by Nick Stubblefield HereNowHear, the dynamic new-music piano duo of Andrew Zhou and Ryan McCullough, closed out Kettle Corn New Music’s sixth season at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music […]
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by Nick Stubblefield It would be futile to try and encapsulate impressions of electro-acoustic artist Sxip Shirey's (pronounced SKIP SHY-REE) album release show at Williamsburg's National Sawdust in a single blog
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A packed house filled Roulette on Saturday night, where experimental composer/musician Glenn Branca led an ensemble of four electric guitars, bass and drums in two of his works, including "The Light (For David)", written in
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by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) As one of NYC's leading contemporary classical and experimental music festivals, the MATA Festival was back in town last week for six
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For the 12th year in a row, Winter Jazzfest takes over the Village this week, with more than 100 bands playing a dozen venues across lower Manhattan. This year's festival –
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by Nick Stubblefield There are a lot of musicians that dedicate their careers to making experimental music. There are a lot of others that just want to create something that's
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by Steven Pisano Photo by Steven Pisano On Wednesday night, jazz composer and drummer Tyshawn Sorey and his trio performed the first in a series of three concerts at Roulette. Piano, bass, drums: it’s a
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by Robert Leeper Varispeed [Photo credit: Steven Pisano] When Roulette was founded in a TriBeCa loft in 1978, New York City was bankrupt, subways were covered in graffiti, and the
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It's hard to believe that a place as vibrant and innovative as Roulette has been around for 35 years, but why would you want to try? Roulette has brought together a
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