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Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Parquet Courts, Angel Du$t, “Slate Day” podcast fest, The Soul Rebels, Ibeyi, The Mavericks, Limp Wrist, Remo Drive, and more.

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“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…

Asphalt Orchestra outside Lincoln Center in 2010 (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)Sunday June 19
Bang on a Can Marathon
Presented by Bang on A Can and Arts World Financial Center

Bang on a Can returns with its incomparable 12-hour super-mix of genre-defying music featuring over 150 astounding musicians and composers from throughout the world…

“It may not be the week’s biggest bit of Radiohead news, but the band’s Jonny Greenwood has been announced as the composer for a new film starring Tilda Swinton…

today in NYC
* Jay-Z @ NYPL
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Leni Stern @ Barbes
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* DJ Shadow, Pigeon John @ Irving Plaza
* Sufjan Stevens, DM Stith @ Beacon Theatre
* Minor Stars, Parlour, Kordan, deVries @ Pianos
* Easy Action, The Men, Pregnant @ The Acheron
* Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra @ Roulette
* Cheer-Accident, Stats, Inzinzac, Xaddax @ Cake Shop
* Steve Lewis & the Vagrants, Oh Land @ Mercury Lounge
* Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, King Charles @ Terminal 5
* Fiction Plane (Sting’s son), The Globes @ Mercury Lounge
* Jason Anderson, Mount Moriah, Modest Midas @ The Rock Shop
* Charlie Hunter Trio, Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Feather and Folly, Zachary Cale, La Defense, Plates of Cake @ Zebulon
* Jimmy Herring & Jamie Mclean of Widespread Panic @ Highline Ballroom
* Vicky Emerson, The Bowmans, Tony Scherr Trio, Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, Tony Mason @ The Living Room
* Jonsi, Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Ros, The Hilliard Ensemble, Latvian National Choir, Wordless Music Orchestra @ The Church of St…

The annual Bang on a Can Marathon took over the World Financial Center Winter Garden Sunday, June 27th for 13 hours (one over the expected 12)…

The schedule is up for this year’s Bang on a Can Marathon, the free day-long affair hosted at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. This year’s 12-hour show takes place on Sunday, June 27th from noon to midnight…

Signal at LPR

New music ensemble Signal will visit (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday, April 11th for two performances of Philip Glass’s 1981 album Glassworks (its NY live premiere) along with Glass’s “Music in Similar Motion” and other works…

DOWNLOAD: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “This Is What You’re Like” (feat. Shara Worden) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: William Brittelle – Dunes of Vermillion (MP3)

New Amsterdam Records is pleased to announce a very special evening of complete performances of two upcoming albums by two of our co-Directors: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s PENELOPE, featuring the extraordinary vocalist Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with New York “supergroup” Signal (conducted by Brad Lubman), and William Brittelle’s TELEVISION LANDSCAPE, featuring an ensemble comprised of members of Alarm Will Sound, NOW Ensemble, The Long Count, and more…

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Signal commemorated Steve Reich‘s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece “Double Sextet” with a performance of the work on June 22nd at (Le) Poisson Rouge…