{"id":61691,"date":"2025-12-05T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:23:18","slug":"interview-dr-stephen-payne-and-chucky-brown-talk-bronx-metal-history-for-uptown-rumble1960-2000-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61691\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Dr. Stephen Payne and Chucky Brown Talk Bronx Metal History \u2013 For &#8220;Uptown Rumble1960-2000&#8221; Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostcultmag.com\/interview-dr-stephen-payne-and-chucky-brown-talk-bronx-metal-history-for-uptown-rumble1960-2000-exhibition\/uptown-rumble_yt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-248703 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-248703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Uptown-Rumble_YT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join Keefy along with Dr. Stephen Payne and Chucky Brown for a deep dive into Uptown Rumble: Heavy Music in The Bronx. It\u2019s a powerful new exhibit tracing decades of heavy rock, metal, thrash, death metal, hardcore, and more emerging from the Bronx between the 1960s and the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostcultmag.com\/interview-dr-stephen-payne-and-chucky-brown-talk-bronx-metal-history-for-uptown-rumble1960-2000-exhibition\/uptown-rumble-new-poster-thru-january-ghostcultmag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-248705 nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-248705 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Uptown-Rumble-new-poster-thru-January-ghostcultmag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace to Puerto Rican Myke of District 9.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation delves into the overlooked legacy of Bronx musicians and bands who forged raw, heavy sounds long before today\u2019s global scene \u2014 a legacy rooted in community, defiance, and musical grit. From early hard-rock days to underground death-metal shows, we explore the people, places, and social backdrop that shaped this unique regional metal culture.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd Exhibit info &amp; more: <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/ghostcultmag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/bronxhistoricalsociety.org\/uptownrumble<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#gcshoutout \u2013 This video\u2019s shoutout is to the band: Brass Knuckle Brigade<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brassknucklebrigade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brassknucklebrigade\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Usual Suspects:<br \/>Interview by Ghost Cult Keefy<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ghostcultkeefy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ghostcultkeefy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editing by Omar Cordy<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ojcpics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ojcpics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Salted Wounds<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saltedwoundsnyc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saltedwoundsnyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our linktree \u2013 updated daily with top stories:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/ghostcultmag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2060https:\/\/linktr.ee\/ghostcultmag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><br \/>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join Keefy along with Dr. Stephen Payne and Chucky Brown for a deep dive into Uptown Rumble: Heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[32802,32804,128,32805,32806,10865,32807,5537,9,24,63,32808,32809,129,131,32810,130,32803],"class_list":["post-61691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-dr-stephen-payne","tag-anthrax","tag-bronx","tag-chucky-brown","tag-district-9","tag-interview","tag-irate","tag-kiss","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-puerto-rican-myke","tag-rock-and-metal-bands-from-the-bronx-new-york","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-historical-society","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-uptown-rumble1960-2000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}