On Sunday you may want to find your way over to Matchless Bar in Greenpoint for sunday of free music, (late) brunch and bloodys - only the music is free, mind you! Starting at 3pm, the bands on the bill are - in this order: exotic and quirky rootsy Generous Lovers , jazzy singer songwriter Sergio Ortega , folk rocker Randi Russo , and apocalyptic rock perpetrators Bugs in the Dark - one of the most awesomely tense indie bands in NYC, thrown in there so you don't get too confortable or relaxed [...]
Randi Russo springs forth on her third album Fragile Animal (out March 29). While you may not be aware of her music, the singer/songwriter is no new-comer. Sharing bills with the likes of Regina Spektor, Nicole Atkins, Kimya Dawson, The White Rabbits, Here We Go Magic and more, Russo has been making a name for herself in the NYC indie scene since the release of her debut album Solar Bipolar. On April 12th Russo shares a bill with The Oxygen Ponies and Less the Band [...]
It's time once again for Weekly Roundup where we recap some interesting music-related news items and share some of our favorite songs and videos of the past week.
Conducted by Capt. Obvious Obvious: When did you start playing guitar, and why'd you opt for the upside-down right handed guitar rather than a lefty guitar? Russo: I started playing guitar when I was 19 years old. It's a long story how I came about playing guitar upside-down. Basically, I'm a lefty and when I wanted to play guitar, the salesman told me that most lefties [...]
New Wax I'm pretty particular when it comes to female vocalists, so it's always nice to add another voice to my short list, which is occupied by the likes of Chan Marshall, Patti Griffin, and Neko Case. There's enough room on that list for New York's Randi Russo and considering the weathered familiarity of Randi's voice, it's fitting that she's been compared to Patti Smith. A southpaw yielding an upside-down backwards right-handed guitar, Russo's guitar work is built on atypical chords and progressions. On [...]
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As International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) breathes down my neck, you can expect more great tunes that haven't been heard yet to come from bands/artists who have emailed The Duke. I spent a good portion of Little Duke's naptime, cleaning out my inbox to bring you a gargantuan (isn't this a great word?) batch of goodies. First link is to bands' websites or myspaces; second is the mp3; and underneath is my take/brief description. Thailand ~ Prime Numbers Sorta like a drum machine Mates of State [...]
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