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In 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, popular music also experienced striking changes. Today, find out how music lost its social bearings as the eighties came to a close, in everything from British rave and gangsta rap to the emergence of grunge. ...

On Christmas Day, 1989, conductor Leonard Bernstein decided to organize a concert in Berlin designed to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. The music was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which culminates in the immortal setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy." But in a controversial move, Bernstein changed Schiller's words to ...

You might have a hard time taking seriously a group that calls itself Garage A Trois. But their new album Power Patriot reveals this 10-year-old jazz-rock outfit means business. The quartet includes the keyboardist Marco Benevento - best known as half of the experimental jazz act Benevento Russo Duo. They ...

Joshua Clover’s book, 1989 – Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about, is making my brain hurt. And I mean that in a good way.

Garrett Shelton saw James Brown three times before the Godfather of Soul died. Not once did J.B. live up to the show Lee Fields put on at Southpaw on Friday night.

Every weekday, we're offering downloadable songs from artists playing in the New York City area that night. Here's one from a band carrying on the garage rock torch.

 

Mingus Big Band
"Tonight At Noon"
Playing at: Jazz Standard (116 E. 27th St., Gramercy)
Get: Tickets (2 shows) | Directions

Dave Schnitter
"For All We Know"
Playing at: Fat Cat (75 Christopher St., West Village)
Get: Tickets ($3 at door) | Directions