This weekend was a pretty typical weekend for me as I was rushing around town to cover three shows over the course of two days and it started out with a stop at Fontana’s in […]
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Jessica Childress at Rockwood Music Hall 4/23/14
Jessica Childress Rockwood Music Hall April 23, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a number of times on this site, running a blog practically full-time and having a full-time job often leads to competing demands for my […]
Your Skull My Closet and Radkey at Mercury Lounge 2/20/14
Your Skull Your Closet and Radkey Mercury Lounge February 20, 2014 Having a full-time job while running a website full-time often means that I often have competing demands on my time but I manage it […]
Twintapes at Piano’s 2/19/14
Last Thursday was a pretty typical night for me in some respects – I first stopped at Rockwood Music Hall to catch a very dear friend of this site, Nicola play an acoustic set and […]
Graveface Records Roadshow feat. Stargazer Lilies and Casket Girls at Mercury Lounge 2/18/14
Graveface Records Roadshow feat. Stargazer Lilies and Casket Girls Mercury Lounge February 18 2014 At the tail end of last year, the Savannah, GA-based indie rock label, Graveface Records announced that several of their more […]
Honduras, Ski Lodge, and Drowners at Bowery Ballroom 1/31/14
Honduras, Ski Lodge and Drowners Bowery Ballroom January 31, 2014 As January 31 was the start of the weekend, I bolted out of the office and rushed down to see Super Bowl Blvd in an […]
Communion at Rockwood Music Hall 1/7/14 featuring Carrie Ashley Hill, Michael Kiwanuka, and Anna Rose
Communion feating Carrie Ashley Hill, Michael Kiwanuka and Anna Rose Rockwood Music Hall January 7, 2014 Communion hosts a monthly series a of live music nights in a number of venues across both the States and […]
Butcher Knives at Piano’s 12/21/13
The Brooklyn-based septet of Butcher Knives are a self-proclaimed “gyspybilly” band with a rather diverse array of influences such as Mano Negra, the Clash, Johnny Cash, Gogol Bordello, Bob Marley, bluegrass, flamenco, Eastern European folk, rockabilly and […]
Rebelmatic at R Bar 11/27/13
A friend who I had met at the Brooklyn Wildlife Festival in September invited me to catch a similar event at R Bar, the Posh Mosh featuring several local bands including Rebelmatic, a punk band […]
Raccoon Fighter at Cake Shop 10/4/13
Raccoon Fighter Cake Shop October 4 2013 About 72 hours before I got on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt am Main, Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair, I was at Cake Shop to catch the […]
The Vim Dicta at Piano’s 6/24/13
As you can imagine, I’m still catching up on tons of posts and photos from a very busy summer worth of concerts and festivals across the best city for live music in the entire country, […]
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 […]
I caught the Los Angeles, CA-based trio the Vim Dicta at Piano’s on Monday night, and from this live footage that I shot, their sound owes a debt to Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin and the like […]
Occasionally, large festivals can be exhausting mixed bags. With things going on simultaneously, you’re forced to make a difficult balancing act between those acts which you may find personally enjoyable an newsworthy with discovering something […]