Feature story for The Deli Magazine Profile on emerging orchestral pop band San Fermin with an album of characters in dialogue set in classical composition and avant-garde R&B.
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Cover Story for The Deli Magazine Profile on emerging artists Wilsen and the rising “dream-folk” genre.
For The Deli Magazine Brazos, meaning ‘arms’ in Spanish, is a band that wants to touch you. Inspired by visual art and literature as much as blues-based rock, country and classic alternative, Martin Crane, the creator of Brazos, is spinning […]
for Paste Magazine June 20, 2013 Music fans and the media said this was the year Governors Ball could compete with the top summer festivals. An incredibly dense three-day lineup of major indie-rock mixed with top-selling EDM and a sprinkling of big […]
for PopMatters, January 29, 2013 Under veil of changing lights and a restriction on professional photography, Cat Power defied her hit-or-miss reputation at Terminal 5. She walked on stage to the slow strumming of a lone electric guitar and said to […]
Photo slideshow for billmoyers.com. When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, it wasn’t clear how the movement would proceed without a central base of operations. Most other prominent occupations, including those in Los Angeles […]
for PopMatters From a mod granite-clad basement in a Union Square lounge, indie-rock radio station KEXP was about to start a live broadcast of the CMJ Music Marathon. Wild Nothing was trying to buy back 22 minutes of lateness with a […]
Amid Manhattan’s vanishing printing industry, one of the few remaining old-fashioned printing presses, the Heidelberg, still thrives.
for PBS “Need to Know” In the race to find renewable energy options, solar energy is one the easiest and least environmentally taxing ways to harness natural resources. It requires minimal time and infrastructure compared to other energy sources like […]
Health study story published on PBS “Need to Know” site with viral viewership. By Bianca Seidman When married women have trouble falling asleep at night, it makes for a tough next day on the homestead, according to a recent study […]
for PBS “Need to Know” This week is the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of what would become known as AIDS. From those first five patients, doctors knew it was a new disease that severely suppressed the immune system causing […]
CUNY-TV “219 West” segment about pop-up galleries in empty storefronts as community improvement and pro-bono artist exhibition space. (Reporter, Producer)
CUNY-TV segment on East River islands adjacent to Manhattan used as medical quarantine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Reporter, Producer) Written, Shot and Edited by Bianca Seidman
As published, Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:10 PM EST in the Queens Courier online and in print. BY BIANCA SEIDMAN Photo by Bianca Seidman-Shvarts When a dental office left 161st Street in Jamaica, its storefront remained empty for two years, […]
Part of multi-contributor project on CMJ 2010 I pitched, covered, co-edited for the NY City News Service. By Day Three of the CMJ Music Marathon, the audiences were picking up numbers, steam and stamina for showcases running well into the late […]
Part of a special event package covering CMJ 2010 I pitched, covered, co-edited and recruited contributors for the NY City News Service. School of Seven Bells headlined the last CMJ shows at Santos Party House Saturday night, but this […]