Bang on a Can

Summer Music Guide: Death Grips' Disappearing Act

Neon Marshmallow Bring the Noise

The experimental festival makes its Brooklyn debut

Hot Music for Long Nights

Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

Longest Day Of The Year Made More Tolerable By Free Concerts Outside

John Luther Adams' Inuksuit gets its NYC outdoor premiere at 5 p.m. at Morningside Park.​City advisory: If you were too lazy (or too experimental-music hungover from the Bang On A Can Marathon) to get out to Central Park this morning at 5 a.m. to play Yoko Ono's "Secret Piece," do not be too u ... More >>

Live: Glenn Branca And Philip Glass Reward The Patient At The Bang On A Can Marathon

Stephanie BergerGlenn Branca​ Bang On A Can Marathon: Philip Glass, Sun Ra Arkestra, Glenn Branca, Asphalt Orchestra, Talea Ensemble, BOAC All-Stars, JACK Quartet (and many more) Winter Garden, World Financial Center Sunday, June 19 Better than: Any 13-hour stretch of the Northside Festival. ... More >>

MAKE SOME NOISE

Bang on a Can's 13-hour musical love-in returns

Live: Steve Reich Brings "WTC 9/11" To Carnegie Hall

© Stefan Cohen​ Music of Steve Reich Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends (feat. Bryce Dessner), eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet, So Percussion Carnegie Hall Saturday, April 30 Better than: The ritual, anniversary replay of news broadcasts from the morning of 9/11. There is no other way to ... More >>

The 5 Best (Free!) Shows at River to River Festival 2011

​This year's River to River Festival, which runs from June 19 to July 17, marks the 10th time that its mix of free shows takes over Lower Manhattan for the summer. The 2011 bill has a decidedly New York-centric bent, with Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and the New York City Op ... More >>

Julia Wolfe & Signal

​This year's River to River Festival, which runs from June 19 to July 17, marks the 10th time that its mix of free shows takes over Lower Manhattan for the summer. The 2011 bill has a decidedly New York-centric bent, with Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and the New York City Op ... More >>

WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

Seven hours of genre-pushing noise

'A House in Bali'

Seven hours of genre-pushing noise

"My Butt Hurt At Times": Chatting With The Warriors Who Survived All 12 Hours Of The Bang On A Can Marathon

The estimable Bang on a Can held their 23rd-annual marathon on Sunday, throwing out 12 straight hours of new, contemporary and wild music from noon to midnight. Highlights included a German composer who played with his ass, a rocking gamelan orchestra, traditional Kyrgystan jams, and Dutch percuss ... More >>

MAKE SOME NOISE

A 12-hour workout for your ears

2010 River to River Festival, Featuring Free Energy, Best Coast, Antibalas, YACHT, Bear in Heaven, and More, Announced

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Tere O’Connor and Janis Brenner Celebrate the Life of Dancing

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Asphalt Orchestra

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

Live: Zoning Out With Tortoise at the Bang on a Can Marathon

Ignore the song titles. CREDIT. The Bang on a Can Marathon World Financial Center Winter Garden Sunday, May 31 Verily, this fest has scaled back somewhat in recent years -- consider 2007's fairly insane 26-hour affair, wherein I emerged, groggy and disoriented, from the Winter Garden at around 4:3 ... More >>

SONIC BOON

Catch 12 nonstop hours of new music

Philip Glass & Wendy Sutter

Catch 12 nonstop hours of new music

Twi the Humble Feather

Catch 12 nonstop hours of new music

Tristan Perich: The Tinkerer

A tech-savvy artiste crafts sonorous alarm-clock symphonies

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A tech-savvy artiste crafts sonorous alarm-clock symphonies

Raucous Lullaby

Bring your pillow to this all-night concert

Marathon Men

Eno's Music for Airports at a 26-hour fete; Bright Eyes triumphantly caps a seven-night run

The Main Event

On the cracked pop genius of Brooklyn's (possibly) resurgent Babe the Blue Ox

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

Ignorants and Know-Alls Keep Out

Eight inauthenticities hard to resist, even when hard to understand, or impossible to love

Let X Not Equal X

Amy X. Neuburg: Vocals from Renaissance to noise band

Once Upon a Time

New World's five-disc set brings back memories of a music simmering with rebellion

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New World's five-disc set brings back memories of a music simmering with rebellion

Can't Help but CRI

Composers Recordings Incorporated, 1954–2003

Overtones of Eternity

The Wind of Nature Blows Through Toby Twining's Requiem

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The Wind of Nature Blows Through Toby Twining's Requiem

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The Wind of Nature Blows Through Toby Twining's Requiem

We Will, We Will Nonpop You

New Music Found Alive and Thriving at Kalvos and Damian’s Ought One Festival

Grrrl, Inturrupted

It’s Ladies First This Season

Déja Vu Again

The Bang on a Can Festival Charms but No Longer Thrills

God Is Not in the Details

The Bang on a Can Festival Charms but No Longer Thrills

A Comics Opera

Katchor in the Wry

Micro Breweries

Katchor in the Wry

Wayne Check

Katchor in the Wry

Border Crossings

Katchor in the Wry

Bringing War Home

Chuma on the Beach

Culture Crackdown

The mayor unveils a new weapon for the war on arts funding

Don’t Let Go

Choreographers Carry That Weight

Digging Deep

Choreographers Carry That Weight

Consumer Guide

Six of these 12 picks recast known compositions, and only two of the six are in the rock tradition. But I did find one medium-obscure alt band worth writing about. One.

Mad Science

Three Chaos Junkies at the Kitchen

Hell Is Other Bands

Three Chaos Junkies at the Kitchen