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."

More Messiaen

I won't soon forget the experience earlier this year of hearing Loïc Mallié perform the earth-quaking music of Olivier Messiaen on the grand organ of La Trinité, which Messiaen himself

Street Music

Leaving Williamsburg late on a Wednesday night, I'm dismayed at having just missed a G train back to Park Slope, only to be entertained by this banjo-wielding busker. He plays

Lenny

"I felt like I wasn't at all in control of what was happening out there, like I was conducting completely outside of my body. I've never been so scared in

Headin’ Home

In Austin, you even get music while waiting for your plane to board. See you back in NYC.

Call It

When your brother offers you dinner at Romeo's and a ride back to your car a mile up a steep hill, it's not a tough decision to leave early on

Two Reds are Better than One

 I don't know what it is about Neko Case. Maybe it's the way she looks skyward when she sings. The way her twanged voice quavers in the high register. The way

Shooting Pool

My band here is labeled "Media," but is the same color as the Photo wristbands. As a result, I've been able to sneak into the pit at a few different

One More Time

Sunday at ACL is typically more low-key, local affair, after the out-of-towners have hopped in their cars and planes back home. But, there are plenty of jewels to be mined

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