John Cage

Coney: Sideshow by the Hudson

The New Ohio hosts the old Coney Island

Michael Pisaro's Tombstones Brings Out the Dead

Tombstones, a collection of songs guitarist and composer Michael Pisaro describes as "an indeterminate, experimental piece for voice," has been a work-in-progress for the past six years. Nine of the 20 songs by the CalArts professor and leading figure of the Wandelweiser Group (an international grou ... More >>

Bandwiches: When Rock Bands Become Strange, Delicious Sandwiches

John Peck has an irresistible post on McSweeney's today, listing ideal sandwich components for various bands. For example, this gem: Pink Floyd: Amethyst-rubbed pork, asparagus jelly, moon-dried tomatoes, pumpernickel.

Sonic Youth (5) And Arthur Russell (12) Close Out Round One Of SOTC's March Madness

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes this weekend, with the Round of 32 kicking off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are here; the fu ... More >>

Yoko Ono (6) And Leiber & Stoller (11) Go Head To Heads In SOTC's March Madness

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues to chug along, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. This morning's first match puts the a ... More >>

Glenn Branca (8) and Frankie Lymon (9) Face Off As Our Search For The Quintessential New York Musician Continues

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. This face-off pits two evenly matched heavyweights: lea ... More >>

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 >>

She's Not There: WU LYF, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, And The Value Of Absence

Every year, ambitious young bands find new ways—fascinating, puerile, ingenious—to play the Internet, and in 2011, one of the most captivating, effective ways to do so involved near-silence. A cluster of breakthrough bands, WU LYF and Unknown Mortal Orchestra among them, caused a huge pu ... More >>

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

The Ultimate New York Mix

Brought to you by an Englishman with a big crush on the Big Apple

WHEEL OF ELVIS

Keep your fingers crossed for "Alison"

WORDS OF ART

A group show brings writers and artists together

Under the Radar Festival Gets the Low-Tech Lowdown

DJ Spooky Goes Glacial

BAM unveils a new Antarctic symphony

Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009

Merce Cunningham, one of the world's best-known choreographers, died this weekend at the age of 90. From the beginnings of his career he was involved with forward-looking collaborators (Martha Graham, John Cage), and persisted in experiments, sometimes based on chance, with the limits of the form ... More >>

News Roundup: Monsters of Folk, Weezer, Merce Cunningham

​--The Monsters of Folk will hit the road this fall. The band, consisting of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, alongside M. Ward and My Morning Jacket's Jim James (got that?), will perform as a band, switching off instruments and vocal duties. They'll play New York twice: November 6 at ... More >>

Freak Folk

Opera Jawa is the Indonesian morality musical of the year

Bred in the Phone

A play built from the poetry of the everyday

Christ and the Robots

The Zeitgeist Reloaded

An ecstatic, tear-bursting evening in Björk's pagan gospel church

Kool Things Remembered

Touring the frustrating but frequently brilliant Sonic Youth archives

Eyes Wide Shut

Stephen Kuusisto's new memoir trades sight for vision

The Dance of Chance

Old dog Merce Cunnigham shows off new tricks

IDM Takes a Few Stuffy Stabs at Classical Precision

Crossover Alley

Krazy Kat and Vegetable Sex to greet the fall season

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

Sea Life and Strange Fruit

A fertile ocean floods the city, and green Massachusetts plays host to an urban legend

Thinking Outside the Box

Good artists, bad shows: Can difficult art sidestep the tricky Vito Acconci syndrome?

Virtual Is Political

Pretender contenders: US Department of Art and Technology plays house of representatives

Genie in a Bottle: Tony Feher's Witty, Twisted Readymades

Trisha Brown's Artistic Collaborators Take Center Stage

Social Studies

A City Streetscape, a Friendly Struggle, and a Spanish Community

Are We Experienced Yet?

Margaret Lancaster's Flute Ranges From Techno to Tap

Math Destruction

Sonic Euthanasia

Into the Misty

Nam June Paik Lights Up Rockefeller Center

Music for Unwinding

Music Boxes and Photocells in a Land Beyond Time

Pomo Trip

Listings

Fear of Music

Shades of Pretty

Daniel Lentz’s New Label Unleashes the Most Seductive Music Around

Music

Shoot for the Stars

Kicking Off Fall With a Spirit Journey

The Most Dangerous Writer In America

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Music Turned Inside Out

Voice Authors

Dream On

A Brief History of Outrage

The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments