Thomas Bartlett

words & It’s been a disorienting year for Martha Wainwright — the Montreal-born singer/songwriter lost her mother (renown singer Kate McGarrigle) to cancer, went into labour early (thankfully delivering a healthy baby boy), and took up residence in a new and somewhat foreign home in Brooklyn…

, photos by Getty Images for American Express — All week, The National has sponsored nightly events at their “High Violet Annex” to celebrate the release of their highly anticipated fifth album, High Violet…

The National ended up playing Friday night, Brassland night, at the High Violet Annex, the temporary venue next door to Other Music setup to promote their new record…

Patrick Watson has a rare gift of making serious music that isn’t really serious at all. He manages to be playful and ramshackle, drinking what he claimed was a pint glass full of whiskey, and looking like he was mischievously playing his mother’s piano when he knew he wasn’t supposed to, and with posture that would have terrorized piano teachers the world round…

Sam Amidon @ Big Ears Fest (more by Andrew Frisicano) Sam Amidon sung the very first note at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville on Friday. Overshadowed on the festival’s bill by the likes of famed rock bands (The National, Vampire Weekend) and legendary composers (Terry Riley), many of the badge-wearing festival attendees didn’t know what to expect when the tall, flannel-wearing Vermont-native’s strange voice filled the Knoxville Museum of Art…

Collaborations were the order of the day on Big Ears‘ Saturday, March 27th schedule (day two). At 1pm, the 802 Tour – Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) and Sam Amidon with violist Nadia Sirota – performed songs written by each…

Sam Amidon, accompanied, ushered in the first show of the 2010 Big Ears Festival at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Friday (3/26) with “Wild Bill Jones,” his own version of the Appalachian folk song, punctuated with a piercing scream half-way through…

“Yoko Ono, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Bette midler, freaking amazing!” – nico843 Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band will be playing a special show at BAM’s Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, February 16th…

At City Winery on Sunday night , a stop on a small New York-and-Los Angeles solo tour as works on her next album, she put her back into it…

Thomas Bartlett was at the center of his Doveman and Friends concert at the Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, January 12nd. On top of the headlining set, Barlett ably accompanied openers The Poison Tree (Steve Salett of King of France) and Sam Amidon on piano (even sitting in for some tasteful drums during Sam’s set)…