Sxip Shirey's recent Birthday Show at Joe's Pub was chockablock with genre-busting magic along with a stagefull of special guests from various parts of his musical past to turn up the heat.
The fact is, talking to Amanda Palmer can very well cause one to feel like a complete slacker, no matter how much of a workaholic you happen to be. Be...
I first saw Sxip ("Skip") Shirey when his band Luminescent Orchestrii opened for Dresden Dolls on the night that brought in 2008. It was an odd but oddly perfect pairing.
Sxip Shirey looks like a magician, with his wiry gray exploding hair and mischief eyes, and he has an uncanny ability to cast a musical spell over a r...
In November of 2008 a friend convinced me I should not miss seeing Amanda Palmer, who was at the time touring behind her first solo album Who Killed A...