Antibalas will be the house band and twenty artists will perform the songs of Aretha Franklin on Monday, March 6th at Carnegie Hall in the 14th annual tribute concert to benefit music education programs. Here’s the lineup: Melissa Etheridge, Kenny Loggins, Ann Wilson, Todd Rundgren, Sarah Dash, Glen Hansard, Rhiannon Giddens, […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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As anyone vaguely aware of Talib Kweli knows, the man can spit with the best of ’em and arguably offers more thought-provoking words per song than anyone in the game. The lyrics of Palookas from 2011’s Gutter Rainbows – “You ain’t gotta verse better than my worse one” – would […]
The Chili Peppers doing a pretty killer show at The Garden is hardly surprising. The Chili Peppers doing three distinct pretty killer shows however may be eyebrow-raising. They busted out covers like Simon & Garfunkel’s The Only Living Boy in New York and Search & Destroy by Iggy and The […]
Kronos Quartet Champions Humanity, Understanding Across Cultures – February 15, 2017 The Kronos Quartet are and have always been modern and progressive in the sense that they favor new music as opposed to playing works by composers like Haydn or Mozart who did their thing hundreds of years ago. Now […]
John Fogerty Recalls Robert Johnson Leading Him Back To CCR – February 14, 2017 The first time I saw John Fogerty was in 1986 on the Eye of the Zombie tour. It was fab but it was also strange as he didn’t play any, not one, song that he wrote […]
Annette St. John At Smoke’s Sunday Brunch – Weekly gig; footage from Super Sunday 2/5/17 Heading over to Smoke, the Upper West Side venue, to hear some wonderful music from Annette St. John and her trio is a very clever move on any given Sunday especially now that football season […]
Elliot Moss Unveils New Music At The Penthouse At The Standard – January 30, 2017 Elliot Moss made it clear he is a young artist worth keeping an ear on with an engaging performance on Monday at The Penthouse at the Standard. A lot of people, specifically 4.2 million of them […]
New Documentary Film & Book On H.R. Of Bad Brains – Event at Saint Vitus Bar on January 24, 2017 One of the Bad Brains CDs in my collection has a sticker on it with two well chosen quotes about the band: “If you want to hear real excitement, real […]