Chris La Putt
Sky Ferreira played MHOW w/ Vito from The Rapture & DIIV, who play there again tonight & Friday (pics, setlist)
NYC pop singer Sky Ferreira played a hometown benefit for the David Lynch Foundation at last night (7/9) at Music Hall of Williamsburg, which is an intimate location for her at this point, and needless to say, sold out…
Spirit Family Reunion played Brooklyn Night Bazaar (pics), playing Summerstage, touring w/ Felice Brothers (dates)
Fresh off playing Clearwater Festival in June, NYC old-school folk band Spirit Family Reunion stopped on the 4th of July for some foot-stomping American good times…
Black Lips, Night Beats & Night Birds @ House of Vans (pics)
Then the Black Lips erupted into a frenetic, hour-long set spanning its decade-plus-long career of love letters to early garage rock, amplified and exquisitely distorted for the Coachella generation, highlighted by cuts off its latest LP, Underneath the Rainbow…
Shovels and Rope, Valerie June, and Shake Graves played Prospect Park (pics, video)
Friday’s Celebrate Brooklyn! concert in Prospect Part (6/27) was country-tinged, with South Carolina’s Shovels and Rope headlining and also featuring sets from Valerie June and Shake Graves…
Clearwater Festival 2014 day 2 in pics (Lucinda Williams, Bettye LaVette, Toshi Reagan, Arc Iris & more)
Seeger began hosting “folk picnics” in the 1960s to pay for building a boat that would travel on the Hudson to highlight environmental issues…
Puss N Boots played Clearwater Fest, releasing debut LP, touring in July (dates, stream, Clearwater pics/video)
Puss N Boots, the country trio of Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper, have been playing live since 2008 but are just now getting ready to release their debut album…
Clearwater Festival 2014 day 1 in pics (Richard Thompson, Rufus Wainright, Spirit Family Reunion, Nicole Atkins, more)
Saturday the Great Hudson River Revival occurred for the first time without Pete Seeger, the giant folk singer and activist who called Beacon home, and Toshi Seeger, his wife whose strong shoulder and loving arms gave support to all who craved peace…
Nicole Atkins played Madison Square Park (pics)
Nicole Atkins kicked off the 2014 season of Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn Series this week (6/18), which brings free music to the park on Wednesday evenings during the summer…
Hank III played Gramercy Theatre (pics & video)
Hillbillies and hillbetties sure were “tore up and loud” on Tuesday (6/17) night at Gramercy Theatre, where Hank Williams III made a New York City appearance on his current tour and a four-hour set ensued…
Michael Che, Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser and more celebrated 'A Night of Whiplash' at The Bell House (pics)
On Friday (6/13), The Bell House played host to the release party show for A Night at Whiplash, a live movie documenting a single night of NYC’s most legendary weekly comedy show Whiplash, which takes place Monday nights at the UCB Theater in Chelsea…
