Fifty years ago, Phil Ochs performed at the Interlude Café in Kew Gardens, Queens, NYC. Now the café is called Odradeks and an SRO crowd gathered together to celebrate Phil’s birthday. December 19 would have been Phil’s 75th birthday and in celebration there were concerts performed all over the US, Canada, and the UK. Phil […]
John Henry’s Friends was the first annual charity concert for the Keswell School (formerly the McCarton School) in NYC. The school was founded on the belief that children diagnosed with ASD can live full and productive lives as integrated members of their communities. John Henry is Steve Earles’s son. John Henry is five years old […]
In an effort to get as many free memberships, through her IDNYC, as she can before December 31st, rtb has been running quickly through a lot of the cultural institutions of all five boroughs. On Sunday I joined her at the museum of the Bronx Historical Society. I got there late and just did a […]
C-Boy’s Heart and Soul has the heart of a dive bar and the soul of a chitlin’ circuit club. The small stage is backed by a shiny gold curtain. Miss Lavelle White is 86 years old, has been performing since she was 15yo, and recorded her first album in 1994. She is a class act. […]
Visiting Austin is not complete without one stop at the Continental Club. On Thanksgiving night meli and I went to see Dale Watson and his Lone Stars. Watson was sporting his famous white pompadour and shiny white teeth. Every so often he did a “commercial” for Lone Star beer, where he would hold up the […]
And then on Sunday, meli and I drove to San Antonio to see the exhibits at the McNay Art Museum. Part of the museum used to be a beautiful home with a gorgeous courtyard. The rest of museum was built in the last few years. First exhibit was Miró: The Experience of Seeing, an exhibit […]
While I was visiting Austin, meli, her daughter Erin, and I visited some museums and a gallery in and near the University of Texas. First was Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West, which Erin help put together, at the Harry Ransom Center. A lot of cattle. One even looked like Ferdinand sitting […]
This was a show I was really looking forward to – my favorite indie band performing one of my favorite albums of theirs and playing in my favorite club. Black Sheep Boy is a concept album based on Tim Hardin’s song of the same name. That album is what put Okkervil River on the map. […]
After John Moreland made me cry, Lake Street Dive made me smile – a very wide, full of joy smile. I had to exit out the back through Rockwood 3 after the Moreland show and walk around the block to the front of Rockwood 2. Lucky for me, rtb and violaleeblue were first in line. […]
I was already headed to Rockwood Music Hall on Thursday night to see Lake Street Dive’s sold-out show. I was checking the website before the show and saw that John Moreland was performing the set before Lake Street Dive. So I boogied on over to Rockwood and got there just as the opening act was […]
