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While literary 'movements' and art 'movements' are rarely talked about in geographical terms anymore, the Lower East Side still boasts a focused local music scene, characterized by its crossroads of punk and 'new music'. Our Great Hobo commentators have selected the best and bravest of the indie scene, as well as provided commentary on what's happening in the mainstream.
- Dr. Christian Carey's new Review of Fisk Industries' EPs and Rarities
- Darius Jager reports on a gig by legendary musician Martin Bisi.
 | Enjoy an mp3 from Gret Hobo Del Goldfarb... Del is a self-proclaimed jug-band-esque modern skiffle music player. His stuff really rings of the Lower East Side of a few decades ago - the Bowery of hope, revolution, and change, as captured on vinyl. Check out an mp3 of one of his latest and greatest, Portable Man. If you like Portable Man, you can hear more of Del's tunes on his CD, Up To My Neck, which features John Sebastian on harmonica, as well as many other folk rock greats. Also, please take note - the July 2005 issue of Chronogram featured an article on Great Hobo legend Del Goldfarb!
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- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Tristeza's A Colores!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of This Microwave World's Red States!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Avarus' Ruskeatimantti!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of The Russian Futurist's Our Thickness!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Ume's Urgent Sea!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of The Industrial Jazz Group's The Star Chamber!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Starline Theorie's Obon!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Engineers' self titled album!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs' self titled album!
- Darius Jager's Article on a new label, Williamsburg Records!
- Darius Jager's Review of a performance by Tyshawn Sorey!
- Darius Jager's Review of the self-titled debut of The Dresden Dolls!
- VIDEO CLIP - Elliott Smith was one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, which has had pop charts noticeably lacking in great songwriters. Mr. Smith was a favorite of the indie circuit who seemingly reluctantly made it big, due to the 1998 Oscar nomination of his song "Miss Misery", which appeared on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack. His albums XOXO and Figure 8 developed his strong fan base, supplying them with often painful and haunting ballads, which critics compared to the best work of John Lennon and Nick Drake. During the Summer of 2003, Mr. Smith appeared as part of the doomed Field Day festival at Giants Stadium. It was to be one of his last performances. He died in his LA apartment on October 22, 2003. Great Hobo Julio was lucky enough to attend Smith's performance at Field Day, and has provided this video clip of his performance. From Julio - It appears that the video clip we have on the great hoboes site is of one of his last songs written. The name of the song is "A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free" and it appears on a single that was just released through Suicide Squeeze Records. Visit them to purchase the album ::: http://www.suicidesqueeze.net/elliottsmith.html. The clip is currently available in streaming RealVideo. You can get the latest version of RealPlayer at www.real.com. We're working to encode this in other formats to provide a higher quality clip. Please view what we have, and check back in a couple of weeks.
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- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Basho Junghan's Rivers and Bridges!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Brandon Hans' Time to Relax!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Crystal Brandt's Voter!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Ned Rothenberg and Peter A. Schmid's En Passant!
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of The Gunshy's No Man's Blues
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Winter Wishes, Various Artists
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Singapore Sling's The Curse of the Singapore Sling
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Crystal Brandt's Bessie's Last Stand
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Summer Hymns' Value Series Vol. 1: Fool's Gold
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Shrimp Boat's A Sampler of Something Grand
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of The Hilliard Ensemble's 04/24/04 NYC Concert of Renaissance Madrigals
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Elvis Costello's North
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Andrew Bird's Weather Systems
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Tom Waits' Dimestore Novels, Volume One
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of John Hammond's Ready for Love
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of King Crimson's The Power to Believe
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Low's Trust
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Jackknife to a Swan
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Tom Waits' Alice and Blood Money
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of Matthew Shipp's nu bop
- Dr. Christian Carey's Capsule Review of Weezer's Maladroit
- Dr. Christian Carey's Review of David Bowie's Heathen, with commentary on its treatment by critics
- Tyler Carey's Review of Zwan's Mary, Star of the Sea and Phish's Round Room
- Tyler Carey's Review of Moby's 18 and Busta Rhymes' Genesis
- Darius Jager's report from the Bowery on Plastic East, Say It 100 Times...Rock and Roll is Back!
- Darius Jager's historical hobosity, Through These Portals Walk the Famous!
- Julio presents pics and a review of STP/G&R project Velvet Revolver's Roseland gig.
- Julio's FIELD DAY REVIEW AND PICS!!!
- Julio Reviews Jane's Addiction's 07/03 Irving Plaza gig, WITH PHOTOS!
- Julio's Interview with The Spunk Lads
- Julio's Coverage of Last Summer 02's Warped Tour
- Angus O'Taffypuller's Review of U2's 11/22/04 Concert at the Brooklyn Bridge! WITH PHOTOS!
- Marc Wiener's Review of Radiohead's Beacon Show, and Hail to the Thief
- Marc Wiener's Review of Coldplay's MSG Show
- Rosie Valdez' belated '04 musical, visual, and literary checklist, Doing it for the Music...