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2011 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Gogol Bordello

  published December 21, 2011

  The arena-rocking gypsy punks interrupt their touring hiatus for two reliably rambunctious, year-smashing nights in the city's biggest shoebox.... More >>

• JAM ON

  published December 21, 2011

  Since reuniting in 2009, Phish has settled into a comfortably professional groove, staking out dazzling new musical territory and engaging in... More >>

• Gary Lucas

  published December 21, 2011

  The profoundly inquisitive guitarist lets it all hang out solo-style tonight. Set list possibilities include songs Lucas wrote with Jeff Buckley,... More >>

• Phil Kline's 'Peregine'

  published December 14, 2011

  Satisfied experiencers of Phil Kline's seasonal Unsilent Night, an ethereal mobile work currently on its way across the country, will want... More >>

• John Zorn & the Aleph Trio

  published December 14, 2011

  Sucks to be culturally Christian tonight, particularly if it means missing this "Nittle Nacht (Xmas Eve) Radical Jewish Culture Blow Out"... More >>

• The Lijadu Sisters Reclaim Their Catalog

  published December 7, 2011

  In 1976, the identical twins Kehinde and Taiwo Lijadu released Danger, the first of four albums of inspired Afropop the two would record... More >>

• MUSIC HENDRIX REDUX

  published December 7, 2011

  Gary Clark Jr. as electric blues whippersnapper Sonny Blake was the best thing about John Sayles’s otherwise oversweetened slice of Southern... More >>

• Wadada Leo Smith

  published December 7, 2011

  The first of two evenings comprising a 70th birthday celebration for this great, if relatively unheralded, trumpeter-composer, tonight's lineup... More >>

• Raya Brass Band

  published December 7, 2011

  One of our snappier local Balkan brass bands, Raya consists of Greg Squared (clarinet and saxophone), Ben Syversen (trumpet), Matthew Fass... More >>

• 'Darmstadt Essential Repertoire: Karlheinz Stockhausen'

  published November 30, 2011

  Cosmic Pulses, the final electronic composition from the composer many cite as influence but few have heard in concert, tops an evening of... More >>

• Club d'Elf

  published November 30, 2011

  Led by Mike Rivard on bass and three-stringed sintir, this Boston quartet's most recent album, Electric Moroccoland/So Below, combines... More >>

• RHYTHM & SOUL

  published November 23, 2011

  “Jealous love/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin/All of this exists/All of this is sorrowful/All of this is fado,” sang the legendary Amalia... More >>

• moe.

  published November 16, 2011

  This brainy yet well grounded improv-rock quintet had the outside-guitars-meet-Americana thing down to a fine science years before Nels Cline was... More >>

• Fantcha

  published November 16, 2011

  Born Francelina Durão Almeida in 1956, the Cape Verde singer who now lives in Park Slope performs a lighter, more r&b-influenced version of... More >>

• Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade

  published November 16, 2011

  If these three greats have anything in common, its their common knack for playing almost inside the music (not to mention without a bassist), so... More >>

• David Murray Cuban Ensemble

  published November 9, 2011

  One a new album based on Nat “King” Cole’s en Español series, the always-formidable tenor saxophonist veers in the... More >>

• Robert Ashley

  published November 9, 2011

  These three performances mark the first restaging in four decades of Robert Ashley's 1967 experimental opera, a highlight of Performa 11's... More >>

• Maria Schneider Orchestra

  published November 9, 2011

  The composer-bandleader's annual Thanksgiving run at this Danny Meyer establishment acquires some foodie synergy with the local premiere of "The... More >>

• Kiran Ahluwalia

  published November 2, 2011

  Beside her reliably gorgeous ghazals, the Indo-Canadian's fifth album, Aam Zameen: Common Ground, reaches out to the Islamic qawwali music... More >>

• Roswell Rudd and Ideal Bread

  published November 2, 2011

  Once you get past the conceit of a baritone sax co-fronting a youngish band specializing in works by the great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy,... More >>

• Omary Souleyman+Prince Rama

  published October 26, 2011

  Fresh off a trio of surreal Björk remixes and live album Haflat Gharbia (The Western Concerts), the charismatically effete Middle... More >>

• The Jeff Gauthier Goatette

  published October 26, 2011

  The violinist and proprietor of the stylishly enigmatic Cryptogramophone label curated the first two weeks of this month's Stone lineup; he shows... More >>

• Bio Ritmo

  published October 19, 2011

  An experimental intelligence resides in the upper headspace of this 10-piece salsa clasica group hailing from (of all places) Richmond,... More >>

• Yonder Mountain String Band

  published October 19, 2011

  Expect these two ambitious bluegrass bands to transform the Best Buy (or whatever they're calling it this month) into a sizzling skillet of... More >>

• Steve Bernstein's Millenial Territorial Orchestra

  published October 5, 2011

  The city's sassiest big jazz band plays the music of Sly Stone, who according to the New York Post currently resides in a small camper... More >>