Toyah and Robert Fripp are in Holiday Sing-A-Long mode on their Sunday Lunch series. “Christmas is almost upon us, and the Frippcox household are ready to teach the nation another festive fave,” they write, “perhaps somebody should teach it to… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Yo La Tengo @ Bowery Ballroom Caribou, Jessy Lanza @ Brooklyn Steel Jeff Rosenstock, Oceanator @ Warsaw Bouncing Souls, Face to Face, The Suicide Machines @ Irving Plaza Harlem Cultural Festival w/ Rakim, The Legendary Count Basie… Read More
The holidays are upon us, and whether you’re feeling festive or not, musicians are climbing aboard the tinsel bandwagon with new songs for the season. We offer to you a week’s worth of them, nestled in one place, like gifts… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Caribou, Jessy Lanza @ Brooklyn Steel Jeff Rosenstock, Oceanator @ Warsaw Bouncing Souls, Face to Face, The Suicide Machines @ Irving Plaza Lunachicks, Toilet Boys @ Webster Hall Deadguy, Dead Torches, Edict @ Saint Vitus Bar Irreversible… Read More
Stephen Sondheim, one of the greats of the musical form, has died at age 91. The news was announced by his lawyer and friend, F. Richard Pappas, who told The New York Times he did not know the cause of death but said… Read More
Happy Thanksgiving Day Weekend! Usually holiday weeks are pretty light on new releases, but this is a pretty good Indie Basement and includes at least one record that is likely to show up on my end-of-the-year list. Here’s what’s up:… Read More
Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood has had a very busy November, having done the scores for three films released this month. The last of those, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s coming-of-age film Licorice Pizza, is out today. There hasn’t been an announcement about… Read More
LCD Soundsystem continued their 20-show Brooklyn Steel run on Wednesday night. So far, they’re mixing things up nicely, and played six songs on Tuesday that weren’t on Monday’s set. That started with the opening song, “Beat Connection,” which is from… Read More
Last night (11/24) brought the awful news that Planes Mistaken For Stars frontman Gared O’Donnell died at age 44 after a battle with stage III esophageal cancer, and tributes to Gared from fellow musicians and others in the music industry… Read More
Move over holiday classics; two new music documentaries will keep you feeling cozy and nostalgic in front of the TV this holiday weekend. The much-anticipated three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson debuts… Read More