The Icelandic songstress Bjork gets a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The museum show coincides with a handful of concert dates this month (and one next month) by Bjork at different NYC venues.
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A dynamite exhibit, Sinatra: An American Icon, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is the way to begin appreciating Frank Sinatra this year, the centennial of his birth, with lots more ways soon to come.
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.
Darlene Love sounds great 12 months out of the year but when it’s Christmastime, Love is a must! Here’s the interview and performance I shot last year. She spoke about being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her amazing run on the Letterman show (because of David’s retirement […]
2014 holiday season gift ideas include plenty of memoirs & biographies to read and documentaries & performances to watch…
Ho Ho Ho! Here’s some suggestions if you’d like to give (or receive) the gift of music this holiday season whether it is boxed or unboxed.
Holiday Cheer for WFUV is a brilliant annual event – the last 5 years of its 10 year life at The Beacon Theatre – that raises dough for non-commercial New York City rock radio station WFUV, as well as her sister The Alternate Side. The last few years have featured […]
In October, Yusuf released his third album under that name, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, which followed 11 albums released between 1967 and 1978 as Cat Stevens. The new record was produced by Rick Rubin and features appearances by Richard Thompson, Charlie Musselwhite, and Tinariwen. That same month, his first concert dates […]
Stephin Merritt topped an impressive lineup at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village and offered a handful of Magnetic Fields’ faves to celebrate the release of the third issue of Radio Silence, a San Francisco based magazine whose stock in trade is the cross-fertilization of authors and musicians. It’s […]
The wildly talented Angelique Kidjo spoke about what a great inspiration Miriam Makeba – Mama Africa – is to her …
Gary Wright has really had an extraordinary ride – from child actor on Broadway to Spooky Tooth then his mid 1970’s smashes. It’s all in his new book Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison which highlights his friendship with George Harrison. Gary spoke to me about it at […]
Cat Power headlined the Modern Sky Festival NYC in Central Park on Sunday. The festival in Central Park was the first American version of China’s Modern Sky Festival. Also featured were The Both composed of Aimee Mann and Ted Leo as well as Stars. Sets were short as it was an all-day hootenanny and […]
Neil Diamond played Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn for a surprise homecoming show – his first ever in the borough. I got turned on to Neil Diamond via my dad through albums like the Robbie Robertson produced Beautiful Noise and the one I really loved Hot August Night. Neil […]
Golden God Robert Plant played a deuce at BAM as part of the 50th anniversary of Nonesuch Records and John Mayer was part of an event in Times Square announcing Rock in Rio setting up in Las Vegas. Les Tambours du Bronx who aren’t from the Bronx but who are […]
Matthew Caws recalls how things came together for one of NYC’s most essential bands – Nada Surf, who played their only show of the year at Rough Trade in Williamsburg to celebrate the new digital release of B-Sides and mark the start of sessions for a new album.
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 […]
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.
Joe Henry has added an excellent new album to the innumerable amazing records he has created as a producer and recording artist.
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 […]
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 […]
David Broza enlisted his friend Steve Earle as producer on his new album and they shared in a brilliant experience.