Recent Coverage
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Turns Holiday Standards on Their Head
New York State Music, December 21,2024
By Aidan Lukomnik, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
That was the theme that prevailed throughout the show: you ain’t heard it this way before. Across an hour and a half of music, standard holiday compositions were eschewed for new ways to play, throwing each song into a new context and making the audience consider their perception of just what a holiday song sounds like.
Moon Hooch Brings Relentless Energy to Bowery Ballroom
New York State Music, December 10,2024
By Aidan Lukomnik, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
If you want to rave to a collection of saxophones and woodwinds, then Moon Hooch is the band for you. Yes it’s weird, yes it’s wild, and yes it’s a fun show to dance to.
Moshing to Telescreens at Webster Hall
New York State Music, November 22,2024
By Aidan Lukomnik, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
You want a rock concert? A mosh-pitting, floor-bouncing, head-yelling, crowd-surfing rock show? That’s exactly what Telescreens brought to Webster Hall on November 19. Hometown fans crowded the 1,500-person Grand Ballroom and for a few hours were swept up in the power of rock.
BONUS TRACKS: Brooklyn Folk Festival and Other Moments of Musical Joy
No Depression, November 15,2024
By Meredith Lawrence, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
Last Friday evening in Saint Anne’s Church on opening night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival...
Sammy Rae and The Friends bring Heartfelt Joy and Community to Terminal 5
New York State Music, November 11,2024
By Aidan Lukomnik, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
Sammy Rae & The Friends brought soulful vocals, upbeat rhythms, sweet horns, and a genre-crossing show to Terminal 5 on Friday, November 8. Most importantly, they brought heartfelt joy and community to a packed venue when it was so needed - less than a week after the most contentious election in recent history.
One of Brooklyn’s brighter folk stars is just 18
Brooklyn Magazine, November 15,2023
By Meredith Lawrence, Photo Credit Aidan Lukomnik
Nora Brown has already recorded four albums and a Tiny Desk session on an unlikely instrument for a teen: a banjo…