New Amsterdam Records
Paul Lansky, Tyondai Braxton, Holly Herndon, Olga Bell & more performing at 'Sound/Source' event at MoMA PS1
New Amsterdam Records is presenting an all-day event at MoMA PS1 on October 19 called Sound/Source, an “exploration of electroacoustic music in all its forms, featuring collaborations between legends, luminaries, and newcomers as they examine the interplay between human and machine sounds…
No Lands released debut album (stream it), celebrating this weekend at Baby's All Right w/ DJ/Rupture and Lorna Dune
Michael Hammond stays immersed in music. He’s a sound designer, producer, and programmer, and is also label manager at New Amsterdam Records, the Brooklyn label that blurs the lines between modern composer and pop…
New Amsterdam Presents hosting inaugural year-end benefit at Baby's All Right tonight w/ Son Lux, Trevor Wilson & more
Son Lux at LPR in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
New-classical-music collective New Amsterdam Presents hosts its inaugural year-end benefit show in Brooklyn at Baby’s All Right tonight (12/16)…
Missy Mazzoli releasing 'Song from the Uproar' cast recording; record release show this weekend in NYC (stream, video)
As mentioned briefly, the Original Cast Recording of Missy Mazzoli‘s opera, Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, is out next week on New Amsterdam Records (whose Red Hook offices took a beating last week from Hurricane Sandy)…
Red Hook still needs help, residents without heat, businesses destroyed (though Sunny's is reopening) -- more pics & info
“While electricity is on in some of the buildings in the Red Hook Houses, almost none have heat. For the second day in a row RHI purchased and distributed 150 space heaters…
What is and isn't going on Saturday
Rockwood Music Hall is open again.
Power is back to most of Manhattan following four days of blackout in half the borough, with ConEd promising to have everywhere in the city back on by tonight and things are starting to get back to normal, though the Subways aren’t quite there yet — though the 4, 5, 6 and 7 lines are up and running…
Red Hook walloped by Sandy; Fairway & New Amsterdam Records among its victims; benefit @ Union Hall tonight
Brooklyn non-profit “post-classical” label New Amsterdam Records released the new album by accapella group Roomfull of Teeth on Tuesday, which should have been the biggest news of the week for them…
Roomful of Teeth releasing an album (download a track written by Merrill Garbus), playing Lincoln Center
DOWNLOAD: Roomful of Teeth – “Quizassa” (written by Merrill Garbus) (MP3)
PLOrk is here, Chiara String Quartet & NOW released LPs, Matmos playing with them, won't be at Maryland Deathfest
Matmos with Kronos Quartet last yearThe Chiara String Quartet and NOW Ensemble come together Friday, May 6 at (Le) Poisson Rouge for a joint album release concert, celebrating two fresh albums from New Amsterdam Records with some of the foremost performers and composers of this emerging self-reliant generation: NOW Ensemble’s sophomore statement, (with compositions by ensemble members Judd Greenstein, Mark Dancigers, Patrick Burke, and commissioned work by Missy Mazzoli, Sean Friar, and David Crowell), and , performed by the Chiara String Quartet and special guest, electronic duo, Matmos…
William Brittelle released a record, playing a show (win tix)
DOWNLOAD: William Brittelle – Sheena Easton (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: William Brittelle – Dunes of Vermillion (MP3)
Composer William Brittelle will be hosting an album release show on Tuesday, August 3rd at LPR for his new record, Television Landscape, which came out July 27th on New Amsterdam Records (a label he co-founded)…
