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 Art of Flamenco

  Going back through pictures of Spain this past weekend, I realized that I only briefly touched on my encounters with the unique indigenous musical style known as flamenco. Born […]

Primavera Pics

  Finally got around to uploading my Primavera shots to the FoM Flickr Page. Go here for Friday, and here for Saturday (incl. pics from Parc Joan Miro.)

Toledo

  I have to admit: Madrid has been a disappointment from a musical perspective. Maybe I've just been looking in all the wrong places, but all I've managed to find

Sevilla

  It took a bit longer than I would have liked to get settled here in Sevilla, but as it happens, I was perfectly positioned at this floating bar on

Organ Morning

   It isn't all flamenco here in Granada: the cathedral, a soaring 17th century structure right in the city center, has a massive baroque organ towering over both sides of

Andalucia

  I flew from Barcelona to Granada tonight, in time to catch a remarkable sunset from the cliffs over the city. After driving the ancient narrow streets for over an

Good Neighbors

  LA's Health didn't even take the Vice stage until nearly 330am, but that didn't stop them from unleashing their now-familiar maelstrom of guitars and electronics on the largely-local audience, many

Good Health

   After Lee "Scratch" Perry finished his jammin' set at 230am, festival organizers made the wise (if predictable) decision to open up the gates from the Pitchfork Stage to all

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