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2013 Stories by Richard Gehr

• 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 >>

• 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 >>

• 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 >>

• Sons of Fathers

  published April 17, 2013

  Guitarist David Beck and double-bassist Paul Cauthen's exquisite Everly Brothers harmonies are the special sauce that sells these Texas boys'... More >>

• Steven Wilson

  published April 17, 2013

  The Porcupine Tree leader has been elbowing his prog-rock elders with a trio of sharp, smart, and immaculately conceived solo albums. The most... More >>

• Kočani Orkestar

  published April 17, 2013

  Roma brass bands are flexible, if not cannibalistic. This ten-piece has twisted the Turkish military-brass tradition to surf music, Bollywood... More >>

• GIVE A HOOT

  published April 10, 2013

  Ladies and gentlemen will be floating in space when Barn Owl, the droning San Francisco duo of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras, swoop into town... More >>

• Slide Brothers

  published April 10, 2013

  Sacred steel guitarists Calvin Cooke, Aubrey Ghent, and brothers Chuck and Darick Campbell have risked censure by the House of God Church, where... More >>

• Kong Nay w/ Ben Allison

  published April 10, 2013

  Although banished to slavery in the rice fields, this blind Cambodian legend survived the Khmer Rouge to become the nation's living master of the... More >>

• Frank London's Shekhina Big Band

  published April 10, 2013

  The composer-trumpeter and Klezmatics co-founder gets klezmer on his jazz—not to mention jazz on his klezmer—during this month's weekly... More >>

• Ramesh Misra, Sanghamitra Chatterjee, & Samir Chatterjee

  published April 3, 2013

  The inestimable legacy of the late sitarist Ravi Shankar is celebrated on the weekend of what would have been his 93rd birthday by one of his... More >>

• DREAM ON

  published April 3, 2013

  William Gibson’s observation that “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” was anticipated... More >>

• Joan Soriano

  published April 3, 2013

  Born in 1972, Soriano plays a romantic and lilting style of bachata that might be characterized as Dominicana. Pitched in-between the... More >>

• Instant Composers Pool Orchestra

  published April 3, 2013

  Free improvisation, game strategies, and the tonal delights of Ellington, Monk, and Nichols synergize merrily in the daring alchemy of this... More >>

• The Bad Plus & Bill Frisell

  published April 3, 2013

  The consistently terrific trio of Ethan Iverson (piano), Reid Anderson (bass), and Dave King (drums) added electronics to their deeply playful... More >>

• MUMBAI CALLING

  published March 27, 2013

  At age 13, Shivkumar Sharma’s father, the singer Uma Dutt Sharma, decided that his son should become the first musician to perform... More >>

• Pandit Tarun Bhattachraya

  published March 27, 2013

  Master of the santoor, a 100-string hammered dulcimer, Pandit Bhattacharya has studied under both Shivkumar Sharma, who introduced the instrument... More >>

• SPACE ODDITY

  published March 13, 2013

  Sufjan Stevens may not have recorded 
albums dedicated to all 50 states, as promised long ago. But now he has a song suite inspired by all... More >>