As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the intersection of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17, 2011, and continues with 13 additional concerts until March 28, 2011. All concerts will take place at Merkin Concert Hall.

The Ecstatic Music Festival 2011 is almost here. Subscriptions and single show tickets are on sale. The full updated schedule (tUnE-yArDs, So Percussion, Dan Deacon, Craig Wedren, ACME, Nadia Sirota, Buke & Gass, Doveman, Owen Pallett, Bang On A Can All-Stars, and more included), and a trailer, below...

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by Andrew Frisicano

Rose Live Music (Found the Band)

Rose Live Music, the dance club/venue behind that glowing sign on Williamsburg's Grand Street, has been running a Tuesday night series of drummer-led bands for a couple weeks now. Past editions have included music from jazz/metal drummer Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys and frenetic Latin drummer Dafnis Prieto.

Tonight (3/2) eclectic drummer/composer Bobby Previte plays two sets: one with Sex Mob saxist Briggan Krauss and another with guitarist Mike Gamble and bassist Ari Folman-Cohen (who will play as Previte's Coalition of the Willing Trio). Bobby Previte has other gigs coming up (hear a podcast with Bobby here). On the horizon, he's working on a project called Terminals in collaboration with So Percussion and an impressive list of soloists, which is planned for 2011.

TERMINALS is an evening-length work of nine concertos for improviser and percussion ensemble, featuring the SO Percussion group. Each piece will feature a different improviser in a setting composed specifically for them. The soloists include John Medeski, Greg Osby, Elliott Sharp. DJ Olive, Elizabeth Brown, Zeena Parkins, and Bobby Previte.

The upcoming schedule for the drummer-led series includes Ben Perowsky's Moodswing Orchestra, an female drummer showcase put on by Tom Tom Magazine, and series closer Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs, Stars Like Fleas, Eye Contact and solo project Lone Wolf), who'll play with Thurston Moore and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, on March 31st.

The full schedule (which extends to Wednesdays for a few weeks in March) and videos (including one from Charlie Hunter's residency at the club earlier this year) are below...

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GZA @ ATP Minehead 2007 (more by Zach Dilgard)

tonight in NYC
* GZA @ Gramercy Theatre
* Willy Gantrim, Brownbird Rudy Relic @ Sycamore
* Asylum Street Spankers, The Woes @ The Bell House
* Passion Pit, The Joy Formidable, Arms @ Terminal 5
* NYC Winter Jazz Festival @ LPR, Sullivan Hall, more
* Jared Friedman, Boy Genius, Raccoon Fighter @ Fort Useless
* The Sons & Heirs (a Smiths & Morrissey tribute) @ the Bell House
* Peelander Z, Math the Band, Secret Guest @ Santos Party House
* The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Loom @ Mercury Lounge (late)
* Truman Peyote, ManyMansions, Blissed Out, Nonhorse @ Silent Barn
* The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Roadside Graves @ Mercury Lounge (early)
* Blues Control, Rot Shit, Tusk Lord, Home Blitz, Drunkdriver @ Death By Audio
* Vicky Emerson, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Aunt Martha,Verdes,Beowulf @ Living Room
* I'm Turning Into, Brendan Leonard, Austin Thomas @ Pete's Candy Store (day show)
* Care Bears On Fire, Blame The Patient, Ethan Levenson, Supercute @ Cake Shop (day show)
* Mondo Mundo Fest w/ Ocote Soul Sounds, Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely, Burkina Electric, Abaji @ Hiro Ballroom
* The New Familiars, The Hot Seats, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, Christabel and the Jons, Sxip Shirey, The Two Man Gentlemen Band @ 92YTribeca

All was scheduled to play MHOW tonight, but the tour was cancelled.

Bobby Previte's New Bump Quartet and Whoopie Pie played sets as part of the ongoing Winter Jazz Festival at Kenny's Castaways last night. Videos below....

What else?

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