Steve Reich

Now comes the QUEER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL , a performance and visual art feast organized by Zvonimir Dobrovic, artistic director of Queer Zagreb and the Perforations Festival in Croatia, and the art historian André von Ah. Their lineup (including François Chaignaud, Cecilia Bengolea and David Wampach) is tantalizing. Read More

Chicago's Millennium Park's summer concerts continue with the all-new innovative series, Loops and Variations, a mix of new music and electronica. Read More

Announced seemingly out of nowhere, the Shackleton box set, whose contents were at the time still somewhat of a mystery, arrived in stores just days after the world was notified of its existence. Read More

Where: Various venues in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn When: June 14-21 Price: $20-$250 North Brooklyn becomes the epicenter of cultural to-do's for a an eight day festival combining art, film, and music at some of the neighborhood's favorite venues including Brooklyn Bowl, Cameo Gallery, and Union Pool. Read More

Performers include the Flying Wallendas high wire act, the acrobatics of the St. Louis Arches and Giovanni Zoppé as Nino the clown. Read More

Can you speak a bit about the genesis of the band? Read More

With his new work, Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet, Alexis Cuadrado continues to define his compositional voice following his recent impressive works, A Lorca Soundscape and Noneto Ibérico. Read More

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Read More

It's hard to tell now whether the term "krautrockoriginally concocted by the British music weeklies as a catch-all for the experimentally-minded bands coming out of Germany in the beards-and-bellbottoms era —was intended derisively or not, regardless of it's political incorrectness. But after German band Faust used the appellation for a song title in 1973, it started to transcend its origins, and over the decades it has become a generic tag for the post-psychedelic sonic storms stirred up by the likes of Amon Duul II , Guru Guru , Faust , Ash Ra Tempel and Can , as well as their more electronically minded cousins, Tangerine Dream , Kraftwerk , et al—music that has been incalculably influential to every generation of rockers to come along since. But while classic albums by the aforementioned artists have been comfortably ensconced in the krautrock canon for some forty years now, the books may have to be reopened in order to accomodate the arrival of The Lost Tapes , three CDs' worth of recently unearthed, previously unheard, archival Can material that seems sure to blow more than a few fans' minds. Read More

Figures like Philip Glass helped to tie classical culture to the modern age. Read More