Singer/songwriter Chris Smither doesn’t need much to cast his spell, just his blue guitar and a miked particleboard so his tapping foot can [...]

Jon Armstrong, saxophonist in the jazz quartet Slumgum, attended a concert of avant-garde music with his wife. Though the music was interesting and [...]

With the baseball season reaching its climax and the tomato plants demanding attention, it gets harder to find time for music. Nonetheless, a [...]

Hydrophonium: a tuned jar of water fitted with a submerged microphone. Described by its inventor, Danishta Rivero of Voicehandler, as an “electroacoustic percussion [...]

A round of applause, please, for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which had the intelligence and good taste to award [...]

Forget Snidely Whiplash. Melodrama: Where Love and Destiny Collide combines piano music and text in a rare presentation of material from the Romantic [...]

Judging from Ocho, the new album from Felix y los Gatos, Felix Peralta (guitar, vocals) has been knee-deep in some hard times lately: [...]

The Tribute Trio—John Rangel (piano), Michael Glynn (bass) and Cal Haines (drums)—paid homage to iconic jazz pianists/composers in a series of monthly concerts [...]

When she started working on her new album, Green , vocalist and activist Barbara Bentree just wanted to do an album of songs [...]

The voice—reedy, urgent, ethereal and strong—summons centuries of memory and suspends time in the space of a song. Love, jealousy, longing, fear and [...]