Archive for February, 2010
Dan Black
“Music’s about being the right thing at the right time in the right place,” says Dan Black, “and you can’t really engineer that.” If anyone should know, it’s he: Some 15 years after the singer, songwriter and producer started his career in London, he looks as though he might, all of a sudden, break through in North America.
Martha & The Muffins
Sometimes Mark Gane feels as if he’s living in a Talking Heads song. “I look around, and it’s like ‘Once in a Lifetime,’” says the guitarist, singer, and songwriter for Martha & The Muffins. “‘Look at my beautiful car and my house. How did I get here?’ I can’t really explain how it’s all happened. It constantly astounds me.”
Nikki Yanofsky
Nikki Yanofsky has a habit of astonishing people. Usually this is how it happens: first, she bounds onstage in a club or a theatre, a petite teenage gamine in front of a greying, paunchy all-male jazz combo. She then snaps her fingers and counts off the introduction to a jazz standard. The moment her voice rings out, the venue echoes with the sound of dropping jaws.
