Award-nominated longform feature on Scotland’s indie-music history, funding and ties to politics. For The A.V. Club At this July’s T in the Park, the world’s fifth-largest music festival, which hosts 85,000 people in the Scottish countryside every year, the view […]
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I have contributed feature profiles, interviews, show and festival reviews, news and photography to The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, The Deli Magazine, PopMatters, the NYC News Service and a Modern Rock column I wrote before j-school. Selected clips are indexed below. […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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
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 […]
Modern Rock Column October 27, 2009 In a sea of Rock and layers of Electronica, sometimes there’s a little glimmer of Bubble Gum goodness at CMJ. Though the expectations are high for deeper meaning or complex musical arrangements when there’s […]
Modern Rock Column September 27, 2009 It was a busy summer for Toronto electronica duo-turned-trio Crystal Castles. As has been the case for the last couple of years, they pounded their way through an impressive number of summer festivals, shows […]
Modern Rock column September 27, 2009 Akron/Family: Miles Seaton, Dana Janssen and Seth Olinsky by Katherine Levin This was a seminal year for Akron/Family as they released their fourth record, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free in May, followed by […]
2009 Best of Arts & Entertainment section Modern Rock column August 17, 2009 Silversun Pickups in their trailer at All Points West © Bianca Seidman-Shvarts Heavy rain plus lightning and tornado warnings forced a three hour delay on the last day […]