Comfortable Shoes Required
What is this, SXSW? Tonight, it'll certainly feel like it as I shuffle back and forth along upper Broadway to catch a pair of stellar contemporary music events that both
Un-formal
Another week, another festival… This time, it's the inaugural Tully Scope Festival, which kicked off Tuesday night at Alice Tully Hall with a performance by the International Contemporary Ensemble (better
Tonight: Tully Scope
Yet another new entry to the NYC music calendar kicks off tonight with Lincoln Center's inaugural Tully Scope Festival: a three-week, multi-disciplinary series of concerts named for the host venue,
Junior Brown @ Continental Club
Junior Brown, one of the great guitarists in country or any other genre, onstage at the Continental Club in Austin Sunday night. All I can say is: Wow. Best part:
Back in Austin (w/Broken Social Scene)
SXSW may still be a month a way, but there's still plenty of music to be had down here in Austin. As in: Broken Social Scene (Toronto, ON), who played an anthemic
Alexi Murdoch @ Lincoln Center
Full confession: I've probably listened to Alexi Murdoch's Time Without Consequence sever hundred times. It's the kind of album that gets under your skin, and stays there: quiet, melodic, but with a
A Cathedral Without Crosses
What is going on in NYC these days? What is it with all of these uptown institutions importing downtown music – you know, the kind that's usually heard in Brooklyn
Ecstatic Music Festival: Roomful of Teeth
Bummer that I'll be out of town this weekend, or I would definitely be checking out this Ecstatic Music Festival show on Saturday, with local vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth performing