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Steve Reich with Bryce Dessner & Sö Percussion

A late evening in Brussels, 1972, Steve Reich attends an ill-performed night of flamenco in a cheap nightclub. He and his.. Read the article
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Thurston Moore

In the bathroom of 315 Bowery, in New York City’s East Village, a picture of a picture of a rock club hangs. The original was.. Read the article
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Echo And The Bunnymen

5:30PM: Arrive to meet tour manager in the lobby of Phoenix Concert Theatre. 6:35PM: Tour manager arrives. “Alright, let’s get.. Read the article
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Basia Bulat

year and a half ago, fresh off of a relocation to New York City and an adventure in Reykjavik, Basia Bulat and I met up in a.. Read the article
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Colin Stetson

35 feet long and 17 feet high, a chamber that reacts to its occupant reflecting and amplifying their output ad infinitum… a.. Read the article
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Spoon

In the voluminous chambers of the Knockdown Center, there is no hope for any physical contribution filling the vacuum between.. Read the article
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Perfume Genius

When an artist is heartfelt and when their music is served up, in earnest, when all you know of this artist is the conviction.. Read the article
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Little May

Hundreds of steps lead to our position, a concise visual icon of contrapuntal activity leading to vertical arrangement, voice.. Read the article
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Eddi Front

100 flickering candles placed delicately in a semi-circle beneath twin chandeliers hung low from 20 foot ceilings… a thin layer.. Read the article
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Frankie Cosmos

Greta Klein is the most disciplined songwriter I have ever met. Since April of 2009, she has released 47 separate recordings.. Read the article
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Callers

I first heard Callers in a red Subaru Outback driving through Manhattan for the first time in something other than a taxi. It.. Read the article
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Houndmouth

It only takes 3 hours from New York City to New Albany as the Boeing flies, but the two cities couldn’t be further apart... Read the article
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Torres

A small, sparsely decorated brownstone in Bedstuy with an empty bedroom and an aging, untuned piano welcomes Mackenzie Scott,.. Read the article
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My Brightest Diamond & yMusic

It is the end of the blighting summer heat in New York, and a thunderstorm looms large over Battery Park. An ensemble assembles.. Read the article
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Tasseomancy

o miles south of the harbor on an island masking Toronto from the open waters of Lake Ontario, a wicker phoenix lies in a.. Read the article
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Chelsea Wolfe

There are actors whose borrowed affectations, accents and emotional accoutrement are a necessary part of their craft. Their.. Read the article
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Little Scream

In Trinity-Bellwoods park, during the zenith of a hot spring, a serenade is not uncommon. It is the point when the realization.. Read the article
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Valleys

Montreal is a city of authenticity… its bagels, its smoked meat, its music, its snow storms. As snow falls, you are at once.. Read the article
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Danielson

am 22 years old and working a shift in a basement record shop in Toronto, eagerly awaiting my turn to pick the next store-play.. Read the article
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Titus Andronicus

In a blasted-out shell at Grand and Crosby in Manhattan’s SoHo district, Patrick Stickles takes echoey footsteps across piles.. Read the article
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Teen

In the life of a musician in New York, to have found some modest success in your field is to be perpetually absent from the.. Read the article
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Diane Cluck

The music of Diane Cluck is her own. She is at the mouth of a river of songwriters whose germination began as a seed of the.. Read the article
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Courtney Barnett

It is an altogether refreshing thing to meet someone on their first trip to a new country. Through their eyes, you get to strip.. Read the article
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Cold Specks

Al Spx was a voice without a face for me until the first notes of this piece. Even as I rolled up to the northern tip of.. Read the article
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The Spinto Band

This is an important video for us. The Spinto Band were the very forst band to be filmed on a Take Away Show. It was in a.. Read the article
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Julianna Barwick

“Drive towards this park… pass all the huge fields of moss and the pony farms. You’ll see a series of mountains in the distance.. Read the article
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A Story Told Well // The Work of Derrick Belcham

A Story Told Well // The Work of Derrick Belcham