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This month, reviewers tackle new albums from The Wood Brothers, Spiv U:K, and Marilyn Crispell.
Sharon Nichols previews the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Monticello on September 19 to 21.
Remotely akin to Fiona Apple or Norah Jones, K. Osgood’s sound in her new album Play to Win is difficult to pigeonhole as pop, rock, or jazz.
French pop tunes are sung in cabaret fashion in the The Gypsy Nomads latest album, Eternal Summer.
The comedic duo Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine release their latest recording of political meanderings combined with blues, hip hop, rap, and bop.
Justin “Jt” Habersaat mingling punk rock with stand-up comedy.
Happy Rhodes releases her 11th studio record.
Bair Hersey & Prana have collaborated with chant master Krishna Das on the album Gathering in the Light.
Though the band’s been defunct for a decade, Atavistic recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos, and rarities.
A first spin of The Well may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing.
Take a trip down to New Orleans and steep in the sexy soul of jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll.
So this album isn’t just for baby, it’s for anyone who enjoys top-notch classical or opera.
There are few who aren’t entranced by the magic and mystery of Halloween, but there are also few who understand the holiday’s origins, symbology, and traditions.
The uncompromising Sinead O’Connor has done it again, but this time it’s not quite as shocking as some of her past stunts.
Woodstock’s Stanton Warren takes listeners tripping on the debut album of his Venture Warren project.
Pamela Sue Mann’s sophomore album perfects pop.
Dan Zanes is not afraid to employ lap steel, trombone, saxophone, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, balalaika, tuba, tin whistle, fiddle, or anything else that helps step up the fun.
Whether your thing is jazz, pop, or Brazilian/Latin grooves, Christine Spero’s My Spanish Dream will transport you to a loftier place.
Perhaps science doesn’t take the topic seriously, but David Rothenberg has devoted his career to listening to nature in a musical way.
Thirty Deep Listening musicians from across the globe converge on the Hudson Valley for a series of concerts this month.
On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks.
More than one-third of Americans descend from Celtic roots, tracing their ancestry back to one of the eight Celtic nations: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias, or Galicia.
Mojave 3 meets the Cocteau Twins with a dude up front.
Autism has become a national crisis. It is the fastest-growing disability in the United States, affecting one in every 150 children. Diagnoses of autism are increasing at the startling rate of 10 to 17 percent per year.
Todd Giudice’s latest is aptly titled—the little-known secret is that this 12-track CD is solid as stone.
Perhaps the thought of “jazz poetry” makes you run screaming. Chances are you’ll change your mind upon hearing Merge.
Avant-jazz isn’t really for the casual listener (or the mentally unstable or the faint of heart, for that matter).
Jazz pianist Vlad Girshevich will make his East Coast debut on January 13 with a solo recital at the Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, part of the 2007 Windham Chamber Music Festival.
An artist’s paint waits to create, and the quintet Wet Paint has been laying down sonic strokes with wild abandon since 1995.
In the 1960s, Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, and artists have been pursuing their tick of the clock with ferocity ever since.
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