Category Archives: BOMBsessions

A series of short documentaries featuring intimate live performances by and interviews with exceptional, innovative and under-appreciated musicians.

R. Stevie Moore

July 13, 2010 – 1:00 pm

By Clinton Krute


R. Stevie Moore is an underground legend. An incredibly prolific and creative songwriter and musician, Moore has self-released over 400 albums since his classic debut Phonography, from 1976. He invited BOMBsessions into his home for a couple of songs.

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Sharon Van Etten

April 9, 2010 – 5:27 pm

By Clinton Krute

Singer and songwriter Sharon Van Etten is a rising star possessed of a remarkable, arresting voice. Emotive without being naïve, Sharon’s music, like her personality, is wise beyond its years. Watch the latest BOMBsession, a performance and interview with Sharon.

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Steve Gunn

March 12, 2010 – 2:21 pm

By Clinton Krute

On Boerum Palace, Gunn has turned his formidable improvisational chops towards songwriting with results that are as far form the free-form freak-outs of his previous work as they are from traditional singer-songwriter fare. Read more…

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Xeno & Oaklander

February 19, 2010 – 10:50 am

By Clinton Krute

The music of the Brooklyn-based group Xeno & Oaklander seems to come from an earlier time, when the beeps and whirs of the analog synthesizer began to creep up from the underground into the mainstream of pop music…Read more…

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Kevin Barker

January 27, 2010 – 5:51 pm

By Clinton Krute

Kevin Barker is a man of many talents, not least among them his easy mastery of the Telecaster. Read more…

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Wingdale Community Singers, “Willing Sense of Disbelief”

January 6, 2010 – 5:19 pm

By Clinton Krute

wingdale VIDEO! The moniker Wingdale Community Singers provides some cover of anonymity over its members who, like members of a small-town church choir, came together for the simple purpose of singing out loud. Composers David Grubbs and Hannah Marcus, writer Rick Moody and artist Nina Katchourian, along with bassist Elissa Moser Linowes, are all highly acclaimed in their respective fields. BOMBsessions caught up with the group at Marcus’ Brooklyn apartment on a windy Fall night. With Mr. Grubbs regrettably busy teaching at Brooklyn College, the remaining members of the band performed the song “Willing Sense of Disbelief.”

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