Symphony Space

This past Saturday at Symphony Space marked the third night of the four-show A Stephin Merritt / The Magnetic Fields Residency that features two nights of Magnetic Fields, and a show each for his bands The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes...

Richard Thompson's tour includes a couple of ”All Requests Live!” shows at NYC's Symphony Space on Friday February 7 and Saturday February 8, 2020, where he'll eschew a setlist in favor of spontaneity, letting the audience decide what he plays in real time by drawing req…

”I sat down to write this song with my son. I said, ’what should we call this jam?’ He said ‘Skeleton’s Tooth’, Darnielle laughed, ”So I wrote Skeleton’s Tooth.”

Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle will ”explore the connective tissues between songwriting and storytelling” for 'Selected Shorts,' ”a weekly public radio show broadcast” that ”[features] stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest a…

Pop-indie band Polica and composer André de Ridder's orchestral ensemble s t a r g a z e recently released their Music For the Long Emergency project as an album and now they're currently bringing it to the stage on tour.

The first single is the ten-minute "How Is This Happening," which Channy Leaneagh says was inspired by Trump's election.

The leading light of Garifuna music has come home to roost. After his adventurous 2011 release --for which he traveled to Senegal and recorded with West African musicians--Aurelio understood anew that his strength as a musician lay in his own roots...

Today is John Lennon's birthday, and so Yoko Ono is giving Lady Gaga an award, in Iceland. John would've been 72. Check out a gallery of the former Beatle's drawings (like the one above) over at the Huffington Post...

Eugene Mirman at The Bell House, Sept. 2011 (more by David Andrako)

I mentioned some upcoming comedy-type events yesterday, but here are a few more shows of note that I forgot to mention...

Hey guys. So, lookit, you're about to ingest a lot of comedy data in a moment. But it's just the tip of the NYC comedy iceberg. No, it's less than the tip...