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How to Make It in America, HBO's hip, snappy dramedy, could easily be re-titled How to Make It in New York. Given that its two lead characters, best friends Cam and Ben, are hustling to get their clothing label off the ground, the show couldn't really be set anywhere else other than this fashion-happy, hard-scrabble town. To show off the series' downtown New York-ness ahead of Season Two's October 2 premiere, HBO has released a mini-documentary about three New Yorkers who actually did make it in America. Check it out after the jump.

The world famous DJ takes his band of brothers to Paris

"Cultural speed-dating"

Brooklyn just got a whole lot more Brooklyn, everyone. Today marks the official opening of Fool's Gold Records, the store! The New York indie label launched by A-Trak and his pal Nick Catchdubs has, for years, helped to establish acts like Duck Sauce, Kid Cudi, and Kid Sister as some of the best music DJs have to offer. Back in April, A-Trak, who used to tour as Kanye West's DJ, teased the store to BlackBook, saying "We’ll be selling all of our records, obviously, but at Fool’s Gold we do a lot of design and work with a lot of brands to make cool products, so pretty much anything we’ve designed or developed with other companies, we’ll be selling." He also mentioned a launch party, which—guess what—is happening tonight.

It’s primed to be a busy year for A-Trak. Less than halfway through his current North American tour (which makes a stop at New York’s Terminal 5 on Saturday night), the Montreal-born, New York-based DJ still has a lot to look forward to. Next month, he'll open the first official store for his Fool’s Gold record label in Williamsburg. In the fall he'll drop the debut album from Duck Sauce (his side project with Armand Van Helden, which racked up over 50 million YouTube views for their “Barbara Streisand” video), and, maybe then, he'll find some time to work on that solo album.

A mardi gras' worth of parties are going down in Miami this week for Art Basel, but we can safely say we'll be helping to throw one of the best and biggest. On Saturday night, Grand Central, in all its lofty, warehouse-y glory, will play host to music's most beat-obsessed siblings, the Brothers Macklovitch. You don't want to miss it.

At 15 he won the World DJ competition. At 22, he was Kanye West’s tour DJ. And now, at 28, Montreal native A-Trak is the head of his own record label, Fool’s Gold. With a bevy of talented artists signed to the label—including Kid Sister, The Suzan, and his side project, Duck Sauce—he and partner Nick Catchdubs decided it was time to release a compilation album with new tracks from the entire Fool's Gold roster, called Fools Gold Volume 1. We caught up with A-Track to see just what gave him the itch to scratch, what makes this compilation unique, and what’s next for the ever-evolving artist.

Au Revoir Simone, Still Night, Still Light (Our Secret Record Company) Brooklyn’s answer to Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis replant their hauntingly personal, bittersweet roots on the follow-up to 2007’s creepy-sweet The Bird of Music. Their third album is a symphony of sterilized electronic sounds brought to life by an intimate encounter between these three Fates and their keyboards. Despite the odd bramble of blunt confrontation (“Trace a Line”), Au Revoir Simone skips through the wet grass of ethereal romanticism (“Tell Me”), proving that they are still alright and, yes, still feather-light. -- Garrett Pruter

At the age of 15, A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitch) was a world championship DJ. Ten years later, he's toured the world as Kanye West's DJ and now heads up his own record label. The Montreal expat recently made the move to New York, closer to his brother (Chromeo's Dave 1) and his girlfriend (Chicago rapper Kid Sister). Up next for A-Trak is the Infinity +1 mix, arriving on Thrive next month. He recently took time away from the decks to scratch some answers down on our Pop Quiz.