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."

Camera? No Service.

At the Village Voice day party at La Zona Rosa, I resort to having to stash my camera under a rock, due to the arbitrary rule that it has a

SXSW 2009 – Thursday Recap

Any visible signs of a recession are seemingly absent from this year's SXSW Music Festival, where the familiar stew of college kids and industry hacks clogged both 6th Street and

New Music Exchange

For several years now, Gabriel Prokofiev – yes, he is Serge's grandson – has hosted a monthly in London's East End called Nonclassical ,which gives that city's nascent new music

Southwest Smorgasbord

For those who haven't been checking out the Concert Calendar, I'll be traveling back to Austin tomorrow for the 23rd annual SXSW Music Festival. After last year's overindulgence in all

My Kind of Irish

St. Patrick's Day is this Tuesday, when everyone and their cousin will pretend to be Irish (read: drunk) for the day. But, the real celebration is tonight, with a pair

Block of Birds

Tony Tommasini offers his two cents on box sets in today's Times. I agree with his general premise that the record companies are tone-deaf, putting out these back catalog data dumps

A New Master

I showed up over an hour late to tonight's Yevgeny Sudbin recital at the People's Symphony, and had to sneak in the back just to catch the final piece on

Take Two

Serena Jost, Barbès , 3/12/09 Ansambl Mastika (More pics below.)

Cabinet Level

Q: Where, on a single bill, can you see two leading authors, the leading comic of the indie rock world, a prolific singer-songwriter about to release his 10th studio album,

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