CMJ Music Marathon 2014: Thursday Pics
The debut performance of French Style Furs (ex-Cold War Kids, We Barbarians), Fontana's, 10/23/14. More pics on the photo page.
The Bad Plus Play Ornette Coleman with the Joshua Light Show
In between CMJ hopping on Thursday night, I had the chance to stop by NYU's Skirball Center for The Bad Plus' (pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave
CMJ Music Marathon 2014: Wednesday Recap
I danced in between the raindrops last night in search of new discoveries last night, the second night of CMJ 2014, containing myself mostly to the Lower East Side before
CMJ Music Marathon 2014: Tuesday Recap
by Steven Pisano Photo by Steven Pisano For the last 34 years, the CMJ Music Marathon has presented New York with an overwhelming number of live music performances crammed into
White Light Festival: Roomful of Teeth Perform Music by Eckert, Amidon, Wells and Shaw
About a year ago, vocal octet Roomful of Teeth offered the first complete NYC performance of Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices. Not long after, they performed it again during
Ben Frost, Julianna Barwick, and Oneirogen at The Wick
Capping off a weekend of electronic music, I ventured out to the amazing new Bushwick venue The Wick on Saturday night, where Bedroom Community co-founder Ben Frost headlined an evening of
Museum Music: Ryoji Ikeda’s “superposition” at the Met Museum; Sound/Source at MoMA PS1
Are art museums the new concert halls? Not exactly, but, there is a long and storied tradition of presenting live music in art galleries and museums. Particularly in the realm
FREE TICKETS: The Joshua Light Show at NYU Skirball
NOTE: This contest has ended. On October 23-25, NYU Skirball welcomes back The Joshua Light Show, “the most psychedelic light show of all time" (Rolling Stone). This year's 3-day festival of liquid light
White Light Festival: Basil Twist’s “The Rite of Spring”
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times In 1998, I was working at the downtown arts center HERE when Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique premiered in a small black box theater in the basement. Billed as