Tonight at Barbes at 8PM, I can’t think of anything better to do than this:

Eszter Balint & Chris Cochrane:  Jon Pareles of The New York Times has this to say about singer. songwriter and violinist Eszter Balint: “Miss Balint has her own film noir sensibility as a songwriter. She puts arty twists into back-alley Americana… but the cleverness is not the point. She slips inside her characters to project their restlessness and longing.” In addition to two releases of her own, Eszter Balint has also appeared on recordings by Michael Gira’s Angels of Light, Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits among many others. Balint recently toured with Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, featured as special guest on violin and vocals. Eszter Balint will be performing some of her brand new material during this residency, accompanied by one of New York’s most inventive and fiercely passionate players, guitarist/composer/songwriter Chris Cochrane.

376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn