Category: Music

  • the new kid & jollyship the whiz-bang

    hello hello! I’m Rachel Karpf, the new addition to the team Andy mentioned a few days ago. I’m a director, grant writer, and sometime producer based in Fort Greene. I’ll be contributing my thoughts on Culturebot’s theater beat and general NYC arts news/gossip. Behind the scenes, I’ll be ramping up our planning to make sure…

  • exit at the axis

    Thursday night I was feeling exhausted. I had been through a bunch of meetings all day, tons of work and stuff. Then I went to a work-in-progress showing of some new work. I was really rundown and pretty much just going to go home and get some sleep. But I had gotten an email a…

  • Darmstadt at IPR

      From my friend Nick: Zach Layton and I present our first DARMSTADT festival this week at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM in Brooklyn, entitled ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE. Over the course of six concerts beginning tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, we present a loose survey of our favorite composers hailing from New York’s experimental continuum: John Cage and Morton Feldman…

  • Here Arts Center: “Arias With a Twist”

    A red velvet curtain slowly opens…to reveal a dark hanging curtain. After a few moments, this layer peels off as well, onto a screen of faux leopard skin. The audience laughs. We are so close to the stage and the small theater makes me hungry for more space. Every time the curtain lifts, I hope…

  • Soldier Songs @ Poisson Rouge

    This looks neat: On September 6 & 7, Le Poisson Rouge, will present the Beth Morrison Projects’ premiere of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs. Soldier Songs is an evening-length multimedia performance piece from composer David T. Little. Comprised of 11 songs with an original Libretto by the composer, the work combines elements of theater, opera,…

  • Non Sequitur Summer Festival

    This looks cool. My friend Cheryl B. send it in: CCi ComposersCollaborative inc presentsNON SEQUITUR Summer Festival The Flea Theater, NYC Aug 19-23 Rejection: a series of slips and falls composers David First, Jed Distler, Jennifer Griffith, Kate Soper, Sima Wolf poets Anselm Berrigan, Bakar Wilson, Cheryl Burke, Douglas A. Martin, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, and…

  • deerhoof on wnyc

    WNYC and NPR Music will team up to present a special live webcast of Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music’s presentation of Deerhoof and Metropolis Ensemble at the Prospect Park Bandshell, on Friday, July 18th at 7:30pm.  The concert can be heard on WNYC2, WNYC’s 24-hour online music service, available at www.wnyc.org, and at www.npr.org/music. WNYC’s…

  • Aimee Mann at the Highline

    Okay so maybe I am just an old softy. So what? So what if I love Aimee Mann? The bigger question is who is going to take me to the show since its sold out?

  • Ah Leah

    So I was going to this party and I was listening to my iPod and this song came on. I forgot I downloaded it. Then I met someone named Aliya and I thought of this song again. I love YouTube! It is a great song but it is an amazing artifact, the video is from…

  • Enter the Conquering Chicken

    The GITS Movie July 4 – 10, 2008 The Pioneer Theater http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer From the website: Rumored to have been descended from Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, the incredibly magnetic frontwoman had a powerful, soulful voice that belied her inherent shyness and distinguished The Gits from other punk bands of that day. This riveting documentary is part…

  • Oh, Miley!

    As long-time Culturebot readers will know, I have an ongoing fascination with the evolution of the Teen age Girl In Popular Culture, beginning with Valley Girl in the early 80’s, through Clueless in the 90’s to Britney and, now, Miley Cyrus. One day I guess I’ll go to grad school and write a thesis. Or…

  • La Mar Enfortuna at The Stone

    My friend Daniel just wrote about these guys in the current issue of HEEB. I have been told it is going to be an awesome show. La Mar Enfortuna Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:00 pm The Stone (ave C and 2nd st) Oren Bloedow (guitar) Jennifer Charles (voice) Brahim Fribgane (oud) Ted Reichman (accordion) Zafer…