“Come on, baby, let’s ride, we can escape to the great sunshine. I know your wife and she wouldn’t mind.” I love Lana Del Rey’s music for lines like this that give her songs a dark twist. She constantly evokes the secret…
Island is Fou De Toi’s attempt to write a happy song in contrast to their otherwise meloncholic repertoire. I think they succeeded. From the first guitar chord, Island chimes in like…well…chimes – bright and clean and warm. The singer’s voice resembles Chris Martin’s…
“I lived in New York for 12 years. My musical genes are from NY, “said Avishai Cohen during his long awaited show at the Highline Ballroom on June 22. The concert was a part of the annual Blue Note Jazz…
Soul Understated, co-led by Jeremy ‘BEAN’ Clemons and Mavis ‘SWAN’ Poole, took the stage at the Blue Note during the late night set on Friday the 13th. The show was part of the inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival. The festival,…
It’s hard for me to describe with words my astonishment to see Peter Murphy perform live in NYC, combined with the thrill of the unknown. It was my very first time, even though I’ve been a Bauhaus fan since I…
This song is light – in the cold, through the clouds, reflected off of snow – but ideally in the summer, and always near water. Or maybe it’s slipping into the warm ocean and dissolving into a thin film that…