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Stream of Montreal – “Feminine Effects”

Record Store Day is just a few short weeks away and so everyone's getting all worked up and saving their hard earned cash in order to support their local vinyl dealer. There's even a smart...

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hit and run: “Emboldened Orchestras are Embracing the New”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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“I just started coughing”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

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Jon Stewart Interviews Grohl, Novoslec and Vig

This weekend was Nirvana mania on SiriusXM's Lithium channel. 24 hours a day is being devoted to nothing but Nirvana. Studio tracks, rarities, b-sides, live shows, you name it and they're playing it. The whole...

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“Made me learn a little bit faster, made my skin a little bit thicker, makes me that much smarter”

(email|facebook|twitter) In an interview by More Than The Music, Her Name Is Calla's Sophie Green answers a handful of questions about gender and music. As always, she beguiles. Some highlights: --- There are few things more...

Live Music Integrity

After the Super Bowl aired reports started breaking that Bruce and the boys were playing to pre-recorded tracks during their...

The music of Super Bowl XLIII redux

First, an administrative issue: I forgot to mention that Faith Hill would perform "America the Beautiful." I'd like to...

Incipient Music Encyclopedia?

This is fun. Britain's The Sunday Times has published an Encyclopedia of Modern Music in the Culture section of its...

The music of Super Bowl XLIII

(It's been a while since I took my World Languages 101 course. If I recall, XLIII is Hungarian for...

Write-in poll

Technically all music is experimentation, otherwise we'd all be playing from the exact same page of sheet music. And...

It shalt drive me bonkers no longer

That distinctive voice behind Antony and the Johnsons? Who has returned for an extremely baroque third LP, The Crying...

African-American String Revival

This article from EverythingAlabama.com turned me on to a band called Carolina Chocolate Drops that "is pioneering an African-American string...

The Transhumanist Age Is Indeed Waxing

We can probably blame Kraftwerk for this new reality.  There's now a band that gives new meaning to the term...

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