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."

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,

Seeing Red

I'll admit that, other than Tan Dun and Alex's piece in The New Yorker last year, I don't know the first thing about music from China. Much of that probably

Cocktail Conversation: Gabriel Kahane

Gabriel Kahane is a singer-songwriter, pianist, banjo player, and composer of works for both concert stage and musical theater. His music draws on everything from bluegrass to the Second Viennese

Loudness

(Photos by Peter Checchia) Ok, so you know how people have this thing about classical music putting them to sleep? Well, they should have showed up to Carnegie last night,

Pledge Away

Ok, I know these are tough economic times, but you (and you and you) should call in to WFMU this week with a pledge during their annual Marathon, if for

Afterparty

  After midnight, a small crowd gathers in a temp space on N. 8th to hear some scruffy band from Arlington, VA, play mediocre garage rock. Mixed among the usual

Oh wait…

Four blocks south, the Sideshow Gallery has this one-man-band dude Bradford Reid playing some homemade contraption that sounds like the baddest blues guitar I've ever heard. His voice is coming

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