Laurie Anderson

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Kronos Quartet

Laurie Anderson

Kronos Quartet

Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up

​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 up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

STARRY NIGHT

Philip Glass curates the Tibet House jam

O SUPERJAM

Roulette reopens with a bang

In The Future, Miranda July Grows Up

TIME MACHINE

Go back to when Soho was cool

SIREN SONG

Urban merpeople, rejoice!

LOVE THEM BACK

Avant-garde auteur keeps the band together

Laurie Anderson Is Appearing On East Village Radio At 4 P.M.

​Of all the people I interviewed in 2010, Laurie Anderson was easily my favorite, based entirely on that voice -- even snaking through a phone line, it's a wise, warm, profoundly soothing phenomenon, Kim Deal-esque in its capacity to soothe even the most savage of beasts, and put to equally ph ... More >>

Die Antwoord Were Immortalized In The Guggenheim Last Weekend

​What a pleasant surprise to stagger into the Guggenheim Saturday and, in the midst of the museum's YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video exhibit -- an elaborate display of 25 clips guest-curated by a panel featuring everyone from Laurie Anderson to most of Animal Collective to Ryan McGin ... More >>

Live: Laurie Anderson Brings Her Delusion To BAM

Theories on the afterlife, and how many times you die. Photos by Rahav Segev courtesy of BAM, more below.​Laurie Anderson BAM/Harvey Theater Tuesday, September 21 Better Than: Hearing anyone else on earth talk about their dreams. Laurie Anderson should be legally required to provide the voi ... More >>

Laurie Anderson Dreams On

The veteran performance artist shares her Delusion

This Week's Voice: Laurie Anderson, Devo, Theo Bleckmann, Omar Souleyman, and Ahem, "Jersey Shore"

Carrie SchechterIf you think I could possibly resist using this cover, you're wrong ​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla interview Laurie Anderson, Francis Davis visits the Murray Hill apartment of jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Richard Gehr basks in the sheer urgency of the polarizing 'Syr ... More >>

Laurie Anderson Doesn't Have Any Answers

Her fantastic, deceptively cynical new record, Homeland, asks the questions anyway

Lou Reed Doesn't Make a Very Good Illustrated Mermaid

Norman Blake via LouReed.orgLaurie and Lou: Queen and King Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson have been christened Master of Ceremonies for this year's Mermaid Parade, which for a day will make them, respectively, King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. Hopefully, this means in the press lead-up to June 19's top ... More >>

Russell Simmons Celebrates Our Feathered Friends

​The Def Jam co-founder will host a Celebration FOR the Turkeys (i.e., not AGAINST) on Sunday, November 22, accompanied by like-minded blowhards Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Jonathan Safran Foer, a/k/a the guy who ruined Thanksgiving for thousands of families this year with his new Eating Ani ... More >>

Trisha Brown Rounds Up Four Decades of Choreography at BAM

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Lou Reed Wants Bloomberg, Realtors "Jailed" for Sanit Plan

"Looking at Music" at MoMA

MIX MASTERS

From Captain Beefheart videos to Yoko Ono puzzlers

Laurie Anderson Talks About Homeland, Spalding Gray, Being a Snob

Mad Genius

Exploring the twisted writings of Salvador Dalí

Live: Lou Reed at the Highline Ballroom's First Birthday Party

No Context: Speak Up! With Lou Reed, Moby, Antony, and More

BAND AID

Anti-war stars speak up

Maddin Bowl

Catch Guy's latest as a celeb-studded, live music spectacle, or don't catch it at all

Motion Capture

Choreographer Trisha Brown loves her robots—and other technology, too

Rainbows, Kittens, Cotton Candy, and Unicorns 4 Ever!

John Denver, the Carpenters had it right

Comfort Music

(Or, Some Songs That Won't Really Make It All Better, But Might Help Get You Through the Next Hour)

1981

Lullaby and Goodnight, With Fee Waybill Sleep Tight

Heroic Restraint

The tongue is mightier than the sword

When Reading the 'Wrong' Books May Lead to a Sentence

New No More

Wacky profs and aunts celebrate their 25-year-old prophecy

Let X Not Equal X

Amy X. Neuburg: Vocals from Renaissance to noise band

Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

Disaster Areas

Theater

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

They Are the World

Cover Me

Social Dancing

Change Countries, Change Partners, Change the World

Outside the Whale

Call Her Ishmael

Laurie Anderson hunts the great white whale of meaning

Wanna Love It, But I'm Getting Blown Away