Gravity Lounge faces the music

READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Views from the stage Gravity Lounge regulars offer their perspectives on the troubled venue •A brief history of Gravity I first heard about Gravity Lounge’s financial troubles two days after manager Bill Baldwin e-mailed a two-page S.O.S. to “friend[s]” of the local concert venue and asked that they help bail […]

Views from the stage

READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Gravity Lounge faces the music Five years in, bills remain unpaid, and despite some powerhouse concerts, the room remains half-empty. Will the Downtown venue fall? • A brief history of Gravity Two things seem certain about Gravity Lounge: 1) the depth of the space’s financial troubles, and 2) the near […]

A brief history of Gravity

READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Gravity Lounge faces the music Five years in, bills remain unpaid, and despite some powerhouse concerts, the room remains half-empty. Will the Downtown venue fall?   • Views from the stage Gravity Lounge regulars offer their perspectives on the troubled venue Rather than attempt an authoritative list of every Gravity […]

Ben Kweller's pony express

As a friend recently told me, “You can’t ride two horses with one tokhes.” For a musician like Ben Kweller, who wriggled his Levi’s into a cozy ass-groove of alt-rock at a young age, that sort of stretch is a bit more difficult.   He’s gone country! Ben Kweller saddles up a new sound on […]