The eighth annual networking event, produced by British DJ/Music Promoter Mike Ashley and New York soul artist Dexter Myers, gave the independent soul music community a big evening for a low $10 cover. 25 performers included guest artists from Nashville, Philadelphia and Baltimore, showcasing with a 4-piece band. Nashville singer/songwriter Jonathan Winstead, a suave heartthrob… [read more]
Scott Weiland wants you to know that he’ll take you on. He’ll meet you in the back after the show. That’s what nearly happened last weekend. The star threatened to whip out the fisticuffs on an unimpressed audience member. During a show at NYC’s Irving Plaza on Saturday, the singer threatened to beat a heckler… [read more]
Jack White’s highly anticipated concert at Radio City Music Hall this Saturday left his fans pretty bent out of shape. And by “bent out of shape,” we mean “they were so pissed off that they nearly started a riot.” Good thing they don’t sell torches and pitchforks at concerts. Both White and the audience seemed… [read more]
In the new video for Joey’s Ramone’s “New York City,” filmmaker Greg Jardin brings Ramone back (along with scores of other celebrities and strangers) to the streets of NYC. Employing stop-motion film-making and over 100 random people, the video playfully moves through the city, making use of the numerous references to landmarks which Ramone makes… [read more]
The music world lost something great when CBGBs closed its doors in 2006; the venue was at the center of the beginnings of punk rock in America and hosted the first shows of such legendary bands as The Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and more. However, while the storefront on the Bowery is now a… [read more]
The Kooks play a brand of pub-pop (something between pub-rock and brit-pop – think the Kinks meets Kings of Leon) that eschews subtlety in favor broad melodic strokes and bouncy mid-tempo singalongs. Floor-level patrons held camera phones high and mezzanine-dwellers dangled Chuck Taylor-adorned feet over the crowd as the Kooks m the stage and cracked… [read more]
New York City (pop. eight million plus) doesn’t have a single country radio station. There are no real country venues in Manhattan, either, but Eric Church sold out the Bowery Ballroom two weeks before his CD release party. Church, an amiable outlaw, had pre-released the album to fans the day before, and by showtime the… [read more]
No disrespect intended, but venerable guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli played to a packed House of God at a midtown gig and, sitting just below the altar, the performance was nothing short of Heavenly. Spare and modern, St. Peter’s’ acoustics rival Carnegie Hall, and even Pizzarelli’s and Laub’s softest fingerings could be heard in the cheap pews…. [read more]
Swinging seamlessly from old-time-blues to rock, gospel and a smattering of soul, Shemekia Copeland tied her set together with confident and charming patter which ranged from serious thoughts in her head to the trendy shoes on her feet. Drawing heavily from her latest CD Never Going Back, Copeland delivered Buddy and Julie Miller (“Dirty Water”),… [read more]
