Oregon’s Black Prairie Play Rockwood Music Hall
Birthed in one of the most fertile music scenes in the United States, Portland bluegrass-style band Black Prairie brought their fiddles and accordions to the East Coast Thursday night for […]
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St. Vincent Closes Out Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park
Sadly, I've been out of town for the past two weeks and therefore didn't get to see St. Vincent's free show in Prospect Park Saturday night to close out the
Celebrate Brooklyn!: Warpaint and Yellowbirds
California rock outfit Warpaint made their way to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Thursday night as part of the ongoing Celebrate Brooklyn! series. Hearkening back to trip hop groups like Portishead and Massive Attack, with
Northside Festival Grows Up
For fans of indie music, Brooklyn's Northside Festival has always been the scruffy little sister to CMJ, filling the clubs of Greenpoint and Williamsburg each June with a woolly mix of
The Bad Plus Winds Down at Jazz Standard
by Angela Sutton I was very pleased to be able to reconnect with protean jazz trio The Bad Plus at Jazz Standard Sunday night, where the group—Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid
Putting the “Mental” in “Experimental”: Tristan Perich, Daniel Wohl, and Lucky Dragons at Baby’s All Right
by Poppy Galloway Baby's All Right presented a showcase of the finest in experimental electronica Wednesday night; featuring Tristan Perich's Noise Patterns, Daniel Wohl with IKTUS Percussion, and the Los Angeles–based
Wild Cub at Bowery Ballroom
by Jordan Teicher Wild Cub's Keegan DeWitt said he'd dreamed of selling out Bowery Ballroom—so it must have been especially gratifying when he did so on a Tuesday, of all
Preview: Ecstatic Music Festival 2014
The fourth season of the Ecstatic Music Festival is now underway, with 11 unique and varied collaborations between composers and performers from both sides of the indie/classical divide. A collaboration
Preview: King Khan and the Shrines Return to NYC Tonight at Webster Hall
It's been more than five years since psychedelic garage rockers King Khan and the Shrines brought their wild, unruly stage show to McCarren Pool, complete with cheerleaders and King Khan