Author: Noreña

Fiona Silver @ Mercury Lounge

When I first heard Fiona Silver sing, I was taken aback by how rich and velvety her voice sounds. Watching it emanate from such a petite and girlish frame I was certain it was an affectation, like successfully imitating the…

Thelvnguage/The Textiles at Pianos

Thelvanguage/The Textiles A cold Saturday night in February, and I’d turned the corner onto Ludlow. Once past the black clad, gorilla doormen insisting they’d reached capacity and a fickle crowd of pre-gaming college types, I made it to the showroom…

Jazz at Zinc Bar

  Aubrey Johnson delicately holds the mic in her hand as she sings into it with her eyes closed and brow slightly furrowed. She doesn’t strain to reach a particular note so much as to find the right tone to…

Tehnoloogiline Paike “Technological Sun”

Tehnoloogiline Paike is an experimental electronic pop group from Estonia, with the notable credit under its belt as the 2012 “Album of the Year” award recipient from the Estonia Music Awards. Their third release is a 7 track LP entitled…

The Legal Aid Society: Second Annual Winter Benefit 01/28/16

The Legal Aid Society is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing legal representation to low-income New Yorkers. With offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn and specializing in Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Rights Practices, they bear out through works their belief,…

David Bowie R.I.P.

I was never a Bowie fan (Sacrilege, I know). I didn’t dislike the guy; it’s just that nothing about his involvement in the worlds of high fashion or movies or synth-pop endeared him to me, and the latter was his…

Ron Pope + The Nighthawks @ Irving Plaza 01/09/16

Ron Pope is a singer/songwriter who plays an accessible style that meanders between country-pop-ballad, on its softer side, and a markedly southern rhythm and blues, on its edgier. Running through it all is an attention to lyrical and emotional detail…

Matt Wilson’s Christmas TREE-O ’15 @ Jazz Standard

The Jazz Standard is the internationally renowned music venue beneath the Blue Smoke restaurant. Down a flight of steps and into a dimly lit bar and dinning area, the room gives way to a stage. Wall sconces and votive candles…