The New York Groove

Somehow more brief thoughts on singles I've heard recently on WFUV Listening to WFUV at just the right time has led to some interesting outcomes for me recently.

It's time for another round of @davecolon.bsky.social's crank-and-rank radio music revue nygroove.nyc/somehow-more...

The dream of the aughts is alive at The New Colossus Festival The neighborhood music festival once thrived in New York City, and it can once again

The New Colossus Festival is on, and that means you could be drinking a beer and watching a band as early as noon today nygroove.nyc/the-dream-of...

I have for years had my headphones in constantly, and I've been independently coming around to this point of view

yes!

Real Young & Lazy Horse is the rock and roll book club that will blow out your eardrums ‘It's just an extension of our hang.’

once a rare phantom that only played sporadic summer shows at Rippers, the four horsemen of Real Young have taken up winter residency at Union Pool, with the next show slated for early April nygroove.nyc/real-young-l...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k6U...

In addition to creating a reality filter and cultivating solipsism AirPod culture has also given us the full-volume-off-the-phone-TikTok-video phenomenon. Making headphones expensive and hard to replace means more playing whatever off the phone speaker and driving everyone nuts!

'The revolution needs your ears:' the case against wearing AirPods all the time Constant yammering in your ears isn't just bad for your brain, it's making public spaces less public

if we really wanted this level of interpersonal isolation we could just move to the suburbs instead nygroove.nyc/stop-wearing...

A friend and I got shut out of the sold out show on Sunday, incidentally, but we’ve seen Real & Lazy before. They are a marvelous live experience that, as the piece notes, is not quite exactly a tribute or cover show.

Real Young & Lazy Horse is the rock and roll book club that will blow out your eardrums ‘It's just an extension of our hang.’

finally, a proper profile of the single greatest band in all of New York City courtesy of @davecolon.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/real-young-l...

Real Young & Lazy Horse is the rock and roll book club that will blow out your eardrums ‘It's just an extension of our hang.’

Today @nygroove.nyc becomes the first publication to profile one of this city's greatest musical treasures: Real Young & Lazy Horse nygroove.nyc/real-young-l...

'The revolution needs your ears:' the case against wearing AirPods all the time Constant yammering in your ears isn't just bad for your brain, it's making public spaces less public

"I live in this city because it’s endlessly fascinating to me; why do I tune out so many of its microtransactions and minor negotiations of humanity that make up its shared space?"

@timdonnelly.com makes a compelling case for taking off your damn headphones nygroove.nyc/stop-wearing...

No one on my train knows I’m about to publish a profile of Real Young & Lazy Horse

~40 minutes to subscribe before this week's issue of The Groove hits inboxes; it contains the real story of one of New York City's greatest summer legends. Sneak preview: nygroove.nyc#/portal/signup

not only did we report this story first, Ellen and another "Bridgelante" joined us at last night's edition of New York Groove Live!, which you can still watch here caveat.stellartickets.com/events/the-n...

[as first reported in The New York Groove] nygroove.nyc/garbage-clea...

7pm tonight: say 'no' to doomscrolling and say 'yes please' to The New York Groove Live! www.caveat.nyc/events/the-n...

this is tonight! livestream tix are $10

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🎤 TOMORROW: Cure doomscrolling with us IRL Our new live show is back to cure the too-much-news blues.

TOMORROW: Cure doomscrolling with us IRL at the next edition of The New York Groove Live! 7pm at Caveat, feat. @rachelholliday.bsky.social, @dcinbox.bsky.social, @alisonleiby.bsky.social plus a custom local-news crossword and more nygroove.nyc/new-york-gro...

The dream of the aughts is alive at The New Colossus Festival The neighborhood music festival once thrived in New York City, and it can once again

pounding a beer at noon on a weekday while watching a bunch of bands is BACK nygroove.nyc/the-dream-of...

Meet the people who want to help you sell your stuff, without Facebook 'Slower than Amazon and less money than Facebook' services aim to reduce waste

The model is “slower than Amazon and less money than Facebook" nygroove.nyc/cues-treasur...

Issue No. 133: A Colossus approaches 🎸 + Cue up junk removal 📦 Hello New York. The winter has absolutely been beating our asses, with so many conversations in the city revolving around snow that it feels like we're all in a Clipse album. So today we're here to li...

Get caught up on this week's issue of The Groove here: nygroove.nyc/email/11ec09...

🚨 the British have become aware of Dave Colon

The tech worker cleaning condoms and old socks off the Brooklyn Bridge: ‘People have no shame’ It took Ellen Baum about 16 hours to finish clearing one section of hair ties, condoms and tissues woven into the fencing

“It’s that old thing: if you saw everyone jumping off a bridge, you would do it too?” @davecolon.bsky.social asked. “I guess now it’s ‘if you saw a bunch of people tying condoms to a bridge, would you do it too?’ And the answer is, unfortunately, yes.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Homeland Security Agents Lied Their Way Into Dorm to Arrest Student, Says Columbia President The agents entered campus housing at around 6:30 a.m., just before Azerbaijani undergraduate Ellie Aghayeva posted online: “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help."

Protests have erupted at Columbia U. after DHS arrest of student. Update from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:

What to actually expect from the mayor's 'Rental Ripoff' hearings How to sign up, and why this won't be a free-for-all open mic airing of grievances

the first Rental Ripoff hearing is ** tonight **

here's what to expect: nygroove.nyc/what-to-actu...

Meet the people who want to help you sell your stuff, without Facebook 'Slower than Amazon and less money than Facebook' services aim to reduce waste

I've been noticing some signs around town for alternatives to Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing Groups so I talked to them for today's @nygroove.nyc nygroove.nyc/cues-treasur...

Meet the people who want to help you sell your stuff, without Facebook 'Slower than Amazon and less money than Facebook' services aim to reduce waste

yes, it really is possible to repurpose your old stuff without fielding endless "hi, is this still available?" spam messages nygroove.nyc/cues-treasur...