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Duane Pitre Extras: He Would Like to Borrow Your Mitch Hedberg Bootlegs

In August, we conducted two interviews with New Orleans-based experimental composer Duane Pitre. These conversations yielded way, way more than could plausibly fit into the print story. Below is the full text, with Pitre holding forth on his creative process, the thinking behind new album Bridges, t ... More >>

Duane Pitre Gift Wraps His Compositions With a Bow on Top

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/18/13

Here are the10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

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Live: Hospitality Charm The Impatient At Glasslands

Hospitality w/Dustin Wong, Glass Ghost Glasslands Friday, February 3 Better than: Listening to old K Records albums. Thinking that Hospitality is a Scottish band, is an understandable mistake. The recent Merge signees are, in fact, from New York City, even if their smarty-pants pop has more in com ... More >>

Here We Have The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Covering Animal Collective's "My Girls." Oh Yes.

Were we all aware that this existed, the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra? That it "plays big Latin arrangements of some of the best indie music"? And what better way to announce yourself than by tackling the best indie-music song of all time? Ridiculous a concept as this may be, once it gets going (f ... More >>

New Amsterdam Will Go Weekly; the Brooklyn Flea Will Have Milkshakes, an Ice Cream Social, and Camera Obscura

artichokeheart.wordpress.comMarket bounty: soon to be delivered on a weekly basis.​When we ran into Robert LaValva a couple of weeks ago at the City of Merchants fundraiser, the New Amsterdam Market founder shared the exciting news that the monthly market would be going weekly. And now it's of ... More >>

This Weekend! Devo, Sonic Youth, Talib Kweli, and Devendra Banhart

​So even Devo now is into this play-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety thing: They're at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza Friday (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) and Saturday (Freedom of Choice). Have the courtesy to let that part of the setlist run out at least before you start hootin' and holle ... More >>

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Tonight! Chat With Iggy Pop or Weep With Camera Obscura

Besides jerking around with Iggy Pop on Letterman, newly sober dance-music goof Fatboy Slim is working on a concept album with David Byrne about Filipino sovereign Imelda Marcos, based on the pair's 2006 stage production Here Lies Love. He plays at Terminal 5. Meanwhile, Iggy chats with the New Yo ... More >>

BREAKING HEARTS, TAKING NAMES

Scottish tear-jerkers play Webster Hall

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Noise from the Front

For the week of January 24-30, 2007

Scottish Melancholia Rocks the Belles

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Voice Education Supplement

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