Music

Academy Records

ACADEMY RECORDS is the largest used record store in NYC. Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we've got over 25,000 Lps on display at any given time. We literally carry all types of music - it's our "thing."

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Alphaville

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The band was at first named Forever Young before changing to Alphaville. They are best known for their two biggest hits, "Big in Japan" and "Forever Young".

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Amoeba Technology

Amoeba is a collective of video artists, filmmakers and experimental musicians who are active in NYC and worldwide.

Amoeba is primarily concerned with the transcendence and alteration of ordinary reality and consciousness through the manipulation of sound and light waves. Extensions manifest into the physical realm through the creation of structures and environments reflective of the theories thereof.

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Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K.'s true will is to create feelings of pure joy, true fun, total love, endless freedom, and infinite possibility. He strives to reach as many people as possible, using music, performance, visual art, lecturing, writing, nightclubs, television, and many other methods.

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Ann Liv Young

On stage, Ann Liv Young has rolled around in her dog’s ashes, had sex with her co-stars, covered herself in blood, drank urine and attacked a PETA activist. Off stage, she has given the audience lap dances and ridiculed  her own cast for fucking up during a performance.

As a graduate of the prestigious Hollins University dance program, as well as a former resident of the FUSED program in France and the Laban Centre in London, Ann Liv’s work has been presented at some of the most notable venues and festivals around America and Europe. Her shows, which she writes, performs, costume designs, stage designs and produces herself, are over-the-top performances that genre-bend elements of music video, porn, and fine art that really do go there.

Performer

Anthony Korf

Anthony Korf is regarded as a leading interpreter of modern music. From seminal pieces of the twentieth century to new works, Korf has assembled a rich and varied repertory. Founder and conductor of Parnassus, he is also Artistic Director of New York’s Riverside Symphony. As a composer, Korf’s honors include a Koussevitsky commission and a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Composers Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. His music has been recorded for CRI, New World Records, and Summit Records.

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Apollo Theater

The world famous Apollo Theater is so much more than a historic landmark - it is a source of pride and a symbol of the brilliance of American artistic accomplishment. With its rich history and continued significance, the Apollo Theater, considered the bastion of African-American culture and achievement, is one of the most fascinating chronicles in American history.

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Ari Up

The Slits are probably the single most important all-girl punk band in the history of music. A bold statement, we know, but certainly not a controversial one.  As a 14 year old, Ari Up served as the band's flamboyant front woman and helped develop The Slits' pioneering punky reggae sound. She grew up in England surrounded by punk royalty. Her mother, who is married to John Lydon of the Sex Pistols, ran a sort of punk house, where it wasn't uncommon to have people like The Clash and Jimi Hendrix roll through.

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Bal Pare

Best of compilation of this minimal wave german band from Hamburg. Founded by Kirsten Klemm, Matthias Schuster and Jan T. Krahn the band started recording in 1981 initially with the name Jeanette und das Land Z.

The first 7" was released in Spring of that same year and it was a cover of a France Gall song, "Poupee de cire,poupee de son".  After finishing the first album, the band didn´t come to an agreement with Phonogram, their initial label, so the band took over the whole Konkurrenz label to start a new and totally independent company.

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Bjork

Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, actress and music producer, whose work includes seven solo albums and two film soundtracks.

She is best known for her expressive vocals, broad soprano vocal range, and a diverse and eclectic musical style which incorporates influences from many different genres, including pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient, electronic, classical, folk and trip hop, as well as her eccentric costumes and music videos.

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