We Das Racist, We Play Joke
We Das Racist, We Play Joke
Kevin Devine: What’s So Funny?
Brooklyn’s own Kevin Devine released his sixth full-length album September 15th of this year on Razor & Tie / Favorite Gentlemen Records. The album covers everything from the environment to love to the debt clock in New York. He distinguishes his latest album from his past work by experimenting with different sounds generated by a variety of instruments, [...]
Last Good Tooth: Scotch and Some Music
I caught up with Last Good Tooth, one of BRM’s Artists to Watch, during CMJ 2011. I went over to Sultan Studios in TriBeCa (as is turns out singer/guitarist Penn Sultan is the son of fairly prominent artist Donald Sultan), where I sat down with the quartet for a quick chat, and then had a glimpse [...]
Joe Pug: Between Me and the Audience
“It’s time for our generation to have a voice.” For Chicago, IL / Austin, TX-based musician Joe Pug, the artistic and political discourse of the baby-boomer generation—the dominant creative voice of the past fifty years—has had its turn. Pug represents an important change in the generational tide of American folk music. He spoke to BRM at his [...]
Catching Up With Kyle Henderson of The Producers
In the wake of the massive success that The Knack scored in 1979 with their debut album Get The Knack and its number-one hit “My Sharona,” the next few years witnessed what Rolling Stone once called a power pop panic. Every record company scrambled to sign a band with snappy tunes and skinny ties (sometimes more than one [...]
BAMcinématek Sound and Fury & Tudo Isto É Fado
The Brooklyn Academy of Music narrows in on Portugal this week with a Recent Portuguese Cinema series under the name of SOUND AND FURY (running until Tuesday, December 6, 2011) and musical event TUDO ISTO É FADO. This chapter of BAM’s 2011 Next Wave Festival features a number of contemporary artists that have been largely [...]
Q&A: Trentemøller
Danish producer Anders Trentemøller was in NYC with a full band last week for a show at Webster Hall. The performance was a success following a sold-out tour this past spring, which included performances at SXSW and Coachella, and BRM was lucky enough to slip in a quick Q&A with the artist before his leaving [...]
Maya Azucena
MAYA AZUCENA: Independent Queen
I’ll Be Your Mirror: All Tomorrow’s Parties in Asbury Park
Of all of the music festivals worth mentioning, ATP takes the cake. It operates without corporate sponsorship, reunites bands that have not performed for over a decade, brings hermit artists back onto the stage, mixes different media, be it music, literature, film, or visual arts, and musical genres in a way that pushes the boundaries [...]
Popped! Music Festival
Popped! Music Festival brought music to Philadelphia for the fifth time this past weekend. The two-day lineup was strong with headliners like The Shins, Pretty Lights, Panda Bear, and Cage the Elephant. But unfortunately for Popped!, the real story didn’t come from the music, but rather the fact that inclement weather forced the festival to [...]
