This was, of course, a fun show… Iggy Pop: Avenue B Bob Dylan: Talkin’ NY & Spanish Harlem Incident Avett Brothers: I and Love and You Garland Jeffries: Rollercoaster Town Cat Power: New York Ray LaMontagne: NY Is Killing Me Gil Scot Heron: NYC’s Killing Me Jim Croce: NYs Not […]
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Providence’s Deer Tick led but John McCauley played a phenomenal Nirvana tribute show at the Brooklyn Bowl …
This show was brilliant but Josh Homme’s stage patter was just as lame on this night as it was during the TCV show last year – he looks like a frat boy, dresses like Garth Brooks, and everything out of his mouth when he is not singing is either banal […]
The Vaccines – Justin Young (vocals, guitar), Árni Árnason (bass), Freddie Cowan (guitar), Pete Robinson (drums) – just released their debut album, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines, and back in January the London-based 4-piece did their first ever interview in the USA with me (representing WFUV and The […]
On Monday, March 7, 2011 – I caught a tasty double bill at the Rockwood Music Hall with Middle Brother & Lissie. Middle Brother, whose debut self titled album came out earlier this month, served up a rootsy, spirited set rooted in but not chained to a folk aesthetic. As […]
In early 1991 while I was in my last semester at Ithaca College and a jock on IC’s radio station WICB, Living Colour was enjoying a high point of commercial success. The album they released the previous summer, Time’s Up – their second – was on its way to gold […]
At the end of 2009, I was asked to pick the top ten albums for the last five decades. Having to choose at least ten for every decade significantly changed the list compared to what it would be if the parameters were simply the best 50 albums over the past […]
Well, as far as 2010 goes – I’m done! My top ten album list, my top ten concert list, and the best of the Holland Tunnel video are all posted (see below) and I’ll be spending most of the remainder of December doing radio shows as opposed to knocking back […]
Links are to my reviews… 1 Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation/Nada Surf; Beacon Theater/Mercury Lounge 2 Grinderman; Best Buy Theater 3 New Orleans Jazzfest; Dr. John, Simon & Garfunkel, Terrence Blanchard, etc. 4 Corinne Bailey Rae; Terminal 5 5 Brendan Benson & The Posies; Highline Ballroom 6 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings […]
…the links are to my video reviews of the album or a concert appearance by the band. 1 Spoon: Transference 2 Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea 3 Grinderman: Grinderman 2 4 Black Keys: Brothers 5 Erykah Badu: New Amerika 2 – Return of the Ankh 6 Broken Bells: S/T 7 […]