Love Wants To Dance
After Breezin’ Benson’s well-known fondness for James Brown funk broke out into the open
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Robert Baird
Record Store Day 2015
Vinyl Rage! Prospect Expressway
Jammed With Overamped Record Buyers Eager
For Adam & The Ants, Gwar and Jethro Tull!!! It’s
Record Store Day In Brooklyn!!!
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Trip and Jitter: the Electronic World of Dan Deacon
Violet- and orchid-colored LED banks shimmer across the room. Green and pink spots radiate out and back. A steady stream of beats and keyboards from other electronica luminaries rumbles out of the speakers. Let's dance! Or maybe just listen?
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Onstage, Dan Deacon is busy tweaking his gear. Out on the floor, the audience is oddly antsy. To fight the waiting, one woman hangs on her boyfriend. Clumps of hipsters conviviate. Very strong drinks (a sponsorship deal?) flow for seven bucks a pop. Anticipation thickens. Impatience turns to pacing. Young men make solo air grooves.
Savannah Music Festival 2015
After my Austin sojourn this year, I paid a visit to the more staid and adult universe of the Savannah Music Festival.
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To Save a Soul Like Mine: the Blind Willie Johnson Project
He is easily among the most accomplished and influential slide-guitar players ever to put a ring of glass or metal around his finger. In 1977, on the golden record carried by the space probe Voyager, alongside the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony 5 and recordings of "footsteps, heartbeat, and laughter," his greatest song, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" went off to represent humanity to the stars.
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