Parting Blast

I made it back from Saratoga just in time to catch Yo La Tengo at McCarren Pool, where they're headlining the last-ever JellyNYC Pool Party. The crowd is absolutely massive

Saratoga Nightcap

After an hour of fruitless wandering around downtown Saratoga in search of something other than tepid coverbands, I stop in the Circus Cafe on my way home and am blown

Pub Music

I don't know if The Tavern section of Orff's Carmina Burana technically qualifies as bar music, but I'll go out on a limb and say the Philadelphia Orchestra (who played

Saratoga Nights

I didn't think I'd end up falling for a local jazz band named Flavor, playing in the center strip of downtown Saratoga's Mardi Gras-like madness. But, these guys have solid

Old Time Rhythm

Up in Saratoga Springs this weekend, primarily for tomorrow's Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course but also for some fun music happenings (including Orff's Carmina Burana tomorrow night with the

Guest Post: Dirty Projectors

While I was dodging raindrops at the Wordless Music show last Friday night, my friend Brendan was down at the Seaport catching Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors and White Williams. Here's his

Outdoor Noise

 Apparently, Death By Audio isn't the only place to hear crushing experimental noise in this town: Central Park Summerstage is putting on a killer, cutting-edge show today featuring Gang Gang

Playing In The Rain

The rains came early for tonight's Wordless Music show at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, falling throughout the Renaissance choral works by Perotin and the first half of Manuel Gottsching's hour-long

Thoroughly Modern (Mostly) Mozart

   It's not every day that one gets to see the world's leading interpreter of contemporary vocal music from the third row, but that's where I had the good fortune to

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