Come all ye Catholic school rejects, New Age earth mothers, gender rebels and jilted ex-lovers: Alanis Morissette has room around the campfire for you. “It’s like a family reunion,” she said Monday night, beaming onstage at the sold-out historic Apollo Theater in New York City. Accompanied by guitarists Jason Orm …
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The most demonstrative note that Andrew Cyrille played on Tuesday night — a resounding thwack on the snare — was also the last. The drummer, a key presence across the full spectrum of jazz since the early 1960s, was wrapping up more than four hours of largely improvised exploration on …
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Last October, Beastie Boys’ Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz released the Beastie Boys Book, a 592-page tome detailing the history of the New York hip-hop group and its cultural influence. It was also, in large part, a tribute to the group’s third member Adam “MCA” Yauch, who …
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