Music
Putting the ‘p’ in Pixies
The Pixies rose out of the subcultural netherworlds to transform the frenzied and underground indie-punk movement into something the mainstream could understand, or at...
Beyond the binary
Adorned with horns and hooves, topless and draped in fabric reminiscent of a long skirt, mononymous artist Shamir dresses as the pagan deity Baphomet...
All who wander are not lost
It’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits...
Heavy Rotation
NEW TRACKS TO HEAR
“Blossom,” Britney Jane
“How come I gotta forgive and forget / Walking ‘round like you ain’t done no silly shit?” Britney Jane...
Music for Maui
As flames engulfed the Hawaiian island of Maui in early August, Jessica Rogalski immediately thought about how to help all her friends dealing with...
Quicksilver Baroque brings ‘Strange and Wonderful Music’ to Macky
How many pieces of chamber music for two violins, trombone, bassoon and lute can you name?
None? Meet Quicksilver, a Baroque ensemble specializing in the...
Free radicals charge the tower
It was that kind of afternoon, so we caution Jon Gray, trumpeter/vocalist for the local jazz septet Supercollider, that we were going to start our interview in the middle...
Arise at five
In what could only be described as a perfectly resonant cultural expression of the times we live in today, the interwebs gleefully reported a few...
The never nervous, always prodigious Acoustic Kids
Andy May is a soft-spoken man who calls children “youngsters” and adults “folks.” His talent as a musician and teacher is undisputed, but he’s...
BEING %uFFFDGENE WEEN%uFFFD
Since disbanding the legendary alt-rock duo Ween, Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) is reinventing his career after leaving the band that defined him for almost three decades...
Ars Nova Singers to perform 40-part pieces
In the history of European choral music, there are two major works that were composed for 40 different voice parts.
Yes, that’s four-zero, 40 parts,...
