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."

Mean Fiddler

  Forget Perlman, forget Bell, forget Jean-Luc Ponty: for my money, the best violinist I've ever seen is a diminutive gypsy from Hungary named Roby Lakatos. Born into a famous family of

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 stacking paint cans and banging shit onstage. Everyone thinks they're

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, but the minute a show passes the $15 mark, my

Open This

Generally, I like showing up at shows early to catch the openers, who are often cutting edge acts that would never otherwise have the chance to play a Bowery Presents

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. Sitting up front in one of the lily-pad banquettes, it

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 by Alex Hills (piano, accordion) and Chris Tordini (bass). Their spatial, occasionally

Song Play

Singspiel ("Song-play") – a style of opera that combines music with spoken text – has been around for nearly three centuries. Think: Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Singspiel is designed

Quotable

"All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din…Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, With cello, boom box,

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