Bon Iver can’t seem to get enough of New York… though you could probably say that about him and any major U.S. city these days. Justin Vernon—the Wisconsin-based singer-songwriter who goes by Bon Iver (pronounced "bohn eevair")—has been touring nearly non-stop this year since the realease of his haunting debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, Read More
At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Union Hall, a bar in Park Slope, there will be a screening of Yacht Rock, a series of absurdist, documentary-style shorts in the style of This Is Spinal Tap and the classic SNL sketch about Blue Öyster Cult featuring Will Ferrell and a cowbell. Yacht Rock purports Read More
I am a working musician. I have spent countless hours traversing interstates from coast to coast, in vehicles crammed with fellow band members, crew, road cases and instruments. Road maps are burned into my brain like aging memories of family.
Touring once in a while is hard enough, but surviving months of engagements, booked by Read More
When Steely Dan was last a major part of the pop music marketplace, it was the summer of 1980, and their final hit-”Hey, Nineteen,” about an older guy dating a young girl who shares none of his cultural references, like Aretha Franklin-was wedged into the Billboard charts between such sappy ballads as “Endless Love” and Read More
