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Lewis Del Mar at Bowery Ballroom

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) As the Rockaways increase their hip quotient each year, first with surfers (who we all know make everything cool), then with artists, […]

Tags: Bowery Ballroom, Danny Miller, folk, Lewis Del Mar, Max Harwood, rock, Rockaway Beach, Rockaways

Preview: Big Ears Festival 2016

I'm excited to be returning to Knoxville, TN this weekend for the Big Ears Festival, which I attended for the first time last year and was pretty much blown away by

Tags: big ears, electronic music, festival, indie, jazz, knoxville, new music, world music

Africa Now! at the Apollo Theater

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The Africa Now! music festival, which just wrapped up it's fourth year at the Apollo Theater, aspires to provide American audiences with a tasting menu

Tags: Africa, afropop, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Apollo Theater, Bombino, Ghana, Jojo Abot, Mokoomba, Niger, Sudan, World Music Institute, Zimbabwe

Nadia Sirota (and Friends) at Symphony Space

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) One of the highlights of Nadia Sirota’s recent four-night residency at Symphony Space was the world premiere last Friday night of Irish

Tags: alarm will sound, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Bedroom Community, bryce dessner, David Lang, Donnacha Dennehy, Doug Balliet, Liam Byrne, Loren Ludwig, Nadia Sirota, nico muhly, Richard Reed Parry, Stephen Petronio, symphony space, Tessellatum, viol, viol da gamba, viola, yMusic, Zoe Weiss

Ron Pope and the Nighthawks at Irving Plaza

by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Ron Pope and the Nighthawks played Irving Plaza last weekend, performing music off of their brand new self-titled album. Hailing from Georgia and

Tags: americana, country, Irving Plaza, music, new york, Nighthawks, roots, South, Ton Pope

Bowie

"Something happened on the day he diedSpirit rose a metre and stepped asideSomebody else took his place, and bravely cried(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)How many times does an angel

Hold on to Your Seat: The Prototype Festival Starts This Week

Now in its fourth season, the Prototype Festival has become an essential part of the New York cultural season. Featuring cutting-edge new chamber opera and music-theater works, shows are almost

Michael Daves’ Fourth Annual Brooklyn Bluegrass Bash at The Bell House

Last Sunday, Michael Daves hosted his Fourth Annual Bluegrass Bash at The Bell House, with a lineup featuring some of the biggest names in the world of Bluegrass alongside a mix

Kacey Musgraves at The Apollo Theater

by Nick Stubblefield Last Saturday, Kacey Musgraves became the first country artist to headline the famed Apollo Theater. This historic event was met with the style you’d expect of an event