Author: Michael Horbatiuk

The Long Island Fight Club was created to help raise money and donations for the children who have cancer and currently live at the “in-patient” facility at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. The event included multiple raffles and two musical performances. Music was being played by a DJ all night keeping the crowd anticipated for the next fight. These events take place once a month, at different locations, and feature an 8 Man Tough Guy Charity Boxing Event. The Fight Club has had success in their first three events and hope to continue raising money and donations at…

The party god himself Andrew WK hosted his own private concert for Long Islanders at The Emporium. The rock and roll/ metal musician who also is a very accomplished pianist. Andrew WK’s hype man Joe, came out and introduced Andrew to the crowd. Mr. WK got right on his keyboard and started off the night with his classic “Party Hard.” During the piano playing and singing there was plenty of head banging and funny dance moves. Andrew has a crazy amount of energy and is passionate to make sure his fans party hard. A lot of great tunes were…

Vinnie Caruana the lead singer of The Movielife brought the newly reunited band back to their hometown of Long Island to headline the “Today’s Mixtape Festival 2015”. The band has split up and reunited several times and are now back together and sounding as good as ever. The hometown crowd at the Emporium was chanting for Hardcore-Punk band “The Movielife.” The crowd had been there since about 2pm watching all the other bands perform. Vinnie and the rest of The Movielife came out and the crowd went into a frenzy of spin kicks, arm swinging, crowd surfing, and stage…

The Deftones and Incubus Tour made a stop recently at Jones Beach’s Nikon Theater. Fan were anxious for this sold out show. The packed house was ampped up. The show opened up with “Death from Above.” The duo sounded like a five or six person band. It is amazing how two people can make such great music. Next up was the Deftones. When Chino, the Lead singer of The Deftones came out the screaming and head banging commenced before the music even played. Deftones opened up with the song “Diamond Eyes” and the crowd sang all the word along with…

Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, two New York rap legends, from Staten Island came to The Paramount in Huntington to a packed out show. This show was the 20th Anniversary for the historic “Only Built for Cuban Linx” Album.   Only Built for Cuban Links marked Raekwon’s first solo album release, which guest starred Ghostface Killah on the songs. Dillon Cooper opened up the concert performing a quick paced and energetic set. Cooper had the crowd ready as DJ Mister Cee came out to keep the energy going. Mister Cee made it clear he was not playing any rachet rap that’s on…

Amityville’s Club Revolution was the site for the double album release of artists The Season and Lifestat. The Seasons album is called “The 631 EP” which can be heard at The Season 631. Lifestat’s album is called Significant. Both albums are great examples of Long Island’s Hip Hop talent. The Season’s album had a very personal feel to it, full of very deep messages and references in them. Love the rawness and emotion Season put into his music. Lifestat’s album is great from start to finish there is a song…

Write up by John Milovcic It’s rare that a rapper becomes a cultural icon. Long Beach California’s Snoop Dogg has become just that. It has been 20+ years since he released Doggystyle. More than two decades since we first heard Gin and Juice, What’s my Name, or his version of Lodi Dodi. He is an actor, I guess. I only say I guess because he really plays himself, or a version of himself, on film. He has made appearances in movies like Half Baked, Old School, or 2004’s Starsky and Hutch, he can be considered an actor. He made…

April 23, 2015 Legends in the hip hop game D-Block along with Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah and Inspectah Deck headlined a concert at The Emporium where Ghostface had appeared earlier this year. What ensued on this semi-Spring night in Patchogue was a show of real gritty old school hip hop classics. It was a far cry from Young Thug/Iggy “swag rap” that has started to become mainstream. Even though Inspectah Deck didn’t hit the stage until nearly 1:30am, the hip hop guru made the place go wild, performing two hits amongst the crowd in addition to his presence onstage. All three…

April 22, 2015, Long Island – Patchogue was in for a treat on earthday April 22, 2015 as the Neon Icon himself Riff Raff came to town. Riff’s DJ came out first, playing some of the neon icons songs and had the crowd dancing and moshing. When Riff finally ran out to his song “Dion Sandals”, the rapper’s neon energy was fully intact. Accompanied by his bottle of Ciroc vodka, Riff performed hit after hit. “Dolce and Gabbanna”, “Koykaynee” and a new tracks from Riff Raff’s latest album Neon Icon dominated the crowd. Crazed fans at The Emporium were crowdsurfing…

Friday April 3, 2015- Amityville Music Hall was graced with hip hop’s underground legend Sage Francis. Sage was one of my favorite rappers growing up appearing in all the skating VHS’s I grew up watching. It was a pleasure to capture all the moments on the stage of Sage and the other artists. Amityville Music Hall has a hometown feel to it so I shot this whole concert with my 50 mm lense, to give you a more up close feel to the artists. As for the photos: Everything from this performance looks amazing in black and white. Status, The…