Feast of Music @ 5
While most of you might see February 14th as a day to give boxed chocolates and roses to your loved ones, I have a whole other reason to celebrate […]
Bowery Presents Comes to YouTube
"I wish there was a way that I could watch what was happening there from home." (Andy Warhol, on Studio 54) Well, Andy, it might be 25 years too late for
Yasmin Levy and Omar Faruk Tekbilek at Pace’s Schimmel Center This Thursday
Pace's Schimmel Center continues it's excellent inaugural Pace Presents season this Thursday, February 16, with a performance by Israeli singer-songwriter Yasmin Levy, who combines traditional Sephardic styles with Flamenco and Mediterranean influences. Her latest album, Sentir, is the fourth since her
Rory Sullivan CD Release Show at Arlene’s Grocery
By Jordi Oliveres Folk singer/songwriter’s today face the challenge of writing original songs in a musical style with as many conventions as baroque choral music. (By "original," I mean: without folksy
Ecstatic Music Festival: Richard Reed Parry, Son Lux and yMusic
by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: David Andranko for BrooklynVegan The program for Wednesday night’s Ecstatic Music Festival concert at Merkin Concert Hall couldn’t have been more emblematic of the
Bon Iver on The Grammys
As the media cuts Justin to pieces for his somewhat-reluctant acceptance speech last night at the GRAMMYs for Best New Artist, it's instructive to hear what he had to
PitchBalk Brass Band, Brown Rice Family & Underground Horns
The PitchBlak Brass Band/Brown Rice Family/Underground Horns triple-bill at 92YTribeca featured high-energy, groove-heavy, afro-funk hip hop on a cold Saturday night in New York.
Yellowbirds to play Mercury Lounge on Feb. 17
by Brian Weidy Sam Cohen, frontman of psych-rock outfit Apollo Sunshine, comes to the Mercury Lounge on February 17 with his new band, Yellowbirds. The Yellowbirds' debut album, The Color, is a unique mixture
Experimental <3 Festival This Week at Roulette
Why blow $200+ on some candlelit dinner this V-Day when $10 gets you into the first annual Experimental <3 Festival, happening all this week at Roulette? There's not much of an explanation