Glenn Branca

‘We Sing a New Language: The Oral Discography of Thurston Moore’ features contributions from Lydia Lunch, Richard Hell, Michael Gira, Lee Ranaldo, Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, and more.

“David Bowie was our hero. Intelligent, talented and with the desire to create a really new different rock…When he died, I was shocked like everybody else….I hadn’t realized how much he meant to me throughout most of my life. I think somehow knowing he was here, was like having a muse.” – Glenn Branca

Part of the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy in NYC, “Glenn Branca’s Symphonies” happened on Monday, May 16 at the gorgeous, baroque Masonic Hall in Chelsea and featured three of the composer’s compositions for a guitar orchestra. That orchestra included longtime Glenn Branca associates Reg Bloor and Arad Evans, Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux)…

Experimental musician, no-wave fixture and guitar innovator Rhys Chatham is releasing a new album, Pythagorean Dream, on which he plays trumpet, electric guitar, and alto, bass and C flutes. You can check out an excerpt of the final track off the LP below. The album is out June 3 via Foom Music. Rhys will be […]

The Red Bull Music Academy will be back in New York City for a fourth year, running April 22 – May 22. As always it’s a wide mix of concerts and events, and this year’s highlights include…

The legendary Glenn Branca Ensemble are once again playing NYC, this time to premiere their new work The Third Ascension, at The Kitchen on February 23 (7 and 9 PM shows) and Fe…

Lee Ranaldo and his guitar (more by Kenneth Bachor) Thurston Moore recently listed his favorite songs of all time and now his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo has offered a list of his five favorite guitarists of all time via Red Bull (who recently offered their own favorite guitarists list)…

Glenn Branca at the 2011 Bang-on-a-Can Marathon (more by Andrew Frisicano) Fortissimo Records will present Yo Eskerrik Asko NYC!, a two-day event will descend upon Public Assembly on August 24th and 25th…

words & “13 consecutive hours of experimental and avant-garde noodling” – NY Times on the Bang on a Can Marathon as quoted The 2011 Bang on a Can Marathon went down on Sunday, June 19th, at the World Financial Center in NYC…