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These recent albums all celebrate the vitality of old instruments and even musical forms and the way they are constantly renewed throu...

My cup of new music runneth over, but there are also many extraordinary sounds from the past that are making my ears happy in 2018. Here ...

Anyone who is not completely overwhelmed with musical choice in 2018 is either not paying attention, stuck in a rut, or phenomenally lazy...

Even if they don't end up on the charts, ruled these days by hip hop and pop from the Swedish-industrial complex, there's still a...

The subterranean performance space at (Le) Poisson Rouge quickly grew silent when the six musicians of the American Contemporary Music...

After The Walkmen went on “extreme hiatus” I realized that, next to Hamilton Leithausers’s otherworldly crooning, Paul Maroon’s incandesc...

In Part 1, I covered two albums , one inspired by Greek Tragedy and the other by music history. The two records discussed below have m...