Its November 2002, and Pagan Kennedy of the New York Times, searching for a way to describe the fawning reverence of Conor Oberst’s young fans writes: “Maybe years from now they’ll be […]
Posts by Author Archives: Matthew Herzfeld
Matt Herzfeld is a freelance writer, music supervisor and musician, and serves as Project Manager for the Music Office at the French Embassy in the US. He is based in New York City.
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Upcoming Bill Callahan Residency at Baby’s All Right
Smog (aka Bill Callahan) rolls in to Brooklyn town late June for a residency at unflinchingly popular Baby’s All Right on Broadway. Bill recently played New York in April, supporting […]
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Concert Review: Peter Bjorn and John at Baby’s All Right
On the night modern values caught up with Ted Cruz and he quit his principled electoral charade, a Swedish band in Brooklyn, long absent, was proving they were still relevant. Peter Bjorn […]
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Free Summer Concert Series at House of Vans Kicked Off with Jon Hopkins, The Field, and Black Madonna
On a crisp, first-glimpse-of-summer night, with nigh a sk8rboi in sight, Jon Hopkins and electro company kicked off the annual free concert series at House of Vans (25 Franklin St) in […]
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Northside Music Festival 2016: What We’re Seeing
A festival that harkens to Austin’s over-saturated SXSW festival without the tasteless inundation of branding in the name of culture (yet), Northside Festival returns to North Brooklyn from June 6 – […]
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Films on the Green Returns to Transmitter Park This Summer
One of the area’s brightest summer events, Films on the Green will be returning to Greenpoint’s WNYC Transmitter Park to project two films ‘en plein air’. An initiative of the Cultural […]
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Album Review: ‘Moth’ by Chairlift
Moth is the third album from Chairlift, a band composed of Greenpoint residents. It’s a breezily-pleasant release, their first since 2012’s Something. Out January 22nd via Columbia Records, the album, while not groundbreaking, […]