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Das Racist

No dough for big shows? Try a budget band swap (Part II)

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See Das Racist, instead of Snoop Dogg.

Here’s a common predicament: you’ve exhausted the number of times you can listen to “Africa” by Toto on your Hall and Oates Pandora station. Or maybe that’s just me.

Whatever the case, you’re in dire need of a musical metamorphosis. This may come as a shock, but in Brooklyn a new band plays about as often as you want to punch the G train. But who can keep track of them all? That’s why we put together this broke-ass-friendly fall band swap—to introduce you to some of the noteworthy new and not-so-new acts playing around Brooklyn (and one in Manhattan) this fall, by likening them to big names you already know and probably can’t afford. Read the rest of this entry »