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Summertime music festivals have long been synonymous with severe discomfort, due to thousands of sweaty bodies pressed close, overflowing portable bathrooms with sticky floors, and the furious beating of the sun’s remorseless rays. Why don’t they hold events such as these during those lovely times when the seasons are transitioning? But I’m not here to [...]

The explosion in popularity of blogs and their opinion shaping power has a significant role in the darling success story of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the accidental wonders from Smalltown, USA. As I reached the Music Hall of Williamsburg to find a teenage boy begging the Doorman to grant him entrance, because “Look, [...]

As my pal and I rounded the corner towards the Bowery Ballroom, legally purchased tickets in hand, we were approached by several hopeful buyers eager to catch this season’s hot new band. In the midst of these potential transactions, I caught sight of Fleet Foxes’ drummer lingering outside the stage door, casually taking in the [...]

When considered without any contextual information, it’s difficult to group Fleet Foxes immediately within the tumultuous Seattle music scene from which they’ve emerged. With their long beards, country guitar sound, and tale-telling lyrics, one imagines rather that their self-titled debut is the result of its members spending several months strumming strings ‘round a camp fire. [...]

In a time not lacking in sensitive guitarists who would love to spill their weepy hearts all over us, David Ford succeeds in making his musings unique with his charming demeanor and stunning performance techniques. The singer-songwriter categorization may not thrill every music fan, but last night at the Bowery Ballroom Ford quickly put doubt [...]

What happens when a band whose catalog is loaded with ever changing rhythms, wicked fast guitar pickings, and three layers of high notes performs live and in concert? I walked into the Music Hall of Williamsburg wondering what sort of brain-churning mishmash we attendees might be getting ourselves into on our date with the Dirty [...]

Having had the pleasure of seeing St. Vincent during CMJ, it was no difficult decision to attend her show at the Bowery Ballroom last night. First off, openers Foreign Born won themselves some new fans with their brisk set of somewhat folky songs that also pack plenty of room for outright rocking. The lead singer’s [...]

Brooklyn’s Bombs played the Lolita Party at Glasslands to a crowd eager to dance, due in some part most likely to the free cans of Sparks that were being served. Syrupy malt-liquor energy drinks aside, those in attendance were left with little decision but to shake it as the keyboard, bass, and drums trio took [...]

 Mountain man Justin Vernon, who performs as Bon Iver, quickly packed the Sound Fix performance space last night for a cozy, record-release celebrating affair. The previously non-official availability of his debut album For Emma, Forever Ago apparently hadn’t stopped the word from spreading – thank you internet buzz. With a wacky salsa music rhythm dripping [...]

Far from your typically loud, sweaty concert event, Joanna Newsom played gorgeously last night at the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The formality of seeing her play in a classy theatre with symphonic stature makes just as much sense as if she were booked at a dingy club, because [...]