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New York Music Daily came into the world quietly in the late summer of 2011. Within a year, without any publicity, this blog had grown organically into New York City’s go-to source for music and concert coverage that didn’t fit a corporate or social media-approved model.
True to its transgressive roots, New York Music Daily continues to provide the world with information and commentary about recordings and performances, from a reality-based perspective. This blog takes great inspiration from the subversive newspaper in Simone de Beauvoir’s classic novel The Mandarins, fearlessly continuing to publish in defiance of the Nazi occupation.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said that to stand by and allow crimes against humanity to be committed is the same as being complicit in them, and this blog agrees. While the world continues on the path to freedom from New Abnormal digital surveillance, lethal injection schemes, apartheid and lockdowns, New York Music Daily will be concentrating mostly on albums and songs that inspire us, and news that offers hope.
Once we get back to normal – which is inevitable, if the world is going to survive – the game plan is to return to as much concert coverage and information on upcoming shows as possible. In the meantime, in keeping with a ten-year tradition, there’s something new, entertaining and generally optimistic here for every day of the week. You can subscribe to a daily email feed if you want.
Stay strong and see you here tomorrow!
New York Music Daily 
I’m sold on this intro alone. It’s very rare to find great writing about great music. Rock on NYMD!
Just one correction: Pierre de Bréville was not an early Romantic composer. He lived from 1861 to 1949, was a pupil of Cesar Franck and wrote in the post Wagnerian style typical of the Franck School. The works on the September 19th program at Symphony Space were composed from 1930 to 1945.
Wonderful wonderful blog- forgive my ignorance- how do get on your list/ or access your blog ? I already plan to visit several venues in January 0’12-
Thank you ! Cs
You have a lot of great Brooklyn Country artists on your Best of lists…hope to work with you guys in 2012.
-JD
BrooklynCountry.com
always happy to know that people find this blog worthwhile – you can always bookmark it if you feel like visiting since the game plan is to put up something new every day here
btw Brooklyn Country puts on the best shows, there’s always lots of good bands on the bill and sometimes free beer!
Thank you very kindly for posting about my concert. I appreciate and am honored by your interest.
Fantastic site! Thank you for what you do!
Best!
Demetrius Spaneas
Thank you very much for a very well written article about myself and my challenge, in depth articles like this mean so much to an independent artist like myself.
I liked your interpertation of my poems/verses.
You have a fantastic site going on here.
Best
MesAyah
Nice writing. Just that alone is worth a response. If it’s about music then it’s even better.
Great blog and a road map for nights off. Thanks for the mention. Dave Post, Swingadelic
thanks for the review! feels like you really listened to the music. read your “how not to get a review here”. loved it. wow! i’m honored!
c’mon out to the show – would be great to meet you in person.
best, ann klein
Addicted to your site!
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Thanks so much for the kind words!!! Great site !!
Just discovered this blog a couple of months ago — it’s a fantastic resource. Coverage of African and Afro-Caribbean music seems a bit sparse (yes, I’ve seen the upcoming cumbia-fest at Barbes). I’m wondering if this is because it’s not a main area of focus for this blog or there simply isn’t that much going on (very hard to believe in NYC).
There are a dozen or so clubs I’m aware of that typically feature an African band once a week, generally rotating the same cast of bands. And I have no doubt that there are at least a few clubs in Queens not on my list that bring in Haitian and francophone/creole Caribbean bands, plus a fair amount of live salsa. I’m wondering if there’s another (single) place to go for more coverage of what’s happening in these various musical genres or if New York Music Daily is it.
Thanks.
Love it!
I really appreciate the work that goes into this site and the information that work makes so readily available. It’s a great service and I hope that doing what you are brings to you great rewards. Amen.
Love this site! Thanks for mentioning our upcoming show at Pine Box Rock Shop! xox Ruby Rae
Fantastic ! Thank you for the work and effort.
May I leave a donation?
Who are u ?you r great
Hi. I hope I’m addressing Mac McCarty whom I just met through a very long-ago friend.
On Saturday my son, Colin Marston, was one the three electronic arts performers invited to kick off the New York 7th Biennial Electronic Art festival (Harvestworks producers, I think).
Coincidence? Or could it be THE SPANISH INQUISITION!?!
:–)
thank you!!! this is an incredible resource and represents so much time and effort!! thank you for sharing it all! and to echo another commenter, I would donate, too!
The author’s depth of perception in all things is remarkable. No New Abnormal!
Love seeing this in my in-box but the wonderful Matt Darrieau was not a founding member of the klezmatics – I think you’re thinking about David Krakauer?
Would have liked to comment on your latest post, but the ability to do so is not there. Anyway…
10 years today! I’ve got to say, I don’t know of any greater music passion project than that which is presented here. The prolificacy of Christgau but with more passion and less fiscal motivation.
Bravo Zulu Sir.
honored that you would still be reading this all these years later. Hope you are ok considering all the insanity going on in Oz – and this part of the world too
It is tiring to say the least. It’s amazing how our progressive “betters” have embraced fascism and the gleeful, smug manner in which they’ve done so.
Makes me want to move to Poland!
I do think you should give yourself a self congratulatory anniversary article; perhaps a harkening back to more enjoyable times.
Mind you, I also believe you should get around to publishing the best 100 songs of 2020 also ;-)
Best.
Apologies, seems I was a week off with my previous comment and have since, just now, seen you did indeed have a ten year anniversary post on the correct date!
Thanks for holding the line and speaking out against this bs in NYC! Wish there were more musicians fighting back, but as you said (and I hope) – only a matter of time.
My name is Jim Watt. Im an artist and I’m trying to get in touch with delarue.
He wrote a review about a performance I did with Bill Frisell and others at Collab in Bushwick two summers ago.
Could you have him reach out to me?
Thanks
Jim
I love this and am so glad I know about it now!
Laurie B.