A Conversation With Yoko Ono
Not everyone is a longtime Yoko Ono fan, but after her candid, relaxed interview with Anthony DeCurtis, fence-sitting attendees became fans. On the stump for her new book, Yoko Ono … Read more
Not everyone is a longtime Yoko Ono fan, but after her candid, relaxed interview with Anthony DeCurtis, fence-sitting attendees became fans. On the stump for her new book, Yoko Ono … Read more
John Mayall brought his current band to the City Winery and brought the house down with a performance that justifies his legendary status. The band consists of Mayall, guitarist Rocky … Read more
I brought two Frenchwomen who had never heard of James Hunter to City Winery, and unsurprisingly, by … Read more
All photos by Derek Meade The motto for the Jazz Foundation of America is “Saving jazz and blues one musician at a time.” For the past 13 years, the … Read more
In case you’ve somehow missed him, Henry Butler is perhaps today’s leading practitioner of classic New Orleans piano, that idiosyncratic blend of jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, Caribbean, R&B and on and … Read more
When the ArtsQuest Center (Musikfest Café’s home) opened three and a half years ago, a friend and I casually speculated, “Hey, maybe they’ll book Drive-By Truckers.” Prior to this gleaming … Read more
The room was packed and the energy high for a performance powerful enough to give Williamsburg a … Read more
Text and photos by Bob Gottlieb The John Jorgenson Bluegrass Group (John Jorgenson, Herb Pedersen, Jon Randall and Mark Fain) deliver bluegrass with a touch that no one else … Read more
Weezer is a band with a complicated history. They have spent most of their career alternating between … Read more
As NPR tastemaker Bob Boilen so pithily described CMJ: “60 something bands in five days. Lots of pizza & friends.” Though our tally of CMJ performances may not quite match … Read more