Posts tagged Performance

SWET SHOP BOYS & ANIK KHAN - SOLD OUT SHOW

A look into the sold out Swet Shop Boys and Anik Khan show at Webster Hall in NYC.

Video by Ali Ateeq, Edit By Amna Ateeq.
Photos by Alyzeh Ashraff and Ali Ateeq.

MusicAtif AteeqApril 19, 2017SwetShopBoys, Anik Khan, Himanshu, Riz Ahmed, Performance, 2Comment

Himanshu, Anik Khan and Humeysha

If you aren't familiar with Himanshu, you need to Google him or read his wikipedia page and get caught up. He's had quite an interesting career and has really influenced the brown creative scene in New York. He has been in India for the past 5 months participating in an artist residency and has just come back to NYC for a quick trip to perform at a showcase he curated at Baby's All Right.

The night started out with Humeysha, a band I wasn't familiar with but really enjoyed watching. It's hard for me to describe this type of music because I haven't heard this genre in the brown scene. I'll give it a shot: vibey south asian sounds mixed with psychedelic western pop? They're different and have character, and I appreciate what they're doing. This is a big part of why we started HYFN: to discover people doing unique things, to learn about their story and share it with you.

Next up was Anik Khan who killed it as usual. Check out the video. The energy he brought on stage during this show was on another level. Afterwards, Heems closed out the night performing with Rafiq Bhatia and Kassa Overall.

What great energy.

The room was buzzing and the audience was caught up in the performances. Heems continues to raise the bar, bringing brown kids together to watch brown kids perform songs influenced by brown sounds. We didn't have this until recently and it's important that we continue to create spaces like this.

MusicAtif AteeqMarch 29, 2016Himanshu, Anik Khan, Humeysha, Performance, 2Comment

Anik Khan at Rough Trade

We've documented Anik Khan perform a few times now but this show at Rough Trade was the best one we've seen him do so far. Energy was on point and he was totally engaged with the crowd. It's great to see him evolve into having such a strong stage presence.

We caught up with him before the show and he mentioned that he had a few great collabs in the works, we'll keep you updated on all that!

Video of the show dropping soon.

Check out visuals we captured at his show at SOBs. And to hear more of his music check his SoundCloud page.

MusicAtif AteeqMarch 16, 2016Anik Khan, Performance, Hip Hop, Rough Trade, 2Comment

THE KOMINAS GO UNPLUGGED AT A HOUSE PARTY

On Feb 19th, South Asian punk band, The Kominas, celebrated 10 years of subversive punk rock with their first ever unplugged show at someone's house in Brooklyn. The goal was to raise money for the Flint water crisis.

The flyer did say "house party" but I was under the impression that it would be at an actual venue with possibly a house party theme. So when we rolled up to the address and it turned out to be a brownstone in Bed Stuy I knew this would be an interesting experience. I love when artists do something different outside of performing at music venues and chose to give their audience a completely new way to experience their music.

We got there super early and only the band members were there when we showed up, so we got some time to kick it and chat. We talked about their tour plans and upcoming music in 2016; we'll be following their journey so stay tuned to HYFN for updates on that.

Within an hour this Bed Stuy brownstone was completely packed out with people that seemed to come from all different backgrounds. It was cool to see such a diverse audience start cheering when The Kominas started off their set with "Tujhe Dekha" from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge - something you'd expect from mainly brown kids. The rest of the evening was them acoustically singing songs they usually scream into a mic, a sea of dismembered manikin parts surfing the crowd, and over $400 being raised to help the water crisis in Flint. Check all this out in the video above.

What a great evening.

MusicAtif AteeqMarch 8, 2016Kominas, Performance, 2 Comment