Tag Archive for indie-rock

Salsa Meets Indie-Rock at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Talk about having your cake and eating it too – fans of salsa and indie-rock can have it all together in one fell swoop when Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra trades in the standard salsa repertoire for dynamic, salsa-fied arrangements of contemporary indie-rock favorites when they take the stage in MASS MoCA‘s Courtyard…

Indie Band Real Estate Performs at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Real Estate brings its considered, melodic pop songs to MASS MoCA in North Adams on Thursday, August 9, 2012, at 8 p.m.. From suburban New Jersey, the band comes with music that echoes the mellow and unique charm of rural life. Real Estate plays lo-fi, summery songs – think Yo La…

Canadian Indie Rocker Patrick Watson to Perform at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass) – Canadian icon Patrick Watson brings his unique blend of cabaret-pop and classically influenced indie rock to the Berkshires when he performs as part of MASS MoCA‘s Alt Cabaret series this summer on Saturday, June 30, 2012, at 8 p.m. Raised in Quebec and now residing in Montreal, Watson come as part…

Delicate Steve to Perform Instrumental Indie-Rock at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – On Saturday, March 3, 2012, at 8 p.m., Delicate Steve will bring its indie instrumental jams from New Jersey to MASS MoCA’s Club B-10 as part of the Alt Cabaret series. Delicate Steve is the brainchild of guitarist/composer Steve Marion, who writes moody, sometimes humorous pop-rock symphonies in miniature that variously…

Austin Indie-Rock Group Shearwater Brings New Songs to Club Helsinki

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Just two weeks after releasing its latest album, Animal Joy, Austin-based indie-rock group Shearwater, an offshoot of critically acclaimed cult band Okkervil River, will perform at Club Helsinki on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at 8 p.m. Founded in 2001 by Okkervil River members Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff as an outlet for…

(Music Review) Copenhagen Jazz Festival I

Anna Bronsted of Our Broken Garden (photo by Seth Rogovoy)

COPENHAGEN JAZZ FESTIVAL July 5-7, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (COPENHAGEN, Denmark) – The storybook city of Hans Christian Andersen, so picturesque at times it seems impossibly like a movie set, and you’re waiting for a director to yell “strike the set” and down will come the charmingly false facades, is in the midst of…