Brad Paisley and Justin Moore led the charge on the rainy Saturday of the first ever FarmBorough Festival on Randall’s Island, Manhattan. “New York City’s Brand New Country Music Festival” happened Friday through Sunday, June 26 – 28 2015.
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The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series has small ensembles visiting parks in all five New York City boroughs this summer and Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem, Manhattan was the venue on Friday, June 26 2015. Accompanied expertly by Dan Saunders on piano, Kiri Deonarine, Ginger Costa-Jackson, and John Moore delighted […]
Christopher Owens has written some amazing songs – both as a solo artist and as the lead singer and songwriter for now defunct indie rock band Girls – and there’s more on his new album Chrissybaby Forever. We grabbed some stoop time before his show at Baby’s All Right in […]
Josiah Hotwire is a memorable name and one you’ll want to remember if you’re a hip hop fan. The Harlem raised artist recently unleashed a mixtape called Can’t Take Me Down featuring the song Heaven…
Public Enemy’s Chuck D coming over to say hi to Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear at SXSW in Austin was indicative of the kind of magnetism this mom and son folk duo have. Their songs exist outside any specific time or place and they deliver them with affection and […]
Anthrax has been kicking ass for 34 years! I spoke with Scott Ian about past, present, and future of the legendary thrash metal band backstage at Hammerstein Ballroom…
Before heading to Brooklyn for a Northside Festival show, rock duo Best Coast dropped by WFUV radio for a session. Their gig (with 3 additional touring members) is this Saturday June the 13th; the multi-faceted event runs June 8 – 14 2015. Prepare for the show by enjoying 2 interviews with the […]
Here’s a taste of the 2015 Governors Ball Music Festival action at Randall’s Island Park NYC this past weekend, June 5-7…
London based rock quartet The Vaccines just unleashed their third album English Graffiti. As the record wasn’t out yet when I saw them at SXSW, I was hearing songs like Dream Lover for the first time – and thinking they sounded great next to older material like Bad Mood. Those […]
Steve Reynolds – whose sets span the 1990’s – works his DJ magic at The Bell House on or about the first Saturday of every month. Whether at that venue in Brooklyn or at his day job in Manhattan in which he often interviews artists across genres, this maniacal music maven is a […]
Pedrito Martinez is such a heavy guy that Wynton, Waters, and Winwood as well as Springsteen, Sting, and Simon have either dropped in on him or invited him on stage or to a session…and those are just the names that grouped well by letter. The Cuban percussionist, singer, bandleader and […]
The Violent Femmes have a long history with New York (Brian Ritchie lived here for a decade, Gordon Gano longer than that, and Brian Viglione now) and a longer history making distinctive music – some visceral, some cerebral – always honest. The veteran proto-alt-rockers tore it up at Rough Trade […]
John Patitucci is among the most accomplished bass players in the world. His latest project has JP focusing on the electric side of his playing with his longtime collaborator – Brian (one of the most exciting drummers alive) Blade plus a pair of shining guitarists: Steve Cardenas and Adam Rogers. […]
An important reason Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn writes such powerful political songs is his first hand experience. A new memoir Rumours of Glory from the folk-rock artist recalls visiting places around the world, often places wracked by war, that informed his lyrics. He highlighted the songs he wrote about in his […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I was sitting at Madison Square Garden watching Eric Clapton, it hit me that it was 30 years ago almost to the month that I saw the man at the Worcester Centrum (setlist to that show) in one of my fist concerts. I was a couple of weeks shy […]
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 […]
The 35th anniversary of The Breaks presented a brilliant opportunity to speak with Kurtis Blow who very succinctly explains how Hip-Hop was born. “The Furious Five, Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC are no different from Robert Johnson and Charley Patton and Blind Willie McTell.” – Jack White at Madison Square Garden 1/30/15 […]
A powerful film Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten is opening in Greenwich Village today for a one week run at the Film Forum about how the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia targeted artists among so many others and how their music has ultimately survived. I spoke with director John Pirozzi…
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 …
We lost R&B legend Percy Sledge this week at the age of 74. It was an honor to chat with him in the fall of 2013 when he was doing some interviews surrounding a documentary about Muscle Shoals. Here’s the story of truly one of the greatest songs of all […]
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 […]