by Alice Teeple | May 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Music, NYC
Lesley Barth has often wrestled with a sense of feeling like an outsider in her own life. The questions arising around the key to happiness; a sense of identity that deems outside validation unnecessary; the corporate grind. What is it all for, in the end?...
by Alice Teeple | Dec 28, 2019 | Music
2019 has been all so overwhelming, hasn’t it? Being trapped in this infinity loop of crisis and pundits, all at our fingertips? We mindlessly scroll through the drone of Facebook, greedily lapping up salacious headlines and fretting over our future. Is anything...
by Alice Teeple | Nov 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Christine Smith takes a drag from her well-deserved cigarette outside the Bowery Electric. She’s just wrapped a spectacular solo performance for her sophomore album release, Meet Me On The Far Side Of A Star. It’s fitting this...
by Mike Hammer | Jul 7, 2014 | Culture, Music
Luke Elliot and his band playing live at the Rockwood Music Hall. Lower Manhattan is home to some of today’s biggest names in the entertainment industry. DOWNTOWN had the opportunity to learn a bit about the area’s next up and coming star: Luke Elliot. A true downtown...
by Mike Hammer | Jun 24, 2014 | Culture, Music
The Modern Electric And Old Man Canyon Summer 2014 Tour Two up-and-coming bands are coming to Lower Manhattan’s Mercury Lounge on June 24. The Modern Electric will open the show, a four-man cinematic pop band from Cleveland. Critics rave about their captivating...