Most of us know this song via Sinéad O’Connor’s version, but the Prince Estate just released this recording from 1984, with footage from rehearsals with the Revolution.
New collaboration between Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischoff, a tribute to David Bowie via String Quartet, including: Blackstar (featuring Anna Calvi) Space Oddity (featuring Neil Gaiman) Ashes to…
The fine folks at KCRW have introduced a VR app, which you can use with viewers like Cardboard and your Android or iOS phone, to view performances from…
Just 9-10 blocks from the Cambridge-Arlington line on Mass Ave, Zhu Vegan Cuisine recently opened in Arlington, and we got a chance to stop in for lunch a…
I’m on Contrast Podcast! My first contribution, to 246 Untitled, just got published. I went with Sinead O’Connor’s version of Shane McGowan’s “Song with No Name.” So excited…
This weekend was Riverfest in Newburyport and the headliner was The English Beat! It’s a beautiful setting for a concert – they went on at dusk and played…
Of course this happens the weekend I’m out of town. Food Truck Festivals of America Vegan Food Truck Festival. From their site: Attention all Vegans: we have just…
I’m exited to report that the notice of Millenium’s closing earlier this year turns out to have been, as Mark Twain might say, greatly exaggerated. Millenium has now…
Another excellent episode of Contrast Podcast, on the theme of New York City. My favorites were the Cat Power (New York) and Dylan (Talkin’ New York). What I…
Very happy to see the return at long last of the Contrast Podcast: The Contrast Podcast is awake and has shaved, showered and shaken off it’s sleepiness with…