Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have a way of bringing out the best in each other and that is the best of Americana music. The pair drew upon their 40 year kinship and upped the ante on their Grammy winning album of 2 years ago by penning half a dozen […]
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Courtney Barnett was the ‘it’ girl at SXSW this year… everyone wanted to see her. After I saw her, I wanted to see her again…and again! Here are my favorite moments that will give you a good flavor for the indie rock singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia who will visit New […]
A live band up there with Bad Brains and Iggy Pop for manic energy and reckless abandon: Fishbone was featured in the very first Sound Advice report (along with Roger Waters) on NY1 in July of 2012. A couple of months before my third anniversary at NY1, The Bone was […]
One of the most memorable shows at this year’s South by Southwest Festival was the one, in a church no less, from the group led by Hull, England’s Stuart Matthewman who co-wrote just about every Sade song that’s ever existed as well as played sax (& some guitar) on them […]
Here is a chance for one lucky entrant to win the Record Store Day 2015 exclusive 10″ vinyl record – “You Go To My Head/The Mood That I’m In” – a record with Billie Holiday’s originals of the 2 songs on one side, and contemporary jazz singer Cassandra Wilson singing […]
Freedy Johnston plans to play the last Thursday of every month (for an unspecified period of time!) at the lovely and intimate Rockwood Music Hall beginning next Thursday April 30th 2015. Here’s a peek at a Joe’s Pub show and our chat shortly after he moved back to New York […]
San Fermin, who knocked my socks off at SXSW, release their new album Jackrabbit tomorrow and are a doing a pair of shows in Brooklyn this week. Here’s a look at their show in Austin and a conversation with Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Allen Tate, and Charlene Kaye …
A whole lotta Lady Day around the city, and the world, this month as Billie Holiday was born in April of 1915. At the Apollo, she was inducted into the Walk of Fame while Molly Johnson at Jazz at Lincoln Center led a handful of vocalists interpreting her songs. Three […]
Record Store Day…What an excellent idea! It’s not only really just become a thing. It’s really just become a great thing! Record Store Day 2015 is this Saturday, April 18. As a guy who worked at Second Coming Records (the one between Harvard Square & Central Square in Cambridge, MA […]
New York Before The War is Jesse Malin’s first record in 5 years. The quintessential New York rocker spoke to me about it and let me roll some video on his mean band in their Lower East Side practice space. He’s at the Bowery Ballroom next Saturday…
Soyul, Way, and Choa of South Korean girl group Crayon Pop make some comments about their new album FM and we get some dancing and hand-signs too!
Visually stimulating and musically diverse, the 3rd annual K-Pop Night Out at South by Southwest, showcasing musical artists from South Korea, was made memorable by Hitchhiker – the man in the spacesuit , EE – the husband and wife led total art experience, and Crayon Pop – the 5 member […]
Despite being attacked by a bouncer on Thursday, London’s Palma Violets tore it up in their inimitable way at SXSW in Austin on Friday. This was the third (of the 4 times) I had a chance to chat with this band. The first one reveals just how quickly they were recognized as an exciting […]
The debut studio album from Big Data, “2.0”, features songs inspired by the likes of Snowden/NSA and the Facebook mood experiments sung by an impressive gaggle of guests like Rivers Cuomo, Jamie Lidell, Twin Shadow, and Joywave. In the studio, Big Data is Brooklyn-based producer Alan Wilkis (whom I spoke with at […]
English singer-songwriter Laura Marling released her new album Short Movie today and is in Brooklyn at Warsaw tonight! Here’s a bit of our conversation a couple of days ago in Austin at SXSW about the record and how America, and Americans, affected the artist and played a role in its […]
Brazilian Girls traded making music for making babies for a while but they’re preparing to release their first new material since 2008. They played some of it at Highline Ballroom and I spoke with lead singer Sabina Sciubba backstage at the venue while she was getting ready to go on […]
Pop music is alive and well and living in New York City…Chelsea, actually where the 3 brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met, collectively AJR, used the family living room to record the songs that evolved from busking around town. Their new release is appropriately called Living Room.
A delight to catch Midge Ure playing solo and acoustic at Iridium where the Ultravox frontman touched on every phase of his career. The Scot lives in England where, in his home studio, he created his first new album of original material in 13 years called Fragile. As 2015 marks the 30th anniversary […]
The last few projects from the wonderful jazz singer Allan Harris have been tributes to some of his idols like Nat King Cole, Billy Strayhorn & Tony Bennett. Harris credits Bennett especially as a mentor who, when they spent time together in the late nineties, helped him hone his vocal […]
As hip hop artist Maino unleashes a video for his latest single Dreamer featuring French Montana, B.O.B., and Tweezie – The King of Brooklyn dropped by NY1 for a powwow that included news of a literary project.
Zach Williams’ first NYC gigs were at the Rockwood Music Hall and it was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. He was the first guy to play Stage 2 when it opened and when it came time to record his band‘s debut album, they converted the venue into a studio […]
Most family projects involve clearing out a garage or attic. Not this one. When Teddy Thompson, who has lived in NYC for 15 years, thought it would be good to get the family together, he hatched a scheme for an album that came to fruition and was released in November. […]
Bettye Lavette made me cry more than once during the opening show of her run at The Carlyle. She is among the very highest echelon of vocalists – a masterful interpreter who fully inhabits each song she sings. The show Wednesday January the 28th served as an album release party […]
To open their self-titled second album released last spring, The Apache Relay recorded something of a masterpiece in the song “Katie Queen of Tennessee.” Singer/guitarist Michael Ford Jr. and Brett Moore (keys/guitar/mandolin) were quick to share credit with the string arranger Jimmy Haskee (who has an Emmy and three Grammys) and Johnathan […]
Put That Dream In Your Pipe And Smoke It is Mike Rimbaud’s new disc. The Bowery Electric was the venue for the New York singer-songwriter‘s latest release.