The Selected Ballads

The new Shapeshifter Lab in the Gowanus is really taking off, with strong bookings multiple nights a week for the past month or so. I was a...

Psychic Paramount @ Le Poisson Rouge I finally got the chance to see the Psychic Paramount, the heavy, vocal-less guitar-bass-drums trio wh...

Peter Stampfel utterly lacks all the qualities that sometimes make folk music boring to me. Though his knowledge of American music matches t...

In no particular order: Sebadoh - Harmacy I imagine this is an unusual entry point into the Sebadoh catalog (I almost entirely slept on t...

Symphony of Souls at Brecht Forum Last Saturday, I saw Jason Kao Hwang's Symphony of Souls  performed by the composer and his 38-piece...

Paul Motian - Windmills of Your Mind It couldn't have been a particularly easy task singing while backed by late-period Paul Motian. Le...

I recommend watching the entirety of this BBC documentary on the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, but if you need to be convinced, the two mi...