For more than 30 years, Jerry Joseph has been strapping on a guitar and chasing down truth, understanding and soul with tenacity and resonant skill. Joseph is the archetypal musician’s musician – something that’s resoundingly clear on his sweeping new double album Happy Book, to be released March 20, 2012 on Response Records. Look for… Continue reading Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons: New Album and Spring Tour
Lacking both the alluring eccentricity of Arm’s Way and synth drenched electro pop driving Vapors, Islands‘ A Sleep & A Forgetting is unmistakably the least compelling album overextended singer/songwriter Nicholas Thorburn has ever hatched. Chalked full of trite, minimalists, lovesick shells of his band’s earlier efforts that never quite get off the ground, this LP… Continue reading Islands | A Sleep & A Forgetting
If you are a Deadhead living in SFO, PDX, PHL, BWI, or NYC, I need to talk to you about time and energy. But not in the “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” tradition of “Practice, Practice, Practice”. Instead, I need to talk to you about the temporal evolution and aggregate electrical output that… Continue reading The Motet | Funk is Dead | Cervantes | 1|27|2012
Last night the global premiere of The Chemical Brothers; Don’t Think, directed by Adam Smith, took place in 25 cities across the globe. The verdict from the 4000 dedicated fans lucky enough to have secured a ticket was unanimous: It was a one of a kind movie theatre experience clearly not to be missed! The… Continue reading The Chemical Brothers' Don't Think | ONE-NIGHT ONLY | 2|1|12
Linda Chorney, who has traveled 7 continents, released 6 albums, remained unsigned for 30 years and is now a 2012 Grammy Awards nominee. Linda Chorney is the first truly independent, DIY artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the award show’s 54-year history. Up for Best Americana Album, Linda’s self-produced “Emotional Jukebox” will compete… Continue reading Linda Chorney's Emotional Jukebox Up For Grammy
They Might Be Giants national tour kicks off tonight in support of both Join Us and the companion rarities album Album Raises new and Troubling Questions. Recently releasing the dramatic “When Will You Die?” video about the 18-foot monster hearse that graces the cover of Join Us, the band performed that song on Conan last… Continue reading They Might Be Giants LIVE On Conan, National Tour Kicks Off Today!
Amy Ray’s newest solo release Lung of Love expresses the folk elements of Indigo Girls, while allowing Amy to stretch her rocker wings a bit more than she did on last year’s Beauty Queen Sister. She has been called the more edgy half of the duo, and her solo material has always displayed that. Ray… Continue reading Amy Ray: Lung of Love | New Album Review
Z2 Entertainment is proud to present SBTRKT at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, April 10th. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 27th for $20.00.Design is at the heart of this project: first the instruments, then the songs and finally the masks. Whilst massively prolific, a minimalist ethos runs through the work and style of SBTRKT,… Continue reading Just Announced: SBTRKT at Fox Theatre | 4|10|12
For the month of February, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. For Harlem Speaks, our flagship public program of oral histories, we have the acclaimed saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and renowned arranger, producer and trumpet… Continue reading National Jazz Museum in Harlem February 2012 Schedule
As spring winds down and turns into summer, Dark Star Orchestra will be taking their bus on Spring Tour East, starting with two nights at the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT, and truckin’ on through the beginning of June. In between, the circus comes to town in New Haven, Princeton, Englewood, Brooklyn, Boston and Alexandria,… Continue reading Dark Star Orchestra 2012 Spring Tour Dates
