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New York Music Daily specializes in music that’s too smart, too dangerous, too much fun, too original or uncategorizable for the corporate media and the conformist indie blogs. For every day of the year, there’s new information here, whether a monthly concert calendar, an album review, a free download, a concert, or maybe just a song.
New York Music Daily is designed to serve the needs of busy people who don’t have the time to sift through the glut of music that’s out there in order to find the very best stuff. In less than half the time that it would take to watch a single video, you can discover something new, interesting and quite possibly important here.
In a twist of fate that can be interpreted many ways, New York Music Daily has taken on the task of providing a comprehensive listing of upcoming New York City concerts that the now more-or-less defunct Time Out New York and Village Voice did with varying degrees of success for many years.
Depending on what’s on the calendar, and who’s playing around town, there might be nothing but rock music here for a solid week…and then the week after, no rock music at all. Most recently, styles which have received significant coverage include orchestrated rock and chamber pop, circus rock, psychedelic rock, Balkan and Middle Eastern music, Americana of all kinds, swing jazz, many sub-equatorial styles and a lot of music that could be categorized as noir.
New York Music Daily does not ignore the context of a troubled world beyond the music itself: socially and politically aware artists get a lot of press here. Being located in one of the great cities of the western world, this blog also attempts not to be oblivious to important developments in the world’s great musical traditions. For fans of so-called “serious music,” all of New York Music Daily’s ongoing coverage of jazz, classical music and the avant garde is archived at predecessor blog Lucid Culture.
Launched very quietly in August of 2011, New York Music Daily has grown organically without any self-promotion whatsoever. Thanks for visiting: if you like what you see, you can bookmark this page and come back anytime you want. And feel free to comment, using the comment button at the very bottom of any page: you may do that anonymously if you wish.
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
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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.