New Music

Every once in awhile, a public official commits an act so grand, so benevolent that it threatens to restore my tattered faith in politicians. Late last month, Brooklyn Borough President […]

Vancouver New York-based (and Vancouver bred) composer/bassist Lisle Ellis has been a key figure in the Canadian improv scene for over 30 years. In both Vancouver and Montreal, he initiated

My main reason for being in Montreal this weekend is the 9th annual  Suoni per il Popolo festival of underground music. Lasting the entire month of June, the musical offerings

In case you haven't figured it out by now, 2009 has become my Canadian summer. First Kitchener, then Toronto, and now what many consider the most musical city in North

I met composer Michael Schumacher at last week's Issue Project Room party, where he told me about his Diapason Gallery, which he's been running since 2001. New York's only gallery

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Our soundwalk ends up at Issue Project Room, where there's a party with drinks, food and live music, including this band Flaming Fire, who are running up and down 4th

On 3rd St. near 3rd Ave., Bradford stops at a car, opens the trunk, and hauls out his Pencilina: a homemade contraption that's part electric guitar, part cello, and part

At 4pm, I met up with composer Bradford Reed and about 15 others outside the Carroll St. F train stop, where he had us all download three of his "pieces"