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Nice, low-key evening at Union Hall last night, just the right tonic after a tough week at work. Dave Godowsky played clever songs on acoustic guitar while Takka Takka went […]

I don’t usually get out of the office much during the day, but I cut out early yesterday to catch former Nickel Creek (and current Punch Brothers) frontman Chris Thile

I don’t usually get out of the office much during the day, but I cut out early today to catch former Nickel Creek (and current Punch Brothers) frontman Chris Thile

Myk Freedman’s Saint Dirt Elementary School came all the way down from Toronto to play Barbes Wednesday night for the latest installment of Stochastic Brooklyn. It was big band jazz:

Earlier this week, Celebrate Brooklyn and Central Park Summerstage released their lineups, and once again, it’s a veritable smorgasbord of (mostly) free shows. Here are the ones you can expect

Carla Bozulich wants to shake you up. She wants to offend you. She wants you to put down your newspaper, shut off your goddamned TV, and listen. If you do,

Around 1am this morning, after three openers and soundchecks, things finally got interesting at the Market Hotel. Montreal’s AIDS Wolf played a speedball set of noisecore, fronted by the banshee-like

Part 2 of my evening brings me out to the Mrytle Ave stop on the M train, somewhere in the no man’s land between Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The venue is

It would not be a reach to say that the breakout instrument of 2008 is the young male voice. Singers such as Beirut’s Zach Condon and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon