 
A Night at the CSO: A Taste of Boulez
The world of classical music can be hard to swallow. Forty some musicians all with gray hairs, assembled together to play one single piece of music can seem like an intimidating thing. And the patrons that go are also mostly on the older side of the spectrum, but there are a few college music students and maybe an elementary school music class or two that attend such things. Read more...
Four Nights of Phish
At the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami’s South Beach, guests were being charged between $550-$25000 for a New Year’s Eve performance by the one and only Lady Gaga that would last for a little over one hour. However at the American Airlines Arena just across the causeway, fans paid $237.30 for four days of Phish concerts. The shows added up to an impressive nine sets totaling thirteen hours of live music. While they had no backup dancers, or suits made of stuffed frogs, there were fake human cannonballs, vacuum giveaways, audience member sit-ins with the band, Stevie Wonder mash-ups, and most important, four marathon concerts of well-practiced and well-improvised music alike. Read more...
Scott McCaughey Talks R.E.M. & the Baseball Project
It is four days before Christmas, and singer/songwriter Scott McCaughey has joined me by phone from his home in Portland. McCaughey is enjoying some time at home since concluding Fall tours with Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3, the Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus 5, Steve Wynn and, finally, the Baseball Project. Scott has also just wrapped up three weeks of work with R.E.M. in New Orleans for the first sessions of the band’s fifteenth album. Read more...
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