What If The Neighborhoods In Brooklyn Were Bands?

Yeah, over the decade’s thousands upon THOUSANDS of bands/acts/musicians have come out of NYC: some epochal and awesome, others way too avant-garde and falling through the cracks of winding eternity. You think of Staten Island and you think of the Wu-Tang Clan; you think of Manhattan and hundreds of amazing acts intertwine in your noggin: The Strokes, Spacehog, The Velvet Underground, the 1960’s East Village crowd featuring Dylan and Baez; The Bronx birthed the likes of J-Lo, Fat Joe, and the Legendary OG Afrika Bambaataa; Queens spawned the Ramones and LL Cool J. Brooklyn, man, Brooklyn is always up there when it comes to donations of musical notoriety, both indigenous and adopted. Being born and raised in my dearest, brilliant borough of Brooklyn: I’m all-too-familiar with the mystique and idiosyncratic brilliance which each and every neighborhood showcases in ole BK. Brooklyn has 77 neighborhoods in it! Each of said 77 has its own cornucopia of nuances and sagacity and historic beauty and panache. What I see with my eyes when I travel hood to hood in Brooklyn is the essence, the ambiance, the aura of the streets, buildings, nooks, and hidden crevasses. Each hood in BK has had some brilliant musical act stem out of it, and will continue to do so perpetually as the centuries meander back into the infinite metronome; I’ll focus on (5) for now; I’ll focus on the quintessence of what my heart and eyes make out in each respective place…

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