Innovative Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi works in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics; improvisation; minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of Morton Feldman…
2015 marks 50 years since Michael Hurley released his first record on Folkways Records, First Songs, recorded on the same reel-to-reel that taped Lead Belly’s Last Sessions. In the time since, he’s…
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has been creating incorruptible independent pop music since the late 1990’s. She has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on K Records, Kill…
It’s been just over two years since Jason Molina passed on and his legacy has never been stronger. The man behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company produced an unparalleled volume of stark…
Alto saxophonist and composer, Ornette Coleman passed away on June 11th at the age of 85. In his nearly 60-year-long career, he changed the course of music…
In 1976, Brian Tristan was the 17-year-old president of The Ramones Fan Club. Today, he’s the man we know as Kid Congo Powers, legendary voodoo guitarist for The Gun…
The 13th annual midcoast-based Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music presents their first ever Portland concert featuring Manhattan’s Cassatt Quartet playing works by John Corigliano and the festival’s guest composer, Joan Tower.…
It should come as no surprise that after years of touring with his band Monotonix, once hailed by SPIN as “the most exciting live band in…
at Congress Sq. Park Cuddle Magic is a Brookyln-based band songwriting collective that performs lush, playful songs with wide-ranging instrumentation, including percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, keyboards, guitars…
Tal National is a six-piece band from Niamey, the capital city of Niger, West Africa’s largest nation and one of the world’s poorest. Although they are hugely popular in…
