Concert Review: Tune Yards Dance For The Disenfranchised In Brooklyn

Dance Music For The Disenfranchised! This is NOT a new concept, and from Hip Hop to Pop, music has created socio-political songs that place discord…

Artist Close-Up: Nightmares On Wax Shapes The Future In Sound

If shaping the future sounded EXACTLY as Nightmares on Wax’s album then I would have more hope. (lol!) His Shape The Future record blends futurism…

Concert Review: Bruno Major Gives Soul To A Storm At Rough Trade

As the “nor-easter” showered through NYC, nothing could stop a batch of Millennials eager to receive story-time and songs from the North Londoner: Bruno Major.…

Concert Review: Lola Marsh Turn Rough Trade Into A Romantic Eden

I always say, “Great things never change, but they do grow!” I thought about putting that in my tombstone, but it felt oxymoronic. Yet, seeing…

Concert Review: Milk & Bone Show Love Lies At Baby’s All Right

I have long been a fan of Milk & Bone. Certain artists make me want to wave a flag of surrender when I hear their…

Album Review: Calum Scott Is Only Human, And That Is Perfect

I was superbly excited about Calum Scott’s debut album: Only Human. After seeing him in concert, and watching how gracious and genuinely grateful he was…

Album Review: Jeremy Messersmith Observes Late Stage Capitalism

Jeremy Messersmith began to play music as a child, and never stopped embracing it with a child-like grace. When you fall so young and hard…

Concert Review: Joel Taylor Is The American Dream At Rockwood

One thing that I find very, but happily alarming about American music is how powerful it is, and how well international artists can do it.…

Album Review: Young Fathers Give Cocoa Sugar To Heal The World

Young Fathers’ Cocoa Sugar is strange and sexy. It is the psychedelic in funkadelic, by sounding like a sultry nightmare playing in one of the…

Book Review: Here Kitty Kitty Purrs With Self-Destruction

I did a weird, but not uncommon thing. I read an author’s acclaimed novel before I read their debut novel. It is a strange move…

Theatre Review: A Letter To Harvey Milk Is One To Open

A Letter To Harvey Milk is not so much about the acclaimed activist’s life as much as the lives that follow his acclaim. Milk has…

Theatre Review: Hello, From The Children of The Planet Earth Is A Cosmic Hit

The Playwright’s Realm presents Hello, From The Children of Planet Earth: a sweet look into the ups and down of being human and making one.…

Artist Close-Up: Honey Child Are The Choir Your Life Deserves

A chamber pop choir has formed to turn your mundane life into a Grecian tale of heroism. The name of this choir is, befittingly, Honey…

Theatre Review: Relevance Is The Most Exciting, Relevant Work Off- Broadway

One of THE BEST off-Broadway way shows gracing this current, theater season, Relevance is key to its name. Confronting the divisions between gender, race, and…

Concert Review: Missio Become Party Shamans At Bowery Ballroom

While I had seen Missio before, this time, they felt completely new to me. Sometimes, the key to revamping your music is not making new…