A New Voice
Blowing off both No Age at the Seaport and Brazilian Girls at the Bandshell, I took David up on his fairly emphatic suggestion when I saw him on Wednesday to
One Voice
It’s bewildering to consider the role that Jamaica – a country roughly the size of Connecticut – has played in popular music over the past fifty years. Aside from creating
Barbes Outdoors
Music Under the Bridge, Barbes Night, 7/9/08 Parker String Quartet Las Rubias del Norte Mandingo Ambassadors
Exodus
In the latest sign that Brooklyn is the new Downtown, Ben Sisario reports in today’s Times that the Knitting Factory has taken over the failed Luna Lounge space on Metropolitan
Binoculars Not Required
“The cravings of youth are too good for this world. The best of us is buried alive.” (Die Soldaten, Act III) Let me get right to the point: I feel
Next Gen Afrobeat
“I want to make Afrobeat for my generation. Instead of ‘get up and fight’, it’s going to be ‘get up and think.’” Seun Kuti I never made it inside Summerstage
Dance to This
It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since P.S.1 began hosting the weekly beach party known as Warm Up. Held each Saturday in July and August in the former
String Songs
Singer/Songwriter Michi Wiancko’s Kono Michi played Barbes Sunday night, part of the semi-regular Barbes Classical series (now hosted by Bethany). But, outside the array of stringed instruments onstage (including Wiancko’s
Sun Power
The idea of putting on an outdoor concert in New York City powered exclusively by solar panels is a clever and necessary one for these energy-troubled times. One could excuse