• 29th April 2022

Album Review: Regards to the End

Wells’ captivating soundscapes have the ability to bring one deep within themselves, or even have the cathartic means to release one from the ruminations constantly running through their head.

Across the Margin • 20th April 2021

Introducing: "Disintegration Loops"

An introduction to Disintegration Loops, a documentary about avant-garde composer William Basinki, through and interview with its director, David Wexler, and producer, Brad Coleman… David Wexler‘s new documentary The Disintegration Loops, a 45-minute film constructed via Zoom, draws haunting parallels between New York-based avant-garde composer William Basinki’s 9/11-inspired art and the pandemic lockdown in New York City.

At Large Magazine • 11th September 2019

Nate Mercereau

It isn’t unfair to describe Nate Mercereau as a multi-instrumentalist virtuoso, songwriter and producer— he is, it just seems as if it isn’t enough. Nate’s debut album, Joy Techniques uses often forgotten guitar synthesizers circa 1970s and 80s to create a raucous jazz sound that is uniquely his and he does it all sans keys.

At Large Magazine • 11th September 2019

Mwenso and the Shakes

Mwenso and the Shakes — Interview with Band Leader and Vocalist, Michael Mwenso Oh, the dog days of summer, you know, those hot August afternoons where the air in NYC has texture—back sweat, front sweat, and everything in-between sweat.

At Large Magazine • 21st August 2019

Countdown to Lollapalooza 2019

You have less than ten thousand minutes until Lollapalooza 2019 — and it’s summer. Take advantage of these long days! If you haven’t noticed, we are in an explosively creative moment in music and if you can’t get yourself to Lollapalooza in Chicago next weekend then you must not deprive yourself of the music that will be hitting the stages in Grant Park and stream away. Who knows, maybe you’ll love one enough to buy it on vinyl?

At Large Magazine • 12th July 2019

Blick Bassy

Describing Blick Bassy enters into uncomfortable territory for me and I have to ask myself why it even matters where an artist is from and how that informs his art when his voice and music transcends cultures and genres? It just does. I can’t ignore the fact that he looks like a warrior prince with dark skin and a face that almost looks chiseled by a sculptor rather than created by two humans.

At Large Magazine • 12th July 2019

DELANILA

Hard to believe that DELANILA ever gets bored. Her latest album, Overloaded, is set to drop in October and is a multi-instrumental delicious mix of genre wrinkling, time signature bending, origami-like music that sounds layered and deceptively simple—like an expertly folded piece of paper albeit one that is not at all smooth.

At Large Magazine • 15th April 2019

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

Pilgrim Media Group and Lance Bass Productions’ YouTube Original Documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story What’s remarkable about the YouTube Original Documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is that deceased, convicted criminal Lou Pearlman participated in making the film. Not the ghost of Lou Pearlman, but Pearlman himself...

At Large Magazine • 10th April 2019

Brainiac

Tim Taylor died in a horrible accident in 1997 ending the music of Brainiac but not their story. Their music, alien from what people had heard before, so aurally disruptive that you still have to ask, “what is that? Do I like it? Why do I want more?” Taylor classically trained as a cellist from the age of four so Stravinsky echos in my mind...

At Large Magazine • 4th April 2019

SXSW 2019 Music Festival

Last month 1,964 musicians played at South by Southwest 2019 and I think I’ve recovered. SXSW is my own version of March Madness and I think next time I’ll take a lesson from the college basketball fans and make a bracket. SX is probably the worst best place for the commitment-phobic and the decision adverse...

At Large Magazine • 23rd March 2019

Emily Wells

EMILY WELLS’ NEW ALBUM THIS WORLD IS TOO ____ FOR YOU OUT NOW ON THESIS & INSTINCT Every time I listen to any of Wells’ music, I hear something new. There’s a purpose and deceptive simplicity to each note, each combination of sounds. It reminds me of something only found in nature. There’s a liquid quality to her compositions. More choreographed than composed the notes sound like they’re dancing and swirling around the instruments. Wells is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, singe

At Large Magazine • 21st March 2019

DIAMONDS & DYNAMITE

If you don’t know who Donna Grantis is, you might know her music and if you don’t know her music, you just might know the names of some of the people who she’s played guitar with like Prince (yeah, that one) or Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. On stage, with long black hair, leather pants (sometimes tight, sometimes super-wide bellbottoms or in a flowy dress and heels) and chiseled features, Donna Grantis looks legit guitar player...

