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Greg Brown is one of America’s most highly regarded singer-songwriters. He has released over 30 critically acclaimed albums and was a regular performer on A Prairie Home Companion in the 1980’s. Brown’s work has always had a literary quality. His mother taught him to play guitar and raised him on books and poetry. His 1986 release Songs of Innocence and […]
On February 15th, Abby Hertz will be presenting her final LUST event. After three years, she is ending the series that has fused music, fire performance, art history, and eroticism. Begun on Valentine’s Day 2015, it has more of a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s 1959 “Cannibal Feast” than to an erotic party. While guests eat a feast of food off […]
As online streaming becomes the dominant method of listening to music, the sale of physical units has plummeted with one exception: vinyl records. The once nearly abandoned record has made a surprising comeback as the only growth sector for the music industry, and today is a billion-dollar business with 40 million units sold in 2017. While still a niche market […]
The Dr. Who themed space redefines the bar experience with events curated to a nerdy clientele. The Way Station, located in Prospect Heights, certainly offers a healthy variety of traditional bar activities: it’s the Prospect Heights’ venue for Geeks Who Drink, the national trivia company where losers who can’t free up RAM in their brains for more useful knowledge get […]
Led by Martin Phillipps, The Chills are one of New Zealand’s best-known indie rock bands and foundation of the famed ‘Dunedin Sound’ (cited as an influence by the likes of Pavement and R.E.M.). Starting-out out in the early 1980s on the Flying Nun label, the band achieved cult status in Europe and on US college radio, before being signed to […]
On February 16th, Colombian composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt will be giving her first U.S. performance since 2014 at Issue Project Room, in Downtown Brooklyn. Dalt calls on her training as a former geotechnical engineer to create hypnotic and poetic improvisations, fusing a sense of time and space, earth and breath. Sounding like something between Laurie Anderson and early […]
Hank Roberts Trio at The Owl Music Parlor Friday, Jan 18, The Owl Music Parlor (497 Rogers Ave.), 7pm : Hank Roberts will be performing with his trio featuring Vinnie Sperrazza (drums) and Jacob Sacks (piano). If you’re not familiar with Roberts, he is one of the true iconoclasts of the cello, using it to invoke the heart of Americana […]
Donald O’Finn: Artist, Rebel, and Proprietor of Freddy’s Bar The original Freddy’s Bar is one of the great, lost places in Brooklyn. Once a rumored to be a speakeasy during prohibition, it later became a key, cultural hub and ground zero for the resistance to the assault on Brooklyn by real estate developers. The dark front room featured an outstanding wooden bar, red […]
On December 15, New Brown Memorial Baptist Church at Clinton Street and Center Street held its annual Christmas concert, performed by the Sister Helen Lee Keyboard Ensemble and Drum Corps. The concert showcased youth talent honed in the church’s music program, led by the internationally acclaimed author James McBride and fellow instructor Damon Due White. Founded in 1954 by McBride’s […]
The New Year is upon us and there’s nothing like picking up and dusting off that guitar, keyboard, or trumpet that has maybe laid in wait too long. Did you know that Red Hook has many opportunities to play with your neighbors and friends? Bene’s Record Shop, Jalopy Theater, Rocky Sullivan’s, and Sunny’s all offer jam sessions of varying genre […]