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In very unexpected news, the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco will hold a night of performances by Phillip Glass, Joanna Newsom and Tim Fain in what is being called 'An Evening with Phillip Glass & Joanna Newsom w/Tim Fain'. The trio will perform on June 25th as part of the Days and Nights Festival, with proceeds going to the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California.

The first night of MusicNOW 2012 at Memorial Hall was packed to the gills last night, in large part to see the birthday boy Phillip Glass. Photographer Keith Klenowski provided some great shots again, have a look below... Phillip Glass performs at MusicNOW 2012 Eighth blackbird performs at MusicNOW 2012 Sandro Perri performs at MusicNOW 2012 [...]

Cincinnati's MusicNOW festival starts on Wednesday. It's a real treat that those of us in the area should be supremely thankful for. As far as who we should be thankful to, that'd be the National's Bryce Dessner, who has spent the last several years recruiting bands to play at this small, but well-curated festival. Bryce [...]

This past Monday night, an eclectic and talented group of musicians came together at Carnegie Hall to celebrate Tibetan culture at the XXII Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert . The evening began with traditional prayers from eight Tibetan Monks, before Robert Thurman (president of Tibet House) took the stage to remind all in attendance of the importance of the upcoming year to Tibetan society. [All Photos by Jeremy Gordon ] Standout performances included amusing stories by Laurie Anderson (on her [...]

Download : Akara - Invoking the Unnameable Akara – an artist /musician collective of luminous beings headed up by classically trained producer Joshua Penman . Vocals from Femke Weidema , a highly trained musician and accomplished songwriter in her own right, leaving her country/pop/Latin roots to be recreated as an extra dimensional psychedelic goddess. Singing and harmonizing in a mysterious unknown language, Akara present mystical psychedelic dancefloor symphonies which are simply [...]

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post and original illustration by chris duffy It was probably the most sterile environment that has ever housed a musical experience that I have witnessed. Then again, it was chamber music. The Apple store , like most of their lot, feels like the interior of a spaceship. Fittingly, the majority of it seems to be constructed from glass. Artist: [...]

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MUSIC NEWS - Tibet House US has announced that rock icon Iggy Pop will be join the already fantastic line-up of musicians performing at the 20th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert in NYC on February 26 at the reknowned Carnegie Hall. Already signed on and confirmed after being assembled by the concert's artistic director Philip Glass , are Regina Spektor , Patti Smith , Jesse Smith , Michael Campbell , Gogol Bordello , Baaba Maal and Pierce Turner . Tickets are on sale now [...]

Iconic American composer Phillip Glass got in on The Colbert Report act last night. After a hilarious send-up about right-wing critics who've been accusing President Obama of not acknowledging we're at war, and/or of not doing it with enough feeling, Stephen Colbert cues Glass, live on the keys, who provides the soundtrack for a very Dieter -esque sketch by Colbert and his troupe. Colbert's mission is to present the president with an example of a war-themed speech that is both "repetitious and groundbreaking," and appropriately, Glass just plays whatever eight notes are in [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music Sometimes inspiration strikes at the most unexpected times, as when hotly tipped New York retro-rockers the Postelles were on a recent Canadian tour opening for Vampire Weekend . "We finished our album in a van on the way to Montreal," bassist John Speyer tells Spinner, nursing a hangover in a Reykjavik cafe the day after playing the Iceland Airwaves festival. "Actually, we finished recording in New York," interjects frontman Daniel [...]

HANK ALTOGETHER: This one goes out to Sandy who said that they couldn't hear Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard as the soundtrack to Kerouac. It's a video of Sir Paul McCartney and that other fantastic beatnik, Allen Ginsberg, putting music to his poem "Ballad of the Skeletons." If you like this sort of thing you might also check out Ginsberg's Lion for Real which has some nice spacey jazz accompanying Ginsberg reading including a rather, um, provocative come on to Kerouac [...]

Sometimes you need that perfect album to get your creative juices flowing. Follow the jump for today's top 5 albums for being creative. 5. Alarm Will Sound - Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin This is for the pretentious artist. It's a great album for writers. It's an amazing piece of work. First, listen to the album all [...]

April 7 is upon us, the Clash of the Options: Morrissey, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Aterciopelados, the Ting Tings ... Bonnie "Philly" Glass. Of course, you've already decided by now which, if any, you're... Continue reading "Tonight: Where's the afterparty?" >

Due, presumably, to popular demand, British buzz band the Ting Tings will play not one but two shows on Tuesday, April 7, at the Record Bar. For the first show, which is all-ages, the doors open at 5:... Continue reading "Second Ting Tings Show Added to April 7 Record Bar Date" >

With no intention whatsoever of offense, I can honestly say that I am not looking forward to DM Stith's forthcoming album; Curtain Speech EP is all I have ever heard of DM Stith, and it is all I care to hear of DM Stith. In the title track, "Curtain Speech", he shows that he is only interested in self-indulgent and half-formed compositions. The song is a meandering piano melody with a few added effects, placed seemingly at random throughout the song, and ethereal, Enya-like "Ooo-oo"s in the background. At other points throughout the EP he sounds on the [...]

Since I'm writing up a couple of experiments right now, and I've found music with lyrics (in languages I can keep up with auditorily) interfere with writing, I'm mostly listening to a tremendous playlist of music with no lyrics, or lyrics in languages I can't understand as auditory input, right now; it's all kinds: jazz, classical, medieval antiphonal chants, neo-classical instrumental pieces (no Schoenberg, he's distracting period) and Mogwai/Explosions in the Sky/Kinski-type prog-rock instrumental stuff. I'm enjoying how the very old ( Anonymous4 singing Hildegard von Bingen's Chants for the Feast of St Ursula ) and the [...]

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