Tag Archives: Music
From the Basement: Sun Puddles and Real Good ~ Michael Del Priore
If you don’t hang out much with the punk crowd, going to some basement shows can feel like stumbling upon a long lost tribe. People in cut up jean shorts and sleeveless t-shirts gather to take part in holy rituals at houses like the Alamo as if they were hollowed temples. Every inch of the walls is covered in the sacred images of DIY band posters, makeshift artwork, and oversized reprints of Ziggy cartoons.
From The Basement: Harpoon Forever and Fugue ~ Michael Del Priore
Finding a basement show in New Brunswick takes some couth. It’s like the line in Swingers “You tell a chick you’ve been some place, it’s like bragging that you know how to find it.” The speakeasy romanticism of the whole local scene is its exclusivity, the delightful feeling you’re getting away with something the outside world wouldn’t understand.
On Being Friends With Musicians ~ Danny Cassidy
Again the embrace: a makeshift circle,
guitar wire scratch, the plucking of strings.
Earlier you asked me why I grow so
quiet with the music of friends.
Coming Soon: Big Fat Marker and JVP Exclusive Video! ~ Matia Guardabascio
Recently I met the band Big Fat Marker at a basement show in New Brunswick. I was so impressed by the fluidity of their sound and the chemistry between the band members that I felt obliged to say a few words about what I heard.
PRESS RELEASE: Collaborative Arts April & May Art Exhibition
Collaborative Arts (coLAB Arts) is a non-profit organization located in New Brunswick, NJ, dedicated to the development and presentation of emerging local artists. coLAB Arts’ mission is to cultivate a hip, mindful, and inclusive Hub City community of artists, audiences, and critics, empowered to create inspired and inspiring art.
Alfa Art Gallery Press Release: Upcoming Events
November 13th, 2010 – “Mike Gyampo’s Open Studio” – Featuring LIVE African music Drum Ensemble Saxophone – James Roy Gyembe – Zanne Morris Gyembe – Ronald Staley Bangos – Melvin… Read more
Value on All Levels: The Production of Music Using Symbolic Quality in Samples ~ Brendan Kaplan
Whatever one may say, it is impossible to deny the power of music to make humans feel emotion. Even if one is personally unable to feel a connection to specific instances of sound, that person, at the same time, would readily admit that others seem connected to it. How does music, these arbitrary arrangements of patterns of sound, elicit these feelings of connectedness from us?
A Letter for José González ~ Jhoany Benitez
José, I am helplessly hypnotized by the sound of your voice, so soft, inviting, and majestic. Your fingers move ever so swiftly, and with such dexterity across the strings of… Read more
A Clear Blurr – Glen Gabriel
When I think of “a rock band’s lead singer and his house,” I imagine a big house in the hills surrounded by other towering houses with a Cadillac parked in the driveway. However, as I pull up to the Kenneys’ place, home of the lead singer of A Clear Blurr, I see no mansions and certainly no hills. Tom Kenney’s house is on a dead end of a street with neighbors whose houses hardly resemble mansions and whose cars all look to have been made before I was born.
Wednesday March 31st 2010
The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition Today’s Submission by: Matia Guardabascio 1. Recommendation of the Day: Check out “The Wanderer Sessions” from Pollifax. If you want to hear some quality, spur… Read more
