Eddie Cumana's-"Alphabet City EP" OUT NOW!!!

(Photo for Cover Art by Daniil Dugaev)

I'm sure you remember our feature on house music mogul Eddie Cumana of Kult Records. Well, Eddie has realeased a new EP entitled "Alphabet City", which doesn't happen too often but definitely often enough for us to sleep with our dancin' shoes on!! The album is reminiscent of Eddie's decade long immersion in the culture of Alphabet City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan back when the LES was way more cutting edge, and more recently where Lady Gaga got her start as a local performer. You can best identify with Alphabet City if you know the musical "Rent" as it's based in and all about it.

With this album giving sounds from tech to deep to progressive house, there's a little something-something that every DJ will fire up for sure. It definitely gives us a nostalgic type of feel...like the one we ever so jealously wish we could have but rather admire through Eddie and this album .

.Here's what Eddie had to say about the project...

[After living 10 years on East 13th street & 2nd Ave in NYC, I developed a deep love for the nearby Alphabet City neighborhood where I often hunted for those rare promo vinyls back in the days. These streets are full of color and diversity just like this EP which comes filled with diverse styles and rhythms bunched up into one to make a new unique blended style of underground tracks! I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you all for the love and support!-Eddie]

The "Alphabet City EP" is available now at:

Beatport (CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE)

Also, here's a little taste of one of the tracks from the EP:

Eddie Cumana - Avenue D (Original Mix) by eddiecumana

For more of Eddie and his work find him here:

http://eddiecumana.com/

http://www.twitter.com/eddiecumana

http://www.facebook.com/djeddiecumana
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/eddiecumana

Behind the scenes with the fabulous Sammi "Sweetheart" of MTV's Jersey Shore

We got behind the scenes access to a photo shoot with Sammi Sweetheart from MTV's super hit reality show Jersey Shore. Street Walkers NYC Creator/Editor Mike Milan was the photographer so it goes without saying that we got in some Q&A with our favorite "sweet bitch," who we found to be WAY more sweet than bitchy. You may know her differently from how the show portrays it but we found Sammi to be very fun, easy-going, grounded and quite easy to work with. Basically...nothing like the reality show or the media portrays.

Our fabulous 2 day shoot was loaded with lots of love, laughs, and reality banter as Sammi got dolled up by an extremely amaze glam squad which was spear-headed by Ryan Nickulas from Logo's hit reality show the A List: New York and owner of Ryan Darius Salon. The fantastic Trina Patterson was the head stylist for the shoot. However, TJ Kelly (A-List:New York) and I both got to play tag-team stylists for the second day and had quite the fashion rumble in the sheets. Need I say more?!

Special shout-out to Roni Boutique, for providing the clothes for the second shoot!  Visit them at http://www.roninyc.com/.

Check out the photos and video interview we got of our sweetheart...and boys be ready to drool!!

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Comics Stripped Exhibit

SWNYC was able to attend the opening of Craig Yoe's exhibit, Comics Stripped at The Museum of Sex.  If the surname sounds familiar, its because we have featured Craig's daughter, Valissa Yoe.  We now see where she gets her talents from!  As per ABC News, "The exhibit features 150 artifacts from the Great Depression to the present, including original drawings, illustrated books, comic books, magazines and videos."  

If you are in the NYC area, this is a must see exhibit!  Check out some images we snapped below:  

"No Pants! Subway Ride"

Only in New York City in the dead of winter can we stroll right into flocks of people with no pants on!!! Today was the eighth annual "No Pants! Subway Ride" which is an annual event staged by Improv Everywhere every January in New York City. It started as a small prank with seven guys, who ride the subway appearing to be regular patrons then remove their pants at the same time running amuck from location to location pantless, and has grown into an international celebration of hilarity. Rather than babbling on, I'd rather just show you what went on this Sunday night in NYC...enjoy!

NSFW photo's after this...!!!!