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Silkie runs that corner of dubstep painted “purple,” the subgenre in which (almost) over-the-top synth lines mimic and (almost) overwhelm the bassline. His 2009...
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These local dreamers typify contemporary Brooklynese, a post-punk, post-psych, post-ironic patois with a heavy concentration of native speakers by the Gowanus Canal. What they...
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Back in Indieland after a surprisingly lengthy major-label stint, these obsessive-compulsive emo thinkers have a new one out called Anarchy, My Dear, a reocrd on which...
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So you finished your spring cleaning and donated all the things you no longer want to charity. Good for you! Now get back out there and stock up for the coming summer months...
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You might know him as Tom Haverford, the hilarious co-star next to Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation who's more obsessed with one-liners and looking fresh in the office than...
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Killadelphia's guitar-weilding, audience-massacring hero Nick Millevoi leads Many Arms, a fiercely frenetic and precise avant-jazz instru-metal trio whose purveying berserk...
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Maybe it was inevitable: Having spent a few years putting on Brooklyn’s best house-centric parties, residents Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter are now immortalizing things...
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Tonight, the celebrated pianist leads a band that generates marvelous moments as a matter of course. Iyer’s unique design sense always finds novel ways for their...
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If you thought that the rise of digital media called for zine culture's inevitable demise, think again. Today, Public Assembly in Williamsburg welcomes the first annual...
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Not about to be pinned down, Dan Fishback has played in bands, created visual-art pieces, and performed solo works for the theater (most recently, a piece on the history of...
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The first of a four-night run preceding the release of this remarkably inventive jazz guitarist's uncharacteristically rockish Howie 61. Saxophonist Chris Potter's...
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An adept of the tar and setar, long-necked lutes related to the guitar and sitar, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi revitalized the Iranian classical tradition by integrating elements of...
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Referring to its taped sound effects, sampled tunes, and foggy ambience, composer Gavin Bryars has described "The Sinking of the Titanic" as the musical equivalent of...
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Last January, Big Baby Gandhi took to Vimeo, uploading a four-minute freestyle that, according to the video's title, proved him to be "the best rapper" full stop. And while...
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Michigan native Mayer Hawthorne executes his throwback r&b with so much period precision that a casual observer might assume the stuff was rescued from the vaults at motown....
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Lazar had one of the top five, maybe top three, voices of all leading men on Broadway. Better yet, he’s a ball of fire when he’s just being himself, and on the...
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Now in their 35th year, give or take a hiatus and lineup change or two, Washington, D.C.’s volatile, reggae-loving hardcore-punk legends have seemingly always found a...
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One hundred years ago, the African National Congress was created to establish rights for black South Africans. Fifty years ago, Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, and Uganda...
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This hirsute Chicago-based sister/brother duo (Miss Alex White on guitar and Francis Scott Key White behind the drums) slings twig-studded snowballs of raucous, psychedelic...
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For three nights, music’s master of understatement, Paul Simon, will be performing songs he has written over the past four decades in the intimate Rose Theater....
