A banker with a midlife crisis becomes an artist with a sequined cape and a mission to bring peace to the world.

Natalie bounces around New York, damaging every relation she has. She meets kind and helpful Maury who runs a private homeless shelter and she abuses him as well.

An elderly Jewish couple fights off the thugs of 1970’s NYC and finds happiness in each other.

A nice Jewish boy on the upper west side fights for his inheritance and his uncle’s girlfriend only to discover there is life beyond lox.

Robert Glasper and Friends find the Wonder in Jazz, and Lauressa Nelson is there to soak it all in at the Harlem Stage.

The Horror (Sacred Bones). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Rosenkopf (Wierd). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Good things come to May Terry, who waited through a half-dozen bands before Grass Widow closed out the Panache Northside Showcase in NYC.

A little musical mojito over classic songs goes a long way, and that’s the secret ingredient for Rodrigo y Gabriela’s success in wooing the heart of May Terry.

Liturgy crashes a party brought to you by indie buzz acts to 1: confuse fans who came out to see Sleigh Bells and Diplo, and 2: give Matthew Moyer a reason to show up.

Matthew Moyer thinks Dave Thompson’s Patti Smith bio just might tide you over until Smith delivers on the promised second volume of her memoir.

Carl F Gauze slobbers over the juicy details of a rock star groupie’s Mad Men and LSD days.

Penetration (Metal Mind/MVD). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Darker Blue (Defend Music). Review by Matthew Moyer.

William S. Burroughs, rockstar, comes face-to-face with the underground youth culture that he helped to create. Matthew Moyer fills the Ink 19 crowd in on his extended victory lap, viewed through cinematic eyes.

Small Black EP (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Matthew Moyer caught up with Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone on the downside of SXSW, and found the core Vivians restless and ready to move on to new projects, but still completely dedicated to art and music.

Kander and Ebb’s final musical. The Scottsboro Boys, depicts the true story of American racism in the South. Despite a mixture of eye-poppin’ musical sequences and social commentary, the musical misses many cues. Julie Haverkate provides analysis.

Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.

Renihilation (20 Buck Spin). Review by Matthew Moyer.