Five Bullets 2.2.24
The Big Bang, Soulive, Williamsburg & more
Good Morning & Happy Friday Everyone!
Happy Groundhog Day!
It’s been a long week (two weeks?) of cloudy skies with little to zero visible sun here in New York City as of late. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to a shorter winter, warmer weather and plenty of sun!
How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along? What are you watching, reading and listening to? What are you keeping busy with this winter?
Here’s this week’s Five Bullets:
Music: Something very exciting this week! My favorite band Soulive has a new single out, Cabriolet, off their upcoming record Cinematics Vol. 2, the follow-up to Cinematics Vol. 1 (2018) to be released later this year. Cabriolet continues the Daptone-soul meets 60’s funk sound heard on Cinematics Vol. 1 with Soulive’s characteristic heavy drums, jazzy guitar, and funky keys.
NYC History: This 1988-present day timeline of Williamsburg shows the transformation of the Brooklyn neighborhood now synonymous with gentrification but was once a haven for musicians and artists who flocked to the area joining longtime Dominican, Italian, Polish and Puerto Rican residents. Some locations featured are the Williamsburg waterfront, the Domino Sugar factory, the McCarren Pool, and the Gretsch building.
Photography: When the Beatles Stormed America, I Was With Them: Photographer Harry Benson recalls photographing the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania in January and February 1964. The article offers a behind-the-scenes view of what life was like for the Fab Four when they were just breaking into America and how Benson was there to photograph it.
Podcast: True crime podcast Criminal turns 10 this year. To celebrate co-creator and host Phoebe Judge and company are bringing the show live to a city near you. Described as ‘the NPR of crime podcasts’, Criminal covers crimes of all shapes and sizes combining journalistic reporting and compelling storytelling.
Science: Physicist Arno A. Penzias passed away earlier this month. Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation which proved the Big Bang theory. In 1964 their radio antenna (pictured above) picked up the ‘cosmic echo’ of the Big Band - a hissing produced by cosmological radiation from the Big Bang. Listen below: