As I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts, the CMJ Festival here in New York has become one of the preeminent and important music festivals of the entire calendar year for independent artists and their labels, music […]
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Although it started rather humbly almost 35 years ago, the CMJ Festival here in New York has become one of the preeminent and important music festivals of the entire calendar year for independent artists and their labels, […]
Painted Zeros and Elephant Stone at the Mercury Lounge 9/9/14
Painted Zeros and Elephant Stone Mercury Lounge September 9, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a few hundred times of late, it’s been a very busy few months here with The Joy of Violent Movement and I’m […]
Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers at NUBLU 7/11/14
Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers Nublu July 11, 2014 Originally founded back in 1964 by the Dominican bandleader and composer Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American lawyer, Jerry Masucci, Fania Records quickly became the beloved […]
Willful Boys and Dead Waves at Cake Shop 7/10/14
Last Thursday, I was at Cake Shop to catch two local bands Willful Boys and Dead Waves at a night of hard, power chord-orientated rock. Check out a few photos from the night, below. Dead […]
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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 […]
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 […]