Brooklyn music

This morning I read a fine article in Soundvenue about the music and the creative pulse in Brooklyn, NY, how the scene thrives and how the upcoming musicians are creating an organic, interconnected music scene. Since Manhattan is becoming too expensive and overcrowded, lots of musicians are unfolding their musicality in Brooklyn. A diversity inside people living there and an open mindset are spurring experimentations and a mixture of sounds. Stages are popping up everywhere they weren’t meant to, even inside hippie collectives like The Silent Barn.

While all of this probably was true years earlier, because New York has hatched a lot of music trends and movements in the 21th century with bands like TV on the Radio, The Strokes, The Battles, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and of course Animal Collective, there is still lots of new stuff stirring in Brooklyn.

One of these is Grizzly Bear with their experimental indie/folk rock. Yellow House from 2006 was ranked as one of the top album by New York Times and Pitchfork Media. They have been warming up to TV on the Radio and touring with Radiohed this summer.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is supposed to be Brooklyns best kept secret. I just got his self titled 2007 album from iTunes. It’s simply great. Hear more on his MySpace site (link above) or listen to Buriedfed here:

You might like White Rabbits too. The Plot is catching on easily. They have toured with Spoon – damn, lucky bastards.

And just for the sake of excellent music, here’s TV on the Radio‘s “Wolf Like Me”. It gets me pumping every time.

And of course The Battles should be on here as well. Don’t think I have posted anything about them before, but I really like their album Mirrored and indeed the tune Atlas: