by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Chvrches Shows Out In NYC, Opener Potty Mouth Nearly Stole The Show
After turning out Radio City Music Hall the night before, Chvrches came onto the familiar stage at Terminal 5 on October 15 looking warm and comfortable. This was the group’s fifth time playing the cavernous venue on the banks of…
As of 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today, Portland-based orchestral progressive post-rock quartet Small Leaks Sink Ships is part of the Lefse Records stable. They teased that they are working on a new record to follow their 2014 indie masterpiece…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Captain Squeegee Defeats Evil with Music in New Video “Dually Noted”
Phoenix, Arizona’s Captain Squeegee may not be winning MTV VMAs, but the atomic jazz fusion act are in the video vanguard nonetheless. The seven-piece horn-led acid trip has spent the last two and a half years vigorously releasing videos from…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on PizzaFest 3: Code name Pizza Fist
There isn’t a soul on the planet who is going to mistake King Pizza Records annual barnstormer PizzaFest for Coachella, but if you talk to King Pizza founder Greg Hanson you will quickly find that glitz, glamor and money were…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Underground Music Festival Bridging Cross Country Musical Gaps
When most people talk about building a musical community, they are talking about working with bands and fans within a 10 mile to 20 mile radius. When Idio Gallery founder, Montana Simone says it, she’s talking about bridging the gap…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on SEEING SOUNDS – Daniel Morrow presents The Bedford Green Project
NYC’s hottest multimedia experience, The Bedford Green Project, merges music and cinema into one mad experimental night of total artistic freedom, in the process redefining synesthesia – the state of mind when you can see the sounds and hear the…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Okkyung Lee at the Stone: 6 nights, 12 shows, 1 interview.
Okkyung Lee, an experimental Korean cellist, held a six day residency at the Stone, a very unique and special performance space in East Village. Founded in 2005 by John Zorn, the Stone is 100% dedicated to music. It’s very discreet:…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Palmiro Dechevski solo exhibition in Plovdiv for six years HebrosArt Gallery
Today I had the pleasure to go to the opening of the new solo exhibition of my uncle Palmiro Dechevski, celebrating the 6th birthday of Plovdiv Gallery HebrosArt. Palmiro graduated in Krakow with majors in scenograrhy and graphics. He mixes…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Brooklyn Museum praises diverse glam art scene at its Artists Ball 2013
Last Wednesday night Brooklyn Museum brought out creativity and glamor in an eclectic style for its annual Brooklyn Artists Ball held every spring for over 150 years. Photo by Ettore Lo Iacono The party started with a swanky cocktail reception…
Yesterday I went to the opening reception of “Protest” – a group exhibition running from February 18 to March 17 in a cute gallery in Bed-Stuy – on the corner of Halsey and Marcus Garvey blvd. “Protest” includes the painters…