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Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Debbie Harry, Flaming Lips, Sturgill Simpson & more played Tibet House Benefit (pics, setlist)

The 25th Annual Tibet House Benefit took place at Carnegie Hall on March 5th near the beginning of the Year of the Wood Sheep Tibetan New Year celebration…

Philip Glass releasing memoir, talking about it at BAM

Contemporary composer great Philip Glass has a memoir on the horizon. Words Without Music traces his formative years as an artist, from growing up in post-World War 2 Baltimore to finding mentors while living in ’70s NYC, as well as stories behind such seminal works as Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha…

Debbie Harry added to Tibet Concert; Buster Poindexter begins Cafe Carlye residency; Patti Smith played the Roxy

The lineup for this year’s Tibet House US benefit concert keeps getting bigger. Happening March 5th at Carnegie Hall, the NYC show now also includes Blondie’s Debbie Harry…

Patti Smith & Sturgill Simpson added to Tibet House Concert (win tix)

The 25th annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert was announced last month, and the lineup’s now been expanded. Patti Smith and Sturgill SImpson join a cast that already includes The Flaming Lips, Laurie Anderson, artistic director Philip Glass, Tenzin Choegyal, and Ashley MacIsaac…

25th annual Tibet House US benefit lineup includes Flaming Lips, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass & more

The annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert is now in its 25th year, and happens at its usual location of Carnegie Hall on March 5. Artistic director Philip Glass is once again curating the lineup, which includes The Flaming Lips, Laurie Anderson, Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal, Canadian roots musician Ashley MacIsaac, and more …

Philip Glass & Steve Reich w/ Nico Muhly & others kicked off "Nonesuch Records at BAM" w/ their first of 3 shows (pics)

There were no speeches, or stagy hugs, or arms lifted in reconciliation. Not even a handshake. Still, on Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, two pioneers of Minimalism, the composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich, both 77, put aside a personal and professional feud that lasted more than 40 years and, for the first time since the early ’70s, performed together as they had in their early days so often and so momentously…

BAM Next Wave Festival 2014 announced: Rufus Wainwright, Tom Verlaine, Dean Wareham, Bradford Cox & lots more

Dean Wareham @ Maxwell’s, 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) While we already knew that “Nonesuch Records at BAM” and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus / Bryce Dessner collaboration (though details on that one were TBA) were going to be part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the full line-up of programming has just been announced…

Steve Reich/Philip Glass, Devendra/Stephin Merritt/Iron & Wine, Robert Plant, more playing "Nonesuch Records at BAM"

Contemporary composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass have announced that they’ll perform together for the first time in over 30 years, as the kickoff event for “Nonesuch Records at BAM”, the label’s 50th anniversary going down this September…

Patti Smith, New Order, The National, Iggy Pop, more played the Tibet House US 24th Annual Benefit (pics, videos, setlist)

The 24th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert took place at Carnegie Hall last night (3/11) with Patti Smith, New Order, Iggy Pop, The National, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Randolph, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, and many more…

Tibet House 24th Annual Benefit Concert lineup & tix (Iggy Pop, New Order, Patti Smith, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass & more)

Iggy Pop at SXSW 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) The annual Tibet House Benefit Concert is returning for its 24th year on March 11 at Carnegie Hall…
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