Manhattan

The Cheetah Club is widely credited as the birthplace of Salsa music and it was the epicenter for this art form’s rise to popularity and the use of the term “Salsa”.

Learn more about Greene St. Recording Studios and it role in recording the golden years of NY hip hop in the 90’s

The influential “Brill Building Sound” and the style of popular songwriting and recording created by its writers and producers defined 60’s popular music.

Tin Pan Alley* is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Native Tongues crew’s (Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest among others) early work in Calliope Studios started a hip-hop movement.

Punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s from an underground Manhattan club called CBGB.

Learn about the legendry New York club the Paradise Garage and the legacy of Larry Levan that became the genre of garage house music.

Afrofuturism’s artistic freedom, social impact and limitless sonic ideas are celebrated through jazz, funk, R&B, Afrobeat, hip-hop, electronic music in this Festival.

Gorillaz performed their new single “Skinny Ape” live December 17 in New York and December 18 in London

The Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York City played host to an extraordinary event: the launch of a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet and the Red Hot Organization.

Explore Seanchaí and the Unity Squad, pioneers of Irish Rebel Hip-Hop, blending Irish storytelling with hip-hop beats and electronic rhythms in NYC.