If you’ve come this far, you’ve probably already sniffed around here a bit. Created in April, 2007 as the online presence for a somewhat notorious, now discontinued music and politics e-zine, Lucid Culture covers live music in New York more comprehensively and knowledgeably than any other media outlet, online or in print. We also regularly review cds and art shows along with the occasional book, film or DVD.
Lucid Culture offers four essential resources:
- A NYC live music calendar, which when we post it extends about five weeks ahead. We’ve been putting this up every couple of weeks. To see the latest, click on NYC Live Music Calendar to your right.
- Regular reviews of live shows and cds
- A fairly comprehensive, detailed, constantly updated guide to New York area live music venues (click on Venues, to your right).
And a myspace page, which we encourage you to use as your own personal online listening room. As we continue to discover good bands and artists, we’ll add them to the page.
If you missed American Idol last night and are wondering who got the boot, you won’t find the answer here. Nor will you find anyone gushing over how, like, um, fashionable the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs cd is. Like the music, art and artists we cover here, we fly pretty much under the radar. It gives us a lot of freedom and a certain exclusivity - you might even call it cachet. We’re happy to share it with you.
Why the focus on live music, as opposed to recordings? At this point in history, with the internet enabling independent artists to sell directly to the public, most record labels will soon be obsolete, at least as far as new music is concerned. For that reason, live shows are where pretty much everything is happening right now. By all means, please continue to support your favorite independent bands and artists by purchasing their albums (and please refrain from putting their stuff up online where any moron can download it for nothing).
We also have access to an archive of over a thousand concert reviews dating from the early 1990s, most of which are previously unpublished, which we put up from time to time when we don’t have anything new to report (or to keep the front page fresh when contributors are late with their posts!).
We don’t necessarily limit ourselves to NYC, it’s just our regular stomping ground. We’re adventurous and we have a lot of fun. If you’re a musician, artist, filmmaker, writer, etc. and you think you have something that might be up our alley, click on our Review Policy above for guidelines and contact info
