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Read MoreAn Intimate Evening with NYC Street Performers in SoHo
On Thursday, May 16th, we released our long awaited Coffee Table/Art-Style book, The Noise Beneath the Apple®, which celebrates the spirit of busking in New York City. The event was created by my friend Pamela DePalma of DePalma PR and hosted by the amazing Martin Lawrence Gallery in SoHo. Iceberg Vodka provided a tasty bar of vodka concoctions, DeckNYC brought the pop-up photo booth. It was an...
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Read MoreWilton Said: Prog Rock Indie Music Review
What makes modern prog so unappetizing for so many people? Is it the fear that the cheesy synth solos will arise? Is it the concern that anything even distantly related to Iron Butterfly should stay forever encircled in the 70’s? Is it just that top 40 music is so darn good nowadays? (It certainly could not be that). No. It must be because they are lacking imagination and are intimidated by songs longer...
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Read MorePriscilla Takes The Pantages With Glam and Glitz
Allow me to state my amateur status in the world of theatre, right up front. I am not an expert critic of all things Broadway; I am not schooled in the ways of stage and certainly lay no claim to understanding the politics or nuances of the world of show. I am a person who enjoys the color, the loudness, the obviousness, the bawdiness, and bodies leaping across a stage, voices booming into the air. In...
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Read MoreThe Easy Leaves Set to Take Outside Lands in Easy Form
One listen to The Easy Leaves and it’s easy to know why they are making music: they enjoy it. Whether playing a street corner, a barn dance or shooting a honky tonk video in a phone booth, they are bursting with innovative musical ideas that demand to be cut loose and heard. The swinging groove is pure, unadulterated Americana fun, that throbs to life under the lyrical wit and folksy charm of...
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Read MoreOutside Lands Music Festival, Greening and Gearing Up
Summer is here, the beer is chilled, the barbeques are fired up and festival season is upon us. With so many festivals happening around the globe, it would be impossible to even scratch the surface of the season; so I will focus on what’s literally, right in my own backyard: Outside Lands. Outside Lands is a music festival that is relatively young. The first one being held in 2008, in which Radiohead and...
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Read MoreSlim Loris’ Future Echoes and Past Replays Indie Music Review
From the quaint country of Sweden comes an organic sounding act of memorable proportions. ‘Slim Loris’ brands their own vivid picture of somber folk/rock balladry on their sophomore release Future Echoes and Past Replays. I connect the music here to a self-portrait. You see a bit of yourself in it. The lyrics by ‘Slim Loris’ are vague and interpretable. This gives you a sense of wonder, considering...
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Read MoreEmorie, Pink Dolls: Indie Music Review
I love the indie world sometimes, because it cuts out all that silly filler. You do not have to be subjected to awkwardly stylized, practiced, and scripted MTV interviews of your favorite (and non-favorite bands). You are not subject to these contrived record label marketing campaigns that see the label focusing more on ringtone and commercial sales than the actual content of the music. This is not to say...
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Read MoreAdam Zuniga, Discoveries is a Latin Infused Discovery That We LOVE! Indie World Artist In Review
I fell in love with the music of Adam Zuniga with almost comical spontaneity. It was the song Faraway Places but I guess it could have been any of these tracks from his second studio release, Discoveries. Discoveries is a tour-de-force blend of rhythmic jazz, ambient acoustics, and electronic dance music, or IDM. His efforts culminate in what fits nicely on a promotional press package- world music. But it...
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