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 force in modern music. What I like about this festival is that it is fundamentally...
tomeka reid
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.
Last weekend was Big Ears, which for me and many others is far and away the best music festival in America. Approaching this festival for a second time, I took.
A couple of weeks ago, several LGM writers descended upon Athens, Georgia. The putative reason was the Drive By Truckers homecoming in Athens, which we had all wanted to go to. But the real reason...and this was a great reason!!!!.....was to see The Paranoid Style...
So....Big Ears....... Yeah, man, that was a lot. Like, it was the greatest music weekend of my entire life, just an amazing celebration of sounds in one of my favorite.