Recent Articles in Live Reviews
Choir of Young Believers at Pianos, 03.11.10
Choir of Young Believers captivated the crowd with an incredible performance at Pianos on Thursday night. The band, from Copenhagen, Denmark, was in top form as they breezed through a 10-song set of gorgeous, epic indie-rock tunes that blended folk and orchestral leanings.
The Library is on Fire at Mercury Lounge, 03.09.10
The Library is on Fire headlined an early show at the Mercury Lounge on Tuesday night, marking their debut appearance at the venerable Lower East Side venue.
Whitney Biennial 2010: Is It Worth Your Time?
The mission of the 2010 Whitney Biennial reads like no other in the past: “To underscore the idea of time as an element of the Biennial and to demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials…” Where I come from people call that a retrospective, however, at the Whitney, the curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari had a larger framework in mind, the one of time itself, what it means in art (”Even Mona Lisa is falling apart”) and more importantly, how do we get it inside a white cube gallery. Let’s see how that worked…
Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and 999999999 at Knitting Factory, 03.04.10
Fans of punk, Goth and shoegaze who were not in Brooklyn on Thursday missed out on one sweet treat with the impressive bill of Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and 999999999 at the Knitting Factory.
Efterklang at Le Poisson Rouge, 03.03.10
Denmark’s Efterklang returned to New York for a sold-out performance at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night, and luckily for fans, the band decided to go forward with the tour in spite of some last minute challenges.
Efterklang CD Release Party with Efterkids Performance, 02.23.10
The record release party for Efterklang’s Magic Chairs was undoubtedly the most unique and inspiring I’ve seen in recent memory. Held at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, the event featured Efterkids, six musically gifted students ranging from grades 6-8…
Mumford & Sons at Bowery Ballroom, 02.18.10
It’s been a helluva premiere week for the U.K.’s fast-rising Mumford & Sons in America. And when I say “fast-rising,” I really mean that this is Autobahn high-speed ascension.
Adam Green at The Fillmore, NYC, 1.16.10
“I’m a very good dancer… I took ballroom dancing lessons as a kid. I was a romantic little kid. I even tried to seduce my own mother.” If Adam Green ever decides to give up his day job as musician, he just might make a killing in stand-up.
On Saturday night, Green was in rare form, [...]
The Hot Rats at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 1.13.10
The Hot Rats, (name borrowed from Frank Zappa’s album of the same name), strutted into Brooklyn on a Tuesday night, taking a windblown stage flanked by two lovely, stripe-donned ladies, arms akimbo and bedecked in lights. This supergroup cover band, a side-project formed by Supergrass’s Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey, turned Music Hall of Williamsburg [...]
Sentimentalist Magazine’s Top Live Gigs of 2009
It’s very simple: we see many, these stuck out. Our top picks in no order are below, other than Leonard Cohen owning and deserving the very first slot.
