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Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!

Forty years since her pioneering concert film Home of the Brave, and ahead of a European tour, we count down the best of a surprisingly poppy avant garde catalogueFrom a compilatio...

Laurie Anderson Is Quoting Me

Not by name, but Laurie Anderson quotes me in one of the tracks of her new album: My favorite quote is from a cryptologist who said “If you think technology will solve your problem...

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Once Said That You Need These 3 Rules To Live by as a Human (And Musician)

Xin Liu Imagines the Lonely Afterlife of a Decommissioned Satellite

Her multidisciplinary work "NOAA: A Fall Towards Home" explores the depth of despair and the possibility of hope inherent in exile and disconnection.

Laura Veirs – “Pulse”

In May, Laura Veirs announced her new album Temple Songs and shared "Flying Into Darkness." Now, the Portland indie-folk singer-songwriter is releasing "Pulse," which is a very bea...

Marisa Anderson’s (Tunefully) Un-American Activities

The guitarist mined the scholar Harry Smith’s LP collection, recording her takes on songs rooted in regions the United States has been in conflict with since 1970.

Stephen Emmer: Composing At The Edge Of Silence

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Dutch composer and musician Stephen Emmer. Stephen Emmer came up in the late '70s post-punk underground in Amsterdam. His band Minny Pops was t...

Grace notes: Art as a reverie of gentle sounds

French artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "Clinamen," at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, is a mesmerizing installation in which porcelain bowls floating in gi...

Kelela's 'new avatar' Offers a Glimpse of Another World

Last winter, Kelela released a live performance of Joni Mitchell's "Furry Sings the Blues," a semi-deep cut from her 1976 jazz-folk opus He

Lonely Woman ... female artists and solo horn performances

By Stef GijsselsOn May 22nd, 1959, Ornette Coleman recorded "Lonely Woman", after 67 years still one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed, with its conflicting sentiments of...

Lau Ro :: Lau

Following their role in the celebrated outfit Wax Machine, Lau is the sophomore offering from São Paulo-born musician Lau Ro. An enduring cycle of radiance, the windswept echoes of...

Yoko Ono Has Outlasted the Scorn, the Caricatures and the Blame

"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at The Broad in L.A. brings together decades of work that predated and anticipated many of the ideas now central to contemporary art.

Meredith Bates: The Quiet Science Of Sound Worlds

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Meredith Bates, a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.Meredith's recent double album...

Tom Waits White Noise Sound Options

Rumble of freight trains at dusk Tuesday delivery at scrap-metal yard Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time Hailstorm on roof of jalopy Guy named Monty playing s...

Wes Anderson's needle-drop genius gets its due at his Hollywood Bowl tribute

Anderson's score work is planned to exacting detail. But this three-night stand with Bill Murray, Beck, Jackson Browne and more was played in the spirit of the way fans revisit his...

Leah Callahan – ‘Our Lady of the Sad Adventure’

Layering dreamy synths and captivating guitar work alongside themes of personal survival, historical memory, and defiance against adversity, Our Lady of the Sad Adventure is the dy...

Laura Veirs Shares Expansive New Single “Pulse” Ahead Of New Album

Laura Veirs has shared “Pulse,” the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘Temple Songs’, due August 14 via her own Raven Marching Band Records. Accompanied by a new video direc...

Evi Filippou, Adam Schatz, Fuchsthone Orchestra, Hannah Marks and More

From less-is-more to more-is-more--and all the shades of creativity in between--this playlist unfolds under the approving eye of Geri Allen, whose enduring legacy continues to reso...

Beth Orton :: The Ground Above

Beth Orton's The Ground Above is a free-flowing mixture of electronic funk, spirit walking jazz, and ambient folk. Only Orton can make music as affecting as this, showing off an ea...

Xiu Xiu Made an Album Based on David Lynch’s Eraserhead

Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo’s ongoing concert concept gets the studio treatment

Vera Ellen on what it feels like when AI takes your music

What can you do when your deeply personal music about painful experiences is scraped for parts? Fight, says Vera Ellen. This story mentions suicide. Please take care. On her recent...

Arooj Aftab with the London Contemporary Orchestra @ Lighthouse, Poole, UK, June 18, 2026

Grammy-winning singer and composer Arooj Aftab is currently on tour with the London Contemporary Orchestra led by co-artistic director and principal conductor, Robert Ames. Under t...

At the Grand Palais, Laure Prouvost Translates Quantum Physics Into Something You Can Feel

"Nous, frissons d'étoiles" turns quantum physics into a poetic, bodily experience that asks visitors to engage with entanglement, uncertainty and the continuity between humans, nat...

Carolyn Wonderland LIVE New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2025-04-25

LIVE    New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2025-04-2510/10 soundFM recordingOn April 6, 2018, Wonderland joined John Mayall as his only female lead guitarist in his 60+-year...