William Basinski

The Other Music documentary is streaming this weekend (April 17-20) to help support independent record stores and movie theaters hurt by COVID-19 closures.

”All of these songs convey a solemn tone. The most optimistic moments could be considered contemplative at best,” the band says.

Listen to new songs by M.I.A., Mark Lanegan, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan, AC Newman (Kenny Rogers cover), Sorry, As Friends Rust, Barishi, and more.

Basinski will take ”listeners through a marathon sequence of past, recent, and new work amongst a site-specific light installation from artists Brock Monroe and Seth Kirby” and pays tribute to late ISSUE Project Room founder Suzanne Fiol.

”Look at all the beautiful New Yorkers,” William Basinski said in his strange, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Texas lilt. He addressed a crowd of hundreds, stacked in the pews and spilling into the aisles, as he stood at the center of the altar of St. George Episcopal Church on Saturday night.

The 15th annual Moogfest also includes A Place to Bury Strangers, Kimbra, Martin Gore, Matthew Dear, Suzi Analogue, The Field, and more.

Pitchfork and The Art Institute of Chicago threw their inaugural three-night Midwinter Fest throughout the museum on February 15-17.

The 2019 edition of the Sled Island music festival happens June 19-23 in downtown Calgary, AB. This year’s guest curator is Julien Baker, who hand-picked Japanese Breakfast, JPEGMAFIA, Hop Along, Bully, Torres, Worries, Death Bells and Squirrel Flower to play the festival…

Plus: Laraaji, Typesetter, Lydia Lunch, James Chance, The Soul Rebels, Jay Critch, and more tour-related news.

The new event from Pitchfork and the Art Institute of Chicago features performances throughout the museum from Deerhunter, DJ Koze, Mount Eerie, William Basinski, Laurie Anderson, Kamasi Washington, Perfume Genius and more over three nights.