Iridium Jazz Club

The excellent band consisted of Randy Brecker on electric trumpet, Greg Osby on electric sax, Paul Bollenbach, Steve Cardenas and Shane Theriot all on electric guitars, Lonnie Plaxico on electric bass and Steve Smith on drums.

Today in “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up,” Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav fronts a new band called the FlavorTronZ, who “cover hit songs from the ’70s thru the ’90s from such greats like Wild Cherry, Sly & The Family Stone, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, The Gap Band and many others…

Tom Ardolino, a self-taught drummer who for 30 years provided the impassioned but steady pulse for NRBQ, one of the longest-lasting and most beloved rock groups never to have a Top 40 single, died on Jan…

today in NYC * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Jeffrey Ross @ Caroline’s * Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell’s * Dar Williams @ The Bell House * Outernational @ Bowery Electric * Wynton Marsalis @ Lincoln Center * Tony Scherr Trio @ The Living Room * Greg McMullen, Rare Books @ Pete’s Candy Store * The Disco Biscuits, Mord Fustang @ Best Buy Theater * Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool * Manhattan Vibes (‘Golf In The Kingdom’ film screening) @ City Winery * Thursday, mewithoutYou, Screaming Females, Make Do and Mend @ Starland Ballroom What else…

Marc Ribot @ LPR in June (more by Benjamin Lozovsky) Guitar genius Marc Ribot has a lot of upcoming shows, all of which are listed below. They include Iridium in NYC tonight (9/15), the re-opening Roulette on Friday (9/16), The Living Theater in NYC on Sunday, Le Poisson Rouge with Akiko Yano on 10/11, and the upcoming ATP in Asbury Park, NJ on 10/1…

An article in today’s Wall Street Journal:This week, the Iridium will begin broadcasting three to four live performances a week through a partnership with Livestream…

Doug Gillard @ Irving Plaza NYE (more by Chris Gersbeck) I got heavily obsessed with Guided By Voices after the demise of the “classic ’93 – ’96 line-up” which featured Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, and Greg Demos (a line-up that reunited in 2010 and has been blazing a sweaty, beer soaked trail across the US since) (this past weekend’s Sasquatch Festival included)…

“Terence William ‘Blondie’ Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys…

Last night’s (and tonight’s) show at Iridium Jazz Club was billed as “Jeff Beck invites you to a Very Special Evening – A Celebration of Les Paul with the Imelda May Band”…

Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck is playing invite-only shows at Iridium Jazz Club in NYC on June 8th and June 9th. The intimate gigs, where Jeff will be joined by the Imelda May Band, will pay tribute to fellow legendary guitarist Les Paul who performed at the club regularly right up until his death last year…