Alphabetically: Jalopy Tavern and Jalopy Theatre–closed today. Rocky Sullivan’s– barbecue at 3pm, live music with three different bands, starting at 6pm. Sunny’s–Doors open at 12pm, Mara Kaye with a backing band, live at 7pm
Music
Authentic Indie: Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival
I was looking for something fun to do on Labor Day weekend, and found something amazing to do from August 30 to Sept. 10– The Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival: For ten nights (and some days) in a row, 150 performers will make music or art or yoga or comedy in 15 venues in Greenpoint, East Williamsburg, and Bushwick. Music styles […]
Bathe: talking about paranoia, in a beachy R&B kind of way by Roderick Thomas
There’s a new wave of black artists tearing down, and redefining age-old commandments and narratives about their identities with uncompromising honesty, voice, and talent. One emerging band aims to be part of this movement. Bathe is a Brooklyn based duo comprised of Corey Smith – West and Devin Hobdy, guitarist/producer and singer-songwriter respectively. They met in 2014 while in college, […]
Guitarist Extraordinaire – Scott Sharrard
Scott Sharrard is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is perhaps best known as the former lead guitarist and musical director of The Gregg Allman Band, but his journey began long before that. Sharrard grew up in a musical household in Dearborn, Michigan. His father, also a musician, encouraged Scott from an early age by frequently taking him out to see […]
Jeffrey Lewis – Antifolk Hero & Comic Artist by Adam Whittaker
There is great reverence among the British towards certain American songwriters. The cultural impact crater from the US musical asteroid stretches across genres and time, and I’ve been unfortunate enough to bare witness to its effect in drizzly pubs, enduring a dire British approximation of a Johnny Cash impression in an oversized cowboy hat. As much as we fetishize American […]
Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance Presents a Sparkling Die Fledermaus by Nino Pantano
Martina Arroyo, Kennedy Award ceremony honoree, soprano supreme, who has been a beacon of light and pioneer since the 1960’s and 1970’s, a crossover classical singer with a delightful sense of humor still is in the game. She is a brilliant teacher “go getter”and nurturer through her Martina Arroyo Foundation. This gala event occurred at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter […]
Prince Lives, by Kurt Gottschalk
The enormity of unreleased material Prince left behind him is the stuff of legend and the issues around making it available are complicated to say the least—from questions of ownership to the fact that Prince himself (as he made clear during his life) didn’t want his unfinished or abandoned projects made public. Even so, the late master’s heirs and his […]
The Sultan Room, NYC’s newest bad-ass music venue
A bright new venue has blessed the shores of Brooklyn this summer. The Sultan Room, (associated with The Turk’s Inn) is the newest exploration in creative venues to open in Bushwick. The multi-room space features takeaway doner kebab, a sit-down restaurant (The Turk’s Inn), and a beautiful music room, The Sultan Room. It’s impeccably thought-out, well-designed for both sit-down shows […]
THE THAMES DELTA IS YOUR OLD BACKYARD: On Wilko Johnson By Mike Morgan
Bang! – The Unstoppable Force Meets the Immovable Object From Oil City Confidential I’m listening to the latest Wilko Johnson record called Blow Your Mind. A few years before that, I listened a lot to his previous album Going Back Home, a joint venture with Roger Daltrey, The Who singer. And way before that, I listened to his various Wilko […]
BASIS produces good bassists!
Lois Wang, a soon-to-be 12th-grader at BASIS Independent Brooklyn, scored a 99 of 100 on her cello solo at the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) Spring Evaluation Festival. She played on a Level VI performance level, which is the highest, most difficult level one can do, according to the school’s music teacher, Luis Ingels. An adjudicator noted her […]