Lincoln Center Festival Highlights

Extraordinary performance-artist Laurie Anderson returns to the Festival this season with her most sophisticated production to date, Homeland, a “concert poem” driven by the political urgency of contemporary American culture. Another highlight is a concert featuring an eclectic group of artists from around the world “” including Afel Bocoum, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kokanko Sata, Candi…

More Info on “The Bill Withers Project” @ Celebrate Brooklyn!

Saturday, August 9 HAL WILLNER’S BILL WITHERS PROJECT Expect sunrises and late additions to an eclectic cast of iconic and emerging artists (including Nona Hendryx, The Frames, James “Blood” Ulmer, Sandra St. Victor, and Teddy Thompson-check briconline.org/cb for updates). Check out the full Celebrate Brooklyn! 2008 schedule over here.

The Napster mp3 Store Is Now Open for Business

Oh, it’s on. It-is-on. (Well, not really I don’t think.) Napster, the digital music service, on Tuesday opened the world’s biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to Apple Inc’s iTunes store. The new Web-based music store will have digital songs from all major music labels as well…

2 for 1 Bill Graham Benefit Tickets (Spin Doctors, John Popper etc.)

NYC Bill Graham Memorial Foundation Benefit featuring: Dark Star Orchestra, John Popper, Chan Kinchla, Spin Doctors & Moonalice When: Tuesday, May 27 Where: The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza For a limited time buy 1 ticket, get 1 free! ($32.50 each) Offer only available Tue, May 20 from 10am – 10pm Buy 2 for…

The Swell Season at Radio City

And it was good… God I love Radio City. UPDATE: The Swell Season will be playing a show at Summerstage on September 17. Tickets for that show go on sale Thursday (05/22) at 12:00 PM EDT.

Name That Tune Championship Tonight at UH | Mike Birbiglia on Sunday

Sara Schaefer Hey everyone, tonight (05/20) is the big Name That Tune Championship at Union Hall (with your lovely host Sara Schaefer). I hope you’ve been boning up on your late 90’s MTV pop song lyrics, because in the end, knowing every song on Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits will only get you so far. So…