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 …