Sarah Kirkland Snider

Aretha was given a special award for ”her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.” In other news, composer Ellen Reid was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her work ’p r i s m.’

As you may know, the Ecstatic Music Festival is underway in NYC with concerts happening now through March 21 at Merkin Concert Hall in the Kaufman Music Center...

"There's nothing you can do to avoid a museum-ification of your own work when you put out a retrospective box set, but we're doing everything we can to keep it fresh," said Hillmer, a thoughtful and passionate performer for whom Zs ("It just means us...

Ecstatic Music Festival 2012 (more by David Andrako) As discussed, the indie/classical Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center this year and it begins Friday (1/25) with a show from My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus...

Julia Holter at Bowery Ballroom in August (more by Amanda Hatfield) The Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in 2013 from January 25 to March 21, where it's happened in past years...

DOWNLOAD: Roomful of Teeth - "Quizassa" (written by Merrill Garbus) (MP3)

Two days after Nick Zammuto played the ongoing Ecstatic Music Festival, eight piece vocal group Roomful of Teeth collaborated with Glasser on 2/25 at Merkin Concert Hall...

Speaking of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", the Dessner brother-curated festival coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in May (May 3-5 to be exact), I have the names of a few people who will be part of it...

DOWNLOAD: yMusic - "Proven Badlands" (composed by Annie Clark) (MP3) My Brightest Diamond at Prospect Park in August (more by Amanda Hatfield) My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) is set to release her third full length album All Things Will Unwind on October 18 via Asthmatic Kitty...

DOWNLOAD: Clogs - On the Edge (MP3) The National @ the Studio (more by David Andrako) Not only did Bryce play a live MTV taping with the National last night, he's playing a fashion week party tonight (Wednesday) and three shows this weekend at St...