Lounge Lizards
Los Angeles has always had a thing for lounge acts: offbeat singers who sing amusing, occasionally scathing lyrics in small […]
Mean Fiddler
Forget Perlman, forget Bell, forget Jean-Luc Ponty: for my money, the best violinist I've ever seen is a diminutive
Is This Thing On?
I'm at Galapagos, listening to a normally-formidable set by new music ensemble So Percussion, when suddenly they just randomly start
Colorado Gypsies
I'll admit, I hesitated to pony up the $25 for last night's show at Webster Hall. It might not be fair,
Open This
Generally, I like showing up at shows early to catch the openers, who are often cutting edge acts that would
Without Words
Rival Songs, who played Galapagos Art Space last night, perform atmospheric, instrumental post-rock, landing somewhere between Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky.
Jazz Lions
I stopped by Bethany's Stochastic Brooklyn at Barbes this past Wednesday to hear Buy My Book: a young, part-time sextet playing originals
Song Play
Singspiel ("Song-play") – a style of opera that combines music with spoken text – has been around for nearly three centuries.
Quotable
"All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din…Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of