Manhattan Beat – Good Old War, Barry Ryan, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo January 9, 2019 Columns, Manhattan Beat Good Old War/The Bowery Ballroom/Dec. 21, 2018 Vocalists/guitarists Keith Goodwin and Tim Arnold grew up in Bucks County, Pa., and recorded several EPs in a band called Days Away. Around 2005, the ban...
Manhattan Beat – Oz Noy Trio, Billy Joel, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo January 2, 2019 Columns, Manhattan Beat Oz Noy Trio/The Bitter End/Dec. 17, 2018 At age 10 in his native Israel, Oz Noy learned to play Israeli music and Beatles songs on his guitar, gradually exploring and expanding his repertoir...
Manhattan Beat – Shakin’ Street, Bikini Car Wash, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 26, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Shakin' Street/The Bowery Electric/Dec. 12, 2018 Born in Tunisia, North Africa, and raised in Paris, Fabienne Shine started writing songs as a youth. She became a model and actress as well as a m...
Manhattan Beat – Greta Van Fleet, John Prine, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 19, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Greta Van Fleet/Terminal 5/Nov. 27, 2018 Barely a few years ago, vocalist Joshua Kiszka starred in high school plays in his home town of Frankenmuth, Mich.; he aimed to be a film maker. His twin broth...
Manhattan Beat – Hey Guy, The John Butler Trio, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 12, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Hey Guy/Mercury Lounge/Nov. 16, 2018 Boris Pelekh was born in Russia and moved to New York City in 1991, at age 9. He played classical guitar as a child, rocked on electric guitar in his e...
Manhattan Beat – Billy Raffoul, Boz Scaggs, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 5, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Billy Raffoul/Mercury Lounge/Nov. 13, 2018 Canadian singer Jody Raffoul gave his son Billy Raffoul a guitar for his 10th birthday. When Billy was in high school in his home town of Leamington, Ontario...
Manhattan Beat – Colter Wall, Lucinda Williams, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 28, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Colter Wall/Irving Plaza/Nov. 5, 2018 In Swift Current, Canada, a 13-year-old Colter Wall learned to play guitar by copying hard rock guitarists. He then gravitated to old blues and folk music. In his...
Manhattan Beat – Steely Dan, Gwar, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 21, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Steely Dan/Beacon Theatre/Oct. 29, 2018 In 1967, while in college in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Don Fagan passed by a café and heard Walter Becker practicing on electric guitar. They met a...
Manhattan Beat – Stabbing Westward, The Coffin Daggers, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 14, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Stabbing Westward/The Gramercy Theatre/Oct. 20, 2018 Christopher Hall at age five played the trumpet and later studied classical music in college, with the goal of becoming a trumpet player in th...
Manhattan Beat – Public Image Ltd, Matthew Perryman Jones, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 7, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Public Image Ltd/Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn/Oct. 15, 2018 Following the breakup of the Sex Pistols in 1978, vocalist John Lydon chose to move his music in a radically different direction and...
