On a rather hot summer night, I first decided to stop at the new Starbucks on Broadway and Queens Blvd to work on the Coney Island Mermaid Parade post, as well as to conserve a […]
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Coney island Mermaid Parade 6/22/13
As you’ll likely be aware, Superstorm Sandy ravished the low-lying coastal areas of New York and New Jersey, leaving a path of destruction that most residents have never seen before, and in some parts of […]
Northside Festival Day 1: BMI Creators Kickoff Event featuring Beast Patrol
Northside Festival Day 1 BMI Creators Kickoff Event featuring Beast Patrol Mabel’s Smokehouse June 13, 2013 After covering the New Music Seminar New York Festival, I followed that up with covering the Northside Festival across […]
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Last Sunday while at the Metropark NJ Transit station, I bought a ticket, begged their slow ticket vending machines to go a little faster, and ran up three flights of stairs with two heavy bags (a […]
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As I was on my way to Summerstage to cover Sinkane and Femi Kuti, i caught this bit of graffiti on a truck on Lexington Avenue between East 71st Street and East 72nd Street, if […]
Sinkane and Femi Kuti at Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage 6/23/13
Sinkane and Femi Kuti Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage June 23, 2013 Last Sunday afternoon was a gorgeous summer afternoon – incredibly, bright sunlight, with cerulean blue skies and puffy clouds but uncomfortably hot. I think that […]
New Music Seminar Festival Day 3: Twin Wave and the Grizzled Mighty at Piano’s and Xenia Rubinos and Bury Me a Lion at the Delancey 6/11/13
New Music Seminar Festival Day 3: Twin Wave and the Grizzled Mighty at Piano’s and Xenia Rubinos and Bury Me a Lion at the Delancey June 11 2013 Tuesday, the 11th marked the third and […]
The New Music Seminar Festival NY Day 2 — Hess is More, AVAN LAVA, the Pearl and the Beard, and the Drums at Webster Hall 6/10/13 and Chateau Marmont at Piano’s 6/10/13
The New Music Seminar Festival Day 2 – Hess is More, AVAN LAVA, the Pearl and the Beard and the Drums Webster Hall June 10, 2013 I was back at Webster Hall for the second […]
New Music Seminar Festival NY 2013 — Day 1: Ahmir, Etivan, 2AM Club, Baby Bee, and the Soul Rebels at Webster Hall 6/9/13
New Music Seminar Festival NY 2013 Day 1: Ahmir, Etivan, 2AM Club, Baby Bee, and the Soul Rebels Webster Hall June 9, 2013 The New Music Seminar can trace its history back to the 1980 […]
56K, Olivia Mancini, and Morningbell at Union Hall 6/7/13
56K, Olivia Mancini and Morningbell Union Hall June 7, 2013 The weather Friday was frankly awful – a torrential and mostly windswept rain had soaked the city, turning street corners into gigantic pools in the […]
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I was in the Bedford Stuyvestant section of Brooklyn, walking to Tompkins Park – oh wait, it’s Herbert von King Park now – to catch Big Daddy Kane perform as part of this year’s Summerstage […]
Roi and the Secret People at Arlene’s Grocery 6/8/13
Last week was the start of a very busy period for me, a roughly week and a half period where I’d be covering live music every single night; most of it stemming from covering the […]
Michael-Louis Smith at DROM 6/4/13
Michael-Louis Smith DROM June 4, 2013 Guitarist, Michael-Louis Smith, along with his backing band of Diallo House (bass), Stacy Dillard (tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone), Ismail Lawal (drums) with the addition of Victor Gould (piano) […]
Red Bull Music Academy Presents: The DFA Records 12th Anniversary Event at Grand Prospect Hall 5/25/13
Red Bull Music Academy Presents: The DFA Records 12th Anniversary Event Grand Prospect Hall May 25, 2013 Back during an unusually chilly Memorial Day Weekend, I was at the gorgeous Grand Prospect Hall in Park […]
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Occasionally, the old New York that i once loved is hidden below the surface of new developments and chain stores – and it’s still beautiful and extremely weird but it seems to be disappearing before […]