Author name: Peter Matthews

Feast of Music covers live music in NYC, and occasionally other places. Launched in 2007, it aspires to give equal voice to all kinds of music: everything from an indie show in a Williamsburg dive, to an orchestra concert in Carnegie Hall. As Duke Ellington once said: "There are only two kinds of music: good music...and the other kind."

The Transfinite

 I made it just in the nick of time yesterday to see Ryoji Ikeda's extraordinary the transfinite at the Park Avenue Armory (now closed.) Projected on both sides of a

Stepgaard: Izzy O’Connell

After last night's Celebrate Brooklyn show, I hopped on the train all the way to midtown, arriving just in time for the latest installment of Tristan and Lesley's Stepgaard, which

Andrew Bird Opens Celebrate Brooklyn

For me, the official start of summer is always the opening concert at Celebrate Brooklyn, which is always free and always draws a multitude of happy concertgoers. Last night was

Les Paul Doodle

 Les Paul would have been 96 today, and good ol' Google is marking the occasion with an amazing new Doodle that lets you play electric guitar with your mouse, and

Roulette Brooklyn

This past weekend, the new Roulette Brooklyn – which is still undergoing renovations before it's official opening this fall – hosted a performance of John Cage's 1967 "Musicircus" for "as

Bruckner, Beethoven and Currier

Alan Gilbert may not be the most charismatic conductor we have in this country, but he might be our most unusual programmer – at least among big-time orchestra directors. Case

Upright Piano Brigade

Ever since it opened 10 years ago, Barbès has had an upright piano next to the mantle in the back room: an old oak thing that, while perhaps not up

Digital Fiddler

The CD release “party” has become a tired cliché in the indie/new music world: an exercise in self-promotion that usually disappoints, because most bands have no idea how to replicate

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