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2013 Stories by Richard Gehr

• SPRING FLING

  published June 12, 2013

  While the audience at its 1913 Paris premiere was reportedly scandalized more by Sergei Diaghilev’s choreography than by Igor... More >>

• So Percussion+Man Forever

  published June 5, 2013

  The smart and dazzling local percussion quartet presents neither Anvil nor Pulley, its new collaboration with Princeton Laptop Orchestra... More >>

• Kiran Ahluwalia

  published June 5, 2013

  The Indo-Canadian's latest album, Aam Zameen: Common Ground, reaches out to the Islamic qawwali music of Pakistan with the help of a couple... More >>

• Simone Dinnerstein

  published June 5, 2013

  Her self-produced 2005 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she performs tonight, made the pianist a breakout classical star (with... More >>

• The New Mastersounds

  published June 5, 2013

  Over 14 years and ten albums, this party-powering Leeds quartet has been repurposing vintage American jazz-funk, the tradition embracing Meters,... More >>

• GUITAR HEROES

  published June 5, 2013

  If your favorite slipstream guitarist reveals your personality, then the two shows Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Nels Cline perform tonight with... More >>

• ON AIR

  published June 5, 2013

  While WNYC’s John Schaefer–hosted “Soundcheck” attracts a diverse array of performers to its studio, tonight’s... More >>

• DIVINE MADNESS

  published May 29, 2013

  Dub demigods collide when madcap 
Jamaican dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry, backed by the local Subatomic Sound System, meets... More >>

• OLD SOULS

  published May 29, 2013

  Led by singer-songwriter Reuben Koroma, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have evolved into road-seasoned ambassadors of peace through music... More >>

• Erin Markey

  published May 15, 2013

  The children of Sandra Bernhard, not to mention Carolee Schneemann, have arrived. Markey is a hilarious, thoughtful, and sometimes frightening... More >>

• Mika Yoshida Stoltman

  published May 15, 2013

  The excellent jazz marimbist and her clarinetist husband Richard Stoltzman premiere eight works written just for them, including "The Nymphs for... More >>

• Futurebirds

  published May 15, 2013

  If you like your Southern rock thick, syrupy, and dreamlike, look no further than this Athens, Georgia, quintet's new Baba Yaga, which... More >>

• STRANGE WAYS

  published May 8, 2013

  Not a note of irony can be heard on Aaron Freeman’s Marvelous Clouds, the artist formerly known as Gene Ween’s glorious 2012... More >>

• Secret Chiefs 3

  published May 8, 2013

  Mr. Bungle/Faith No More guitarist Trey Spruance specializes in bachelor-pad instrumentals for swinging Gnostics. Flavors include silver surf... More >>

• Taylor Mac

  published May 8, 2013

  The joyously flamboyant Brechtian who starred in the Foundry's Good Person of Szechwan (returning to the Public this fall, fwiw) has been... More >>

• The M&Ms

  published May 8, 2013

  Medeski Martin & Wood's sci-fi keyboard traditionalist John Medeski, 7 Walkers' gris-gris growler Papa Mali, and Galactic's rhythm... More >>

• B.A.L.L.

  published May 8, 2013

  As surreal and potentially volatile a reunion as you'll stumble upon this year, B.A.L.L. was the troubled and troubling late '80s slop-rock... More >>

• Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists

  published May 8, 2013

  And you thought Amanda Palmer was ambitious. Guitarists versed in meditation and the Fripp's Guitar Craft technique will pay $1000 for the... More >>

• Ebe Oke+Annie Gosfield

  published May 1, 2013

  Laurie Anderson curates the third edition of "Synthesizer Nights," which this evening pairs Georgia-born, London-based Ebe Oke with New Yorker... More >>

• Gold Panda

  published May 1, 2013

  The London-based electronic musician has taken the old saw about sophomore albums being inspired by life on the road literally. Half of Where... More >>

• Matthew E. White

  published May 1, 2013

  The guitarist-founder of Richmond, Virginia, slipstream jazz combo Fight the Big Bull has morphed into a '70s channeling blue-eyed soul... More >>

• NEON GLOW

  published April 24, 2013

  With its imposing sculptures, stained-glass windows, and 1925 Wall Street bank façade, the Metropolitan Museum’s Charles Englehard... More >>

• Sonia M'barek

  published April 24, 2013

  This magnificent Tunisian singer performs the Tunisian court music known as mulaf, Arabic classical music, and songs based on the poetry of... More >>

• Tim Berne's Snakeoil

  published April 24, 2013

  Released last year and titled after his new quartet, the composer-saxophonist's first studio album in an unbelievable eight years (on ECM,... More >>

• BLEATING HEARTS

  published April 17, 2013

  A cornucopia of sweet ’70s West African funk and disco has poured out over the past few years. And no Western band has exploited that bounty... More >>