Standing On The Corner - SOTC II

Founded in Brooklyn, NY, STANDING ON THE CORNER (est. 2015) is a music recording group whose work moves fluidly between performance, film, installation, and sound. Rooted in the cultural exchange between the USA, Puerto Rico, and Africa, the project machinates an intersection between soul, punk, salsa, doowop, jazz, funk, avant-garde, and rap traditions, filtered through a distinctly New York sensibility. The ensemble’s practice is characterized by a mischievous alliance with ephemerality, lived experience, and site-specific signification with works often distributed unexpectedly and within limited physical windows. This emphasis on transience and communal memory remains central to the project’s ethos. On SOTC “II”, out September 11, 2026, the New York outfit channels it’s philosophy into a 15-track album recorded by bandleader Gio Escobar, core collaborators Jack “Moonjohn” Nolan, Buz “Manman” Donald, and Clérida “Ca$h Clay” Eltime, alongside special guest hustlers Solange, Danny Brown, Styles P and more.  The result is a tense, genre-defacing record that exists between fried psychedelia, rock-n-roll, no-wave rap, r&b, and post-hardcore energy; a mirror to a national moment of searching for meaning/nothing/sounds/silence/creation/or destruction, through an overarching instability, alienation, decline, and refusal.