Music Top 5 March 2017

1
DEVENDRA BANHART
(Thalia Hall)
The rakish Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, bilingual and pansexual, is Lou Reed’s spiritual heir.
March 6

2
KNEEBODY
(Constellation)
Art-rock band? Pomo chamber ensemble? Postbop jazz quintet? Depends when you catch them. And they’re well worth catching.
March 23

3
DAKHABRAKHA
(Old Town School of Folk Music)
The vocal harmonies of this Ukrainian quartet have a gorgeous, strident dissonance that’s strange and wonderful to Western ears.
March 31

4
PIETA BROWN
(SPACE)
The indie-folk singer-songwriter has been around a while, but her voice remains both enduringly original and eternally ethereal.
March 15

5
JOEY ALEXANDER
(City Winery)
Musical prodigies aren’t as common as they once were; but this fourteen-year-old virtuoso jazz pianist is the real deal.
March 24

Robert Rodi

Robert Rodi is an author, spoken-word performer and musician who has served as Newcity’s Music Editor since 2014. He’s written more than a dozen books, including the travel memoir “Seven Seasons In Siena,” and his literary and music criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Huffington Post and many other national and regional publications.
Contact: robert@newcity.com