2009

Review: Marissa Nadler at Joe’s Pub 3/4/09

Sorry Vanessa Carlton, but after a long stint in the premier league, you’re being relegated to the grapefruit league of dreamy female musicians. It was a solid run and as much as I liked the video where you drove your piano from the suburbs into Manhattan like the beginning of the Naked Gun (or Police Squad if you’re old school); the last straw was dating the singer from Third Eye Blind. Well, I still have hope for you given the Pink Floyd and Zeppelin influences and the Stevie Nicks’ vouch, but for now it’s down to the minors.

Taking your place in the elite class alongside heavyweights like Gemma Hayes, Grace Potter, Neko Case, Jenny Lewis and Lisa Hannigan is Marissa Nadler. After seeing Marissa live in action at Joe’s Pub on March 4th, it’s clear that she is super weird and undeniably awesome. Adorned in a flowy red dress, Nadler really played the role of the temptress siren in the intimate confines of Joe’s Pub.

A good way to sum up Marissa Nadler is via a pretty good joke she told. Playing to her slight nervousness and greenish stage presence during a key moment in between stupefying vocal performances, she stepped to the microphone and announced, “This next one is a song about going back into the womb.” Given that she is easily peculiar enough to make every single member of the audience wholeheartedly believe this as truth, after letting a long 30 seconds go by, she quipped, “Just kidding, it’s a song about cars” and rifled into a song about an El Camino.

READ ON for more of Ryan’s review of Marissa Nadler at Joe’s Pub…

Read More

ABB Night 8: The Slowhand Cometh

Yes, friends, he showed: Eric Clapton sat in with the Allman Brothers Band on Night 8 of the 2009 Beacon Run. Loose, relaxed and all smiles, the guitar legend turned

Read More

Marco Benevento Trio: Bell House, Brooklyn, NY 3/7/09

This night’s trio, assembled on the occasion of the CD release party for Marco's new cover rich album Me Not Me, consisted of Marco on keys, Andrew Barr on drums and Marc Friedman on bass. Andrew’s brother Brad opened the show solo, demonstrating his wide range on both the acoustic and electric guitar while covering most of his recent acoustic release, The Fall Apartment:

Read More

Clapton Dreams With The Allmans

As expected, Eric “God” Clapton joined the Allman Brothers Band for a few songs in the second set of the eighth show of their 40th Anniversary Run at the Beacon

Read More

Phish Addresses Red Rocks Situation

Phish.com has just been updated with the band’s response to last night’s Red Rocks ticketing debacle… Last night we learned Ticketmaster mistakenly put on sale a substantial number of four-day

Read More

View posts by year