My last concert before a six-month hiatus. It could have been a bigger blowout but what I got was pretty damn good. Both acts brought out all the anarchic old hippies switching seats as soon as they came in and throughout the show. No photos were allowed and there was constant picture taking. I was […]
The Milk Carton Kids are The Smothers Brothers for today’s generation. Part folk singers and part stand-up comedy with sweet harmonies, great guitar picking, and dry wit. The comparison is not perfect but the Milk Carton Kids stand apart from their contemporaries with those ethereal harmonies and the ability to laugh at themselves when everyone […]
Five dollar movie, good wine, and good food. The only thing better would be a great movie, which 20 Feet From Stardom most definitely is. There seems to be a theme to my City Winery movie viewing (the last one was Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me), which is seeing great artists not receive commercial […]
The Carolina Chocolate Drops performing at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House. A performance which would include a premiere of Cornbread Duet choreographed by Twyla Tharp and danced by real-life couple New York City Ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck. Whew. This was happening the same evening as the Rock and Roll Hall of […]
LLTS. Ladies Love Trombone Shorty. And quite a lot of men also. Church, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, a rock/R&B/funk concert – Trombone Shorty is all that and more. Before the show I stopped off at the Grand Central Centennial Quilts exhibit at the New York Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central Station. It’s free and […]
Since I was going to be in Grand Central Station to go up to the Capitol Theatre to see Trombone Shorty, I decided I’d stop in the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex to see the Grand Central Centennial Quilts exhibit, which is running until 6 July 2014. From the site: “Last year, The City […]
This was going to be interesting. Rosanne Cash is someone I’ve always wanted to see live for so many reasons – she’s smart, she’s funny, she has a great voice – but I don’t own any of her records so I am not familiar with her work. So anything she plays, whether old or new, […]
Peter emailed me that the Main Squeeze Orchestra would be playing a free concert at Rockwood Music Hall. He was excited to see an all-female accordion orchestra. He should have known that not only did I know about them but I’ve seen them before. Since I was early I stopped off at Bereket Turkish Kebab […]
The night before at the Flemons and Reed show rtb, violaleeblue, and I were discussing that we didn’t know why the Avetts and Old Crow Medicine Show were playing Barclays Center when the Avetts couldn’t sell out Radio City Music Hall when they played there. Why play an arena when you’re not an arena band? […]
I’m not really sure how it happened. Wednesday rtb, violaleeblue, and I were emailing each other and talking about various shows or music and rtb mentioned that the next evening Dom Flemons and Eli “Paperboy” Reed were performing at the Greenwich House Music School. I liked both artists a lot and it was only $15 […]
