Freeform Brooklyn: every show live, nothing formatted.
Mark Brinda, Tariq Abdus-Sabur and Colin Ilgen put Newtown on the air from a former Bushwick brewery in 2009, and it became the place the neighborhood's guitar bands and its techno producers both turned up: a 2011 Northside showcase drew a good New York Times review, and in 2015 the station co-curated four concerts in MoMA's Sculpture Garden. Since moving to the ground floor of Danbro Studios on Meserole Street in 2018 it has doubled as a project space, with gallery openings on the first Friday of every month.
Shows run weekly or biweekly, two hours, and go out from the room itself: Acid Hour, 120 Riot Wrrrld, The Black Pop Show, Let's Talk Hip Hop, Let's Go Swimming. Plenty of touring artists have sat in for a guest hour over the years. When the studio is dark, a selector works the station's own library, stocked entirely by the artists who send their records in.
Brooklyn with the door propped open.
