Other

A estimated crowd of 10,000 turned out at the Prospect Park Bandshell last night for the first collaboration between Celebrate Brooklyn and the Wordless Music Series. The Metropolis Ensemble lit up […]

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that JellyNYC closed the gates for today’s Matt + Kim/Breeders show at McCarren Pool. But, a walk around to the side revealed plenty of open

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

 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

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

  “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

I was late arriving at Summerstage yesterday, but got there in time to catch the tail end of Vieux Farka Toure’s rocking afropop set. Most of the crowd was pretty soggy from

A few months ago, jazz saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo became a cause celebre for the need to provide musicians with adequate, affordable healthcare after he came down with a dangerous brain tumor

Chicha Libre, Barbes