Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Masked men opened many of the YLT Hanukkah shows this year Yo La Tengo Hanukkah 2008 @ Maxwell's in Hoboken Oneida and Paul F. Tompkins opened . Mix disc by Aesop Rock. Special guests = Janet Weiss & Britt Daniel . The Magnetic Fields opened and John Hodgman opened . Mix disc by Steve Shelley. Special guest = Doug Gillard & Ira's mom . John Zorn & Marc Ribot and Slovin & Allen...
Just Another Blog (From L. A.)™ (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
From David Hajdu, the dilrod who doesn't like John Zorn , an "appreciation" of Will Elder, who is accused by Mr. Hajdu of being & remaining "juvenile" & "immature." Fuck you & the mature, adult horse you rode in on, Hajdu. As you're so mature & sophisticated, Dave, why don't you finish shoving the Rod Of Upright- & Uptightness all the way up your ass & start reviewing the symphony & other,...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... to fine, elegiac music on “Force of Light,” an album distributed by the prolific jazz artist John Zorn. On Jan. 7, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Kaufman and his band, Barbez, will play the album, while the Scottish performance artist Fiona Templeton reads selections from Celan’s work, against a backdrop of video imagery by John Jesurun. When he won the Bremen Prize, in...
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Despite being a cool, downtown NYC jazz act with roots in the early Nineties avant-garde scene of John Lurie and John Zorn, no one loves Medeski, Martin & Wood like the patchouli-loving, Birkenstocks-on-the-weekend hippie in the next cubicle. MM&W's supersonic organ funk jams with DJ Logic in the...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... unknowingly into "RIPPER a.ka. The Pillows," the latter sounding like Perry Farrell fronting John Zorn's avant-jazz band Naked City. [ Lost at Sea ] The band formerly known as Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys are playing a show with Extra Life , John Dwyer & Sam Hillmer (mems ohsees, Zs), and John Fell Ryan of Excepter tonight/Friday (1/2) at Death By Audio . The show...
