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2010 Stories by Richard Gehr

• 'Annie Gosfield Chamber Works'

  published August 18, 2010

  The composer-keyboardist continues to explore the humming, buzzing omnipresence of invisible forces via science-inspired works that often blends... More >>

• Nellie McKay

  published August 18, 2010

  "I used to think about it/ When I say 'think' I mean satirize," ironizes this uke-slinging, piano-swinging avenger of the oppressed in "Bruise,"... More >>

• The Four Bags

  published August 18, 2010

  Arty, smart, and entertaining, this local quartet plays a type of chamber music that bridges jazz, classical, and pop. Expect the Bags--who... More >>

• Guillermo Klein

  published August 11, 2010

  The Argentine-born composer, pianist, vocalist, and bandleader's new album, Domador de Huellas (Footprints Tamer), is devoted to work by... More >>

• B-52s+Belinda Carlisle

  published August 11, 2010

  Like other '70s new-wave and garage-pop geniuses, the B-52s (a self-described "tacky little dance band" from Athens, Georgia) translated the... More >>

• Dean Wareham

  published August 11, 2010

  Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 (and Damon & Naomi) recently reissued the Boston dream-pop band's three studio albums on their... More >>

• Jon Shain & Bill Newton

  published August 4, 2010

  The fine North Carolina singer-songwriter has hella acoustic guitar chops marinated in swing, ragtime, and Piedmont blues. A former improv-rocker... More >>

• Banda Sinaloense De Los Muertos

  published August 4, 2010

  Many of New York's edgier slipstream jazzbos—including saxophonist Oscar Noriega, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, and drummer Jim... More >>

• Vieux Farka Toure

  published July 27, 2010

  Mali guitar legend Ali Farka Touré's son has wisely chosen to adapt his dad's Saharan blues guitar style into a Western-influenced... More >>

• 'Hallogallo 2010! Presents Michael Rother & Friends'

  published July 27, 2010

  Return to the primal source of motorik minimalism with Neu! co-founder Michael Rother, who's been performing the seminal krautrock band's music... More >>

• Natacha Atlas

  published July 27, 2010

  The Arab-Western fusion diva, former Transglobal Underground member, and self-described "human Gaza Strip" will concentrate on music from her... More >>

• Widespread Panic

  published July 20, 2010

  When it comes to Southern rock behemoths, Athens, Georgia's Widespread Panic are a big California Zinfandel compared to the Allmans' half-drunk... More >>

• Mark Kozelek+Jarrod Gorbel

  published July 20, 2010

  As usual, Mark Kozalek sounds as though he's delivering a Cormac McCarthy novel's worth of bad news on Admiral Fell Promises, his latest... More >>

• Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

  published July 20, 2010

  Reviews indicate that the live version of the brilliantly blissful collage pop heard on Ariel Rosenberg's kinda-sorta breakout album, Before... More >>

• Spiritualized

  published July 20, 2010

  Jason Pierce revived Spiritualized, of which he is the sole original member, for a concert revisiting of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating... More >>

• Juan-Carlos Formell & Johnny's Dream Club

  published July 20, 2010

  Late-'40s Havana meets the cradle of jazz on Johnny's Dream Club, Juan-Carlos Formell's dreamy and rhapsodic, yet subtly sizzling, recent... More >>

• Carl Stone

  published July 20, 2010

  Stone at the Stone definitely has a ring to it. The Tokyo-based, Morton Subotnick-educated laptop samurai digests street sounds, musical samples,... More >>

• Frank Fairfield & Blind Boy Paxton

  published July 13, 2010

  An enigmatic young repository of gramophone-era hits, Fairfield picks and sings traditional American folk and blues songs such as "Boll Weevil,"... More >>

• 'Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents Eric Krasno & Chapter 2'

  published July 13, 2010

  Cool yet combustible guitarist Eric Krasno leads a new quartet—with Nigel Hall (keys), Adam Deitch (drums), and Louis Cato (bass)—in... More >>

• AFRICAN BEAT

  published July 13, 2010

  If your idea of great African music includes overdriven likembé thumb pianos generating loud, distorted trance music (and why wouldn't... More >>

• Lau Nau+Kuupuu

  published July 6, 2010

  These two important Finnish female folk-experimentalists should deliver a long, strange evening of nature-rooted weirdness. Laura Naukkarinen's... More >>

• 'Latin Alternative Music Conference Showcase'

  published July 6, 2010

  Who says corporate rock is dead? El Insituto Mexicano de Sonido is the brainchild of Mexico City-based DJ and producer Camilo Lara, who also... More >>

• Garage a Trois+the Dead Kenny G's

  published July 6, 2010

  Insolently awesome since 1999, the intermittently revived instrumental quartet Garage a Trois consists of the hair-raising saxophonist Skerik,... More >>

• Gary Lucas

  published June 29, 2010

  Letting it all hang out solo-acoustic style on his 1945 Gibson J-45 and 1926 National steel axes, this powerful and profoundly inquisitive... More >>

• Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra

  published June 29, 2010

  Songwriter Ethan Lipton is an ambivalent nostalgist with a playwright's ear (because he is one) for conversational lyrics. On his cautionary third... More >>