Time Out New York
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Time Out New York, farewell—what an amazing 13 years it was. I'll always be grateful. Please be good to my friends and colleagues, especially Hank and Seth.
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Yesterday, I missed my mark for my weekly Wandelwatching series, due to a combination of conflicting chores, duties and circumstances. I'll get to that post a bit later, but first, an acknowledgement of something that happened yesterday in the social-media realm. A Facebook post I wrote in the afternoon – intended to set the record
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Donna Lewis, by Marvin Joseph Donna LewisTime Out New YorkAug 15–21, 2013 Any self-respecting pop star would be delirious to have a hit like “I Love You Always Forever,” an irresistible bit of romantic treacle that launched Welsh singer Donna Lewis to global success in 1996. Same goes for “At the Beginning,” the uplifting
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Jordan Klassen (Photograph: Rachel Pick) Live preview: Jordan KlassenTime Out New YorkAug 1–7, 2013 “Let me give, let me talk, let me live in your pillow / Kill your fear, whisper words in your ear,” Jordan Klassen intones reassuringly on “Go to Me.” Slipping easily between intimacy and grandiosity, the track is the first single from Repentance,
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Anne Guthrie and Richard Kamerman (Photograph: Billy Gomberg) ErstAEU ShowcaseIssue Project Room; Sat 25 For some time now it’s been possible to labor under the impression that electroacoustic improvisation (or EAI) is exclusively available on import, primarily the domain of Japanese, German and English performers. Actually, that’s never been the case; Americans have contributed to
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Lauren Worsham, by Kristin Hoebermann Interview with Lauren Worsham [link missing]Time Out New York, Feb. 21–27, 2013 An excruciatingly short snippet from a lengthy, wide-ranging and brilliantly fun conversation with Lauren Worsham (full name: Lauren Worsham Jarrow), who plays Flora in New York City Opera's stylishly spooky production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of
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Choi Joonyong (Photograph courtesy Issue Project Room Preview: Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki at 155 FreemanTime Out New York, Feb. 7–13, 2013 It’s not as if music didn’t exist in South Korea before 2012. Prefab acts from Seoul had been conquering the world, one market at a time, for years; Super Junior, 2NE1 and Girls’
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The following is a Top Live Shows preview I wrote for the current issue (Nov. 1–7) of Time Out New York. The concert in question has been postponed indefinitely due to storm- and transit-related concerns, so I'll just post it here for the time being. Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet Bobby Redd Project Space; Sat 3 When
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Live preview: 2NE1Prudential Center; Aug 17Time Out New York, Aug 16–22, 2012 How and when South Korea’s pop-music industry began to insinuate itself in the U.S. isn’t altogether clear, but mounting evidence indicates that K-pop, a polyglot sound purveyed by a swelling stream of slick, energetic boy bands and girl groups developed by entertainment megacorps
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Porcupine Tree; photograph by Diana Nitschke Interview: Steven Wilson of Porcupine TreeThe Volume blogTime Out New YorkSept. 20, 2010 Founded in England at the onset of the 1990s, Porcupine Tree was originally passed off as a "forgotten" old-school prog-rock band. But yarn-spinning ceded to singer, guitarist and bandleader Steven Wilson's knack for reconciling vintage influences
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A fruitful middle ground between period and modern styles will come into sharp focus at Lincoln Center this week when conductor Iván Fischer leads two ensembles in a complete cycle of Beethoven’s nine symphonies
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, by Marco Borggreve Editor's note, 2016: The very first music-industry professional who ever talked to me about the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin said, "Keep an eye on this guy, he's being groomed as Levine's successor at the Met." That was in early 2009, when he was chiefly known for his work with the Orchestre
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The voice at the other end of the phone had a familiar Bronx honk. “Hey Steve, this is Ace Frehley calling.” I blurted out the first thing that came to my mind. “You’ve got to know how completely surreal that sounds to me.”
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Album review: Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the DarkSugar Hill Records, 2007Time Out New York, June 7–13, 2007Five stars (out of five) Had Boston-based singer Sarah Borges come along in the mid-1960s, she surely would have been roped into the Capitol stable alongside like-minded mavericks such as Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and
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