De La Soul announce pay-what-you-want gig in New York

De La Soul have introduced a pay-what-you-want live performance at New York Metropolis’s Lincoln Middle in January.

The band’s hometown present will mark their first within the metropolis for 16 months and can happen on January seventeenth, 2025 on the Wu Tsai Theater in David Geffen Corridor, the house of the New York Philharmonic. The on-sale date has but to be introduced, however tickets will probably be obtainable here.

An occasion web page has listed a recommended cost of $35, nevertheless, the minimal ticket value for different occasions in Lincoln Middle’s Select-What-You-Pay sequence is $5.

NME caught De La Soul’s present at London’s Royal Albert Corridor final yr, calling it “an emotional, ecstatic love letter to De La Soul,” in a four-star evaluate. “It’s chaotic, free-spirited and most significantly, always thrilling,” Ali Shutler wrote.

The efficiency got here after the tragic loss of life of David “Trugoy The Dove” Jolicoeur. Jolicoeur died in 2023 at the age of 54.

Final yr, the band’s again catalogue lastly grew to become obtainable on streaming platforms.

De La Soul’s traditional albums weren’t launched on streaming initially as a result of a dispute with their label, Warner Data, who had been allegedly reluctant to clear samples for digital launch. Apparently the samples used throughout these early information had been solely cleared for bodily media distribution.

De La Soul’s catalogue was then bought in 2017 by Tommy Boy Data and in 2019, the group introduced that their music could be coming to streaming companies quickly. Nevertheless a royalties dispute delayed this launch till 2021, when Tommy Boy was acquired by Reservoir Media in a deal regarded as price $100million (£80million).

Just a few months later, rapper Talib Kweli introduced by way of Instagram that De La Soul now owns the rights to their very own masters “after years of being taken benefit of by the recording business within the worst doable methods”.