religious dictations draw lines between who is our friend and who is our enemy. If we never question why such boundaries exist, we could remain at an ideolog...

History has shown us that certain social, economic and cultural issues will never go away. As America's military budget exceeds the combined amount of the next ten countries, we wonder if there will ever be world peace. As civil rights continue to be trampled in the States and abroad, we wonder if the system will ever work for the people, not jus...

Spencer "Skip Wicked" Burton of Indubious
Society is a funny thing: from birth we’re immersed into an unspoken set of rules and standards. We come to understand what’s socially acceptable, from how we style our hair to what we wear to the set of core values and traditions we believe we should uphold. And yet, all it takes is a little expo...

Medium Troy at the Whiteaker Block Party in August Hometown pride can make people do strange things: root for teams that lose every season, eat at the same diner every day, and ground future generations into family-upheld traditions. What distinguishes them, though, is the people’s unending support of the product of their community - this is...