Past Events

With an adventurous and daring take on instrumental afrobeat, Super Yamba Band’s Last Leap EP takes listeners back to 2014, the band’s formative year. “We had just moved to Brooklyn—Walter, Sean, Evan, and I,” said Daniel Yount, the band’s founder and drummer, “and our only plan for ‘making it’ was to just play as much music together as possible.” Finally released from the Yamba archives, the Last Leap EP is a sonic timestamp of the band’s creative energy during those…

Moon Hooch began busking in the subway platforms of NYC in 2010, quickly getting noticed by the NYPD, who had to ban them from locations that couldn’t handle the crowds. In a few short years, they were opening for the likes of Beats Antique, They Might Be Giants, and Lotus, while selling out their own headline shows at marquee venues around the United States and Europe. Their unconventional sound and techniques, utilizing found objects like traffic cones, landed them appearances…

Sam Greenfield is a New York based saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in Philadelphia, he was surrounded by music from a very young age. After graduating college, Sam has had the opportunity to record and travel the world with several different artists. Danae Greenfield is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is evolving her sound as a pianist and performer of creative music. She leads two bands: a jazz acoustic trio and an electronic quintet, which combines elements…

Ruminating on the risks of taking things for granted in our daily lives, Ian Felice, the lead singer/songwriter of The Felice Brothers, expresses how meaningful the experience of playing music with his band has been after long months of social distancing. In From Dreams to Dust, their eighth and most recent studio album, out September 17th on Yep Roc Records, the band’s exuberance to be together doing what they do so well is palpable. Characteristic of The Felice Brothers, the…

Frontman Bill Carney has been leading various jug bands for close to three decades, including his Brooklyn-based JugAddicts who have been a regular presence in our backroom for two of those decades. A large formation with a rotating cast of a musicians, the JugAddicts are characterized by their powerful, raucous approach to jug band, old time, tin pan alley, early jazz and blues repertoire Bill Carney: lead washboard, vocals, kazoo; Karl Meyer - violin, vocals; Brian Mulroney - rhythm washboard,…

‘Apollonian Circles’ is a multi-disciplinary musical concert and art installation experience that combines elements of electronic music, jazz, theater, and performance art. Each performance hinges on audience participation and improvisation guiding an ever-changing narrative of artistic expression – we are all participants reflecting one another’s experience as if in a hall of mirrors. This project explores the very definition of what audiences have come to expect from a traditional concert. From the moment they arrive, attendees are transported to a…

There is a ferocious Southern engine inside of Billy Allen + The Pollies’ debut album Black Noise. It thrums to life atop a classic rock chassis and expertly weaves in and out of gospel, grunge, funk and soul along its eleven-song journey. From the explosive top of the album (a liberating anthem of self-worth called “All of Me”) to the spiritually haunting final track (the wurlitzer fueled “Go on Without Them”) Black Noise is a genre-defiant haymaker that lands. The…

Music brings us to our feet literally, figuratively, and spiritually. It inspires us to rise up to our day’s trials and tribulations, and on a larger scale, the world’s challenges. Through an unspoken sonic communion between three distinct musical identities, SunSquabi—Kevin Donohue , Josh Fairman , and Chris Anderson —rouse us from inactivity and into action when we need the extra push through their signature live electronica sound. After racking up tens of millions of streams and delivering rapturous performances…