[photo by nyctaper] We have read much about Crystal Stilts over the last couple of years, but by happenstance we had not seen them live until last Sunday night at Bowery. Crystal Stilts are currently on tour with Love Is All, and this was their hometown show — with a large and supportive crowd. [...]
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So we ran into Jen and Matt from The Music Slut on Monday night at Pianos. The Music Slut holiday show / Jen's birthday is coming up tomorrow night at Pianos and as the flyer indicates there will be some very special guests performing a set at midnight. We know who the guests [...]
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It was a heck of a show when we captured these two Brooklyn bands at Glasslands in May. That show celebrated Awesome Color's CD release. In September, after months on the road all over the world, Awesome Color was even better. Since May, Tall Firs have played at the Studio at Webster [...]
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When we posted a preview of New Orleans' Hurray For The Riff Raff and their upcoming shows in NYC, we expected that we would enjoy the show based up on the quality of their new CD It Don't Mean I Don't Love You. On Monday night at Pianos, Hurray For The Riff Raff exceeded [...]
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[photo courtesy of MusicSnobbery Blog] We have seen Sweden's Love Is All five times this year, in every setting from someone's basement to the cavernous Roseland Ballroom — and yet no matter the size of the crowd, the band has delivered an excellent set. With the release of the on-everyone's-best-of-2008-list A Hundred Things Keep Me [...]
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Oneida Fest is all night show at the Knitting Factory featuring a series of like-minded bands and friends of Brooklyn's great psych-rock band Oneida. We know tickets are still available for this show since we bought one on Friday. Today Oneida posted the set times. Oneida is going on at 1:45 am, which is [...]
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Treasure is a fairly new trio from Brooklyn, although all three members are veterans of the local music scene — vocalist Amanda Tomme performed most recently with The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Caleb Lindskoog plays guitar with local rockers The Silver State, and Ryan Trott has played with the folk band Hologram. Treasure is built [...]
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[photo by nyctaper] On the final night of their winter tour in support of the superb new CD Broken Hymns, Limbs And Skin, Brooklyn's O'Death returned home. As the band ripped through a seventy-minute set of material old and new, the floor of the Bowery Ballroom literally bounced with the energy of a [...]
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Early this morning it leaked that Animal Collective will perform a "secret" concert at Bowery Ballroom on January 21, 2009. This is in addition to their sold out show at the Manhattan Center Ballroom on January 20. The tickets are only available via password distributed to members of the Collected Animals forum. [...]
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[photo by nyctaper] Our introduction to Teletexile occurred at a private loft party in November, literally in their Fort Greene living room. We were invited by The Antlers, but quickly warmed to this superb quartet when they began their set. Berklee-trained musician Pamela Martinez plays at least four instruments (including harp!) and her strong and [...]
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Hurray For The Riff Raff is an outstanding band from New Orleans well versed in the ways of Americana and Appalachian folk music. Their CD It Don't Mean I Don't Love You is on constant rotation here at NYCTaper, as we are aficionados of this genre when its done correctly (i.e. Wilco, The [...]
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[photo courtesy of coulter] review by neild I'd never been to (le) Poisson Rouge before, so I wasn't sure what to expect from the new space in the old Village Gate basement. After wending my way through (le) Poisson's subterranean lair, and slaying the grue that guarded the entrance to the performance space proper, I found myself [...]
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The NYCTaper schedule is still on the front page if you scroll down or click [here]. We still plan to attend and record those events. We also have new NYCTaper photographers who will capture several of the events listed below. More photographers are needed! Additionally, we have added several new dates since that [...]
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We arrived at Cake Shop on Friday a couple of songs into Rafter's set opening for The Loom. One of the members of The Loom was standing near the stage and when we approached to say hello, its was immediately suggested that we tape this artist. Rafter was in the midst of a [...]
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[photo credit] "Yeah, Minnesota!" we heard from behind us in the crowded Union Hall on Saturday night. Jeremy Messersmith had just finished one of the songs on his Minneapolis-based new CD The Silver City, when we surmised that we were among either some transplanted midwesterners in Prospect Park Brooklyn or just fans of superb melodic folk-rock [...]
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This just came over the wire out of Portland, OR. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and currently on tour with the Experience Hendrix project died in his hotel room today. There are no further details, but this was confirmed by a local Portland paper.
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[many thanks to Thom for photo permission — more here] If Saturday night's Mountain Goats concert in Brooklyn was a serious exercise in musical precision, Sunday night's tour-closing show at Webster Hall was a joyous celebration of a wonderful month of music and friendship. The show began much like Saturday, but it soon became apparent [...]
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[photo credit] In March, the Drive-By Truckers performance at Terminal 5 was powerful and inspired, and their two-hour and thirty minute set was met with incredible crowd energy. At that show they delivered six full encores that lasted forty minutes. The circumstances were a world apart on Thursday night at Terminal 5. [...]
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[photo credit] Sometimes its a charmed life to be nyctaper. Less than 24 hours after an amazing Deerhunter concert, we were back inside Music Hall of Williamsburg for a show we had been anticipating for months — The Mountain Goats return to NYC. When Brooklyn last saw John Darnielle, he performed an outstanding [...]
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[photo (c) 2008 Taryn Looney more here] Last night's performance by Deerhunter at the Music Hall of Williamsburg instantly catapulted into my Top Ten concerts list for 2008. As Deerhunter tours on the heels of their brilliant new CD Microcastle, the band is performing with relaxed confidence assured that their well-deserved rave reviews are [...]
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