Posts by Tim O'Neill

Seated in the heart of Bushwick, The Market Hotel has earned a reputation as being one of Brooklyn’s best DIY music venues, and for good reason. Pass through the unmarked doors and climb the tight staircase to the second floor and it feels more like you’re going to a house party than a ticketed show. The […]

The Polish National Home, located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has remained a staple of the Polish community for over a century and is now also home to one of New York City’s coolest concert venues, Warsaw. The eight-hundred person capacity ballroom is adorned with intricate plaster moldings, chandeliers, and two over-sized oil paintings which flank either side […]

Art and music are invariably reflective of the environment and setting in which they were created. Experienced artists know that understanding this cosmic relationship is essential to the growth and quality of their work, and Israel Nash is one example of such an artist. Nash not only acknowledges and accepts the immense influence of location, […]

Friday, June 24th was a warm summer night in Brooklyn, NY, a perfect evening to get out and see some live music, which is exactly what many hip young Brooklynites did as they crowded into the sold out Union Pool for an hour long set of Southern flared rock n’ roll  from Nashville’s own, Natural […]

In a fast-paced urban setting like New York  City, where the landscape is hard and grey and a patch of green grass is a luxury, seeing a band like Banditos from deep down South in Birmingham, Alabama with a sound entirely reflective of the environment from which they come is like breathing a much needed […]

This past March, at the annual South by Southwest music and film conference, Philly band Low Cut Connie hauled their equipment, including a piano named “Shondra”, to approximately ten separate gigs throughout Austin, Texas in less than six days. A daunting task and logistical nightmare that would make most any band shutter, yet the boys […]