Category: Music

  • PULSEWAVE

      >It’s cold outside! We’re warm inside! At PULSEWAVE We dance all sides! ANAMANAGUCHI make us jump to the right! CHIBI-TECH make us boogie boogie boogie! SASKROTCH make us bump bump bump! STARSCREAM make us swish to the left! We face forward! NOTENDO and VBLANK wow our eyes! Meet us at THE TANK, February 28th at 9:00pm! ===== Saturday, February 28th 2008 Doors at…

  • FLUXCONCERT 20090220-2

    Video of FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 Now Online! For those who missed it or those who want to relive it, video documentation from FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 is now online! FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 was a two evening performance of event scores written by Fluxus pioneer George Brecht. The house was packed, the energy was high, and the scores sung! Time-lapse video:  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=57852861923…

  • Next week to-do’s

    Howdy y’all, There’s some big business next week. Let’s start with my PICK OF THE WEEK: Juana Molina and Lukas Ligeti at le poisson rouge. Friday Feb 27 – $15. This is like stealing. I stumbled upon Juana Molina about 5 years ago when she was opening for Antibalas, and I have been in love…

  • Personalization of the Arts

    Okay so we’re starting to see a lot of change – part of it economic, part of it wrought by our old pal the internets. I’ve been writing about this elsewhere but can’t find my notes. Long story short – the kids with their danged iPods! Genius – generated playlists, Pandora, algorithms, DVRs – always connected,…

  • Tinariwen comes to California this spring

    [Editor’s note: this is the first posting from another new contributor, Culturebot’s dear friend Ellen Ratchye, live from Chicago! We’re expanding,  so watch out world!] First things first – nobody needs a reason to go to Coachella, Santa Barbara or San Francisco in mid-April. If you do go, I promise a unique delight await. Tinariwen…

  • Don’t Divorce Us

    You may have seen this already; if not, it is worth watching. Update: Vimeo doesn’t want to embed in WordPress. I’m working on it. Here’s the link. Beautiful, no?  I think it’s interesting that Regina Spektor agreed to give rights to her song for this video…

  • Antony on Fresh Air

    Antony Hegarty was on Fresh Air today with a lovely interview. Listen here. And even better, Antony performing Crazy in Love.

  • Dan Deacon sick of getting squished

    Friday night, an army of tight-denimed, neon-clad hipsterkidz shed a collective tear at the end of Brooklyn vs Baltimore, the battle of the bands produced by Todd P and Wham City. Dan Deacon announced that he was shifting gears and would no longer be performing his usual participatory rock and roll mania. Dan will be…

  • Nonsense Company in NYC

    Okay so these guys are good and I think you should go check them out.  One of the first things I did when I started fixing up IRT was to create and implement the residency program. NONSENSE COMPANY was the first (and only) out-of-state residency I put together. They’re here reprising the show they did…

  • Celan, Barbez, Jesurun + Templeton

    A Tribute To Poet Paul Celan Barbez: Force Of Light (Tzadik Records, 2007) With Dan Kaufman, guitar; Pamelia Kurstin, theremin; Danny Tunick, marimba and vibes; Peter Hess, clarinet and percussion; Catherine McRae, violin; Peter Lettre, guitar; Fiona Templeton, voice; Andrew Jones, bass; John Bollinger, drums; and John Jesurun, video.  “The accent of Scottish poet Fiona…

  • Erik Friedlander tonight and Thursday

    Erik Friedlander is playing twice within the next week. This is very good news for any fans of cello, contemporary jazz, or contemporary instrumental music in general. Friedlander is a mindblowing genre-crossing cellist and composer; he’s done a lot of modern jazz, American roots, choral pieces, and more. He’s collaborated with John Zorn, Mike Patton,…

  • Abrons Art Center: “Screen Test”.

    Screen Test is director and visual artist Rob Roth’s latest multi-disciplinary work, currently on show at the Lower East Side’s Abrons Art Center. The piece is a one-hour long eerie, haunting, and sometimes tickling performance that takes place in the nightmarish apocalyptic setting of a post-nuclear-holocaust scenario. It’s hard to describe exactly what happens during…