Alex Ross Perry is no stranger to music documentaries, fictionalized or otherwise. The indie darling auteur has had the inverse career of the average director, who usually gets their foot in the ...

SUMMERS: That's them on March 14 in Sao Paulo. Of course, COVID lockdowns were sweeping across the world, so Cale and the band cut the tour short and caught one of the last flights back to the States.

It’s not for everyone. But for the people for whom it is, there’s not a better spot than Columbia. “The city kind of punches above its weight, in that respect,” said Hollis Beach, a devotee of the ...

UNUSUAL SOUNDS: Xpress explores WNC's avant-garde music scene, spotlighting some of the acts that are contributing to the area’s eclectic mix. Featured, starting left, Min Xiao-Fen, Tashi Dorji and ...

Making music with no melody or rhythm and films with no plot, he became a darling of New York’s experimental underground. By Alex Williams Phill Niblock, an influential New York composer and film and ...

We talk a lot about how music moves us — how it can make us smile with nostalgia, cry over a broken heart, dance with wild abandon or even occasionally infuriate us. A somewhat less heralded effect, ...

Amid the relentlessly changing cityscapes of Beijing and Shanghai, a new kind of music is being made. In terms of its discordance and abstraction, it compares to Dada, or the New York City and Berlin ...

Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock's death are available at present. He was 90 ...

Joe Rainey is seated in his studio in Green Bay, Wisconsin, surrounded by tour posters for Bon Iver, Low, and Willie Nelson. He holds up a Tascam digital recorder and smiles. “Always be recording,” he ...