May 6-8: Beirut, a band led by a fresh-faced youngster named Zach Condon, has been the toast of the blogosphere and the major media for its unabashedly charming Gypsy rock.
JOE'S PUB IN THE PARK Delacorte Theatre, Central Park near W. 81st St .(212-967-7555) — SepThe26: The indie-pop band Beirut, whose 2006 album of unabashedly charming Gypsy rock, "Gulag Orkestar," broke out of the blogosphere to achieve mainstream acclaim, is led by the young multi-instrumentalist and crooner Zack Condon.
Whether she's layering her latest craft purchase from Etsy with a DIY creation or throwing on something shiny and finishing off with a hard accessory - a smattering of studs on a boot or a bondage-style belt – her ensembles always maintain a charming goth-rock undertone which sets her apart from her younger contemporaries.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
Detailing his path from Nirvana bass player to citizen politico, Novoselic offers specific platforms for electoral reform -- instant runoff voting gets a lot of play -- as well as charming anecdotes about rock 'n' roll as a pursuit of happiness.
In the last few years he has quickly established himself as one of the premier new songwriters in rock, charming critics and ever-growing crowds with songs set in a fantastical world of Victorian chimney sweeps and dockside prostitutes, infant ghosts and exotic royal parades.
In many ways related to the Avett Brothers they followed, Young the Giant's second time at Lolla was a rather charming dose of... rock.
After all, they're British – as we all know, every one from that side of the pond is charming, affable, and rocks a bloody good accent.
Ms. Cosentino is the singer and steering force behind Best Coast, an offhandedly charming no-fi indie rock band focused almost exclusively, and talmudically, on the ones that got away.
There has always been something redolent of the great American westerns inside the European image of the Bad Seeds; charming, dandyish villains and rock'n'roll gunslingers upon whom fate has forced a noble mission.
