Category Archives: Music Listings

Music Listings – 6/24 through 6/30

1. THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO/CHRIS GRIER (TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.) & GIBBY HAYNES (BUTTHOLE SURFERS) ACOUSTIC DUO/MARTIN BISI/INVISIBLE THINGS/DIAMOND TERRIFIER

Date: Monday, June 24, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue:  Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003)
Price: $8
Genre: indie/folk rock

“The show has a surprising number of ‘names’ to throw around. at least ‘names’ to post-rock and psych devotees. Z’s have be shaking things up in NYC.. the side project should be awesome – Phantom Family Halo toured with Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus last year – Gibby from Butthole Surfers should be totally, yes,, interesting.
and there’s more” – Martin Bisi
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Music Listings – 6/17 through 6/23

970388_368503906582879_547925786_n1. The Danil Ponce Memorial

Date: Monday, June 17, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10022, Telephone 212 935 2200)
Ticket: free
Genre: latin jazz

Daniel Ponce the brilliant Cuban conguero/rumbero died in March of this year. If you heard him you remember him. Musicians are gathering as a musical tribute . Continue reading →

Music Listings – 6/10 through 6/16

1. Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postizos w. Edmar Castaneda

Date: Monday, June 10, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $30
Genre: Cuban jazz/tango, Brazilian and flamenco guitar

One of the ultimate New York City party bands, Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postizos (aka “The Prosthetic Cubans”) became a must-see attraction in the late 1990s, with its feverishly cooking shows built around arrangements of Cuban bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez – innovator of the son montuno, and two critically acclaimed albums released on Atlantic Records. Reformed by popular demand with the addition of Cuban’s own Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez on drums and original members Anthony Coleman (keys), Brad Jones (bass) and EJ Rodriquez (perc), 2011 had the band once again in front ecstatic audiences from the stages of the Montreal Jazz Festival, Fuji Rock Festival and Ellnora Guitar Festival at the Krannert Center of Performing Arts.

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Music Listings – 6/3 through 6/9

1. Landlady

Date: Monday,  June 3, 2013
Time: 9pm 
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock

Landlady, a 6 piece dynamic pop explosion. Adam Schatz plays farfisa and sings. Renata Zeiguer plays casio, violin, guitar and sings, Indigo Street plays guitar and sings, Ian Davis plays bass and sings, Ian Chang plays drums and guitar and Booker Stardrum plays drums and drums

 

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Music listings – 5/27 through 6/2/2013

1. Laubrock/Schoenbeck/Regev + Sinton/Laubrock

Date: Monday, May 27, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue:  JACK ( 505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 Between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/improv

JACK’s monthly series of experimental improv, curated by Kevin Reilly.

Originally from Germany,  Ingrid Laubrock has been living in the UK since 1989 and is now residing in Brooklyn. She performed and recorded with: Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Tim Berne, Mark Helias, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, John Edwards, Veryan Weston, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, Evan Parker, The Continuum Ensemble and others.

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