Anyone who really knows me knows how I feel about this man.
I feel strongly.
I had been looking forward to his New York show since the tickets first went on sale months ago, and I spent the days leading up to Tuesday night's set at Highline...
Posted October 14, 2011 | 04:29 PM (EST)
Watching RJD2 perform songs off of his 2002 debut album, Deadringer, basically made me feel 17 again (couldn't help myself, not sorry). This doesn't really happen to me anymore, as the last time I felt younger (in a good way, and not in a sad "old trick...
Posted October 7, 2011 | 03:46 PM (EST)
It was extremely fitting that Jon Brion's first night of his Le Poisson Rouge run started off with the multi-instrumentalist/producer/song writer/musical genius idly playing chords from The Wizard Oz soundtrack. A veritable one-man band, Brion seamlessly moves from keys to guitars to drums to the harmonica, all the...
2 Comments | Posted September 30, 2011 | 04:56 PM (EST)
I stumbled across this amazing gem of a documentary while perusing egotripland.com recently: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo. Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims...

Posted October 31, 2011 | 01:15 PM (EST)