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Streets of Your Town: this week’s concerts, with Shuggie Otis, Sky Ferreira, Wale, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Shuggie Otis, Sky Ferreira, Wale, and more. More
Streets of Your Town: this week's concerts, with Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah, Cannibal Ox, Miguel, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah, Cannibal Ox, Miguel, and more More
D.J. Tommie Sunshine on childhood summers at the Shore and his big Sandy benefit plan
“My family has a house on the Jersey Shore in Manasquan,” he explained. “It's the beach where my parents met, when they were 12 and 14, and they've been together ever since. And though the benefit took a lot to arrange, Sunshine hopes it won’t be a standalone concert. “Basically, this is a bit of a litmus test. If we pack the place, which I am confident we're going to do, then we're looking to do it in more places and we're looking to do a bit of tour. We want to take it to the Stone Pony in Jersey. We want to do one on Long Island. We already found a place in Philly. We want to do one in D.C. It's all dependent on how this goes.” More
Streets of Your Town: this week's concerts, with Gilberto Gil, Blue Öyster Cult, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Gilberto Gil, Blue Öyster Cult, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more. More
(2)Streets of Your Town: this week's concerts, with Cat Power, the Weeknd, Saint Etienne, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Cat Power, the Weeknd, Saint Etienne, and more More
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with RZA, Allen Toussaint, Heart, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including RZA, Allen Toussaint, Heart, and more. More
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with David Byrne & St. Vincent, Jay-Z, Corin Tucker, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including David Byrne & St. Vincent, Jay-Z, Corin Tucker, and more. More
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with All Tomorrow's Parties, Stanley Clarke, Metric, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including All Tomorrow's Parties, Stanley Clarke, Metric, and more. More
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with Bob Dylan, Riot Fest, Odd Future, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Bob Dylan, Riot Fest, Odd Future, and more More
(1)Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with Beirut, Jenny Scheinman, the Electric Zoo Festival, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Beirut, Jenny Scheinman, the Electric Zoo Festival, and more More
Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with Janelle Monae, Al Green, Kitty Pryde, and more
Streets of Your Town: This week's best concerts, from rock to jazz to rap to everything else, including Janelle Monae, Al Green, Kitty Pryde, and more. More
I Heard Your Single: The top 20 singles so far this year, with Carly Rae Jepsen, Anthony Hamilton, Skrillex, and more
For the past few months, I Heard Your Single has taken stock of the best singles—everything from 7- and 12-inches to “focus tracks”—from local acts. The column is coming to an end, but for this final edition, we’ll skip our usual survey of new releases by New York musicians and go all-year and all-world. Below, a look at my Top 20 (or so) singles of 2012’s first half. More
The surprising and genre-confounding collaboration of Hillary Hahn and Hauschka
Curiously (and enticingly), however, when both players stopped referencing the album in any direct way, they seemed capable of greater invention. Playing what they called a series of “solos”—which the pair described from the stage as “those things where you play solo, and then I join you at the end”—they reached for a language beyond the one they’ve already set down on the album. More
Brooklyn musician Laurel Halo on her new album and how she got from the violin to electronic music
Quarantine distills and condenses the approach of Halo’s three prior E.P.s. There’s a menacing crawl to pieces like the first third of “Thaw,” with its heavily pitch-shifted bell tones and softly synthesized bird-attack sounds, or “Holoday,” two minutes of fogged-up filters and low moans that climaxes with a quick, bursting, pitched-up vocal snippet (“Just wanna be with you!”) like an early-’90s U.K. hardcore track. A similar sense of agog permeates the rest of the album: “Wow” is an 83 seconds of manipulated vocal glide, “MK Ultra” loops its fuzzy, rubber-bandy analog synth lines while Halo multitracks herself to an eerily icy command. More
I Heard Your Single: A survey of the month's releases, featuring Nicki Minaj & 2 Chainz, Animal Collective, Matthew Dear, and more
At the end of each month I survey recent singles from local acts—selectively, not exhaustively. By “singles,” I mean everything from 7- and 12-inches to “focus tracks” (e.g. they gave the MP3 away two months before the album release, or made a video), and by “local” I mean they live in New York. (Remixes and guest appearances by New Yorkers on out-of-towners’ records also get looks in.) Suggestions are welcome to matoswk@gmail.com, no guarantees made. In April, I listened to the radio a little more than usual. More
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