-
Circumnavigator. Dan Hoyle circled the globe on a grant two years ago from the Chicago-based Circumnavigators Club, using its money to develop a piece of "journalistic...
-
Special Gunpowder is the first original recording from DJ rupture, a producer who initially caused a stir with his 2001 mix tape, Minesweeper Suite. On that disc, he deftly...
-
ONGOING
There's something inherently spooky about solitary confinement, damp concrete, and the lurking spirits of former prisoners. The Alcatraz Night Tour is limited to a...
-
Little Conor Oberst, bless his heart. We've watched him grow up right before our eyes, much like the zany girls of The Facts of Life. Although, in his case, he's gone from...
-
ONGOING 11/3-20
The work in artist Xylor Jane's "Twin Prime" exhibition is mathematical, controlled, and, with one exception, square. It's minimal, if not formally...
-
There's a basic principle in both hip hop and dating that Prince Po long ago violated: Never stand next to someone more attractive than yourself; it makes you look bad. As one...
-
FRI 11/5
"Pre-blues" may sound like the feeling you get right before your emotions take a major dip off the happiness meter. But it's actually a more technical term,...
-
Frank Black may be the godfather of quirk rock, but everyone would agree that much of the luster has been lacking since the Pixies originally disbanded, which is why Frank...
-
Modern-day indie rock owes a huge debt to Pavement, and Crooked Rain is arguably the pinnacle of the band's career: all endearing sloppiness; disses on the Smashing Pumpkins;...
-
Writing this column feels like something of an exercise in futility. After all, by the time you read this -- assuming this whole voting thing goes smoothly, which it probably...
-
Let's start at the end and move backwards. The night was drawing to a close, and I was at the end of the bar at Lefty O'Douls in Union Square.
"He was dead for nine hours...
-
In an effort to acknowledge the wide-ranging music culture of Brazil and its contribution to the evolution of American jazz -- most notably via the bossa nova craze of the...
-
By Tamara Palmer, Philip Sherburne and Brock Keeling Published:
November 3, 2004
Experienced DJs Sake-One, J-Boogie, and Jesse Saunders (who released the first house record in the '80s) will be on hand at Club Six to preside over a different sort of...