Jim Farber

New York

Music Critic and Writer at Freelance

I've been praising and panning music for scores of outlets for over 30 years now. email: [email protected]

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The Dedicated: PARTCH Ensemble Lights Up REDCAT

1 week ago | sfcv.org | Jim Farber

There’s something almost monastic about the dedication of the PARTCH Ensemble. While modern music seems to have forgotten Harry Partch, an explorer of microtonality who was born in Oakland in 1901 and died in Encinitas in 1974, these musicians are dedicated to preserving the maverick composer’s idiosyncratic pieces and unique handcrafted instruments.
The forgotten genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

1 week ago | msn.com | Jim Farber

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The forgotten genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

1 week ago | msn.com | Jim Farber

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Brilliant, broken, and buried: Remembering the genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Jim Farber

InterviewIt’s hard to overstate the influence that The Band had on music, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton to The Beatles and Elton John. Less talked about is the influence that singer-songwriter Richard Manuel had on The Band. Jim Farber speaks to the late musician’s contemporaries, and the writer of a new book about his life and deathFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
Andy Bell of Erasure's Magical Mystery World

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jim Farber

The frontman, whose first solo album in 15 years recently arrived, explains why he's a fan of gems, psychics and snails. For years, Andy Bell of Erasure has been drawn to women of a certain age. "Women like Catherine Deneuve or Deborah Harry have this innate royalness about them, this sense of fully being," he said. "I've always admired that."Imagine his joy, then, when, upon turning 60 last year, he began to feel that way about himself.
Garland Jeffreys Was One of Rock's Most Essential Voices. Where Did He Go?

3 weeks ago | rollingstone.com | Jim Farber

I n the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977. The prestigious PBS program Soundstage predicted he would become “the next performer to lay claim to superstardom.” And powerful radio stations like New York’s WNEW-FM kept his songs “35 Millimeter Dreams” and “Wild in the Streets” in heavy rotation.
Garland Jeffreys Was One of Rock’s Most Essential Voices. Where Did He Go?

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jim Farber

Generate Key TakeawaysGarland Jeffreys in 1979, around the time he was one of rock’s most promising artists. In the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977.
Phallic symbols, bare buttocks and warrior poses: how physique magazines grew a cult gay following

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jim Farber

In the late 1950s, when photography critic Vince Aletti was in his mid-teens, he stumbled upon a clutch of magazines at a local newsstand that seemed to speak directly to him. From their covers to the pages inside, the pocket-sized magazines were packed with strikingly composed images of nearly naked, finely muscled men, many of whom appeared to have a secret rapport with each other. “I remember getting really turned on by that,” Aletti recalls, sitting in his apartment in New York’s East Village.
The Scott Dunn Orchestra Is Built to Showcase Movie Music

1 month ago | sfcv.org | Jim Farber

A new ensemble with deep Hollywood roots will give its debut concert on May 22 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. The Scott Dunn Orchestra, named for its conductor, is devoted to showcasing movie music as played by Los Angeles’ fine session musicians.
‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jim Farber

Thirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what he’d find. All he had to guide him was a tip from an old associate of Frank’s to go to a housing facility in Queens, New York, where he was told he was living. When he finally arrived there, the man he saw bore no relation to the Frank he was expecting. “All I had to go on was his album cover from 1965 when he was much younger and looked pretty dashing,” Abbott said.

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