Northside Festival Grows Up
For fans of indie music, Brooklyn's Northside Festival has always been the scruffy little sister to CMJ, filling the clubs of Greenpoint and Williamsburg each June with a woolly mix of
FREE TICKETS: Ensemble ACJW at SubCulture
NOTE: This contest has ended. Recently hailed as "New York's de facto leading chamber orchestra" (New York Classical Review), Ensemble ACJW gives its final concert of the season at SubCulture
Janelle Monáe Blows Open the Summer at Celebrate Brooklyn!
Janelle Monáe might be today's most uncategorizable popular artist. She is frustratingly difficult to pigeonhole: her music channels soul, R&B, funk, pop, rock, jazz, folk, and probably a dozen other styles,
Electronic Music at the Source: Detroit’s Movement Festival
DETROIT, MI - There's no doubt about it: electronic music is having its moment in the sun. Daft Punk won Album of the Year at the most recent GRAMMY's. Pop acts
Awe-Inspiring Reverence: The Arvo Pärt Project at Carnegie Hall
by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: TheOrthodoxChurch.info If there were any doubts as to why Arvo Pärt remains the most-performed living composer for three years running, one only had to
Rite of Summer 2014: Dawn of Midi
by Robert Leeper All photos: Nick Fallon Brooklyn-based musical outfit Dawn of Midi draws influences from experimental jazz, minimalism, and electronic music—though none of these would fit as descriptors for the music—to
The Cleveland Orchestra Finds Themselves At Home In Lakewood and Severance Hall
CLEVELAND, OH – When I visited Cleveland for the first time this past January, I wanted to figure out just how the Cleveland Orchestra – widely regarded as one of
Preview—Rite of Summer 2014: Dawn of Midi
Rite of Summer, the outdoor series of free concerts directed by the pianists Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg that emphasizes contemporary classical music, kicks off its fourth season on May 31 with
Taj Mahal Plays Solo at City Winery
by Brian Corliss Composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry St. Claire Fredricks—better known as Taj Mahal—brought forth his diverse roots to a solo show at City Winery on Memorial Day. From the moment he sat down