Email Author Kory Grow

2012 Stories by Kory Grow

• PERMANENT RECORDS

  published May 16, 2012

  For all of the recent sturm und drang touting the decline of music industry, beacons of hope are emerging. A bright one is the creation of the... More >>

• Laurie Anderson

  published May 9, 2012

  Four nearly four decades, Laurie Anderson has stood at the front of New York City’s avant-garde, staging performance art and creating... More >>

• Awesome Tapes From Africa

  published May 9, 2012

  Truth in advertising doesn’t get much better than the name of Brian Shimkovitz’s blog, Awesome Tapes From Africa, where Shimkovitz has... More >>

• The Promise Ring

  published May 9, 2012

  A decade after the release of their last proper album, the Promise Ring are touring for a short tour to revisit their oft-imitated brand of... More >>

• Mark Lanegan Band

  published May 2, 2012

  All musicians aspire to create a mood with just a few notes, but few have succeeded quite like Mark Lanegan. Ever since his days with pre-grunge... More >>

• Kronos Quartet

  published April 25, 2012

  For the inaugural event of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Seattle’s Kronos... More >>

• Mike Watt and Friends

  published April 25, 2012

  To celebrate the release of the Minuteman’s photo-driven memoir, Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, the ever-unpredictable four-stringer has... More >>

• George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars

  published April 25, 2012

  By this point, the world’s funkiest septuagenarian has found a way to use the word “funk” to replace the other F-word in just... More >>

• The Beach Boys

  published April 25, 2012

  Although they’re a year late, the Beach Boys are commemorating 50 years of surfer girls, good vibrations and pleading with women named... More >>

• Bad Brains

  published April 11, 2012

  Now in their 35th year, give or take a hiatus and lineup change or two, Washington, D.C.’s volatile, reggae-loving hardcore-punk legends... More >>

• Paul Simon & Wynton Marsalis

  published April 11, 2012

  For three nights, music’s master of understatement, Paul Simon, will be performing songs he has written over the past four decades in the... More >>

• 'Dee Snider's Jam for Autism'

  published April 11, 2012

  Heavy metal’s Twisted Mister, Dee Snider, heads up an all-star “Jam for Autism” to raise money for the Sid Jacobson Jewish... More >>

• The Rapture

  published April 4, 2012

  After a five-year hiatus, indie rockers the Rapture returned last year with their stellar fourth LP, In the Grace of Your Love. Full of... More >>

• Psychic Ills

  published April 4, 2012

  The secret behind Psychic Ills’ captivating psych rock is economy of motion: Whether they’re playing a tune with a strong backbeat or... More >>

• The Ting Tings

  published April 4, 2012

  It’s been four years since Manchester eclectics the Ting Tings put out their debut, We Started Nothing, but it feels like they never... More >>

• Bill Frisell & Sam Amidon

  published March 21, 2012

  Over the past three decades, guitarist Bill Frisell has reinvented his identity from Naked City jazz-metal deconstructionist to folk-music... More >>

• Mountain Goats

  published March 21, 2012

  Prolific indie-folk artist Mountain Goats (a one-man operation led by the nasal-voiced John Darnielle) will be performing new songs tonight from... More >>

• Fiona Apple

  published March 21, 2012

  In advance of another album whose title is long enough to fill this listings section (it begins with The Idler Wheel and is due in June),... More >>

• DJ Shadow

  published March 21, 2012

  The turntablist, once known for his enveloping, otherworldly ambient sound collages, has been diversifying in recent years, approaching both hyphy... More >>

• The Magnetic Fields

  published March 21, 2012

  Now in their third decade of mutating indie and electro pop into extravagant, concise, and witty post-Broadway showstoppers, the Magnetic Fields... More >>

• Cursive+Cymabls Eat Guitars

  published March 21, 2012

  Although the ever-anxious Omaha rockers have toured with Mastodon in past years, Cursive have been indulging their heavier qualities more than... More >>

• The Men

  published March 7, 2012

  Shaggy-haired downer rockers the Men play devastating murky out-rock that’s not quite hardcore and not quite garage scuzz, but it’s... More >>

• M1 (of dead prez)

  published March 7, 2012

  Tonight was supposed to be the launch party for the new record by heavily political English-Iraqi rapper Lowkey (sample lyric: “I’m... More >>

• Guns N' Roses

  published February 15, 2012

  Close to a quarter of a century ago, when Webster Hall was still called the Ritz, four rabble-rousers and their redhead ringleader Axl came to the... More >>

• Björk

  published February 15, 2012

  Last year, alt-rock-era sorceress Björk released the first-ever album-as-app, Biophilia, which allowed fans to conjure up their own... More >>