Hey all,
I just wanted to reacquaint myself with the Sonic Clash readership. My name is Alex Clough and I’m a part-time musician, part-time tutor/pedagogue (oh, now I sound smart) and full-time human being. Though I never really left Sonic Clash, I’m now refocusing my efforts on being the site’s Jazz guru: I will be posting interviews, reviews, lists, and whatever other content comes to mind on as regular basis as possible. I am located in […]
Recorded in April of last year and released on February 3rd , 2009, the latest Bad Plus album, “For All I Care”, is not exactly a “new†release anymore. Still, I feel compelled to review it here because I believe that the Bad Plus is the most important group in contemporary music today. Unlike the majority of other working bands, it is one of few to actively bridge the gaps between rock, pop, […]
Last night’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival opened with the groovy and unrelenting music of New Wave icon David Byrne. Byrne played a nearly-2 hour set of his material borne out of collaborations with Brian Eno, drawing from three Talking Heads albums and the albums My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and last year’s Everything that Happens will Happen Today. Byrne was on-form and his band drove the set with powerful, in-the-pocket grooves […]