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Red Bull Music Academy Festival to Rock NYC

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Calendar for The Red Bull Academy Music Festival

 

The Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York will launch on May 1 with 15 public events spanning the entire month.

The festival is unique in its variety of venues and show styles. Venues include restaurants, traditional concert halls, and the streets of New York City. D’Angelo, Panda Bear, Hudson Mohawke, David Byrne, Tim Hecker, Napalm Death, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), and Kele Okereke (Bloc Party) are just a few of this year’s performers.

This will be second time Red Bull is bringing the music festival to New York since 2001. The academy takes applicants from all round the world, from established musicians to up-and-coming hopefuls. No expertise is required to apply, only a strong passion and talent for music. Participation is not limited to musicians. The festival also welcomes participation from  producers, vocalists, beat-makers, engineer, songwriter or DJ.

Most events this year take place in Brooklyn, but the Larry Levan Street Party on May 11 will be Downtown on King Street between Varick and Hudson. Honoring the late trailblazing DJ Larry Levan, the event will take place in the street with sets by David Depino, Francois Kevorkian, Joey Llanos and special guests.

The festival is made possible by the fifteen year-old Red Bull Music Academy, which continues to broaden its offerings and locations around the world. This year marks the beginning of the festival in New York, and it is expected to become an annual event.

For more information and tickets, visit redbullmusicacademy.com/nyc

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Ari and Mia To Bring Their Grassroots Sounds To The Bowery Electric

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Cover of their latest critically album Land on Shore

Dynamic Boston sister act Ari & Mia are bringing their grass root sound to the Bowery Electric  to kick off their Northeastern Tour for their newest album Land on Shore in what is expected to be a high energy performance with music certain sure to capture your attention.

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Sister duo Ari with the cello and Mia with her fiddle.

Calling back to early Americana songs and traditions of the South and Northeast, the sisters  Ari and Mia, along with their cello and fiddle create sounds of the Appalachians,  rural dance floors and urban concert halls. This with their sophisticated and stylish approach to song and tune-writing the result is a fresh and contemporary sound.

Ari & Mia “blend a traditional rootsy grounding with a clear background of classical training. Their own works are soothing and fresh, tasteful and accomplished. This duo is taking the classical study of a conservatory program and bringing it alive in folk touring circles,’ says SingOut! Magazine.

Their  first album, Unruly Heart released in 2011 ranked high on the national folk radio charts and Mia’s song “Across the Water,” won the 2010 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the folk category.  Their sophomore album Land on Shore was released in May 2013 to critical acclaim.

Where: The Map Room at Bowery Electric, New York, NY
When: Saturday, March 22nd 6 p.m.
RIYL: The Stray Birds, Gillian Welsh, Sarah Jarosz

To listen to their album Land on Shore https://soundcloud.com/ariandmia/sets/ari-mia-land-on-shore-1

For more information of sisters music visit their website http://ariandmiamusic.com/

 

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The Montauk Project To Rock The House At Fontana’s

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The Montauk Project is set to rock Fontana’s.

The Montauk Project, the band (not the sketchy U.S. Government psychological, time-traveling experiments of the 1980s), is an up and coming rock group from the distant reaches of Long Island’s East End.

Mark Schiavoni (guitar and lead vocals) and Jasper Conroy (drums and backing vocals) played together in high school, got back together after college, and added Chris Wood (bass) and Jack Marshall (lead guitar) to their crew. The foursome play only original songs, but get inspiration from some of rock’s most influential names including: Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Black Keys, etc.

Their music has elements of nostalgia, but with a fresh spin. The guys are 20something, long-haired surfers, and label their own sound “beach grunge.”

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They’ve become well known throughout The East End, and in the last year they’ve brought their sound and rep to break The Big Apple.  The Montauk Project has performed at Webster Hall, Arlene’s Grocery, the Bowery Electric, and next Thursday, February 6th they’ll be at Fontana’s Bar in the Lower East Side.

Their debut album, Belly of the Beast, comes out in March, and features the hot single “The Beast” which dropped in early January. The press materials describe the song as a “grungy, metaphorical epic that depicts struggles with drug addiction as a fisherman’s quest to kill a mythological monster.” We describe it as…um…good.

To hear “The Beast” visit https://soundcloud.com/jillian-eipr/the-montauk-project-the-beast

Go see The Montauk Project next Thursday, February 6th at Fontana’s Bar http://ow.ly/t3dbF

–Charlotte Bryant

 

 

 

 

 

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Austin’s Danny Malone to Rock the Lower East Side’s Rockwood Music Hall

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Austin, Texas sensation, Danny Malone, is heading our way to do two NYC shows — one tomorrow night at Rockwood Stage 3 on the Lower East Side and the other on February 4 at the Communion Music Showcase, also at Rockwood.

Danny describes his music as “future folk / sexy depression.” The Deli Magazine calls it “dark and beautiful” and The Huffington Post refers to it as “wonderful folk rock.” Personally, I say it’s haunting and like nothing I’ve ever heard before.

His new album Balloons is an exercise in powerful and poetic songwriting. It was recorded in Denmark, in a 15th Century castle called Engelsholm. The castle is widely believed to be haunted by the souls of tortured slaves housed there many hundreds of years ago, as well as those of the philosophers and Alchemists who freed the castle of slavery after buying it from the Danish King.

Danny and co-producer Mattie Smith spent 10 days recording 10 songs in this castleand will be showcasing the result of those sessions in these shows.

Don’t miss the opportunity to feast your eyes and ears on this rising young talent.

For more information about Danny Malone, please visit: www.dannymalone.com

For tickets, please visit:  http://rockwoodmusichall.tix.musictoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=159664

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Rock Icon Neil Young Gives a Classic Performance at Carnegie Hall

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American icon Neil Young takes the stage at Carnegie Hall for a memorable four night stand.

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Neil Young’s status as a musician is unquestioned and possibly unparalleled.

Last night this icon kicked off a four-night stand at an institution which is equally iconic and suitably worthy to host his performances—Carnegie Hall.

Young delivered a typically amazing performance to a sold-out crowd, playing more than 20 songs, from his nearly massive songbook ranging from his days with Buffalo Sprinfield, including the classics with Crosby, Still and Nash and studded with gems from his long solo career.

 

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Neil Young ponders an incredible career. Photo from Live Nation

Song arrangements ranged from rollicking piano accompanied by blues harmonica, to orchestral 12-string acoustic guitar, to a combination of synthesizer and grand piano. However, the wonderful blending of an acoustic guitar with Young’s captivating vocals created the most memorable moments of the evening, including a rare acoustic performance of “Southern Man” that left the audience memorized.

Young recounted that his solo acoustic performances at Carnegie Hall in December 1970 were among the most important of his career. It is then no small coincidence that nearly a third of the songs from opening night were also on the set list nearly 45 years ago.

If Monday night is any indication what is to come, his remaining three concerts at Carnegie Hall are sure to be equally historic.

The performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

For more information about Neil Young at Carnegie Hall or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.carnegiehall.org/‎

—Alejandro Ramos