by Steven Pisano Photo: Steven Pisano If nights of the week have a music personality, and Friday and Saturday nights are the loud and rowdy party animals in the group, […]
by Nick StubblefieldHiroyuki Ito for The New York Times I've attended many great presentations of new music in New York City over the past couple of years, so when I
by Robert Leeper John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards in the early 1980s Le Poisson Rouge's festival tribute to American icon John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards, Strange & Beautiful:
by Nick Stubblefield and FoM (Photo: Stephanie Berger) Two weeks ago, Philip Glass and Steve Reich - by any measure two of the most important and influential composers of our time – kicked off the Nonesuch
by Poppy Galloway (photo: Mike Benigno) As part of the ongoing celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nonesuch Records at BAM, popular alternative mad men Devendra Banhart, Stephin Merritt & Sam Beam (of Iron and
Question: What musical group can switch seamlessly from classical works by Monteverdi to indie-rock ballads by Bon Iver within the same program? Answer: Chicago's dynamic and acclaimed sextet eighth blackbird, who open
by Robert Leeper Photo by Noah Stern Weber, used courtesy of Kettle Corn Music Despite the wide variety of available instruments, a percussion concert can turn into droning monotony if the
Of all musical instruments, the human voice is the both the most accessible – we all have one – and the most challenging to execute. In the right hands, there
On the surface, the artists signed to Nonesuch Records – which celebrates 50 years in business this year – would seem to have very little to do with one another.
