Cantaloupe Records

Philip Glass isn't the only 20th-century composer with a big birthday this year. Avant-garde composer John Cage would've been 100, and there are numerous chances to see his work (even more than usual) because of it...

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...

St. Vincent @ Pitchfork Fest in Chicago (more by Kate Gardiner) David Byrne and Annie Clark are collaborating on music for a future Housing Works benefit...

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...

DOWNLOAD: Phil Kline - From Light (MP3) Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December...

There were (more) strings at September 25th's inaugural show for the Archipelago music series, which happens at Galapagos one Friday a month through next May...