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."

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

No More Lullabys

One of the most elegant and virtuosic jazz pianists and arrangers of all time, George Shearing passed away this morning in Manhattan. He was 91. Times obit here. And, go here to

While You Were Watching the Grammys…

…I was at Littlefield seeing violinist Todd Reynolds, bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern and mutantrumpeter Ben Neill perform a pair of 45-minute sets.Calling it a "Relay," all three musicians shared the stage,

Nico and Company

Nico brought his ever-expanding band of merry music-makers to DUMBO's St. Ann's Warehouse this week for Tell The Way: a collection of songs loosely centered around the theme of travel and

Dan Deacon: Composer

"When I first started touring in 2004, I was a very different person and I was writing very different music. I have a different ideology now. Not an ideology that's separate

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