Blogs
May 3, 2013Each of these 10 shows shine bright ... like a diamond ... in the sky.
Voice Choices
April 24, 2013Music
March 27, 2013Blogs
March 11, 2013Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.
Blogs
March 8, 2013Better Than: Sobbing silently while watching the club performance scene in Purple Rain on your couch for the 25th time this week... not that there's anything wrong with that.
The stage was bigger, the venue more prestigious, and the atmosphere gave off a more purple hue. But then this was a Prince ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 20, 2013Blogs
December 3, 2012Here are the ten best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
November 28, 2012Blogs
October 19, 2012This past summer, Liza Minnelli made a sensation by appearing as a guest star for Alan Cumming at a couple of shows at Cherry Grove's Ice Palace, produced by Daniel Nardicio.
The gays of a certain age hadn't been so stimulated since Liza's mama played Carnegie Hall.
And that wasn't the last excite ... More >>
Art
October 17, 2012Music
March 28, 2012Blogs
February 14, 2012Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel
Carnegie Hall
Monday, February 13
Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live.
Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this has led to an interview with Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) of Das Racist, who's performing Monday night at t ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 8, 2012Philip Glass curates the Tibet House jam
Blogs
February 1, 2012American Composers Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
Tuesday, January 31
Better than: A date with Justin Bieber for a 13-year-old girl.
Last night at Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra ("the only orchestra in the world" dedicated to music by American composers) celebrated Philip Glass's 75th bi ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 1, 2012Jay-Z takes the stage at Carnegie Hall
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
celebrates its gold anniversary
Voice Choices
October 26, 2011New York Comedy Festival tortures us
Columns
October 5, 2011Somebody's got to do the dirty dishes around here
Film
May 18, 2011Blogs
May 11, 2011Dani Gurgel
Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011Blues alchemist comes to BK Bowl
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011Blogs
March 4, 2011Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert
Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc.
Carnegie Hall
Thursday, March 3
Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne"
"Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 26, 2011Voice Choices
January 26, 2011Steve Cuiffo takes it back to Carnegie Hall
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Tonight, The Deli's "Best of NYC" festival kicks off with Beach Fossils, the sensitive, disaffectedly distorted surf bums with a mobile drummer. At the Abrons Art Center, the Joshua Light Show splashes lava-lamp gurgling, polka-dotted hallucinogen projections atop Woods, a lo-fi folk act whose psy ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010Carnegie Hall photo via wallyg's photostreamSo, of the $189,793 worth of proceeds Carnegie Hall will take in if Sunday's Haiti fundraiser--featuring the world-beating pianist Lang Lang, conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, and Wyclef Jean--sells out compl ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2010Rock and experimental voices keep the fire alive
Blogs
June 19, 2009Rebecca Smeyne
In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009"The first time I fucked my wife I had an open sore on my cock."
via [ello]'s photostreamYikes--Kevin Smith, doing work
"Silent Bob Speaks"
Carnegie Hall
June 17
The expression "like an open book" should be updated to reflect the startlingly full disclosures Kevin Smith has been offering his fan ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2009
In the 1950's, the Dave Brubeck Quartet began experimenting with time, particularly odd-meters and polyrhythms. The resulting compositions, which would have sunk lesser musicians, are Brubeck's most enduring works-- the wonky "Raggy Waltz," the luscious "Blue Rondo A La Turk," and "Take Five," wh ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Hey, it was porn week!
Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009via fogindex's photostreamFriday night brought about the first ever staging of composer Terry Riley's epochal "In C" on the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of its release on long-playing LP in the late 60s. From "In C"'s debut on, Riley's humble, infinitely var ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 4, 2009Blogs
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September 12, 2008Music
December 19, 2006Tracks from this year's winners
NYC Life
May 16, 2006Music
May 24, 2005Arts centers, classical-music organizations, and other non-jazz outposts fuel new music
Music
May 24, 2005Music
February 22, 2005Music
August 24, 2004Chameleonic chanteuse re-examines abandoned heritage
NYC Life
June 24, 2003Music
October 31, 2000Giovanni Sollima’s Musical Tour of Italy Enchants at Least One Listener
Dance
June 27, 2000Music
June 6, 2000Film
June 1, 1999Music
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