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  • Friday, March 21, 2025

    David Longstreth hosts three listening parties / performances of music from Song of the Earth, his upcoming album with Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, at Public Records in Brooklyn. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in NYC. Jeremy Denk plays Bach in Worcester. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly bring MESTIZX to Chicago. Emmylou Harris headlines LA Folk Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff concludes tour with Bright Eyes in Kansas City and St. Louis. Nathalie Joachim performs Ki moun ou ye at University of Notre Dame. Gabriel Kahane joins Orchestre National de Lyon to perform from Book of Travelers. Kronos Quartet is in Richmond. Mandy Patinkin is in Palm Desert. Yasmin Williams tours Colorado.

  • Wednesday, March 19, 2025

    "Bank On," a new song with Portraits of Tracy, from the album Song of the Earth, David Longstreth’s song cycle for orchestra and voices he performs with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, is out now, along with a lyric video you can watch here. "Bank On" features a vocal solo from Felicia Douglass, a Longstreth verse inspired by Songs in The Key of Life (but with harpsichord), a signature Dirty Projectors female-harmony chorus, and a thundering Mahler-esque brass fanfare.

  • Wednesday, March 19, 2025

    Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. 

Artist Spotlight

  • David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, a song cycle for orchestra and voices. Performed by Longstreth with his band Dirty Projectors—Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell—and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, conducted by André de Ridder, the album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells. Longstreth says that while Song of the Earth…

  • Lady on the Bike—the debut album from cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw—celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. The songs were collaboratively written and recorded by the duo. New Body Electric members Leah Vautar and Aaron K…

  • Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s album honey from a winter stone, which he calls a “self-portrait,” features improvisational vocalist Kokayi, pianist Sam Harris, Chiquitamagic on synthesizer, drummer Justin Brown, and the Mivos Quartet. “For arguably the most technically gifted trumpeter of his generation, a lot of Ambrose Akinmusire’s breakthroughs actually come from letting go of standards and structures," says the New York Times. "Lately Akinmusire has been…

  • Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes. Many were learned from their late mentor, legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson; one is from another musical hero, the late Etta Baker. Giddens and Robinson…

  • The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works features music recorded during the composer's forty years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first…

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Fri, Mar 21
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Public Records
Brooklyn, NYUnited States
Song of the Earth listening event + solo performance
Fri, Mar 21
Public Records
Brooklyn, NYUnited States
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Fri, Mar 21
7:00 PM
Mechanics Hall
Worcester, MAUnited States
Fri, Mar 21
Mechanics Hall
Worcester, MAUnited States
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Uptown Theatre
Kansas City, MOUnited States
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Fri, Mar 21
Uptown Theatre
Kansas City, MOUnited States
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Fri, Mar 21
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Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill Music
Denver, COUnited States
Fri, Mar 21
Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill Music
Denver, COUnited States