Time Out New York
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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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Christina Vantzou, by Julie Calbert Christina Vantzou + CC CaranaTime Out New YorkAug 8–14, 2013 The ability to write music that can seize attention or fade into the background equally well is a unique skill, and Christina Vantzou has it in abundance—no surprise for a creator who started in visual art, film and animation. Originally
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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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Mantra Percussion, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2013 Michael Gordon's new percussion sextet, Timber, ended up on both my year-end Top 10 list for Time Out New York (details of which will come in a subsequent post) and
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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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Photograph: Roberto Sanchez Interview: CaifanesTime Out New York, Oct 6–12, 2011 In this article about the seminal Mexican alt-rock band Caifanes, recently reunited and now en route to New York's Hammerstein Ballroom for an October 12 show, I start by evoking the reunions of Led Zeppelin, Cream and the Pixies. For admirers of rock en
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"In Brooklyn, a New Leader Who Knows No Boundaries"The New York Times, October 2, 2011 An article about the arrival of Alan Pierson as the new artistic director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, an esteemed ensemble that has known tremendous highs and disheartening lows over the years. At a time when the orchestra is not only
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The Juilliard Orchestra with John Adams at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, February 21, 2011 The night after this concert, I finally got to see the Metropolitan Opera's new production of John Adams's opera Nixon in China, presented in the original 1987 staging by Peter Sellars–more or less. Many reviews appeared after the premiere earlier
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CD REVIEW: Ben Johnston: String Quartets 1, 5, 10Kepler QuartetNew World Records 80693-2; CD.The New York Times, February 20, 2011 Amazon / Ariama / ArkivMusic / Forced Exposure / H&B Recordings Direct A review of the second volume in an invaluable series devoted to the complete string quartets of Ben Johnston, an amazing, undersung
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Photograph: Tina Tahir/DG Anne-Sophie MutterThe illustrious German violin virtuoso is this season's artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.Time Out New York, November 18-24, 2010
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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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(Published this afternoon on The Volume. Photograph by Naomi Ellenson.) Introducing his anthemic "Never Say Never" during a New York City concert on Tuesday night, teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber barked through a litany of stock affirmations, extolling the value of self-confidence and determination to the assembled thousands of shrieking preteen girls who—we were to
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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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