Placebo played just two shows in the states this year but one of them was in New York where I had a chat with Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal.
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Good weather and good tunes in Times Square in year 2 of the CBGB festival with James Murphy, Grizzly Bear, and My Morning Jacket.
The little town in Alabama where countless classic songs were recorded – Muscle Shoals – gets immortalized in film.
John McCauley dropped by NY1 on the release of the new Deer Tick album Negativity to talk about the record and play a couple of songs – just him and his acoustic.
Metallica celebrated a Sirius/XM station that plays only their music plus the release of a new flick.
The exceptional blues songstress Kirsten Thien played an unusual gig as part of the Society Cafe Concert Series at the Unitarian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
Elvis Costello & The Roots celebrated the release of their collaborative album Wise Up Ghost with a show at the 600 person capacity Brooklyn Bowl. Audio of entire performance at WFUV.org.
Full performance of Another Life and Better On My Own recorded in ‘The Closet’ at NY1 in August of 2013.
Is there a better rock band that formed in this century than Arctic Monkeys? In early 2006, they unleashed their first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not that sold more copies in their native UK than any debut that had come before. Since then, they’ve been […]
Another Life is the latest CD from the outstanding singer/songwriter/guitar player James Maddock. He dropped by NY1 for a chat and a performance.
This was shot backstage at The Highline Ballroom earlier this summer on The Stranglers first trip to NYC in almost two decades. Watch the two minute report including video of the performance HERE.