Central Park Summerstage 2012

WBLS is the home of Old School, 1970s and 1980s and even 1990s charttoppers. Sunday afternoon, they wore their age with equal parts grace and fervor.

Why is nobody dancing? BECAUSE IT ISN’T DANCE MUSIC. M83 are selling themselves the wrong way, they don’t have a handle on how to really get the job done: they are revving up their engines, but they don’t play that sort of music

Between Black Jesus, modern dance interpretation, East African soul music, and one of the most devastating denunciations of power and religion, a performance of “The Power Of Trilogy” wowed Summerstage, Tuesday evening.

Forget that the music was singularly beautiful, and forget that Woody Guthrie is a great American hero and a friend to the working class, forget that we are given to celebrate such a pioneer of the American spirit, Arlo Guthrie, in refusing to give into the emotion of the evening, made it all so much better.

This feels like the first day of summer, a crystal clear evening with just a trace of cool in the air and one of our great indie rockers Kurt Vile and his band the Violators kicking the lo-fi claim to the floor as the sun begins to set on an hour long set at Summerstage.