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The next time you hear from me, I'll be in Ireland: land of poets, playwrights, and some of the best live music in the world. Since my family's from there, it's […]

Now in it's third year, BAM's Sounds Like Brooklyn music festival (formerly known as Brooklyn Next) will feature the borough's best indie, jazz, hip-hop, brass band, and everything in between.

  For the past three years, Hank's Saloon hosted the best (or worst) start of the week in the city: Monday night's Kuntry Karaoke, complete with live band and lubrication

I wandered down to Gowanus' Bell House tonight for the 3rd annual Blip Festival, devoted to the emerging 8-bit scene: an electronica sub-genre which uses modified Gameboys, Commodore 64's and other game

That ondes Martenot in Boston had nothing on the unholy din unleashed at Music Hall of Williamsburg Wednesday night. Local trio Growing – veterans of numerous Todd P shows –

I'm sure the Harvard kids have been slumming it at the divey Cantab Lounge (est. 1938) since JFK was an undergrad. But, it's new to me. $5 gets you into

Tonight's a free night, so I cross the Harvard bridge over to Cambridge to check out the strip of indie venues on Massachussetts Ave. First stop is the All Asia

Gabriel Kahane, Le Poisson Rouge, 11/20/08

“The job’s impossible, and one must pray that one will be only moderately incompetent.” Clive Barnes (1927-2008)