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April 7, 2010
Spring revel
I'm participating in the above event, on May 2. We're not entirely sure what's going to happen, but don't be surprised if you hear some combination of Thai soul, death metal, Justin Bieber, and, of course, nude Stravinsky. Details to follow at Stereogum.
April 2, 2010
April 1, 2010
Boulez goes tonal, Bieber on Biber, and more
March 25, 2010
Weekend videos
Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band, 1968.
Happy birthday to the singular Robert Ashley, who turns eighty on March 28th.
March 21, 2010
For Wolfgang Wagner

One hundred ninety-seven years after his grandfather Richard was born, Wolfgang Wagner has passed away, in Bayreuth, at the age of ninety. Es riss!
Photo: Wagner in Bayreuth, 2004.
Pavement returns
March 20, 2010
Weekend videos
March 15, 2010
Art must die
I was surprised and delighted to see my name pop up in John Colapinto's New Yorker profile of the young jazz bassist and composer Esperanza Spalding. She'd been reading The Rest Is Noise—on a Kindle, no less—and pondering a quotation that appears in the first chapter: lines from a letter that Richard Wagner wrote to Franz Liszt in 1850, condemning the emergent "classical" tendency in the musical world. It's one of Wagner's most remarkable utterances, and I thought I'd reprint a longer sample...
March 12, 2010
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