Williamsburg townie, father, and possessor of one of the most distinctive hair styles in the tri-state area, and accomplished singer/songwriter to boot, Kyp Malone is best known for his adventurous guitar work with TV on the Radio. Tonight Kyp joins us in the booth to play an eclectic mix of esoteric sounds that transcend both time and space… If you’re appreciative, and he’s feeling generous, Kyp may just share the key to an entirely different dimension with you. You never can tell… More »

Local man-about-town Micki Pellerano is debuting his new experimental occultist film Hermatic Trilogy tonight. To celebrate, the NYNT DJ’s’ve pulled songs about witches, spells, black masses, mojo hands, black cats, and, of course, the giant canon of works about the man downstairs himself. We’ve enlisted the help of Pete from one of the finer 21st Century metal bands, Early Man, to be our Virgil – leading us through mountain of metalic portraits of everyone’s favorite fallen angel. More »

Alice
Coltrane passed on last weekend at the age of 69 as
she was becoming a more vital part of our listening experience and
overall musical consciousness than at any point in her prolific career. A top notch musician, improviser, composer, and, most of all, bandleader, striving for musical and siritual universality, her work stands taller than ever because of its uncompromising originality, emotional intensity, supreme quality, and, moreover, timelessness. More »

The gigantic tone of Kid Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the more readily identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock. Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary ambient, noise, and rock guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s, Kid�s spent the last fifteen years as a sideman (Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, Angels of Light, etc.), as a partner in Congo Norvell and Kid and Khan, More »

My distinguished guest DJs tonight are two of Australia’s finest exports to the New York music scene. Soulful baritone saxophonist Paula Henderson, who currently leads the legendary downtown trio Moisturizer and her solo project Secretary, is also a member or Reverend Vince Anderson’s Love Choir, Gregory Tate’s Burnt Sugar Arkestra, and moonlights with everybody and their mamas. She used to also play with James Chance and the Contortions, Tadanosion, Gogol Bordello, The Vanity Set, More »

Nick Zinner, who is of course the guitar stylist best known for his trademark hair-raising sonic sophistication in Yeah Yeah Yeahs as well as Head Wound City, Bright Eyes, Challenge of the Future, Unitard, etc., and his soulful and often conceptual photography, has found time to also excel at rocking the people from behind dusty and rusty turntables throughout the greater downtown area. Tonight he will be reunited with his old friend, lover, and collaborator Zach Lipez More »

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