Teng, Mays Make It on Ludlow St.

San Francisco's Vienna Teng riveted a standing room house last night at the Living Room on Ludlow Street in New York City. The pianist's melancholy songs and incredibly compelling performance kept the crowd completely hushed, so much so that Teng rewarded us all with a song she said she only played when she's got the right audience... a heart-wrenching a capella tale of a deadly car crash "four years ago." Earlier in the evening, Matt Hanks, Alexis Tedford and I got to have a terrific dinner at 'inoteca with Teng, her manager Amy Cox, Rounder exec Sherry Sands, and journalists Andre Poulin (Today Show) and Cristina Black (Time Out NY).

Following that excellent show, I popped in right next door to Pianos, where another of our clients, Matt Mays & El Torpedo,



were just going on for the second installment of a their Monday night October residency....the guys' rock-in-the-pocket self titled debut's out today.


Carrie Tolles (seen above with Matt Mays at last night's show) has been over the moon about the band, their great album and their winning live show. Man, these guys delivered and more. I'm going back next Monday. I'll buy you a drink there, just let me know you're coming.