Fifty is a big hump even for someone as beautiful and talented as chanteuse Tori Amos who responded with a brilliant album and solo tour… Tori Amos gave her daughter Tash – who appears on a track on the new album, Unrepentant Geraldines – credit for wrapping her head around […]
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Kenny Garrett spoke about his band and his heroes and took no prisoners onstage at the 2014 Montreal Jazz Festival. A peak at the jazz saxophonist‘s performance there plus a chat including Kenny talking about Sonny Rollins and the lineage of jazz greats like Parker and Coltrane that serve as […]
To say that Mary Sarah’s career is off to a great start is a huge understatement… the 19 year old country musician chats about her album Bridges on which she sings with country music legends like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.
Fela Kuti was a tremendous musical and political force. Finding Fela is the new documentary from Alex Gibney about him…
Matthew Sweet played Friday at City Winery and shared how he hooked up with Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd – who helped the alt-rock musician make some absolutely essential power pop – while living in NYC.
Legendary singer-songwriter John Hiatt spoke about the blues & his new album Terms of My Surrender and then got down to business on a beautiful night between the sea and financial district skyscrapers…
The original power trio of Dinosaur Jr. – J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph – has been together almost twice as long post-reunion as the first time around. The veteran Amherst, MA based rock band spoke about both eras and looked to the future before turning in a wicked set […]
This past Friday night was gorgeous and the NY Philharmonic symphony orchestra were in excellent form in Central Park.
Say Anything’s Max Bemis spoke about the pop-punk band‘s new album Hebrews and how its songs translate to the stage…
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY punk rock band The So So Glos are honest underdogs who are rewarding to cheer for…
Miles Davis Way is named in Manhattan, The Bootleg Series has unearthed some great performances from the jazz legend, and a biopic is scheduled to start production next month.
Joe Henry has added an excellent new album to the innumerable amazing records he has created as a producer and recording artist.
Nels Cline played a gig with the Les Paul Trio at Iridium this past Monday and spoke about the experience as well as some of his other myriad projects atop Wilco.
Ice T speaks about his boyhood, the history of hip hop and his film The Art of Rap, Papoose, and Body Count in this extended interview.
Kristian Bush of country music duo Sugarland nodded to The Replacements while chatting about his first solo album Southern Gravity. He road-tested songs from it at City Winery on Friday 05/30/14. His band-mates have resumes with Better Than Ezra & Erykah Badu on them and he’s been writing songs like […]
Steve Wilson led Wilsonian’s Grain through six nights at the Village Vanguard with tape machines rolling for the last two…
Walter Martin – with a special assist from a pair of his old bandmates in The Walkmen – Hamilton Leithauser and Matt Barrick, not to mention Karen O, celebrated the release of his family album We’re All Young Together at Joe’s Pub. I also spoke with Hamilton recently at WFUV […]
Bilal went a long time without putting out a new album (he explains why in this interview) but now the record company hurdles have been cleared and he is free to not only play a great show like he did the other night at Stage 48 but also record dynamite new […]
Steve Kuhn led his trio (Steve Swallow & Joey Baron) through a run of stellar performances at Birdland this week.
