Unlikely to be able to participate in this thread since I am in Ireland and it will go live at midnight, but I will be curious to read it in the morning.... Two weekends ago was Newport Folk Festival. As always it was a lot....
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Not going to be around to discuss much this week til later, as I am presently at Newport Folk Festival. This week was devoted to music films. I saw three..
I was so lucky to get to see Swamp Dogg in Portland last weekend. Actually, no. That doesn't sell it. I got to see Swamp Dogg in Portland on his.
Time to talk some tunes. I've seen two shows in the last two weeks. One was Natalia Lafourcade, the Mexican cancion singer, at the Shubert Theater in Boston. I really enjoy older styles of Mexican music and Lafourcade is still pretty young but might the...
It's been a few weeks for one of these, not for any particular reason other than time to listen to the new albums I require before doing one. Usually when.
I don't have a ton of super interesting music stuff right now--in a concert drought and I didn't read anything I thought that amazing this week about music. But there.
I've spent the last week doing research at the University of Idaho. Moscow is very much not a live music center, so no shows for me. However, this place has a big piece of musical history. For some reason, Lionel Hampton used to come out...
I saw the drummer Pheeroan akLaff last Friday at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, my last live show for the next month, but it's been an amazing spring of live.
My music week was dominated by attending the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn, put on by the new music collective Bang on a Can that has become such an important.
I saw two excellent shows last week. I finally saw the great Rodney Crowell, at the Narrows Center in Fall River. I'm not sure why I had never seen him, I guess it just hadn't worked out. But of course I've listened to the great...
I finished watching the Netflix series Break It All: A History of Rock in Latin America this week and while I wouldn't say it is breaking any new ground in.
I had the privilege of seeing Tomeka Reid's A Tribute to Ellington project last week at Firehouse 12 in New Haven. The great (genius, one might say) cellist was commissioned.