NYC! Starting on Thursday June 6th, Offline with Grammy award-winning, music icon Q-Tip is turning into a weekly party at the new venue Stage 48. To celebrate the 2013 kickoff, we have a contest for you to enter.

Q-Tip will be spinning a weekly mix of supreme funk, jazz, hip hop, salsa, and Latin for your dancing pleasure. Tuck your phones out of sight and get ready for a party that will take you back to the real New York with real music.

Q-Tip Presents Offline, Powered By Giant Step
Thursday, June 6th
Stage 48 - 605 W. 48th St. @ 11th Avenue New York NY
Doors: 10:00 PM /More Info and Tickets

Ta-ku is on a roll with his releases, collaborations, and remixes. No stopping this guy. The latest is a remix of "Pressure" by Until The Ribbon Breaks. Rolling bass lines and bubbling pops peak with a high note chant and are brought back down with hand claps. The interestingness and variation displayed in this remix is ceaseless.

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There's a party with alien robots inside Hot Chip's new tune, "Dark & Stormy." An easy mood changer, the vibrant track is brought depth and texture by moments of echoey vocals and electronic chimes.

Having dropped their debut album in April, Cali based band The Neighborhood are steady pushing ahead and losing no steam. Their latest single, "No Grey," has a pop friendly rock feel to it - catchy, upbeat accessibility rounded out with a scratchy thump that'll keep you moving.

This trippy DJ Jazzy Jeff and James Poyser remix of Moonchild's "Be Free" is taking us to alternate dimensions. Love the slinky, warpy treatment juxtaposed with jazzy horns. We need more of this, stat.