Author: Amy Sheridan

  • Re-live & Re-listen to Ultra Music Festival Sets Including Sweedish House Mafia

    Re-live & Re-listen to Ultra Music Festival Sets Including Sweedish House Mafia

    Relive Ultra Music Festival 2018 With Over 75 Live Sets From Swedish House Mafia, Virtual Self, JAUZ, REZZ & More Every year, Ultra Music Festival recruits the biggest names in dance music to perform on some the biggest and brightest stages in the world. 2018’s installment had high expectations from attendees as it was Ultra’s 20th anniversary.

  • Lettuce and The Motet at The Capitol Theatre: Pro-Shot Video and Photos

    Lettuce and The Motet at The Capitol Theatre: Pro-Shot Video and Photos

    This past weekend, everyone’s favorite original Funk band, Lettuce, played a sold-out two-night stand at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, this weekend, welcoming the Denver based outfit, The Motet, as openers. The nights were filled with hours of funk, as both bands, as usual, offered their own distinct brand of the genre. Check out below to…

  • How to Score Lottery Tickets to Springsteen on Broadway

    How to Score Lottery Tickets to Springsteen on Broadway

    Bruce Springsteen extends his Broadway residency for the 3rd time & adds 81 dates through DEC! Broadway’s hottest ticket just got hotter. We were all ‘Born To Run,’ but even with a third extension to Bruce’s Broadway residency, it seems impossible to score tickets and see The Boss. After a career of more than 40 years,…

  • AfroPunk’s 2018 Festival Featuring Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae and more

    AfroPunk’s 2018 Festival Featuring Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae and more

    AfroPunk’s 2018 Festival Featuring Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae And Miguel Is Aptly Themed ‘The People Resist’. The power-packed lineup for the 2018 Afropunk Festival returns to Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene Brooklyn AUG 25-26th, and it includes fan-favorites with a massive lineup featuring Erykah Badu, Tyler, the Creator, Janelle Monáe, Miguel, Jaden and Willow Smith, the Internet, and more set to perform.

  • Listen to Wynton Marsalis play with Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Natalie Merchant, John Mayer & more!

    Listen to Wynton Marsalis play with Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Natalie Merchant, John Mayer & more!

    Out Now: “United We Swing” New star-studded album from the Wynton Marsalis Septet **All proceeds go toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education initiatives Recorded between 2003 and 2007, United We Swing finds an unparalleled array of musical talent that collectively boasts 94 Grammy Awards joining Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis (a nine-time Grammy Award winner himself)…

  • New Jersey based festival Beardfest announced initial line up

    New Jersey based festival Beardfest announced initial line up

    Local New Jersey promoters  Out of the Beardspace, will host their own home state celebration Beardfest this summer in June and the event just dropped their stacked lineup which is topped by Medeski Martin and MonoNeon. MonoNeon, a young extremely funky former Prince protoge, is a bassist and filling in for Chris Wood in the traditional Medeski…

  • Eric Krasno & Chapter 2 slay The Blue Note NYC

    Eric Krasno & Chapter 2 slay The Blue Note NYC

    Eric Krasno and Chapter 2 featuring Nigel Hall, Louis Cato and Chris Loftlin spent the last 3 nights absolutely slaying the Blue Note in NYC in 6 sold out shows. A nor’ easter blanketing the NYC metro area could not even keep the jazz heads home as word had clearly gotten out how smoking the…

  • MGMT to Headline Opening Night of New NYC Venue, Sony Hall

    MGMT to Headline Opening Night of New NYC Venue, Sony Hall

    Sony and Blue Note, the organization that owns, operates, licenses, and programs 10 music venues worldwide including the iconic Blue Note Jazz Club announced a landmark strategic sponsorship agreement. As part of the sponsorship, Sony will collaborate with Blue Note to open “Sony Hall,” a new music venue in Manhattan. Sony Hall has tapped psych-pop masters MGMT for this. “MGMT is the ideal Band to open Sony Hall,” Blue…

