Devendra Banhart
Adam Green adapting 'Aladdin' into movie/album featuring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Devendra Banhart & more
It’s been a while since we last heard from Adam Green. Turns out he’s been working on an adaptation of Aladdin that will be both a film and a album…
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds played Prospect Park with Devendra Banhart & Nicole Atkins (pics & setlist)
As self-aware as the Bad Seeds‘ Vegas-styled image has become, Nick Cave is still running on the primal engines that hatched The Boys Next Door…
Arthur Russell tribute LP details revealed (ft. Hot Chip, Robyn, Blood Orange, Sufjan Stevens & more) (tracklist, video)
More details have finally been announced for the Arthur Russell tribute album thatt he Red Hot organization is putting out. The album’s being released on YepRoc on October 21, and is now titled Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell (it was initially announced that it’d be called This Is How We Walk on the Moon)…
Vashti Bunyan details new (and "final") album, 'Heartleap'
As if it wasn’t enough that we got a new Linda Perhacs album this year, it’s also been announced that we’ll get a new one from another cult folk legend, Vashti Bun…
Steve Reich/Philip Glass, Devendra/Stephin Merritt/Iron & Wine, Robert Plant, more playing "Nonesuch Records at BAM"
Contemporary composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass have announced that they’ll perform together for the first time in over 30 years, as the kickoff event for “Nonesuch Records at BAM”, the label’s 50th anniversary going down this September…
Devendra Banhart & Nicole Atkins opening for Nick Cave
Devendra Banhart @ MHOW, 2/8/2013 (more by Fred Pessaro)
As you may recall, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will touring North America this summer, and while openers haven’t been announced for the whole tour, Devendra Banhart and Nicole Atkins will be opening both the Celebrate Brooklyn! sh…
Mykki Blanco, Pizza Underground & more playing multimedia show at The Paper Box this Friday
Mykki Blanco at BV-SXSW 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
This Friday (2/7) at The Paper Box in Brooklyn, Creators Connect will present the multimedia ‘Creation Is Love II” which features performances from rapper Mykki Blanco, Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground band Pizza Underground, The Mystery Lights, Shining Mirrors, Lewis Lazar, Frances Rose and Labanna Babalon…
Linda Perhacs releasing 1st LP in over 4 decades on Sufjan's label (new song ++ belated pics & video from her NY debut)
One of my personal favorite rediscovered gems from the late ’60s/early ’70s psych-folk era is Linda Perhacs‘ Paralellograms, an album quite literally ahead of its time that mixed the contemporary folk sounds of that era with eerie layers of dissonance that didn’t become commonplace in folk music until decades la…
psych-folk legend Linda Perhacs making NY debut at Mexican Summer 5th Anniversary (stream her 1970 LP)
The Mexican Summer fifth anniversary lineup was just announced, and it’s a pretty exciting lineup for more reasons than one. One of those reasons is that it’s the first-ever NY show for psych-folk legend Linda Perhacs…
Paul Banks and Albert Hammond Jr. playing benefit for SVIIB's Benjamin Curtis (who found a bone marrow match)
As you guys know, Benjamin has been going through numerous chemo and radiation treatments since January. I’m so happy to say that they have found a bone marrow match for him, and he will be going into the hospital to begin the the transplant process in mid August…
