Paul Giamatti is probably a terrific interview when given the chance to speak. Unfortunately the interviewer was Mark Singer, who seems to be madly hopelessly in love with his own voice. Instead of asking Giamatti to set-up a film clip, Singer droned on and on. In introducing Giamatti, Singer spoke so long that I thought […]
By the time I was reminded that tickets had gone on sale for The New Yorker Festival, I knew most of the panels/interviews would be sold out. I was able to get a ticket for Mavis Staples, who would be interviewed by Lawrence Wright and singing at The Gramercy Theater. The show was not sold […]
X is back on tour – this time performing their 1980 debut album Los Angeles and showing the 1986 documentary The Unheard Music – but most importantly touring with a healthy Exene, who announced back in June that she does not have MS. I got there a little after 7pm and the doorman told me […]
Another weekday night in Brooklyn where the bands don’t care that some of us have day jobs and find it difficult to sit through a show that starts at 9:00pm and has two opening acts so that the headliner doesn’t appear until 11:00pm. The saving grace is that this new band only had one album […]
Wilco’s shows at Central Park SummerStage sold out quickly and violaleeblue and rtb were able to get tickets but once again I was shut-out. Luckily this was a Bowery Presents show and my friend Kenny was able to get me in (Thanks! Kenny) and this time he decided to join us, which was a nice […]
When I first saw the Big 4 at Yankee Stadium concert advertised – a 30th anniversary celebration of the pioneer thrash metal bands – I was thinking this could be a lot of fun. My friend Joe mentioned wanting to go and he got several floor tickets. He was disappointed that they weren’t for the […]
Well if I ever wondered where Justin Townes Earle gets his charisma from I need not look any further than Steve Earle. How I’ve gone all this time not seeing Steve perform is a mystery – raised in Texas, songwriter in Nashville in the 1970s whose mentors are Guy Clarke and Townes Van Zandt, roots/rock […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen some live music and I was definitely jonesing. rtb mentioned Fashion’s Night Out and I wasn’t planning to attend since I’m not a fashion person and the events in Queens were raffles and cocktail wienies but then she sent a link to a celebration of Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday […]
Is it 1975 in here? Tie-dyed shirts. Long hair. Beards. Pot smoke inside the club. Cigarette smoke inside the club. Lighters being waved in the air inside the club. I bought a ticket for The Chris Robinson Brotherhood because I love Chris Robinson’s voice and what he does with blues rock. What I got was […]
Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin all in one week. Lord, this must be heaven. The concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors was at 7:00pm and I was trying to meet rtb at 6:00pm but somehow got on the Lexington Avenue and instead of the Seventh Avenue IRT. So I had to take the M66 […]
