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."

Late Night at Joe’s

   Our Lady J (with Caleb leading the Pink Champagne Quartet), Joe's Pub, 5/8/10. More pcs at the Flickr page.  

Eighth Blackbird @ People’s Symphony

  It was only about 1/2 full at Washington Irving High School last night for the final subscription concert of the People's Symphony this season, featuring Chicago's Grammy Award-winning eighth

Mom, Dad and Maude

  My parents celebrated their 40th anniversary in style last night, visiting the Algonquin's Oak Room to catch the final night of Maude Maggart's run there. For those who don't already

Funk Commute

  Saxman and Bassman, jamming it Bootsy-style on the Broadway Nassau A train platform, 5/7/10

Cover Bands

  A pair of new discoveries last night which showed both the best and worst sides of playing someone else's music. At Barbes, Pierre de Gaillende sang the songs of French

Sunday Sounds

  How's this for a way to end your week: Todd P and Sterogum's Brandon Stosuy have teamed up to put on this Haiti benefit tonight at Above the Auto

VOX 2010

  With all the ups and downs that have befallen City Opera over the past couple of years, it's good to see that VOX, their annual performance lab of contemporary

Playing In Valhalla

  I am fascinated by Phoenix. They hail from Paris, conquered Coachella last month, and are selling out huge houses all over the country. And, they have obvious classical leanings: the first

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