Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the site of this week’s Ambient Church concert celebrating 25 years of the Kranky label Credit: Matt Frankel Update on Thursday, December 6, at 5:30 PM: Windy & Carl will ...

Less than 48 hours after the election, a crowd slowly filtered into a 109-year-old Gothic Revival church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They were there to see Natalie Mering, the wry folk singer-songwriter ...

Ambient Church founder Brian Sweeny is well aware of the problems ambient artists face when playing traditional venues. For years, the Los Angeles organizer had been intrigued by the idea of churches ...

“We have this gift of all these beautiful spaces and they need to be used to their maximum potential,” says Brian Sweeny, the cofounder and curator of Ambient Church. His semi-regular Brooklyn concert ...

The Lower East Side gallery presents new works by an artist who has shown in major US museums since the 1960s. The exhibition is open through February 22. The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the ...

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones — a phrase that has an almost biblical message to it. While the parishioners at Calvary Lutheran Church would likely never dream of throwing ...

This week’s picks include Moses Sumney, The New Colossus Festival, Fessesz, Human Impact (ex-Unsane), the Planned Parenthood benefit with Courtney Love & Melissa Auf der Maur, and more. Fennesz’s tour ...

Three years ago, during a wave of venue closures in north Brooklyn’s D.I.Y. scene, Brian Sweeny (a founder of the notorious, now defunct Bushwick community hub Body Actualized Center) started this ...