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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.
4AD released this week the Grateful Dead tribute compilation Day of the Dead – it’s the 20th album in the Red Hot series to help raise money and…
Not sure how I missed this, but a series the AV Club at the Onion has been doing since 2010, in which bands come in and do cover…
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…
I’ve been a fan of Clover for some time, and used to regularly visit first the food truck in Kendall Square, then the foodtruck in Dewey Square and…
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…
While in Vancouver BC recently for a conference I got to jonesing for good vegan pizza. Not the “hold the cheese” super plain variety you get at the…
I was in Geneva recently on business, and was happy to find Qibi, whose menu has a number of vegan options all clearly marked. I haven’t always found…
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…