Charles Ives

George Delmerico, Legendary Village Voice Art Director, 1945-2013

We pause now from our usual duties to acknowledge the passing of legendary Village Voice art director George Delmerico, who died of a heart attack at the age of 67 on Sunday, Aug. 11 in Santa Barbara, Calif. Delmerico, born in 1945, was an award-winning, innovative art director here from 1976 until ... More >>

The Best Concerts in New York This Week, 7/1/13

For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Glenn Jones

SONGS FOR THE HEART

Can Charles Ives 
strengthen family ties?

Free Will Astrology: May 8-14, 2013

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

Wayner Shorter Quartet and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 12/3/12

Here are the ten best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

AMERICAN SPIRIT

Neil Young and Crazy Horse RIDE into Barclays

Live: New York Philharmonic Throws An Uptown Warehouse Party In The Round

New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic 360 Park Avenue Armory Friday, June 29 Better than: Just another night at Lincoln Center, with or without quadrophonic sound. Upon entering the cavernous Park Avenue Armory's awesome performance space, audience members had to walk around a tableau vivant consist ... More >>

Summer Music Guide: Death Grips' Disappearing Act

Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland

Duke meets Jacko

The Music, Drink, and Fury of Life Under Apartheid in Come Back, Africa

Pazz & Jop 2011: Seth Colter Walls On Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, And Voting From The Fringe

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. We'll start off the series with Seth Colter Walls of New York City, who has a constant itch to do the deep dive and find the single-voter albums out there. Find his bal ... More >>

James Brooks and Dan Flavin at Greenberg Van Doren

Plus, Ray Parker at Washburn; Cinthia Marcelle at Galerie Lelong; and Dawn Clements at Pierogi

'Charles Ives Marathon Concert'

Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone

WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

Seven hours of genre-pushing noise

Frank Zappa Makes it Tough on Hard-Put Mothers Fans

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 27, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 20 Riffs by Carman Moore Mothers fans are the most hard-put, put-upon, and hardy crowd in music. The stresses they're put to are so thorough that, as a group, they are usually split down the middle. The ... More >>

Way Down East

The San Francisco Symphony

The Improved Timing of Jim O'Rourke

The Visitor is not only a cerebral pleasure but, surprisingly, an emotional one as well

Mark Morris Matches Wits with Beethoven and Ives

'Wordless Music Presents the Books & Timothy Andres'

Lights Up! Alvin Ailey’s Gang Turns 50

Reconstructing the Universe

A new recording puts Johnny Reinhard's reconstituted Ives score to the test

1 + 1 = 3

Turkish composer and Harvard grad pump up the volume

Hopping the Spires

'70s avant-rockers unearth new tones and timbres, ride fractured rhythms to intensity

Choreographer Reclaims Traumatic Images From His Roots

Call It Spectral

American influences advance on the European continent

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Micro-Monuments

The Flux Quartet Explores the Cracks Between the Piano Keys

Not Gift Wrapped

New Frederic Rzewski Discs Reveal a Thinking Person's Postmodern Music

American Rhapsody

Music for Unwinding

Music Boxes and Photocells in a Land Beyond Time

Fuzzing the Familiar

Phil Kline Buries Old Tunes Beneath a Wash of Color

Guy Time

The Home Team and the Visitors Soothe the Maelstrom

One-Man Opera Machine

Mikel Rouse Launches Three CDs, Among Other Things

Dramaturgy 90210

The St. Tom Passion

Turning a Martyr’s Sermons Into a Truly New Song

Eerie Candy

The boys can't help it

Jazz and Then Some

Art of the City

Too Sweet To Die

Letters

Letters

Baby's On Fire

Duke Ellington's Legacy

''These Large Words Like 'Modern' Don't Mean Anything!''