Bang on a Can
2010 Bang on a Can Marathon in pics (Burkina Electric, who play Summerstage & Celebrate Brooklyn, included)
The annual Bang on a Can Marathon took over the World Financial Center Winter Garden Sunday, June 27th for 13 hours (one over the expected 12)…
Bang on a Can Marathon - 2010 schedule (Buke & Gass, Moritz Eggert, Burkina Electric, Tim Brady, Signal & more)
The schedule is up for this year’s Bang on a Can Marathon, the free day-long affair hosted at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. This year’s 12-hour show takes place on Sunday, June 27th from noon to midnight…
BAM announces 2010 Next Wave Festival (Stew, Trombone Shorty, Bang on a Can All-Stars and more)
BAM Next Wave Festival 2010 (the annual music/dance/theater/opera series to run September 21–Decemeber 19) will include work & performances (doing the NY premiere of her work Delusion), a song cycle from Stew and Heidi Rodewald (of Passing Strange fame), music by NOLA’s Trombone Shorty, Mikel Rouse‘s multimedia-song project Gravity Radio, and A House in Bali, an opera by Bang on a Can All-Star’s Evan Ziporyn featuring Balinese Gamelan Salukat and BoaC All-Stars…
So Percussion & Matmos collaborate - albums, shows, the Look & Listen Festival, music of Steve Reich, more
Matmos and So Percussion at the Whitney, 2006 (via Matador)
New music quartet So Percussion and electronic duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt) are collaborating on a new record, Treasure State, set to come out July 13th (July 8th digitally) on Cantaloupe…
Signal's upcoming shows include Bang on a Can Marathon, works by Philip Glass & Nico Muhly (who has shows too)
Signal at LPR
New music ensemble Signal will visit (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday, April 11th for two performances of Philip Glass’s 1981 album Glassworks (its NY live premiere) along with Glass’s “Music in Similar Motion” and other works…
Big Ears Fest Day 2 - Joanna Newsom, Clogs w/ Sufjan, Fred Armisen, Nico Muhly, Terry Riley, more (pics, video, review)
Collaborations were the order of the day on Big Ears‘ Saturday, March 27th schedule (day two). At 1pm, the 802 Tour – Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) and Sam Amidon with violist Nadia Sirota – performed songs written by each…
stream the BoaC / Dave Longstreth NYC show (tonight)
Tonight’s Bang on a Can All-Stars show at Merkin Hall (2/24), which will be premiering new pieces, Oscar Bettison, Christine Southworth and Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth (as well as a selection of Brian Eno‘s Music for Airports), will be streaming online on WQXR’s online Q2 station at 7:30pm EST…
Big Ears Fest expands - Sufjan w/ Clogs (MP3), William Basinski, Liturgy, Bang on Can do Dave Longstreth (NYC too)
DOWNLOAD: Clogs – Red Seas w/ Padma Newsome (MP3)
Dave Longstreth @ MHOW in December (more by Ryan Muir)
The final lineup for Big Ears Festival in Knoxville TN, March 26-28, has been confirmed and updated, with the addition of King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, tape composer William Basinski, NYC metal Liturgy (who are also playing MtyMx), UK avant-noisemakers Konk Pack, punk band Abe Vigoda, Ches Smith (drummer for Marc Ribot and others who’ll play with Tery Riley) and Sufjan Stevens, who will be appearing with Clogs…
Big Ears Fest exands lineup, MusicNOW Fest in Ohio gets St Vincent, Bon Iver & Joanna Newsom (NYC show on sale)
The Big Ears Festival, happening March 26-28 in Knoxville, TN, recently expanded its lineup to include the National, Dirty Projectors, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Tracy Silverman, and Buke & Gass. Th…
'In C Remixed' - on CD & live @ LPR this Sunday
In 2007, Michigan’s Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble recorded a stellar version of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, which they performed that year at the Bang on a Can Marathon (which ran 27 hours)…
