Happy 2012 live music freaks! Hope you all had a killer 2011 and finished it off with a bang and some good shows!
Last week was obviously a busy week for live music fans in the New York metro area, so naturally, the concert calendar slows down a bit this week as we start the new year. But that’s not to say there aren’t some great shows to hit.
Before digging into the week’s list of shows and recs, please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving this weekly series of concert calendar posts. I’m always looking for ways to make these posts more informative and useful for New York-area concert fans, so please drop me a comment or send me an email.
Ok, back to business…read on for the full run-down of this week’s interesting shows. READ MORE
For whatever reason, in music, as is the case in just about any other line of work, some days don’t glue themselves to the long term memory bank like the others. However, on any given night, certain indescribable circumstances can converge, lightning-and-a-bottle can be captured, magic can happen, and an unforgettable live music experience is forged deep into the hippocampus for both the fans and artists themselves. These are the concerts, life events, and peak professional moments we hoped to capture in this feature by asking a few standard questions about the year in music to some of our favorite artists.
This is a week to give thanks. Thanks to family, friends, good health, good food, and…..multi-night runs in NYC! Yep, for some reason, this week in NYC shows seems to be the week of two- and three-night stands including Allen Toussaint, the Cure, moe., M83 and Robert Randolph & the Family Band, just to name a few.
Here’s the breakdown of the week’s concert highlights with some video accompaniment… READ MORE
The 10th Annual Ponderosa Stomp will be held next Friday and Saturday at The Howlin’ Wolf, today organizers released the daily schedules for the event. For more information on the festival, go here. Continue on for the schedule.
The influence of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and venues like Tipitina’s that provide late night live music to fans is extremely prevalent in the spirit of Bonnaroo – a 24-hour, anything goes musical city set in the hills of Middle Tennessee each summer.
This weekend, iClips will be webcasting sets from this year’s New Orleans Jazz Festival, where our esteemed Editor-in-Chief is currently having a blast. The broadcast starts Saturday and includes some big-name sets like Arcade Fire, Jeff Beck, Robert Plant, Jimmy Buffett and Wilco, along with some more classic NOLA Jazz Fest artists like Allen Toussaint, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Galactic, George Porter Jr., and the Neville Brothers. Read on for the full webcast schedule.
For lots more Jazz Fest coverage, be sure to follow the official LMB twitter feed and stay up-to-date with LMB’s NOLA blog. READ MORE
