The Selected Ballads

Thoughts on two records featuring the compositions, but not the playing, of two of the most distinctive instrumentalist-composers of the pas...

Check out this panel on Paul Motian with the drummer Matt Wilson (who recently organized a tribute band, Mumbo Jumbo) and frequent Motian ba...

In a Village Voice piece previewing the initial production of their Discover AtlantASS project, the musical duo Talibam! dropped (coined?) ...

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...