The Outer Edges

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A major change to the presentation format this time around. Shorter, lighter and a tad screwier than previous casts. Community linking, concert dates, a bit of birthday blathering and the usual.

Yet another in a long list of Rocks Off cruises I’ve attended. This time it was one of my particular favorites, Antibalas taking center stage.
In a testament to the people setting things up, they managed to horn 12 people into a performance space that I’ve seen 3 and 4 piece outfits seem cramped in. […]

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Posibbly the last of the long form shows for a while. As much music as possible was crammed into this one, along witht he dreaded brain teaser answer, geekish discussion and some pimping of other podcasts to boot. Par for the course, really.

Free concerts are always a good thing. Free concerts with good bands are always a better thing. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah found themselves outside on a beautiful summer night playing to a packed crowd at South Street Seaport as part of their Seaport Music Festival. Yours truly was Andy-on-the-spot with my […]

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Yeah, I’ve been slacking a bit. Yeah, this is a tad later than usual. So sue me! Anyway, this is the first of T.O.E.’s “cover” shows. Bands I like doing song I like, but not the songs that that usually do. You should […]

Saturday was a host of new musical firsts for your intrepid concert goer. Thanks to the kindness of Bready I found myself heading out to Jones Beach to catch the musical stylings of Trey Anastasio and his new band, 70 Volt Parade. My first time in the venue (it’s always been on the […]

Late Friday night, funk mavens Lettuce laid into the crowd at BB Kings. The band was in fine form as always — full of energy that was matched equally by the crowd. Hell, for my money they were the headliners that night, and not Ivan Neville’s Dumpstafunk. Then again, my world weary […]

Two nuggets of joy for you all, gleaned from some of the assorted mailing lists I’m on.
On the alpha, Club d’Elf is going to be playing a free show at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar. The core group of Mike Rivard, Erik Kerr and Brahim Fribgane have been known to collaberate with some pretty […]

Last night Rana was front and center at venerable CBGB’s, playing in a bennefit to help keep the historic hole in the wall from being shut down. The faithful are buzzing (as usual), and I know at least one first time viewer who came away with some newfound respect for the rockers.
The band also […]

The man and his band can certainly jam, that’s fo’ sho’! In case that wasn’t specific enough for you, the man and band in question would be funk masters Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, who were in New York on Monday night playing to yet another packed boatload of crazed fans as art of the […]