Secret Chiefs 3

The NYC avant-garde band includes current and former members of Secret Chiefs 3, Cleric, John Zorn's band, Orbweaver, and more, and their debut LP was recorded by Colin Marston...

John Zorn's Masada aims to ”put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together” and he's been writing Masada material for about 25 years now, with 613 compositions as part of the Masada collection. On April 12 at Symphony Space, Zorn held a special concert to celebrate the re…

Save $30 a ticket with our coupon for the NYU shows this weekend. Also: upcoming residencies at The Stone include Marc Ribot, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bill Frisell, Secret Chiefs 3, and more.

Two Mr Bungle alumni melt brains in Boston

Heavy supergroup Dead Cross are touring behind their debut self-titled album. Their NYC shows included covers of Bauhaus and Dead Kennedys as well as teases of Faith No More and Slayer songs.

Folk musician Sam Amidon released his new album, Following Mountain. The album features legendary jazz percussionist Milford Graves, saxophonist Sam Gendel, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and others, making for his most ambitious, jazzy album yet....

The song kicks off with Mike Patton's soaring clean vocals over Dave Lombardo's blastbeats, and ends up going into even more spastic hardcore territory. The video stars an animated Donald Trump...

Secret Chiefs 3 at Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman)

Instrumental experimenters Secret Chiefs 3 will be taking to the road in October...

John Zorn at Maxwell's, 2008 (more by Tim Griffin)

John Zorn describes his Masada songbook as follows: "The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together...

There are lots of bands that look frightening, but few have made such genuinely scary music as Italian prog rockers Goblin, whose scores to Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso, Suspiria and Tenebre (not to mention George Romero's Dawn of the Dead) can chill to the bone even without visual accom…