Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse - New York Music - Sound of the City

Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse - New York Music - Sound of the City:

By Richard Gehr in Featured, Last Night, Richard Gehr, St. Ann's Warehouse, Tuli Kupferberg, live



"A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg
St. Ann's Warehouse
Friday, January 22

Nothing crystallizes the identity politics lurking somewhere near the core of pop music quite like benefit and tribute concerts, where donor acts reconstruct the beneficiary in their own image, often to revelatory - or, nearly as often, dumbfounding - effect. Just ask Hal Willner, who's made a fine career out of assembling such confabs, including Friday's three-hour, suitably beat potpourri he and St. Ann's threw for beatnik king, multitalented rabble-rousing hedonist, and Fug emeritus Tuli Kupferberg, who, at age 86, is burdened by medical expenses after suffering two strokes last year." Sphere: Related Content