Sustain-Release Music Festival

An immersive experience for the underground music community, limited to 500 people in upstate New York

With festival lineups looking more and more identical, and the overall experience becoming synonymous with struggle and exhaustion, two underground music veterans are offering a new kind of escape that ensures an intimate experience for their familial community—not to mention reasonable bathroom lines and a roof over your head at night. Sustain-Release is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based video artist and music producer Aurora Halal and …

GODMODE + Shamir: Northtown

How a kid from Las Vegas found a young Brooklyn label and created this summer's atypical soundtrack

“I moved here for the music,” says Nick Sylvester, who’s been living in Brooklyn since graduating from Harvard a decade ago. A former music editor and comedy writer for The Colbert Report, Sylvester has been part of the music industry for years, writing about the subject professionally at Pitchfork, The Village Voice, The Wire, Vice and more. Sylvester tell us that during that period, things …