The Website of Robert Lanham
After a ton of hard work, we launched a new streaming platform called NYPhil+ this week. It’s a subscription platform with great concert footage from the New York Philharmonic:
NYPhil+ subscribers have exclusive, unparalleled access to our Orchestra’s digital concerts. Historic telecasts with musical legends, decades of concerts on audio, newly recorded concerts, and more will be available exclusively to NYPhil+ subscribers.
You can check it out at plus.nyphil.org.
After 22 years, I shut down FREEwilliamsburg this month. Deemed the “Grandaddy of Brooklyn Blogs” by Brick Underground and an “essential New York blog” by New York, I can’t believe I kept this thing going for over two decades. I feel sad and elated all at once. I have lots to say about it in this farewell post.
BrooklynVegan had some nice words:
BrooklynVegan is approaching our 16th year, which seems old, so it’s crazy to think that fellow Brooklyn culture blog Free Williamsburg — a site I was definitely a fan of in 2004 when I started BrooklynVegan — is today calling it a day after 22 years. Check out their long goodbye letter, full of great Williamsburg memories.
I’ve been touched all week hearing from fans and contributors, dating back to the 90s. Fare thee well, Freewilly! We had a good run.
This year was a good one for music. Admittedly, 2013’s Antenna to the Afterworld by Sonny & The Sunsets was the record I listened to the more than any other — a newer discovery for me, but thankfully I found time for a few others.
These are the new records I enjoyed the most in 2015. [Read more…]
“Deck” got used on one of my favorite shows last night. My goofy contribution to pop culture has now been in The Sopranos and Veep. Very deck.
Vulture deemed it the “compliment of the episode:”
Dan to Catherine: “You’re hip! You’re deck! Deck’s a thing, right?”
50. Dirty Beaches – Drifters / Love is the Devil
49. Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
48. Fuzz – Fuzz
47. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
46. Diarrhea Planet – I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
45. Fidlar – Fidlar
44. James Blake – Overgrown
43. Cuushe – Butterfly Case
42. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
41. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
40. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
39. Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat
38. The Mantles – Long Enough to Leave
37. Bent Shapes – Feels
36. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
Visit my Brooklyn-based culture guide, FREE Williamsburg.
Garrison Keillor discusses my work on The Writer’s Almanac.