Aaron Lee Tasman's 'Get Over it Underdog' is a Daliesque mirror view of today’s world. An album for our times.
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
Everything here sounds worthy of the Stones, probably in no small part because it sounds as if they’re still having fun making music. If this is their coda, it's a good one.
Read More »Concert Review: Poiesis Quartet Plays Beethoven and a Jeff Scott Premiere
The players showed consummate skill in Beethoven's final string quartet and virtuosic enthusiasm in new music from Jeff Scott.
Read More »Music Reviews: Sad Daddy’s ‘Ozark Shine’ plus Two Albums of Vintage Soul
Sad Daddy includes Melissa Carper and might sometimes remind you of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. The band favors acoustic instruments and playful music.
Read More »Interview: Composer Jeff Scott on the NYC Premiere of ‘Tapestry of the Beloved Beatified’
"Each of these four figures, Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Jeanne Manford, and Xulhaz Mannan, carried a kind of radical tenderness into a world that often met them with hostility."
Read More »Music Review: ‘A Forest Unfolding’ – a Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."
Read More »Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Live from Asbury Park,’ plus the Knack, Iris DeMent, Rachelle Garniez, and R.W. Hampton
Springsteen’s return to his home turf lends a special flavor to this performance.
Read More »Concert Review: Simone Dinnerstein, Baroklyn, Concora Play Bach and Philip Glass at the Naumburg Bandshell
One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
Read More »Music Review: Noah Meites – ‘COUNTING’
Let your mind create its own pictures...
Read More »Music Reviews: Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser,’ Gene Parsons’s ‘Kindling and Beyond,’ and More
“Today, I looked in the mirror, and I caught me by surprise. The man I saw lookin’ back at me, I almost didn’t recognize."
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