Reviews music

Broken Social Scene and Steve Earle rocked out Friday's showcases at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Clavvs and HÆLOS helped bookend a tiring Thursday lineup at South by Southwest 2019 in Austin Texas.

The first freestanding work for orchestra by film composer Danny Elfman has been recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Sandy Cameron.

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.

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.

The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave sumptuous performances of music by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Grieg at Columbia University's Italian Academy.

New York-based cellist Inbal Segev continues to expand her range. The quality of the music in her latest program ranged from exhilarating to predictable. But her technique and sensitivity revealed all the works in advantageous light.

'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.

Willie Nile was live in Kingston Ontario February 16 2019: If you have the chance, anytime anywhere, go see him - you won't regret it.