A few days ago Chan Marshall and Willis Earl Beal performed at the Knitting Factory, and now we’ve got some video of the two singing together. Marshall is sitting on the ground and a little reluctant at first when Beal begins with Dylan’s “Pledging My Time.” Eventually Beal sits down with her and the two [...

Last night, in remembrance of the 10 year anniversary of Elliott Smith’s death, several musicians gathered at Glasslands in Brooklyn to celebrate a night of his music. Performers included Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz), Marissa Nadler, Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV) along with many others. Check out our photos from the...

Cat Power and The Low Anthem will also perform at charity show marking 10 years since singer-songwriter's suicide    

It feels like a swift kick to the stomach to say, but on 10/21 it will be 10 years since iconic singer/song-writer Elliott Smith passed away. On that day this year, Cat Power, Zachary Cole Smith with Sky Ferreira, and more will pay tribute to the singer at a concert at Brooklyn’s Glasslands. Other performers [...]

On Friday, I sat down for a beer with Joel Borg, one of the founders of Gothenburg, Sweden’s Way Out West festival. (I might post the whole conversation later if I get time; it was an interesting one.) The festival’s booking has a general sonic identity of its own, one that exists somewhere near the [...]