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."

This Isn’t Fun (Fun Fun)

Sunday at the Fun Fun Fun Fest starts off in the rain with a heavy set by Austin post rockers This Will Destroy You, which moves from quiet bliss to […]

Pound For Pound

Like some kind of overweight prize fight, last night's Fun Fun Fun Fest had Fucked Up's Pink Eyes on the Black Stage going head to head with Les Savy Fav's Tim

My Kind of Festival

Ok, folks, this is how you put on a festival: find a postage stamp park downtown, set up four stages, (two of them double stages) and fill them with everything

Festivus (for the Rest of Us)

Greetings from Austin, where the weather is clear and warm for this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, arguably the worst-named, most enjoyable music festival in North America. Over the next

Wine, Wo(men), Song

In between World Series games this week, I paid my first visit to City Winery: a swank new venue on Varick St. which pairs wine and small plates with live music,

Double Trouble

(photos by Julieta Cervantes) BAM's Next Wave Festival - and artistic director Joe Melillo in particular – must have a thing for indie rockers. Last year, they commissioned Sufjan Stevens' The

Marathon Music

 Not to be confused with last week's music marathon, yesterday's NYC Marathon was a social affair, with friends and family lining the streets to cheer on the 44,000 runners from all

A Juilliard Halloween

Ok, a chamber music concert might not be most people's idea of how to celebrate Halloween, but when the Juilliard Quartet is in town to play the People's Symphony, count

Corner Orchestra

Although they've been around for 13 years, I wasn't familiar with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra before a friend invited me to their matinee this past Sunday at St. Ann's in Brooklyn Heights.

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