Venue: White Columns Gallery (NY) Date: Saturday 8, 2014 Review by Dawoud Kringle An overlooked element of a legendary legacy is being presented by White Columns Gallery in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Curated by Alhena Katsof, and overseen by Ayesha Lateef, the visual artwork of the master musician, composer, author, artist, philosopher, educator, […]
1. The Mast & East India Youth Date: Monday, November 17, 2014 Time: 7pm Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002) Price: $10 Genre: electronic/experimental/pop The Mast is vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and beatsmith Matt Kilmer. Merging live electronics, vocals, and percussion, The Mast creates a full-spectrum sonic experience […]
Date: November 7, 2014 Venue: The Shrine (Harlem, NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle
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. […]
Date: October 18, 2014 Venue: The Roulette (NY) Event review by Dawoud Kringle “Google is in the process of systematically destroying our artistic future. If the creative community doesn’t intervene now, we will be bound to a multigenerational clusterfuck that will take 40 to 50 years to unravel.” (Kurt Sutter; from a guest column in […]
