Who says serious music can't also be fun? Case in point: Marc Mellits's works on New Music Detroit's debut album 'Smoke.'
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Concert Review: Carolina Eyck, Theremin, and Theo Bleckmann, Vocalist (NYC, 2 July 2018)
Theremin virtuosa Carolina Eyck and avant-garde vocalist Theo Bleckmann were at their inventive best in separate sets at (le) poisson rouge in NYC.
Read More »Music Reviews: Guitarist Matteo Liberatore’s ‘Solos,’ Eric Stokes Retrospective ‘The Lyrical Pickpocket’
Matteo Liberatore uses unconventional tools and methods to pluck a variety of jolts and scratches, arpeggio sequences, and melodic and chordal motifs from that most common of instruments, the acoustic guitar.
Read More »Music Review: Laurie Anderson & The Kronos Quartet – ‘Landfall’
'Landfall' by Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet is extraordinary and one of the most brilliant albums I've heard in a long time.
Read More »Music Review: Fox Medicine – ‘Greetings From Mars’ Pumps Out Muscular Post Punk/Art Metal
The tones of dark gravity on 'Greetings From Mars' completely bypass the normal auditory apparatus. You listen but you also experience the music on a primal and visceral level, like a punch in the solar plexus. This is pure, dominant noise rock, consuming, taut with foreboding, and engaging.
Read More »Music Review: Efrim Manuel Menuck – ‘Pissing Stars’
In 'Pissing Stars,' Efrim Manuel Menuck creates a protest album that is as focused as it is obscured by his own compulsion for noise.
Read More »Music Review: Matteo Liberatore – ‘Solos’
LIberatore's sound and performance is abstract and dissonant.
Read More »Music Review: Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, and Zlatko Kaučič – ‘Without Borders’
This is collective improvisation at its finest, where each musician is free to express thoughts without encumbrance or restriction.
Read More »Music Reviews: Polly Gibbons – ‘Is It Me?…’ and Brian Kastan – ‘Roll the Dice on Life’
Two new albums feature opposite extremes of jazz vocalizing.
Read More »Retro Modern: Gorillaz – ‘Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)’
'Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)' is delightfully weird, addictive and promises that its parent record 'Humanz' will be yet another post-modern masterpiece―and head-scratcher―like the four albums that preceded it.
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