by Downtown Magazine | Aug 7, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
In support of their debut full-length album, Gentle Warnings, Jack + Eliza will be going on a tour…of Manhattan, today, August 7th. The duo will be working their way uptown throughout the day, starting at Gansevoort and Washington Street at 12 p.m.,...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 6, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
As referenced in recent articles of mine about Toto and Chicago, there’s a strange level of fame that a lot of very successful artists over 50 may find themselves in. On one hand, they had a lot of hit songs, sold millions of albums, and have been playing arenas and...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 4, 2015 | Culture, Music
Switchfoot may have first made waves on rock radio with “Meant To Live,” yet 2003’s The Beautiful Letdown was actually the band’s fourth album. Switchfoot formed in 1996 – meaning that its 20th anniversary is just around the corner – and its three albums prior to...
by Downtown Magazine | Jul 29, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Los Angeles-based Eleni Mandell came onto the singer/songwriter scene in the late 1990s with a splash, working on her debut album with the legendary Jon Brion. Several years later in 2001, on the opposite coast, The New Yorker called Eleni “the best unsigned artist in...
by Downtown Magazine | Jul 28, 2015 | Culture, Music
Mark Piro has been a fixture in the downtown music scene for over 10 years as a record label employee (Razor & Tie Entertainment, Good Morning Monkey Records), and musician (The Shaker Pegs). Working his way up at Razor & Tie after finishing studies at NYU,...
by Downtown Magazine | Jul 24, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
The career of John McCauley is both complex and interesting. He is the singer and primary songwriter behind Deer Tick, who has released five critically-acclaimed albums and a handful of EPs over the past eight years. While that would be enough for the majority of...
