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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 3, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 28-December 4. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 26, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 21-27. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 19, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 14-20. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 12, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 7-13. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 5, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 31-November 6. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 29, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 24-30. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online has been repaired, but I'll provide them again here anyway. Why not? (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Ralph van
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 22, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 17-23. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still going strong, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Baruch
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 15, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 10-16. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still doing its thing, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Le
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 3-9. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online remains at large, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) David Geffen Hall,
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 24, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 19-25. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 11-18. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]
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Daniel Land One of the things I've always cherished about Brian Eno's 1982 album Ambient 4: On Land is the sense it gives of occupying a space that's somewhere and nowhere at once. Like Ambient 1: Music for Airports, its better known predecessor, On Land is part of Eno's classic sequence of four albums denoted
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Formed in 1966 in the city whose banner it would fly around the globe, the Art Ensemble of Chicago turned 50 in 2016. Of the longtime classic lineup – saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and percussionist Don Moye – two, Bowie and Favors, have passed away, and one, Jarman,
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Steven Tyler, by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 28, 2016 XENIA RUBINOS This dependably vital, consistently inventive singer and rapper continues to twist her Afro-Caribbean cultural and musical roots into unexpected and instantly appealing new branches, the likes of which can be heard on her powerful new album, “Black Cat.” Aug. 31, 9 p.m.
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Bent Knee, by Ben Stas for the Boston Globe The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 25, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think
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Black Sabbath The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 21, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think of this as paying your last respects. Aug. 25,
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Zac Brown Band, by Josh Reynolds for the Boston Globe The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 18, 2016 ZAC BROWN BAND Though their flag is nominally planted in the country-music world, Brown and his Atlanta cohorts are seasoned hands at reaching across the aisles to invite poptimists, jam-bandsters, and rockers into their party. Saturday’s
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X The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 14, 2016 X Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake: Now and always, this simply is one of the very best bands that American music has ever produced, punk or otherwise. The group’s latest trek — “Re-Zoomed,” so called because of guitarist Billy’s recovery from a cancer
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EPMD, by Simon Abrams The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 11, 2016 EPMD The influential hip-hop duo of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith is back in business again, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a road trip focused on its classic 1988 debut LP, “Strictly Business.” Aug. 13, 8 p.m. $25, advance $22. Middle East,
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