Lincoln Center

Twangy rockers Deer Tick returned to NYC last night (3/6) for the ongoing American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room. Given the environment and their partially acoustic setup, they were less rowdy than usual, and their 20+ song set included material from all over their career…

Jherek Bischoff w/ Amanda Palmer at T5 on NYE (more by Amanda Hatfield) Amanda Palmer/Parenthetical Girls collaborator Jherek Bischoff released a guest-filled solo album, Composed, back in 2012, and one of its tracks, “Eyes,” which features David Byrne was recently given video treatm…

Gorillaz at MSG in 2010 As mentioned, the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival is taking place this July. Tickets to all shows in the festival go on sale today (4/8)…

Folk rockers Lost in the Trees came to NYC last week (2/28) for a show as part of the ongoing American Songbook Series in the Allen Room at Lincoln Cen…

DOWNLOAD: Roomful of Teeth – “Quizassa” (written by Merrill Garbus) (MP3)

ANNOUNCING LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 42nd SEASON JULY 25-AUGUST 12, 2012 100 FREE PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS ACROSS THE PLAZAS OF LINCOLN CENTER 17 World, US and NY Debuts, Premieres and Commissions, Including: * Phil Kline’s dreamcitynine – festival-long GPS-based audio app installation plus live performance * Art meets sport this Olympics summer with Kimmo Pohjonen’s Accordion Wrestling dance theater piece featuring the accordion experimentalist and ten Finnish wrestlers Los Irreales de Ondatrópica – Quantic and Frente Cumbiero lead an intergenerational all-star gathering of Colombian musicians * Celebrated Turkish psych-folk icon, singer Selda Bagcan, highlights Istanbulive * The Bad Plus: On Sacred Ground – Re-envisioning Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring * Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – German minimal techno group’s chamber orchestra * Polyglot Theatre’s Tangle – site-specific, audience-created installation and kids’ “play space” AND…

Speaking of dub/psych artists who are playing Austin Psych Fest later this month, but are meanwhile in NYC for Unsound this week, Madison, Wisconsin duo Peaking Lights (who play a free Unsound show at Lincoln Center on Thursday with LXMP) just dropped the first track off their upcoming album, Lucifer (out 6/19 via Mexican Summer) and it’s pretty great…

July 20th at Lincoln Center in NYC:“The product of a collaboration between Lincoln Center Festival and the Mayfield estate, this one-night-only event pays tribute to the late Curtis Mayfield, an iconic Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member whose music served as a soundtrack to the civil rights movement, introducing poetry and moral affirmation into pop, soul, funk, and R&B…

“”Occupying the original occupier” tUnE-yArDs in Columbus Circle.” – Bill Bragin Merrill Garbus in Columbus Circle – 2/9/2012 As tUnE-YarDs‘ show at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room, part of the American Songbook series (which Bill Callahan played one night earlier), was coming to an end last night, the tweets started pouring in: “@brooklynvegan tUnEyArDs will be playing Columbus Circle within the hour…

Following performances by a diversity of musicians including Keren Ann and Thurston Moore, Bill Callahan continued Lincoln Center’s 2012 American Songbook Series last night (2/8) at the Allen Room, a show Mr…