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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 Brooklyn Flea Record Fair. In...
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Four nearly four decades, Laurie Anderson has stood at the front of New York City’s avant-garde, staging performance art and creating experimental music and video (Her...
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Truth in advertising doesn’t get much better than the name of Brian Shimkovitz’s blog, Awesome Tapes From Africa, where Shimkovitz has spent the last seven years...
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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 firebrands Screaming Trees...
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For the inaugural event of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Seattle’s Kronos Quartet—contemporary classical music’s...
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To celebrate the release of the Minuteman’s photo-driven memoir, Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, the ever-unpredictable four-stringer has assembled a star-studded release...
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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 about every circumstance...
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Although they’re a year late, the Beach Boys are commemorating 50 years of surfer girls, good vibrations and pleading with women named Rhonda on this international...
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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 have seemingly always found a...
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For three nights, music’s master of understatement, Paul Simon, will be performing songs he has written over the past four decades in the intimate Rose Theater....
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Heavy metal’s Twisted Mister, Dee Snider, heads up an all-star “Jam for Autism” to raise money for the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center tonight. The...
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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 their trademark upbeat disco-punk,...
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The secret behind Psychic Ills’ captivating psych rock is economy of motion: Whether they’re playing a tune with a strong backbeat or a low-key blues number with a...
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It’s been four years since Manchester eclectics the Ting Tings put out their debut, We Started Nothing, but it feels like they never left. (Of course, the inclusion of...
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Over the past three decades, guitarist Bill Frisell has reinvented his identity from Naked City jazz-metal deconstructionist to folk-music interpreter, and through it all,...
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Prolific indie-folk artist Mountain Goats (a one-man operation led by the nasal-voiced John Darnielle) will be performing new songs tonight from the forthcoming Transcendental...
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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), Fiona Apple is playing a pair of...
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The turntablist, once known for his enveloping, otherworldly ambient sound collages, has been diversifying in recent years, approaching both hyphy and heavy metal on recent...
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Now in their third decade of mutating indie and electro pop into extravagant, concise, and witty post-Broadway showstoppers, the Magnetic Fields just put out their 11th LP,...
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Although the ever-anxious Omaha rockers have toured with Mastodon in past years, Cursive have been indulging their heavier qualities more than usual on recent albums. Not to...