At Large Magazine • 18th February 2019

Ella Vos

Ella Vos looked familiar to me and it nearly drove me crazy. All I believed I knew about the singer-songwriter before I spoke with her last month was that she survived cancer and her latest music video, Ocean made me want to talk to her. Watch and Wait her recent EP dropped January 25 just ahead of her North American Tour. Her music gets to me and passes the Gen-Z test (I consulted my 19-year-old expert)...

At Large Magazine • 14th December 2018

Edie Brickell, Album release show, written by Jennifer Parker

Nothing about NYC on a chilly fall evening screams, “Go to a concert at a venue with no seats.” When it rains in the city, the streets become mini lakes, the storm drains oh after about 15 minutes of rain can’t keep up. The leaves having blown off the trees are now clogging the drains so that the average person is up to her ankles in a stew of discarded cigarette butts, dog poo and bits of trash.

At Large Magazine • 9th November 2018

Lindsey Buckingham, written by Jennifer Parker for

She broke down and let me in Made me see where I’ve been Been down one time Been down two times I’m never going back again You don’t know what it means to win Come down and see me again Been down one time Been down two times I’m never going back again Fifty-three words. For decades, the better part of half-a-century, rock-fans have practically made a sport out of deconstructing the meaning behind the lyrics of Never Going Back Again.

At Large Magazine • 1st October 2018

Bad Reputation: Film review by Jennifer Parker for At Large magazine

The first time I heard Crimson and Clover, I don’t think I liked it. Let me step that back, I didn’t like all of it. I loved parts of it. I hated others. I knew it had something to do with sex. It made me embarrassed and the mofo got stuck in my head. Over and over. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts released the song in 1982 on the I Love Rock n’ Roll album. It was January, I was in the last half of 8th grade in a school that I hated more than acne and the last thing I needed was one more thing to r

At Large Magazine • 5th September 2018

Another Brick in The Wall opera saved my summer: An opera review

Another Brick in the Wall Opera saved my summer Once again, it is muggy AF in NYC. Though Labor Day Weekend has passed, the official end of summer isn’t until the Fall Equinox. The holiday weekend brings a sense of finality. I believe no summer should end without a romantic story. I rediscovered an old friend. Wait a hot minute before you make any assumptions because this friend shapeshifted its way through my life, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, but was always there to make me think...

At Large Magazine • 1st September 2018

NATURAL BØRNS SINGER

BØRNS is my musical antidote to my hashtag fatigued, Russia Investigation, political shit show that is 2018, and friends, we have another four months to go. It isn’t so much his singing as how he uses his voice; like an instrument that scales with the confidence of an opera singer, then wraps around the lyrics with the tenderness of a lover and delights with the playfulness of a child. Then there’s his look, fans have called him a genderless being but that seems to stem from his willingness to dress in clothing that neither reads feminine nor masculine.

At Large Magazine • 15th July 2018

The King

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. Film still from The King Love him or hate him, Elvis Presley pioneered the cross-branded artist. As the creature of pop culture, Elvis was the recipient of all things not worth worshiping yet he sang from a depth of pain and loneliness. He married a soulful sound to a back-beat (the rock in rock-n-roll) native to hi

At Large Magazine • 25th June 2018

Rock Rubber 45s

Making a documentary like Rock Rubber 45s about Bobbito Garcia’s career in what I can only describe as a POV of freestyle by dribbling, faking and confounding the audience takes skill. The only person who has a deep enough resumé to make it is the subject himself and leave it to him to offer conflicting points of view. When it comes to labels, about the only one Bobbito Garcia AKA Bobbito the Barber, Kool Bob Love, DJ Cucumber Slice, born Robert Garcia doesn’t seem to fit is Gen-X.