  • Movie screening of Bowie’s Lazarus musical with a live band May 2nd In NYC

    Movie screening of Bowie’s Lazarus musical with a live band May 2nd In NYC

    Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics composed by David Bowie, and a book written by Enda Walsh. First performed at the end of 2015, it was one of the last works David Bowie completed before his death on January 10, 2016. The musical is inspired by Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell to Earth; Bowie previously starred…

  • Keith Richards, Warren Haynes & More Perform at Love Rocks NYC Benefit

    Keith Richards, Warren Haynes & More Perform at Love Rocks NYC Benefit

    What do you get when you sum countless Grammy winners, philanthropic goodwill, and an all-nighter of pure rock ’n’ roll in one of NYC most famed and storied venues, The Beacon Theatre? Love Rocks NYC! the 2nd annual concert fundraiser for God’s Love We Deliver, a New York–based organization that cooks and home-delivers nutritious meals to or…

  • 78 Things You Should Know About Phil Lesh

    78 Things You Should Know About Phil Lesh

    Celebrate Phil Lesh’s 78th birthday with these facts about everyone’s favorite bassist. Phil Lesh was born Phillip Chapman Lesh on March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California. He is the only child of Frank and Barbara Chapman Lesh. Chapman always had the radio playing at home, which sparked Phil’s early interest in classical music. One of…

  • Country legend Willie Nelson Shares 2 Tracks off the new album

    Country legend Willie Nelson Shares 2 Tracks off the new album

    Willie Nelson will turn 85 years old this year on April 29th, which is only two days after the release of his latest album, ‘Last Man Standing.’ With a title track that clearly acknowledges the passing of so many musical colleagues and cherished friends who have sadly gone before him, this song looks at the truly double-edged sword that comes from…

  • Banksy Returns to New York with 14th Street Rat

    Banksy Returns to New York with 14th Street Rat

    It’s been more than five years since Banksy’s famous New York City residency had street art fans and treasure hunters trekking all over town every day to see the secretive artist’s latest intervention. However, it appears that Banksy is back in the Big Apple! Graffiti artist Banksy is thrilling New York City residents once again…

  • Pearl Jam Shares New Protest Song ‘Can’t Deny Me’

    Pearl Jam Shares New Protest Song ‘Can’t Deny Me’

    Pearl Jam fans can’t deny this good news. The veteran band premiered their new song “Can’t Deny Me” on Tuesday. The band confirmed the single will appear on a previously undisclosed forthcoming album coming out via Monkeywrench/Republic Records. This is the group’s first new original release since 2013’s “Lightening Bolt.”  Sparking speculation that it was part of a potential new record, “Can’t Deny…

  • The Biggie Smalls Brooklyn Tour

    The Biggie Smalls Brooklyn Tour

    Today Marks The 21th Anniversary Of Biggie Smalls’ Death 21 years ago today, the entire city mourned as it learned that Christopher Wallace, better known at The Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls, had been killed in an L.A. drive-by shooting. Though he was shot in Los Angeles, Biggie was born, raised, and made a name…

  • 30 Grateful Dead Mashups you have to hear by Biggie, Jay-Z and The Beastie Boys

    30 Grateful Dead Mashups you have to hear by Biggie, Jay-Z and The Beastie Boys

    Since a ton of the Jamband community will be in Brooklyn tonight watching JRAD, here are some cool​ Grateful Dead Mashups from infamous NYC artists​ Notorious B.I.G​., Jay-Z and The Beastie Boys. ​Today marks 21 years that ​The Notorious B.I.G. passed ​away in ’97. RIP Biggie!​ We all miss you.​ “Spread Love That’s The Brooklyn…

  • Brooklyn Bowl To Host A 3-Day SXSW Event In Austin

    Brooklyn Bowl To Host A 3-Day SXSW Event In Austin

    Brooklyn Bowl Family Reunion is set to present their first formal event in Austin, TX during SXSW in partnership with Harley-Davidson and Sailor Jerry. For three days from March 14-16, SXSW attendees can enjoy 24 musical showcases presented by music publishers including Relix, Brooklyn Vegan, This Song Is Sick and Consequence of Sound. This Song…