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."

Don Pedro’s

 After the New Amsterdam show at The Bell House, I rode the G up to Don Pedro's: an old Spanish social club on the fringes of Williamsburg that now hosts

Friday Sublime

 After the solemn collects at yesterday's Good Friday liturgy at St. Thomas Church, there was this stretch of solemn ritual that left all present hushed with awe and wonder. A large

Helmut Lachenmann @ 75

 "I've never been happy as a composer. Music is not meant to be happy – it's meant to be a study of intensity, of transcendence." Pictured: Helmut Lachenmann last night

ANNOUNCING: Feast of Music Presents…

 For a long time now, Feast of Music has surveyed the multifaceted New York music scene: everything from grand orchestra concerts to grungy indie rock shows. There's never been a

Langhorne Slim @ City Winery

  Langhorne Slim and his killer band (David Moore on banjo/keyboard, Jeff Ratner on bass, Malachi Delorenzo, drums) tore through a two-hour set last night at City Winery that had all

Shadows

 This is Holy Week in the Christian tradition, and of all the ancient rites and rituals associated with this week, none is more invested with symbolism than the office of

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