Brooklyn

Here are a few of the current players, chosen for us by PAMELA LOVE and photographed by JOHNNY GEMBITSKY and SKYE PARROTT text by EVIANA HARTMAN More than a scene, BROOKLYN is a crossroads where musicians meet in what seems like the hundreds, to see old friends and meet new ones, to hang out, to record, to start new bands or quit others, and maybe even fall in love before taking off on another tour.It’s like a laboratory for mixing genres of music. Journalists tend to see socio-musical revolutions where there aren’t any: we’ve had freak-folk and nu-rave and, most recently, the advent of what newspapers are calling “Brooklyn alternative.” But the only way to categorize the musicians captured on the following pages is uncategorizable. Many of them do, in fact, live in Brooklyn, but others are based in L.A., and most are scattered across the globe on tours at any given moment. With influences…