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William Brittelle Announces New Mini-Album 'Alive In The Electric Snow Dream'
by Michael Major - January 24, 2024 Developed and recorded during the pandemic with Metropolis Ensemble, Alive in the Electric Snow Dream features Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Bon Iver), Holland Andrews, and Eliza Bagg (Roomful of Teeth, Lisel) on vocals, Immanuel Wilkins on sax, Ben Cassorla on guitar, Paul Wiancko (Kronos Quartet, OWLS) on...
Natalie Merchant Debuts New Single 'Tower of Babel'
by Michael Major - March 30, 2023 The track features arrangements by trombone player Steve Davis, and follows the first single and video, “Come On, Aphrodite”—featuring Abena Koomson-Davis—from Merchant’s forthcoming album Keep Your Courage. Produced by Merchant, Keep Your Courage is the artist’s ninth solo studio album, and the lat...
Classical Saxophonist Joseph Lulloff And Pianist Yu-Lien The Convey 'New Stories' On Album Arriving March 17
by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2023 Classical saxophonist Joseph Lulloff, a critically acclaimed concert artist and award-winning educator, and pianist Yu-Lien The, his frequent recital collaborator, offer world premiere recordings of works by four prominent, living American composers on New Stories, available March 17, 2023 (Blue Gri...
Natalie Merchant Unveils New Single 'Come On, Aphrodite'
by Michael Major - February 15, 2023 It is the first track released from Merchant’s forthcoming album, Keep Your Courage, and establishes the record’s themes of love and passion as essential to the human experience. Merchant’s ninth solo studio album, and the latest new material since 2014’s self-titled record, Keep Your Courage will b...
Charlie Parr Announces New Album 'Last of the Better Days Ahead'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 12, 2021 On his Smithsonian Folkways debut, there’s something resoundingly new. The faithful will find an even more intense focus upon the word, and folks new to this titan of international folk blues will discover poetry so clear and pure it feels like he wrote it with an icicle on a window....
The Menil Collection's New Exhibition Features The Crossing In David Lang Soundscape, Specters Of Noon
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 12, 2020 GRAMMY Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang has written an interactive soundscape, specters of noon, for The Menil Collection's new exhibition Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon, on exhibit through June 2021. ...
The Steve Martin Annual Banjo Prize Announces Five Winners
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 12, 2020 Steve Martin and the board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced the five winners of this year's annual Banjo Prize. ...
Bang on a Can Announces Third Bang on a Can Marathon Live Online
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 14, 2020 Bang on a Can will present its third Bang on a Can Marathon – Live Online – on Sunday, August 16, 2020 from 3-9pm ET. ...
SYBARITE5 Releases New Album, Embarks on Tour
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 06, 2020 On March 20, 2020, Sybarite5, the first string quintet ever to win the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, celebrates the release of its fourth album, Live from New York, It's Sybarite5 [BTSC-0131/1 CD], a recording featuring live performances from Chelsea's The Cell, a performance spac...
Sonar with David Torn Announce TRANCEPORTATION (VOLUME 1)
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 29, 2019 Swiss band Sonar announces Tranceportation (Volume 1), their fifth studio album and the second by them to feature American avant-guitarist legend, David Torn. ...
Lizzo, Billie Eilish, & Lil Nas X Lead GRAMMY Nominations - See Full List!
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 20, 2019 Recording Academy® President/CEO Deborah Dugan alongside Academy Chair of the Board of Trustees and renowned record producer Harvey Mason Jr., as well as GRAMMY Awards® host Alicia Keys and past two-time GRAMMY® nominee Bebe Rexha, today revealed nominees for the 62nd GRAMMY Awards in select categor...
CocoRosie Announce New Album PUT THE SHINE ON
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 30, 2019 Today, CocoRosie, the sister duo Sierra and Bianca Casady, announce their 7th studio album Put The Shine On, which will be released March 6th 2020 via Marathon Artists. The follow-up to their 2015 album Heartache City will be accompanied by their one-of-a-kind live shows in March/April 2020, EU date...
Sufjan Stevens to Release Score for Justin Peck's Ballet 'The Decalogue'
by Abigail Charpentier - September 17, 2019 Oscar- and Grammy-nominated composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens will release his acclaimed score for Justin Peck's ballet The Decalogue October 18 via his own label, AKR. Performed by the pianist Timo Andres, the recording is the first time the score, premiered during the New...
