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Union Park had to be evacuated for bit mid-afternoon due to thunderstorms (Kurt Vile didn’t get to play), but Pitchfork day 2 still included Belle & Sebastian playing ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in full, Stereolab, The Isley Brothers, Parquet Courts, Freddie Gibbs and more.

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…

Andrew Bird at RIverside Church in 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Singer/songwriter/violin looper Andrew Bird is going on a tour this summer with his new band The Hands of Glory, “an old timey acoustic configuration featuring Tift Merritt, Alan Hampton, Bowl of Fire alumnus Kevin O’Donnell, and Eric Heywood on pedal steel…

New York nonprofit 826NYC is celebrating 10 years of providing students ages 6 – 18 with free literacy and writing programs. Part of this year’s festivities is a fundraising event happening March 5 at Town Hall called the Tenth Anniversary Chat Spectacular…

John Wesley Harding at Cabinet of Wonders in 2011 (more by Chris Graham) John Wesley Harding (aka Wesley Stace) has been up to a lot this year, as usual…