Terry Riley

Terry Riley & Gyan Riley

Kronos Quartet

Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland

Duke meets Jacko

Q&A: Koyaanisqatsi Director Godfrey Reggio On Dragging Philip Glass Into Film Scoring

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we are publishing the first of seve ... More >>

Kronos Quartet

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we are publishing the first of seve ... More >>

Surveying the Musical Avant-Garde in The Colors of the Prism

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we are publishing the first of seve ... More >>

Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Go . . . Styx

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is all wasteland and no heart

Avant-Garde Composer Glenn Branca Recounts His Cacophonic Symphonies One-By-One

Tony Cenicola Branca's wife and musician counterpart, Reg and Glenn (far left) Call Glenn Branca the "guitar guy" and see how fast the spiky-haired composer swears, sneers, or stalks out of the room. Though his retuned axes gave conceptual inspiration (and sidemen gigs) to Sonic Youth, and have oft ... More >>

Before There Was MTV, There Was Bruce Conner

Tony Cenicola Branca's wife and musician counterpart, Reg and Glenn (far left) Call Glenn Branca the "guitar guy" and see how fast the spiky-haired composer swears, sneers, or stalks out of the room. Though his retuned axes gave conceptual inspiration (and sidemen gigs) to Sonic Youth, and have oft ... More >>

Download A Cactus-Fueled Desert Collaboration Between Matmos and So Percussion: "Treasure"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​New York new composers So Percussion are constantly working and competing in an arena immune to the hype cycle, so it's easy to take their awesomeness for granted. Four dudes making tikking-takking ... More >>

Tonight! Acid Mothers Temple, Best Coast, The Babies, So Cow, Surprisers, and Midlake

Best Coast just needs a friend.​Japanese psych-rock emperors Acid Mothers Temple are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory. But "psych-rock" is not a term to be taken lightly here -- the band's latest effort destroys the beautiful Terry Riley piano orchestration In C and instead erects a mas ... More >>

Acid Mothers Temple

Best Coast just needs a friend.​Japanese psych-rock emperors Acid Mothers Temple are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory. But "psych-rock" is not a term to be taken lightly here -- the band's latest effort destroys the beautiful Terry Riley piano orchestration In C and instead erects a mas ... More >>

Tonight! Pelican, Queen Ifrica, In C, and Sloan

​It is true that not everyone here in the metaphorical Voice compound is totally in love with wordless, perpetually crescendoing art-metal dudes Pelican. That wordy naysayer will probably not be at their Highline Ballroom show tonight, though, which is a good thing, 'cause he'd have totally ki ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download the Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra's "Glow White"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you Inoculist's "Provenence", Liturgy's "Ecstatic Rite," and the video premiere of Renminbi's "Set Up." ​ The 15-member Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra makes massive, spectrum-e ... More >>

Live: Terry Riley's "In C," Triumphant Again at Carnegie Hall

via fogindex's photostreamFriday night brought about the first ever staging of composer Terry Riley's epochal "In C" on the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of its release on long-playing LP in the late 60s. From "In C"'s debut on, Riley's humble, infinitely var ... More >>

'Terry Riley's In C'

via fogindex's photostreamFriday night brought about the first ever staging of composer Terry Riley's epochal "In C" on the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of its release on long-playing LP in the late 60s. From "In C"'s debut on, Riley's humble, infinitely var ... More >>

Public Service Announcement: Terry Riley's "In C," For Free

So today, for whatever reason, Amazon is offering the California minimalist Terry Riley's most iconic piece, 1964's "In C," as a free download. Don't think too hard about this one. [h/t Alex Ross]

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Alela Diane's "Dry Grass & Shadows"

Last week's prediction: I hear the new Animal Collective is pretty good... Nevada City is a Denis Johnson-type Northern California mountain town whose chief economic/cultural export is hippies, more or less: Joanna Newsome, Gary Snyder, Utah Phillips, Terry Riley, and the 25-year-old Adela Diane. ... More >>

Growing Needs to Leave Town for Their/Our Own Good

Last week's prediction: I hear the new Animal Collective is pretty good... Nevada City is a Denis Johnson-type Northern California mountain town whose chief economic/cultural export is hippies, more or less: Joanna Newsome, Gary Snyder, Utah Phillips, Terry Riley, and the 25-year-old Adela Diane. ... More >>

Freak Folk

Opera Jawa is the Indonesian morality musical of the year

Visions of Grandeur

Standish Lawder opens more doors of perception

Old-Fashioned Amenities

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

Hidden Stories

Tempering struggle with the scent of heaven

Summer Visitors

Hunky power from New Zealand and enigmatic robotics from Japan confront modern dilemmas

Film

Hunky power from New Zealand and enigmatic robotics from Japan confront modern dilemmas

Disorient Express

Eric Richards makes sensuous love to his peculiar sounds

Dance

Eric Richards makes sensuous love to his peculiar sounds

Tribal Peacefare

Barefoot on a stage and sneaker-shod in the park, two companies build sunlit images

Music

Barefoot on a stage and sneaker-shod in the park, two companies build sunlit images

Williamsburg couple opt for tantra trances over pickled cabbage

Barefoot on a stage and sneaker-shod in the park, two companies build sunlit images

Vive la Danse

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

Music

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

Music

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

Listings

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

Same World, Different Trips

The Diverse Musical Agendas of Didkovsky, Woolf, and Grant Coexist

Simple Things First

New Discs From Out West by Peter Garland and Terry Riley

Kaleidoscope Kingdom

New Discs From Out West by Peter Garland and Terry Riley

Raiford Radiates

Is L.A. Ballet an Oxymoron?

Moon Rising Fast

The Beata Moon Ensemble Makes Its Maiden Voyage

Jumping the Groove

David First Slips Inaudibly From Drones to Rock and Back

Sawing Through Italy

Giovanni Sollima’s Musical Tour of Italy Enchants at Least One Listener

Plunging Toward Apocalypse

Medals, Please, for All These Dancers

Season Prelude

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

Music

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

Grand Old Youngster

Turning the Century at Lincoln Center

Bill Frisell and the Willies

Turning the Century at Lincoln Center

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.

Symphony in Beef Major

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.