I have often said that music is a culture, and a song can be a world. I grew up on Hector Lavoe and Lauryn Hill,…
Ashley Monroe is a Sparrow. Her new album, of the same title, seemingly embodies the animals’ spirit. The most common species of bird known to…
Post Animal’s When I Think Of You In A Castle feels like the quintessential album of “Dude Rock”. This is what I call rock records that…
Courtship ended their tour at Bowery Ballroom as if they were the leading band at a wedding. That night they were marrying life after a…
Charlotte Cardin is currently headIining her first tour, and it should be called the “Do you have a Bae? Tour”. With the wonderful NIIA and…
SYNOPSIS: A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers…
SYNOPSIS: Mercury 13 is a remarkable story of the women who were tested for spaceflight in 1961 before their dreams were dashed in being the…
Kimbra unleashed Primal Heart on Rough Trade to a crowd of adoring and surprised fans. There is a sweetness to Kimbra that almost appeared wholesome,…
Directed by Kenny Leon, Children of A Lesser God (COAG) shines a light on an often ignored and painfully marginalized group: the disabled. In this…
IT’S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watching Frenship dance around the Bowery Ballroom stage like they were drunk off partying was infectiously joyous. It was as if the…
Sometimes, I think the only difference between a crazy person and a genius is willpower. Crazy people lose their conscious, and let their want eat…
Seeing Thirdstory at Brooklyn Steel was AMAZING. I remember when they wee just filling out Baby’s All Right, and now a whole warehouse was cheering…
It is kind of strange to see a British band play to the idea of wasted, American Youth. There with their North Londoner accents, and…
Growing up hurts, and anyone who tells you otherwise then has not. Kimbra has certainly grown her sound and lyrics to show, the older you…
Bishop Briggs is sonically innovative but accessible, which is, basically, what the music industry dreams of in an artist. Although some judge the music biz…