By Bruce Haring
07.04.2020 - 02:51 / pitchfork.com
Late last year, it was announced that New York City’s CMJ Music Marathon would return for the first time in five years. The week-long multi-venue festival was initially launched in 1978, and ran through 2015. However following a change in ownership and a string of legal issues, the event’s future was uncertain. Now, the British platform Amazing Radio has announced the acquisition of the CMJ brand.
Amazing Radio had planned to re-launch CMJ in New York this fall, along with an American version of
By Bruce Haring
By Patrick Hipes
By Michael Schneider
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are reportedly raising money to make a bid for the New York Mets baseball team.
George Costanza can really belt it.
Cops have found 17 corpses at a nursing home stored in a tiny shed.
Rihanna, Jay-Z and Twitter's Jack Dorsey are adding to their seven-figure efforts to aid coronavirus relief efforts, this time with a focus on marginalized communities in cities that have been hit hard during the current pandemic.
Bing & Ruth, the project led of New York composer David Moore, has announced a new album. Species is out July 17 via 4AD. Moore’s also shared a new video for the new song “I Had No Dream.” Watch it below.
The CMJ brand is now part of Amazing Radio
By Ted Johnson
By Bruce Haring
Cheryl Strayed is launching a new podcast in collaboration with The New York Times. The Wild author has reteamed with The Times to release Sugar Calling.
New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in three days to more than 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet streets of the city became the heartbreaking soundtrack of the crisis.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' support for those suffering during the coronavirus pandemic goes beyond their public $1 million donation to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada. E! reports this evening that the couple donated $400,000 to four New York hospitals.
President Donald Trump backed away from calling for a quarantine for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, instead directing Saturday night that a "strong Travel Advisory" be issued to stem the spread of the outbreak. The notion of a quarantine had been advocated by governors, including Republican Gov.