Arbouretum: Rites of Uncovering
Arbouretum's Rites of Uncovering is an adventurous experiment built upon the organic musical tendencies of David Heumann; tendencies which contrast the more architectural and linear constructions often found in modern indie music.
Patty Griffin Releasing New Studio Album Feb 6th
ATO Records has announced the release of the fifth studio album by Grammy nominated singer/ songwriter great Patty Griffin. Entitled, "Children Running Through," the album will be released on February 6th. On the road for a mini tour at the end of January and into February, the highlight will be on release day when she […]
Dispatch Add 3rd ‘Benefit’ Night To MSG Reunion
By overwhelming demand, Dispatch has added a third night to "Dispatch:Zimbabwe," a benefit concert being held at Madison Square Garden.Originally created as a one-night event to take place on July 14, 2007,tickets sold out within 30 minutes via an exclusive Myspace.compre-sale. In order to accommodate fans, July 13th was addedimmediately. In less than 24 hours, […]
Monday’s Hors d’Oeuvres
Welcome to another short week — as usual, we’ll kick it off with some links to interesting shit from around the information superhighway: Billboard posts a look ahead at Robert Plant’s 2007, which includes recording with Allison Krauss and a Honeydrippers reunion Here’s a cool preview of this weekend’s American Beauty Project R.I.P. Michael Brecker and Alice Coltrane […]
The Week That Was
What a difference a week makes…Last Sunday, eight NFL teams thought they had a realistic chance to win the Super Bowl, Suzanne Somers still owned a fire-free Malibu beach house and Jack Bauer sat in a Chinese prison. Today, not so much. But strangely, our precious world of live music sat fairly idle. Here’s just […]
Grammy Winning Jazz Saxophonist Michael Brecker Dies
Michael Brecker, a versatile and influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, died Saturday. He was 57. Brecker died in a hospital in New York of leukemia, according to his longtime friend and manager, Darryl Pitt. In recent years, the saxophonist had struggled with myelodysplastic syndrome, […]
Sunday’s Fundamental Reading: Byrne’s Pulse
I spotted David Byrne in the hipster crowd at South Street Seaport in August ’05. Awaiting Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s gratis summer showcase, the former Talking Head was just a man in the throng, alone, standing there in a canary-yellow collared shirt, scarfing down a thick slice of Pizzeria Uno’s finest. And, really, how […]
MC Skat Kat’s Her Sponsor
You take two steps forward, I take two steps back We come together…to smoke…a little crack [youtube]Zt5-wn3fvlw[/youtube] Straight up now tell me, did you really have a full frontal lobotomy? Either Paula Abdul just got the Randall McMurphy treatment or she’s tanked like Namath. We’re no prudes, but if you’re gonna go on national television to represent a seemingly […]
NYE: Gently Down the Streams
The good people over at SugarMegs want you to stream away…at home, in the office, on the terlet, wherever. So make it your beeswax to hop on this growing-but-already-comprehensive list of New Year’s shows they have available. So get your ass on over there and beg those kinky files for naughty aural sex…