Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:15pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/folk
Originally posted by The Trichordist
There’s a media pile on claiming that Taylor Swift is going to lose her war on streaming… really? Is there a war on streaming? No. There is no war on streaming. The battle is over economic injustice, not technology. We’ve written about this before… Continue reading
Date: October 21, 2014
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)
Concert review by Dante Mann
Photo by Dante Mann
Secret Chiefs 3 (SC3), an instrumental rock band formed by Trey Spruance played a show for an enthusiastic crowd in the round at Le Poisson Rouge, October 21. SC3 is the name for seven different groups of musicians and has a rotating roster of members, each representing different facet of Spruance’s musical eccentricities. While I consider SC3 firmly in the rock genre, there are many other facets to their music (Cuban, Motown, Indian, Arab, death metal, and in particular Persian), Spruance’s interest in Iranian music, culture, and philosophy has given SC3 a distinctly Persian flavor.
Date: Monday, November 3, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: free/punk/jazz
Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor – European Tour kickoff and Henry Grimes 79th Birthday Celebration!
Marc Ribot’s experimental trio with Henry Grimes (bass) and Chad Taylor (drums) draws on the improvising telepathy developed performing together in the years working together as Spiritual Unity to reach new heights and depths of free/punk/jazz. The trio format allows for greater compositional flexibility. Continue reading
Artist: Tomás Doncker Band
Title: Big Apple Blues
Label: True Groove Records
Genre: Blues/nu blues
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Let’s face it; the blues have been done to death. Far from its African roots, its American tradition, during the 60s and beyond, the blues were looted by the (sometimes well meaning) British and Americans. With only a few exceptions, it seemed to have been squeezed for every drop of essence it had, and what was left was sustaining mostly unimaginative musicians who were seduced by its romance and deceptively simple musical structure, and die-hard traditionalists who struggle to preserve the tradition.
