MUSIC

Underground System

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022
8:00 PM

The Rockaway Hotel
108-10 Rockaway Beach Drive, Rockaway Beach, Queens

Free
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This List is suspicious of syncretic bands that appropriate “ethnic” styles and dilute them with random other styles and their own local styles. (Of course it’s even more suspicious of bands that appropriate “ethnic” styles and try to be purists.) Underground System started out as the latter, trying to be more Afrobeat than Fela. Then it moved into the former, incorporated all sorts of dance rhythms one finds in various clubs in the City — and I have to tell you they’re a BLAST.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I will continue to remind you that there’s a fine restaurant right there in the The Rockaway Hotel called Margie’s.