CMJ 2010
It's go time for the 30th annual CMJ Music Marathon, with wall-to-wall music over the next five days here in NYC. For credentialed bloggers like your's truly, it means navigating […]
ACL 2010 Wrap Up
This year’s edition of the Austin City Limits Music Festival was the usual mix of dependable old favorites, thrilling new discoveries -and a lot of hype and promise that fell
Solomon and Joan
While I was busy flitting around ACL yesterday, we lost two of the most extraordinary singers of the 20th Century: Solomon Burke – "The King of Rock and Soul" –
ACL 2010
"This is one of the greatest festivals in the world – and it's right here!" Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips The sun has set on the 2010
Vienna in New York
"Autumn in New York/ It spells the thrill of first-nighting" (Vernon Duke) As Tony Tommasini wrote last week in the Times, it's always a privilege to hear the Vienna Philharmonic in
Vienna Phil @ Carnegie This Weekend
(Zubin Mehta with the Vienna Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, March 2009) The new fall season is upon us, with the NY Phil opening it's season last week with Wynton Marsalis' new
New Music Bake Sale, Vol. 2
After the initial success of last year's New Music Bake Sale, organizers decided to move the event this year to Ft. Greene's Irondale Center: a decommissioned church on S. Oxford
The Greene Space
Last year, longtime local radio station WNYC moved from its longtime digs near City Hall to a new space on Varick Street, just east of SoHo. Following the fishbowl model
U.V.A./John Farah/White Ribbon Highway @ Galapagos
An excellent triple bill this past Sunday night at Galapagos combining the solo guitar and electronics of White Ribbon Highway, the solo piano and electronica of Toronto John Kameel Farah, and the