Concert Review: Moon Taxi Soars To The Stars Over Brooklyn Steel

Some artists like big crowds because it validates them; the bigger the crowd, the more “loved” they are. Other artists could care less the size…

Album Review: Julia Holter’s Aviary Absorbs A Melting World

You ever feel like you are the only one that feels? Like you are looking at a room full of people, and wondering, “Where is…

Album Review: Say Lou Lou Find An “Immortelle” Identity

I love melodramas because, in an odd way, they are emotionally honest. In perspective, a situation is minute, but, in emotion, especially if present, it…

Albums of October: Nao Takes You To Saturn

Saturn, as an ancient symbol, is often associated with time and harvest; the idea that the seeds you sow culminate into what you reap. Nao’s…

Film Review: Suspiria Divides And Disturbs Audiences

SYNOPSIS: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson),…

Diandra Interviews KOPPS: From Working Class To Creative Visionaries

Where you grow up does influence you, and, for KOPPS, their working class town of Rochester, New York taught them how to dance through devastation.…

Concert Review: Sleepwalkers Wake Up Public Arts

I said it with Masego and I will say it again with Sleepwalkers: a crowd makes a concert. With the front row two-stepping and demanding…

Concert Review: Jessie J Is Unstoppable At Manhattan Hammerstein

Jessie gives one of the best concerts you will ever see. She is a star by her very definition; balancing a level of celebrity with…

Concert Review: Masego Is Followed At Irving Plaza

Frankly, in a concert, the crowd is as important as the artist. An epic performer can fall flat with a dead crowd, and an amazing…

Concert Review: Ro James Gives Permission To Love At Hammerstein

“New York City is a place filled with artists,” declared Ro James as he spoke about finding one’s identity. The irony of New York is…

Concert Review: Hippo Campus Are Rock Stars At Terminal 5

Something is going on! From Alice Merton to Molly Burch, more and more artists are ascending to their inner stars. For all that I talk…

Concert Review: Alice Merton Has CHANGED At Bowery Ballroom

I remember the first I saw Alice Merton. She was at Baby’s All Right, and felt completely accessible. She, literally, strolled from the street unto…

Concert Review: Yellow Shoots Is For The Boo’d Up At Knitting Factory

When the world gets darker, it clutches to many comforts like music to gain the the nostalgia of better times and the dancing optimism that,…

Album Review: Farao Is Addicted To Love In Pure-O

‘Pure-O’, Farao’s second album, is a prog-pop exposition on the curious dichotomy between beauty and destructiveness in sex and relationships. For the young singer, love…

Album Review: Papercuts’ Parallel Universe Blues Helps You Move

Are we creatures of habit? Part of the reason it is so hard to heal old wounds or behavioral flaws is because we get used…