Photo by Dawoud Kringle
Date: September 2, 2014
Venue: Drom (NY)
Concert review and video by Dawoud Kringle
Text by JOHN PIETARO (August 25, 2014): http://peoplesworld.org/community-and-labor-stand-together-in-peaceful-cry-for-justice-for-eric-garner/
(John Pietaro is a musician, activist, writer and cultural organizer in New York City. By day he works in the labor movement. His website is www.DissidentArts.com)
Photo: At the Staten Island rally. John Pietaro/PW
STATEN ISLAND, NY: Thousands gathered in a peaceful march and rally on Saturday, August 23. Organized by the National Action Network, delegations of political and community activists, as well as many labor radicals, stood among them.
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2014
Time: 11am
Where: Staten Island at the intersection of Victory Blvd and Bay Street. Just a 12 minute walk from the Staten Island Ferry
In Ferguson, Missouri, thousands of people are rising up to protest in outrage and grief over Mike Brown, another young black man killed by the police.
And just a few weeks ago on Staten Island, Eric Garner was strangled by the NYPD.
Artist: Kali Z. Fasteau
Title: Piano Rapture
Label: Flying Note Rec
Genre: jazz/improv
CD Review by Matt Cole
Kali Z. Fasteau is an accomplished composer and multi-instrumentalist, having traveled all over the world learning and playing various woodwind and string instruments and absorbing the music of the many places she has lived and created. On Piano Rapture, she returns to her first instrument, presenting nearly an hour of spontaneous compositions for both solo piano and small ensemble. Her collaborators on this project include reed players Kidd Jordan, L. Mixashawn Rozie, and J.D. Parran; and percussionist Ron McBee.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
On my way to my friend’s Kickstarter fundraising campaign yesterday, I passed by the East Village Radio (EVR) station which is a small storefront studio on 1st Ave and 1st Street.
I said good-bye to this great local Internet radio station and to the DJ inside the studio who was playing electronic music.
It’s really a shame that this radio station had to close down due to financial difficulties, such as rising rents, equipment costs and the licensing fees for broadcasting music.
The station broadcasted music 24/7. Playing mainly eclectic-indie music, from indie rock to punk to post punk, club music, hip-hop. A growing listenership here in NY and also abroad and guests Like Lou Reed , Drake. Jimmy Cliff couldn’t stop the closing. Again: what a shame!
