'Blue Record' was the peak of Baroness's metal prowess, but 'Gold & Grey' is their crowning achievement.
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Concert Review: Four Nations Ensemble – ‘Music of the Grand Tour’ (NYC, 30 May 2019)
The Four Nations Ensemble vividly evoked in music the 18th century "Grand Tour" tradition with music of Vivaldi, Corelli, Pergolesi and more.
Read More »Music Review: Jerusalem Quartet – ‘The Yiddish Cabaret’
The new album from the Jerusalem Quartet and soprano Hila Baggio brings back the sound and sensibility of a bygone time and place with skill and high spirits.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Eroica’ (NYC, 17 May 2019)
Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony was a jubilant finish to the American Classical Orchestra's season under Thomas Crawford, showing their mastery of, and ardent feeling for, the classical repertoire.
Read More »Song Premiere: The Iveys – ‘Colors of Honey’
We debut the newest single from the upcoming album by quintessential family band The Iveys.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 14 (Austin, Texas)
Clavvs and HÆLOS helped bookend a tiring Thursday lineup at South by Southwest 2019 in Austin Texas.
Read More »Music Review: Danny Elfman – “Violin Concerto ‘Eleven Eleven,’ Piano Quartet”
The first freestanding work for orchestra by film composer Danny Elfman has been recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Sandy Cameron.
Read More »Concert Review: Violist Samuel Rhodes at Juilliard (NYC, 19 March 2019)
Whoops and hollers from a student-heavy audience at Juilliard greeted the head of the school's viola department at his concert featuring music by Mozart, Hummel, and John Harbison.
Read More »Music Reviews: Beat Circus – ‘These Wicked Things’ and Michael McDermott – ‘Orphans’
Brightly inventive in the service of a dim mood, the songs on Beat Circus' 'These Wicked Things' smell of existential desperation. It's one of the cooler albums to cross my transom this year.
Read More »Music Review: The Suitcase Junket – ‘Mean Dog, Trampoline’
The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.
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