Posts tagged "wordless music series"

Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project @ Le Poisson Rouge, Sunday, March 15th

One of many highlights of Broken Social Scene’s performance at CMJ last fall was the presentation of “Mrs. Morris,” the first song from Charles Spearin’s The Happiness Project. Spearin, fascinated by the musical qualities of speech, interviewed his neighbors, friends and family members about happiness, then set those interviews to song. Though Spearin says he...

“Two Nights with Explosions in the Sky” or “Yet Another Reason Why Pitchfork Blows”

For a long time, whenever someone asked me about the best concert I’ve seen, Explosions in the Sky was always one of the first bands to come to mind. The first (and up until this week, only) time I saw them was at the now defunct NorthSix in Brooklyn during the Winter of, I think,...