Music
Middle-Aged Jesus: Lydia Lunch’s Second Coming
By Judy BermanLydia Lunch is the most arresting performer I’ve ever seen.
Fleet Foxes: Pastoral Melodies
By Laura Flierl"Come down from the mountain—you have been gone too long,” sings Robin Pecknold, singer and songwriter for Washington State’s Fleet Foxes.
¡Divertido! Dan Zanes’s ¡Nueva York! Brings a Guerilla Groove to Family Music
By KK KozikFun is not a word commonly understood to spearhead subversive politics. Yet when Dan Zanes discusses life and music it becomes clear that fun is the sword with which he fights the good fight.
In with the Out Crowd
By Peter HolslinA jazz musician with a well-honed punk sensibility, Marc Ribot has been a mainstay of New York City’s downtown music scene for more than twenty years.
Cyrill Schläpfer with Bart Plantenga
Cyrill Schläpfer is one of those possessed artists, a bent ethnomusicologist veteran of many journeys into the Alpine countryside.
Outtakes
By Steve DalachinskyGeorge Lewis’s 676-page magnum opus A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Musichas, after ten years of intensive labor, finally come out.
Baye Kouyaté
By Aaron Lake SmithThe Malian percussionist Baye Kouyaté and I first met at a dinner where Bill Jensen and Margrit Lewzcuk were welcoming him back to Brooklyn from time in Tampa, Florida with his fiancée Annette and her two children.
