(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Indie rock legends the Feelies, who updated the sound of the Velvet Underground and like their forebears, inspired a whole new generation of minimalist art-rock guitar bands in the late 1970s, bring their historic reunion tour to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8 p.m. Noted for…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Folk-rock singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco performs at the Colonial Theatre on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, at 7:30 pm. Singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick will warm up the crowd for DiFranco, who gave a triumphant concert at the restored theater in April 2009. (Read Seth Rogovoy’s review of that concert here.) Ani DiFranco has written hundreds…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., February 22, 2002) – Steven Bernstein’s quartet, Sex Mob, usually gets lumped in with the downtown-jazz avant-garde. This is in part because Bernstein and his Sex Mob bandmates are stalwarts of that scene, often found playing in avant-garde nightclubs like the Knitting Factory and Tonic, and because they incorporate…
WORD X WORD FESTIVAL Pittsfield, Mass. Sunday, August 14, 2011 by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The first indoor event of this year’s Word X Word Festival took place on Sunday night in a raw space on the top floor of the Compuworks building, and featured two spoken-word performers – Taylor Mali and Iyeoka Ivie…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The ethereal pop songstress Lia Ices brings her seductive melancholy to Club Helsinki on Friday, August 5, at 9. The Connecticut native, who heads to Chicago immediately after her Helsinki gig to perform at the Lollapalooza Festival and then back to New York City to play the Mercury Lounge, before opening a…
TANGLEWOOD Steely Dan Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – It’s hard to believe we had to wait until the year 2011 to see Steely Dan at Tanglewood, but it was worth it, because it was perfect. Which isn’t any surprise, because Steely Dan is all about perfection. If…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Dr. John and the Lower 911 Saturday, July 23, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Dr. John was smart – or lucky. When he created his sound, his persona, and his approach back about 40 years ago, he did it in such a way as to make…
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…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The first single from Wilco’s forthcoming album and the first release on its own dBpm Records will be a limited-edition, clear vinyl 7-inch of the new Wilco tune “I Might” backed with a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label.” The limited-edition single will be available at the band’s Solid…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Tickets to the previously announced They Might Be Giants concert at the Mahaiwe on Friday, September 9 at 8 pm go on sale to Mahaiwe members today, Thursday, June 2 at noon, and to the general public on Saturday, June 4 at noon. They Might Be Giants tickets ($27 to $34)…
