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As founder of the Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit label, saxophonist/composer Éyal Hai has crafted a universe of invigorating music that hinges on jazz but also summons in influences like the Beatles and Brazili…

This podcast episode of Talk Music Talk featuring Samora Pinderhughes was recorded July 22, 2016 at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City on the Lower East Side. It features an intimate performance wi…

In her three decades plus career as an opera singer, Martina Arroyo has achieved one highlight after another. She's performed all over the world as a celebrated spinto soprano, including over 200 per…

It is a fortunate few who not only love what they do, but also help others in the process. For over twenty decades, New York educator Adam Goldberg has done just that with music. As a teacher at PS 1…

Producer and photographer João Gonzalez has gone on record saying that the Soft Glas tag visually represents the way his music sounds. This feels apt considering the project is a glorious synthesis o…

For the past 20 years, independent publisher Akashic Books has blazed a path of nonconformity and subversiveness through literature. Johnny Temple, the bassist of 90s alt-rock band Girls Against Boys…

Journalist and music/cultural critic Laina Dawes' book What Are You Doing Here? explores the race and gender issues of African-American female fans of metal, hardcore and punk music. Subtitled "A Bla…

Frontman Jonathan Graves' Corbu are on the heels of releasing one of the best albums you'll hear in 2016. Crayon Soul is melodic when you want it, a bit psychedelic when you need it with expansive ly…

In case you were wondering, it only takes ten hours to manifest innovation. From start to finish, Monthly Music Hackathon NYC reinvents the wheel on last Saturdays by uniting musicians, programmers, s…

For any music lover, you have to admire someone who gets to spend their days in full-music submersion. Case in point, Bob Kosovsky. He's the curator of New York Public Library's Rare Books & Manuscri…

From the start of her career, Nellie McKay made it abundantly clear that music wouldn't be the only device she'd utilize to be outspoken and provocative. Along with her genre-defying 2004 debut, Get …

Israeli trio Kadawa have been performing for a little under a year in their current incarnation of Tal Yahalom, Almog Sharvit and Ben Silashi. On guitar, bass and drums respectively, Kadawa's music i…

When the title of your first album is i am DAJ, it's a proud mission statement representing both your simplicity and boldness. Born DeShawn Aaron Jenkins, DAJ traversed many journeys and evolutions to…

From the Czech Republic to New York City, composer/performer Lucie Vítková has blazed a singular path of experimentation and creativity harnessed only by her limitless imagination. Whether it's throu…

Artists like Samora Pinderhughes occupy that sliver of real estate which inhabits both talent and that certain something you can't quite name, but you immediately recognize its presence. These vision…

Artists like Samora Pinderhughes occupy that sliver of real estate which inhabits both talent and that certain something you can't quite name, but you immediately recognize its presence. These vision…

Singer/Songwriter Paul Weinfield's spiritually-minded essays began as an intersection between music and meditation that happened to garner a sizable Facebook following. The synthesis makes sense consi…

When a musician claims Prince, Steely Dan and Bob Dylan as a few of their influences, it's quite possible to expect a derivative hodgepodge from said musician's output. In the case of singer/ songwrit…

Mike Sniper's independent record label, Captured Tracks, was founded with $10k from selling his power-pop record collection and two releases: Dum Dum Girls' 2009 debut and his own project, Blank Dogs…