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Date Changed: Robert Glasper Now On Sunday, August 30
The Robert Glasper show will now be on Sunday, August 30, so make sure to update your calendars. If you haven’t already gotten your tickets you can get them here….
Just Announced: Micachu & The Shapes
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So, a quick introduction, Bjork is said to be a fan of Micachu and can probably identify with another artist brave enough to take pop music into entirely uncharted territory. Micachu is largely inspired by Harry Partch who famously used an array of customized and home made instruments. These included a xylophone
Just Announced: Warp20 Closing Party w/ New Warp Signings and DJs
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Since its birth as a shop and record label in Sheffield in 1989, Warp has become one of the World’s most respected creative organisations. Quickly developing into a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking music talent, Warp became synonymous with such artists as LFO, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and most recently
Just Added: Hard Drugs to Diane Birch Show
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Jeffry Lee and Jenni Lee Nelson will be performing a special acoustic set.
MORE INFORMATION HERE….
Just Announced: AXIOM Residency at (le) Poisson Rouge
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The newest addition to Juilliard’s roster of performing ensembles is AXIOM, which was formed by student initiative in 2005. This new chamber ensemble is dedicated to performing the masterworks of the 20th-century repertoire. AXIOM is comprised of a flexible roster of current Juilliard students and recent graduates who, in addition to performing,
Just Announced: Ensemble ACJW
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Ensemble ACJW… at LPR Residency
A season-long collaborative residency with Fellows of The Academy/Ensemble ACJW, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute, in partnership with The New York City Department of Education. All concert programs have been specially programmed by Fellows of The Academy in consultation
Just Announced: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and The Moodswing Orchestra
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey…JFJO is pianist Brian Haas, drummer Josh Raymer, upright bassist Matt Hayes, and guitarist Chris Combs. To say that JFJO’s music transcends boundaries and expands minds is an understatement. Since 1994, JFJO has brought their impressionistic and improvisational vision from the Midwest’s Bible-Belt to many of the world’s
New Documentary from Jay Reatard
“Wating For Something,” the new documentary from Jay Reatard, will be shown at the Listening Party for the release of his album “Watch Me Fall” on August 17 at LPR.
Jay Reatard will be performing at LPR on October 1.
Waiting For Something – a short documentary about Jay Reatard…
Tortoise Interview and Video
Check out this video from Pitchfork and interview… from PopMatters with Tortoise, who performed earlier this summer at LPR.
lucky dragons at Free Music Archive
There are a bunch of lucky dragons (@LPR on August 15) songs at Free Music Archive. Check ‘em out here….
Deerhoof on Daytrotter
Read about and listen to Deerhoof (@LPR on Sept. 15) at Daytrotter, where listening to the band is compared to flying off the Golden Gate bridge. Hmmm.
Check it out here….
Missed Radio Happy Hour with Andrew W.K.?
If you missed RHH with Andrew W.K. last Saturday, don’t go jumping off any bridges just yet. Thanks to ephman.com and Benji Rogers you can catch actually watch parts of the show, as well as one of the songs AWK performed. Amazing.
And keep an eye on the RHH web site… to find out when
Just Announced: Linda Oh
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Linda Oh… started classical piano at age four and took up clarinet at eleven and bassoon at thirteen. At fifteen, Linda dabbled on electric bass playing jazz in the high-school big-band and community big-bands while performing with amateur musicals and playing a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 2002 she was
Just Announced: Sarah Cahill w/ Rachel Grimes
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Sarah Cahill, piano…Sarah Cahill was recently praised in the Village Voice for “her phenomenal technique, her instinctive command of recent aesthetics, and quite possibly the most interesting repertoire of any pianist around.” She specializes in new American music as well as the American experimental tradition, and has commissioned, premiered, and recorded
Just Announced: Mortified
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Hailed a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, E!, Talk of the Nation and more, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness
Just Announced: Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures
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Grounded in the American improvisational tradition, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures… embraces musical forms and instrumentation of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the African diaspora. Veteran percussionist Adam Rudolph, a world music pioneer, leads an ensemble of artists performing on instruments ranging from African percussion, Central Asian frame drums, and Japanese
Just Announced: Terry Riley and Gyan Riley
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Terry Riley…California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. It’s impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and it’s influence
Radio Happy Hour’s Tribute to John Hughes This Saturday
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This Saturday Radio Happy Hour, with special guest Andrew WK, will pay an unexpected tribute to the late John Hughes. As WCBS’s Brandi Thompson reports, “RHH creator Sam Osterhaut helped write the show, which he actually began weeks before Hughes’ death, but that will now serve as an homage to Hughes. Star Andrew W.K. will
The Phenomenal Handclap Band at Santo’s Party House
Here’s a video of the Phenomenal Handclap Band (@LPR Wednesday August 12 with Friendly Fires) over at Santo’s from Baeble
Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com…
That’s a party jam right there.
Just Added: Reni Lane and Curtana Veil to Amue Show
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Reni Lane and Curtana Veil have been added to the Amue show on August 21.
Reni Lane…The best kind of song is familiar and illuminating all at once, and if you’re lucky, its creator is too. Such is the case with Reni Lane, the 21-year-old whose edgy beauty belies her
Just Announced: Bourbon to Bleecker: Marlon Jordan, Bill Summers of Headhunters, David, Ryan, Jamal & Damon Batiste and Berthena
Bourbon to Bleecker: A Katrina Relief Club Strut: Marlon Jordan , Bill Summers of Headhunters , David, Ryan, Jamal & Damon Batiste and Berthena ON SALE NOW.
Marlon Jordan…The New Orleans-born Trumpeter Marlon Jordan was one of the “Young Jazz Lions” who were signed, recorded and promoted on major record labels in the
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Just Added: Akhil Sharma to Tonight’s InDigest 1207 Reading Series
Unfortunately Marlon James had to cancel for tonight’s InDigest 1207 Reading Series…, due to circumstances that were out of his control. Luckily, though, one of our other readers, John Wray (author of Lowboy), was nice enough to track down someone to take his spot.
We’re very happy to have Akhil Sharma, author of the
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Cine-Brunch Fall Line-Up
Cine-brunch, LPR’s weekly Sunday brunch and a film, through September:
08.16 – Inglorious Bastards (Enzo G. Castellgari, 1978) 99 min. – DO NOT ANNOUNCE YET08.23 – Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) 96 min.08.30 – Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) 122 min.09.06 – Mars Attacks (Tim Burton, 1996) 103 min.09.13 – NO …