Kronos Plays Terry Riley's 'Sun Rings' for String Quartet + Voyager Transmission Sounds
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 29, 2019 Kronos Quartet's groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, is available as a recording for the first time via Nonesuch Records on August 30, 2019. Sun Rings is available to pre-order from iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where the album track a?oeBeebopterismoa?? may be d...
CocoRosie Return With First New Song In 2 Years
by Tori Hartshorn - August 09, 2019 Today, fresh from their Chance The Rapper collaboration, CocoRosierelease their first new song in 2 years called “Lamb & the Wolf”. The legendary theater director, visual artist and their frequent collaborator, Robert Wilson created the artwork for “Lamb & the Wolf”. This comes after the January 201...
Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records Announce Partnership
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 29, 2019 Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records have joined forces to release approximately three albums per year over an initial three-year period. This partnership is the result of conversations between the two New York-based labels about their long-term shared values to support the work of several generations...
Banda Magda Brings Global Music To Montalvo Arts Center This February
by A.A. Cristi - January 04, 2019 Montalvo Arts Center presents the unique fusion sounds of Banda Magda as part of the Carriage House Concert Series. Led by Greek-born composer, orchestrator, singer, and accordionist Magda Giannikou (Kronos Quartet), Banda Magda musically moves from samba to French chanson, from Greek folk tunes to ...
Dan Wilson (Semisonic) Releases New Song UNCANNY VALLEY, Touring This Fall
by Tori Hartshorn - November 09, 2018 Today, Dan Wilson released a new song 'Uncanny Valley' following his announcement last month that he will begin releasing a new song each month in lieu of full length album this year. These songs follow the release of his critically-acclaimed 2017 solo album Re-Covered where he revisited songs he wr...
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents Quodlibet Ensemble: Biber, Martynov + Sharlat
by Tori Hartshorn - October 25, 2018 Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) concludes its Fall 2018 season on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:30pm with Quodlibet Ensemble: Music by Biber, Martynov + Sharlat at BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater (450 W. 37th Street). Quodlibet (Latin for 'whatever pleases') Ensemble is a string chamber orchestra of s...
Grammy-Award Winner Rinde Eckert's TIME IS OUR OWN Premieres At Billboard
by Tori Hartshorn - August 23, 2018 Grammy-award winning composer, musician, performer, writer and director Rinde Eckert's new single “Time is Our Own” premieres at Billboard with a feature interview. Read the interview/share the track HERE. The single appears on Eckert's most personal album to date, The Natural World, out August 24 v...
Composer Lisa Bielawa and Director Charles Otte Receive LA Emmy Nominations for VIREO
by Macon Prickett - June 13, 2018 The Television Academy has announced 155 nominations in 47 categories for the 70th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards. Composer Lisa Bielawa and director Charles Otte are nominees for their work on VIREO: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser, the first episodic made-for-TV & online opera. Bielawa ...
Violist Jonah Sirota Celebrates New Album STRONG SAD at National Sawdust This June
by Macon Prickett - May 22, 2018 Jonah Sirota, former violist of the Chiara String Quartet, releases his debut solo albumSTRONG SAD worldwide on National Sawdust Tracks on June 22, 2018. Sirota will celebrate the album's release with a concert at National Sawdust (80 N. 6th St., Brooklyn) on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 7pm, performin...
Duo Noire Releases Night Triptych, An Album Of World Premieres For Guitar Duo By Women Composers, On New Focus
by Stephi Wild - May 17, 2018 On Friday, June 22, 2018, American classical guitar duo, Duo Noire (Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett), releases Night Triptych, an album of world premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by six highly accomplished and diverse women composers from around the world, on New Focus Recording...
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Announces Lineup for 40th Season
by Macon Prickett - May 02, 2018 BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, is pleased to announce the lineup and sponsors for its 40th season of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. With 31 performances (June 5 – August 11), BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! launches a yearlong celebration to cap off four decad...
Stephanie Richards Debut LP FULLMOON for Trumpet and Live-Sampler
by Macon Prickett - March 22, 2018 Marking the debut solo record of “envelope-shredding” trumpeter/composer Stephanie Richards, Fullmoon is years of shaping, culminating in a mesmerizing work of refined electric insanity. With Fullmoon, Richards is unplugged, acoustically manipulating her horn against resonating surfaces, appearing t... |