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Bob Weir played 3 NYC-area shows and 'Colbert,' joined by Aaron Dessner & more (pics from the Cap)
The NYC-area shows had three members of The National (including Aaron Dessner, who had to sit out the other tour dates), Josh Kaufman, Conrad Doucette, Dawn Landes’ band The Bandanda Splits, Sam Cohen, and more.
'Sound + Vision' film fest screening Pulp film, shoegaze doc & more (schedule); Jarvis Cocker doing Q&A at Rooftop Films
Lincoln Center’s Sound + Vision film series is back for its second year, happening July 31 – August 6. The weeklong series kicks off on July 31 with a screening of shoegaze documentary Beautiful Noise that was funded…
3-day Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Fest begins tonight at BAM; special guests to join Jherek Bischoff?
The three-night, three-stage-per-night, Dessners-of-the-National-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival begins at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene tonight (5/3)…
Jherek Bischoff, Wordless Orchestra, David Byrne, Mirah & more guests opened the Ecstatic Music Festival (pics, review)
It wasn’t the marathon that opened the inaugural Ecstatic Music Fest in 2011, but this year’s opening show on Saturday (2/4) had some of that same collaborative energy, focusing on the compositions and arrangements of Jherek Bischoff, a musician known for his work primarily with The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls and The Degenerate Art Ensemble…
Jherek Bischoff releasing an album & playing a show -- both with many extra special guests (like David Byrne)
As mentioned, the Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off on February 4 at Merkin Concert Hall with Jherek Bischoff, who plays with Parenthetical Girls and The Dead Science…
Allen Toussaint, Justin Vivian Bond & Doveman shows
Justin Bond & Thomas Bartlett (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
As you may have noticed in What’s Going on Sunday, both Allen Toussaint and Justin Vivian Bond played shows at Joe’s Pub on Sunday…
The National, Doveman, and Buke & Gass played Brassland Friday @ the High Violet Annex - pics, video, setlist
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…
Nico Muhly is releasing an album on Brassland
Sam Amidon playing in Nico Muhly’s last show @ The KitchenThe other advantage of a deliberate mispronunciation is that it can be subtly dismissive of a topic that you, the Mispronouncer, are somehow ashamed to admit to knowing too much about…
