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…
Phoenix-based and Philidelphia-born nerdcore hip-hop star Mega Ran came through Brooklyn for a second time this winter on Dec. 10. He rotund rapper was still riding high following the Summer time release of his album RNDM, which was released at…
Sepultura played the Marlin Room at Webster hall on Saturday night. Far from the largest room within the venue, It’s smaller size lent an air of intimacy that was entirely appropriate considering the band in question was Sepultura and the…
Louise Aubrie was made in London, where she started recording music at the famed Mill Hill Music Complex. However, she decided to move to New York, surround herself with fellow musicians and establish her signature sound – a mixture…
Swans’ front man Michael Gira always enjoyed being different and making music that sounded like nothing else on the world. With Thursday night’s sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg – the second of two in a row – he…
Better late than never I decided to blog about the Vintage Peacock Party I joined on December 16th this year. Few minutes after 4 PM I caught the last one from the rides. The attractive train, which was may be from…
While the New York autumn is approaching as beautifully as sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan more than a half-century ago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or simply the MET, provides two very good reasons to visit…
I just found this really cool blog about “the ghosts” of New York – the remains of different periods, through which the city went. Here is for example a menu of “a sophisticated restaurant” in Chinatown from the 1960’s… probably…
