BROOKLYN – Jun 8
With the recent 2-CD reissue of Forever Changes the album continues to astound four decades on.
BROOKLYN – Jul 16
Levin, a grizzled veteran by now, has come to a distinctive style that, while certainly inspired by his predecessors’ work, is never obviously derivative of anyone in particular. Nor does it stand in one place; Levin is just as likely to play a melodic phrase as to unleash flying flurries of evolving patterns arpeggiated and/or scalar or soar into the altissimo register of his tenor in ecstatic exultation.
BOSTON – Jul 22
Boris and Torche leave a pile of rubble and tattered eardrums.
NEW YORK – Jul 1
With a little searching and a lot of luck, I found some bands on MySpace that not only fixed my metal jones, but also allow their songs to be downloaded.
OAKLAND – Jun 9
So the baby boomers are trying to put it into the 1960s paradigm map again. BEWARE THESE BABY BOOMERS!! This is my shtick. Yeah, we need the baby boomers, and Hillary Clinton supporters. They still have a huge demographic—but it’s been about them them them for so long—-I think that might explain some of the pent up resentment, or sheer catharsis of “Generation X-ish” (a generation that never really had the demographic numbers by itself), and the under 30 *MARK RISTAINO” (MUSIC FOR AMERICA) crowd—-who, now, finally had a way to speak, and be heard, not just by the older people, but BY EACH OTHER.
