Highline Ballroom is always on the top list of venues that you can go to and be truly ENTERTAINED. I mean…singing the songs to all of your jams […]
MUSIC: Hiatus Kayote Live At The Village Underground
Keeping up with a Coachella week where youtube clips tease you with live acts you missed is another live concert. Couchsessions fav’s Hiatus Kaiyote played London’s famed Village […]
EVENT PREVIEW: Art of Cool Music Festival
When you hear of Durham, NC, you probably think of big tobacco or its reputation as a hotbed for college basketball. The people behind The Art of […]
LIVE: Tawiah at Rockwood Music Hall
For most of the millennium, the United States has suffered a trade deficit when it comes to R&B and Soul. Led first by Amy Winehouse, an endless stream […]
RBMA 2013: Flying Lotus
The Red Bull Music Academy grows larger and larger; in it’s original incarnation it was to help talented musicians collaborate and feed off each other. In the 2013 […]
LIVE: Art Don’t Sleep – That 70s Soul, The Mayan Theater (LA)
Two sets of soul music with guest appearances and cameos by legends, That 70s Soul lasted until nearly 1 a.m. on a school night. This was my first […]
LIVE: Dan Black at the Absolut Encore Series
Photos: Reginald Duvivier Crossing through Columbus Park in NYC’s Chinatown, one would not expect to find a packed den anticipating the return of Dan Black and his upbeat […]
LIVE: Cody ChesnuTT at Mercury Lounge
An exuberant energy permeated the crowd at Mercury Lounge Friday night as the audience waited for Cody ChesnuTT to take the stage. The Brooklyn-based indie group, Ava Luna, […]
LIVE: The Foreign Exchange at the Key Club (LA)
There is nothing quite like an evening with The Foreign Exchange. It is part soulful introspection, part music for lovers, part hip-hop influenced mid-tempo grooves, part secular gospel […]
LIVE: Mark De Clive-Lowe + Friends, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA.
“Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.” Tony Wilson, from 24 Hour Party People. I have never been a Jazz purist. I prefer 1970s […]