Tag: John Burdick Village Voices

Let’s exclude from this half-winking, half-sincere tournament anyone who has the damn virus or who has a cohabitating loved one ...

The orchestral overtures and preludes extracted from Wagner’s famous operas and presented as freestanding concert music form a singularly beautiful, ...

The time will come when you hop on the meta-cycle and write about what you’re writing about, pedaling yourself into ...

Viral quarantines are a pure irony delivery system, and the joke is wearing thin.

Recently, I was hired by a well-known Hudson Valley musician to write liner notes for his new, long-in-the-making obsessed-over solo ...

Duke McVinnie is not the first bandleader and recording artist to approach textural ambiance, pattern study, and long-form cinematic soundscaping ...

If you have ever had a cup of coffee or, more likely, a slice of pizza in the village of ...

My first up-close view of civilized and sustainable alcoholism (there have been a few but not many) was provided by ...

PIOP! Say it a few times. Sling that diphthong around like a tether ball one orbit from the top of ...

Some achieve piety and purity via a grueling path of ascetic and volitional privation and the searching interrogation of their ...

Theresa Fall (file photo by Lauren Thomas) Even though it opens at its south end to a natural amphitheater with ...

Spring chases itself through the trees of the village on the first nice day in about 83 years. The streets ...

When my main gigging guitar of the last decade — a sunburst Reverend Charger 290 with Jason Lollar’s famous P90s ...

Walking outdoors remains one of the last few activities about which health authorities are, at worst, ambivalent. For now. Daily, ...

The fastidiously bearded and discerning Brooklyn barista/graphic designer who plays ring modulator and comb filter in a Greenpoint noise collective ...

Of all the suffering artists in our midst, feel most for the actors. The Hudson valley’s painters and novelists barely ...

The pharmaceutical industry, they say, is recession-proof. From the perspective of someone who got paid well to make doilies on ...