Hours left and I’m super excited – follow Flowers In A Gun on Instagram @flowersinagun for live updates from the Marilyn Manson show tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom!!! If you haven’t gotten a ticket yet it’s a good idea to check…
“I’m a Fool to Want You” is a 1951 pop and jazz standard song composed by Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, and Joel Herron and first released by Frank Sinatra as a Columbia Records single. The ballad has been covered multiple times by artists in many genre. As a lover of beautiful, sentimental songs about love I picked two of my favorites – the late Bob Dylan and the eternal Billie Holiday.
With this I’m starting a new fun rubric in the blog – vote for your favorite in comments (I hope it lasts longer:P)!
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On a Wednesday night I headed from my Harlem apartment to Rough Trade in Brooklyn to check Eureka The Butcher, The Dead Ships and Le Butcherettes. It was my first time in the venue and I was pleasantly surprised.…
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…
My preparation for the New Year began with security and getting wristbands for admission and drinks for the annual Gogol Bordello show at Terminal 5 – (music venue in Hell’s Kitchen with a capacity of 3,000 people.) Inside the concert…
Nashville-turned-Brooklynite folk pop singer-songwriter Ron Pope will present his brand new album “Ron Pope & The Nighthawks” just a day after the album’s release on the stage of Irving Plaza. While still on tour in 2014. Pope gathered his favorite…
No, for real – Spanish folk rockers Stormy Mondays recently won NASA’s space rock contest, ensuring their music would be played in space on board the Endeavor Space Shuttle. How cool is that to start with! Anyway, I’m bringing Stormy…
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…
On a Friday night I ventured to the Pianos to see Fishdoctor – a Brooklyn based indie rock band, self-described as guys who “drink tea and make music.” Well, there was no tea, but they were definitely making music. Not a typical…
I’ve always liked Ohio bands (except The Black Keys, but I don’t really want to open this topic) so here is one that I got submission from last week and caught my attention. Alternative rockers Kid Tested just released their…
