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The arched entryway at McCarren Pool. (mercurialn/flickr)Summer's Final Note
Summer is winding down. Today, we find out about some of the best music events in the season's final days. Later: Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool is set to present its final concert this weekend. We look back at a venue that made a big splash in New York. And later: art-song composer Gabriel Kahane performs live.
Summer's Last Strains
For some, Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, but there's still great music to be enjoyed in the final days of the sunny-weather concert season. Music writer Mike Wolf joins us for an overview.
Mike Wolf's picks for end-of-summer music:
Xiu Xiu + Evangelista
Bowery Ballroom, tonight
Oneida + Endless Boogie + surprise guest
South Street Seaport, tomorrow (Friday), FREE
East Village Radio Music Festival with Awesome Color, Vivian Girls, High Places**, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, plus L.A.-based Flying Lotus, Texas-based Devin the Dude, and Icelander Ólöf Arnalds
South Street Seaport, Sat., Sept 6, 1-9pm, FREE
Fender 50th Anniversary Jazzmaster Concert with Tom Verlaine + Nels Cline + Thurston Moore + J Mascis
Knitting Factory, Fri., Sept. 12
Witchcraft + TK Webb and the Visions** + Graveyard
Bowery Ballroom, Thu., Sept. 17
Indian Jewelry + White Magic** + Lau Nau** + Talk Normal
Knitting Factory, Fri., Sept 19
The Feelies
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Bowery Ballroom, Sept 20/21
McCarren Pool's Swan Song
In just three years, McCarren Park Pool became a focal point of New York's summer concert season. Now, the city plans to rehabilitate and re-open the pool. With a final concert headlined by Sonic Youth set for this weekend, New York Times arts reporter Melena Ryzik joins us for a look back at a venue that made a big splash in New York.
Soundcheck blog: John Schaefer on the end of music at McCarren Pool
More about McCarren Pool: Listen to "Everything About a Pool" from WNYC's The Next Big Thing
Gabriel Kahane
Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane is part of a new generation of art-song composers whose music defies easy classification. On his self-titled debut album, due out this fall, he writes wry observational songs that incorporate the sounds of string quartets, folk, brass chorales and jangly piano pop. He joins us to perform live in the studio.
Gabriel Kahane will play
a record release show at The Zipper Factory on Sept. 17.
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