Nico Muhly

Music Fall Picks 2013

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 6/14/13

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

NONSTOP NOISE

The Bang On A Can marathon returns

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/13/13

Support live music and check out one of these 10 shows this week.

Nico Muhly

Spacing Out With Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Mulhy

Space was the place for a pair of stellar yet utterly different multimedia works that enjoyed their New York premieres this week. Way Uptown, installation artist Rirkrit Tiravanija transformed the Park Avenue Armory into a sternly minimalist lunar viewing station for Karlheinz Stockhausen's eight-ch ... More >>

Usher Digs Deep on Looking 4 Myself

Diamond days

MOVIN' ON

St. Ann's Warehouse throws itself 
a big farewell party

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

Q&A: Ben Frost On Spending The Past Year Working With Brian Eno

Rolex/Kirsten Holst​Earlier this week, the Voice published a story about an improbably cool concert event pitting the alternately noisy and contemplative musician Ben Frost against the New York Public Library's Rose Reading Room—a grand, palatial space that will be the setting on Sunday ... More >>

Ben Frost, In Bloom

Filling the Rose Reading Room with glorious noise

Antony & The Johnsons To Perform Swanlights At Radio City Next January

​Swanlights, a "large-scale concert and performance event" showcasing the music of Antony & The Johnsons, will take place at Radio City Music Hall on January 26, 2012. (2012! Already!) The songs in Swanlights, which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, are culled from Antony's four al ... More >>

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

Like Big Love, except theatrical

'MATA Festival'

NEW CLASSIC

Nico Muhly takes inspiration from the history books

WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

Seven hours of genre-pushing noise

Q&A: Antony Talks His New Thank You For Your Love EP, Moving to New York in the '90s, and Working With Björk

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Michael Sharkey​New York's ever fragile, soul-purging cabaret genius Antony and his crack team of Johnsons are returning with fourth album, Swanlights (out October 12 via Secretly Canadian). The reco ... More >>

"Thank You So Much For Making Art That Is Freaking Me Out": Stereogum Hosts A Fiery CocoRosie Symposium

Possibly a polarizing band, yes​So friend-of-SOTC Brandon Stosuy noticed, in the critical ether, a distinct air of either bizarre indifference or outright hostility to outré avant-pop sister act CocoRosie, from their latest record, May's Grey Oceans, on down. In response, he convened a panel ... More >>

This Weekend! Sleigh Bells, Broken Social Scene, Death Set, Ava Luna, Beauty Feast, Dinosaur Feathers, Jonsi w/ Nico Muhly, And Much Much More

Unless you regard yourself as a ticket-scalping monger, you must accept that a Friday roundup begins with four sadly inaccessible sold-out shows: Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, and Broken Social Scene. Fortunately, this gives you the opportunity to revel in some well-earned "I'm on a Boat" ... More >>

JONESING FOR JONSI

Think Sigur Rós with less parentheses

The Eerie Relief of Sam Amidon

The gentle, affable, bewildering young folkie banters bizarrely, covers R. Kelly beautifully

Sam Amidon+Doveman

The Ghost of Spoon Lingers

On the defiantly skeletal Transference, which only a recession could love

Doveman & Friends

Wordless Music Series Announces Fall 2009 Lineup, Starring Destroyer, No Age, Mount Eerie, Tim Hecker, Broadcast, and Micachu and the Shapes

Here we have the fourth-annual slate of Wordless Music fetes, pairing as always electronic and indie-rock types with classical musicians, to presumably horizon-expanding effect. We kick off in September with that bananas Warp Records birthday-party deal (feature Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus etc.), ... More >>

RAIN DANCE

Petronio and crew bring on the storm

Nico Muhly Takes on the Times, the Word "Precious," and, Uh, Us

Brooklyn Vegan has kindly noted Composer to the Indie Stars Nico Muhly's spirited and pretty much instantaneous riposte to the New York Times' "weirdly mean-spirited" review of late May's Grizzly Bear show. (Ben Ratliff's closing thought: "I left Town Hall grinding my teeth.") Nico, a major player o ... More >>

Grizzly Bear's Mellow Gold

Brooklyn quartet goes quietly, grandiosely epic

Stephen Petronio and Joe Goode Venture on High Seas

Spring Guide: Fang-Yi Sheu Tackles A Martha Graham Classic

Final Fantasy & Grizzly Bear

BIRD BOY

Antony plays the house of Billie and Mr. Brown

IN WITH THE NEW

Two downtown musicians open a downtown club

NEW THINGS & NEW TIDINGS

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

WEDNESDAY| 5.28

HOWLING AT THE MOON

Kiki Smith and Nico Muhly bring she-wolves to life

Hugs and Kisses #43: Kimya Dawson Plays a Gig

Masterworks and Edgy Ventures at American Ballet Theatre

A stellar company wraps up a vibrant season

Stravinsky Meets Scrooge McDuck

On the classical excellence, heaving cellos, and cartoonish zeal of Nico Muhly

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