Live Music »
Live Music: David Byrne @ Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, 6/8/09
An overwhelming 27,000 people showed up to see David Byrne play a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on Monday night. The show was the opening of the 2009 Celebrate Brooklyn
Read More »Live Music: NON-COMMvention, World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
NON-COMMvention is the premier annual event for North America’s noncommercial Triple A radio stations. It was founded by Dan Reed in 2001, when he was at radio station WFPK in Louisville, which cosponsored the
Read More »Live Music: GAS @ Miller Theatre, 5/29/09
Save the massive excitement surrounding what was claimed to be his first and only show in the U.S. (though it seems he played Chicago three nights prior), everything about Wolfgang Voigt’s show at Columbia
Read More »Live Music: Pattern Is Movement and St. Vincent @ Webster Hall, 5/20/09
Pattern Is Movement have certainly lived up to the Movement part of their name, touring relentlessly since the release of their excellent fourth album, All Together. Seeing them for the third time since October,
Read More »Live Music: Akron/Family @ Bowery Ballroom, 5/6/09
After seeing jam-freak-avant-folksters Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool in March, there was only one thing left to do: Go home, go online, buy tickets to see them again. After
Read More »Live Music: Booker T., Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry NH, 4/29/09
Full disclosure: I’m a Hammond B-3 soul and soul-jazz freak, so I’m a homer here. My universe aligns around the likes of great players like Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Al Kooper, and
Read More »Live Music: Throbbing Gristle @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Tuesday, April 28th
If anyone other than Throbbing Gristle had been playing the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Tuesday night, the fact that the crowd was older and stranger and on more drugs than the average New York
Read More »Basement Songs: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Live at the L.A. Sports Arena, 4/15/09
I wasn’t supposed to be at this concert. A conscious decision was made not to spend money on a ticket to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band when they landed at the
Read More »Live Music: Leonard Cohen @ Nokia Theatre, L.A., 4/11/09
Leonard Cohen has been referencing his own mortality in his lyrics for decades now, and on his current world tour the first such hint arrives about a half hour into the show. Near the
Read More »Live Music: Reykjavik Blues Festival, 4/8/09
Wednesday was our last night in Iceland and the second-to-the last night of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. It was a great show to end on, too. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith was hot on harmonica,
Read More »