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Meet New York's Banjo-Playing Journeyman

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 05.20.2013 | New York

From hopping freight trains in West Virginia to living in a trailer park in Brooklyn, Morgan O’Kane is New York’s banjo-playing, tambourine-toting...

Great Big Fun, 20 Years In the Making

Jaime Lubin | Posted 04.22.2013 | Entertainment
Jaime Lubin

New York's venerable Town Hall theater came alive this weekend with the buzz of a thousand accents. GBS always attracts an international audience, and the most recent stop on their XX twentieth anniversary tour was no exception.

20-Year-Old Charles Eliasch Makes His Opera Debut at Carnegie Hall

Xaque Gruber | Posted 05.13.2013 | New York
Xaque Gruber

While partying and having fun is a temptation for most 20-year-olds, Eliasch, who began vocal training at age thirteen, and recently graduated from New York's Mannes College of Music with a focus in voice will have his opera debut at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, March 31.

Bang on a Can @ MoMA: Where Past and Present Meet (PHOTOS)

Jessica Schmitz | Posted 02.04.2013 | Arts
Jessica Schmitz

2013-02-04-schmitz_flute.jpgNo longer on track to pursue a conventional performance career, I once again found myself pondering my professional future. (Maybe a stint with the circus would resolve my creative angst?)

An Urban Folk-Rock Night

Jaime Lubin | Posted 03.25.2013 | Entertainment
Jaime Lubin

They say you can't please everybody, but tell that to Alan Doyle. Headlining recently at New York institution B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in Times Square, the always-congenial Newfoundlander joined with The Dunwells and Amy Helm to produce the rare musical hat trick.

Theater: Last Smoker In America Huffs & Puffs But No Nicotine Fix

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.02.2012 | New York
Michael Giltz

It's only 90 minutes but the show feels padded since the very slight idea powering it goes nowhere and the songs (lyrics by Russell and music by Peter Melnick) can only muster up so many ways to sing the praises of tobacco.

IMAGES: Photographer Merges Vinyl Covers With Real NYC Locations

Posted 07.19.2012 | New York

The album covers for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic are among the most indelible in music-- and New York-- history. Ever wo...

NYMF Roundup #!: Turning 40 and Flaming Desserts

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.14.2012 | Home
Michael Giltz

Every year at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, I attend as many shows as I can, invariably seeing one or two shows that will rank among the best of the year and discovering some new talented performers and behind the scenes artists.

The Sudden Resurgence Of CBGB

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.15.2012 | Home

In 2006 one of the most renowned music venues in the country shut its doors. But now it looks like CBGB -- the venerable East Village hard rock in...

"A Flow Master in Disaster With a Sound That's Gone" - Adam Yauch

Salvatore Bono | Posted 07.08.2012 | New York
Salvatore Bono

Yauch was not only a musical pioneer with Beasties; he was an activist and humanitarian. Wherever there was injustice, there was Yauch, wherever there was a voice to be given to the voiceless, there was Yauch.

LOOK: Giant New Music Venue For The '21st Century Artist' Coming To Williamsburg

Posted 04.25.2012 | New York

The non-profit group Original Music Workshop is gearing up to open a new music venue on Williamsburg's North 6th Street,already home to many of the n...

CBGB Searching SXSW For Bands To Play Summer Festival

Posted 03.16.2012 | New York

More than five years after CBGB shuttered its doors, ending three decades of legendary punk performances to transform into a high-end John Varvatos bo...

Lucas Kavner

Major Australian Artist Tries To Make It In America

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.08.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- The crowd at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night was there to see Gotye, the alter ego of Belgian-Australian musician Wouter De Backer, pl...

DJ Jonathan Toubin In Critical Condition After Cab Drives Into His Hotel Room

Posted 12.09.2011 | New York

Jonathan Toubin is in critical condition after being run over by a cab in Portland, Oregon on Thursday. The New York City based DJ was staying in t...

NYC Was Broke In The 70's, But Had A Rich Music HIstory

AP | By MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.14.2011 | New York

-- "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever" (Faber and Faber), by Will Hermes: New York City might have be...

Little Victory: Punk Rock Parking Lot Apocalypse

Joe Schraufnagel | Posted 12.27.2011 | New York
Joe Schraufnagel

Throughout the past couple months a slew of NYC bands, Making Friendz, Light Asylum and Little Victory to name a few, have been sexing up downtown barroom dance-floors with a take-no-prisoners punk rock swagger.

Why the South Won (the CMJ Music Marathon, That Is)

Marissa Moss | Posted 12.24.2011 | Home
Marissa Moss

Last week in NYC, amidst the 15-minute sets of guitar fuzz and vocals sometimes indecipherable from keyboard wahs, at times, the "CM" in CMJ could have stood for Country Music.

Pitchfork Planning New York Festival

Posted 12.13.2011 | New York

Pitchfork is planning to take on the New York music scene with a CMJ-esque festival in February 2012. The online music publication has teamed up with ...

Cool Idea: Musicians Turn Abandoned Buildings Into Recording Studios

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.27.2011 | Entertainment
Greg Mitchell

I was happy to hear an NPR feature this weekend on Mason Jar Music, a new collective of young producers/musicians in Brooklyn, who have their own twist on getting access to abandoned buildings and recording and filming there.

A Music Maven: Jamming With Emily Zuzik

Laura Cococcia | Posted 08.19.2011 | Entertainment
Laura Cococcia

Emily believes in the power of intuition to guide her, adoring her inspirations, but not a slave to the rules of what must define a songwriter. I'm thrilled to share more about the world behind her story.

A Drumadic Time in New York With William B. Johnson

Lydia Hughes | Posted 08.15.2011 | Entertainment
Lydia Hughes

Wil is jocular and affable, someone who doesn't seem to take himself too seriously. For this reason I made the assumption that his band might be just a little better than amateur. How wrong I was.

BAND SPOTLIGHT: Blacky II Makes It 'Rain Blood'

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

BlackyII is Bobby Picciotto, a DJ living in Brooklyn who's been spinning for a few years now and just returned from mini-tour of Puerto Rico. He makes...

Songwriter Michael Sackler-Berner Shimmers And Shines

The Huffington Post | Josh Fleet | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Michael Sackler-Berner occasionally lands a gig as an extra on television. Like in 2009, when he played "Band Member #1" on an episode of Law & Order:...

BAND SPOTLIGHT: Thunder And Lightning

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 09.27.2012 | New York

Brent Katz has been performing in New York bands since Giuliani was in power. His first successful outfit the Harlem Shakes, in which Brent played dru...

WATCH: Was There Really A Riot At The Japanther Show?

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

JAPANTHER AT THE ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS from Scott Cramer on Vimeo. Monday's Japanther show at the Big Apple Circus was eventually shut down when the ...