Music has been a steady companion lately. I should emphasize that it’s been good music. Moving to Williamsburg last month was a good excuse to get out more often. I’d fallen into a rut of work and not much else, but once I was living within a few minutes of Pete’s Candy Store and other […]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Last night I went to Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. It’s a pretty cool little place. It’s got the rathskeller thing working pretty well, and tucked around a corner is a cool little performance space. Bliss Blood, Heather Lev, and Dan “Cool Hand Uke” Scanlan were gathering for an evening of ukulele and […]
I saw a good set by The Cave Singers at Sound Fix Records here in Williamsburg. The lounge is a good room. I’d like to see the stage lighting improved, but otherwise it’s a good place to catch a show.
The Cave Singers are from my native Seattle. They are in NYC for a couple more […]
Thursday, October 4, 2007
I’ll write about tonight’s show at Pete’s once I have time to sort out my impressions. The shorthand version is that “it” happened again. “It” is bliss. Devon Sproule was incredible tonight. I’m listening to her new album, and it’s pretty damn great.
Matty Charles
Jake Armerding
I love it when I take the right turn instead of the wrong one. I didn’t get out today because I didn’t feel like it. That simple, actually. If I could have dealt with laying on the couch, I would have done that. But I did vow to get off my ass and […]
I finished reading T.C. Boyle’s latest book “Talk Talk” riding home on the A train yesterday. I have been a fan of Boyle’s since I read his first novel “Water Music” a quarter century ago. “Water Music” is bold and brilliant. “Talk Talk” is razor-sharp and tough-as-nails. Boyle is a master […]
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I work in the periphery of the film industry. One of the productions we are working with in town was shooting tonight over on the east side and I stopped by to assist with some equipment issues. Once my work was done there and everyone was happy and hopeful (when you leave people, you should […]
From their website:
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny […]
I went to a show last night at the Blender Theater on E. 23rd Street in NYC. I’ve written elsewhere about Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and their work in the film “Once” and on the record “The Swell Season.” They were in town last night playing music from the film and album. Hansard is […]
Despite the heat and humidity, this is some cool news. Gogol Bordello has a new album out. SUPER TARANTA! is the name, and it’s polished, noisy, sweet, brash, melodic, chaotic, boisterous, reminiscent of The Clash, and very much the Gogol Bordello I love.
Seen on Delancey Street
They play two shows on the 20th and 21st of […]
