EOY Album Listicle Covers 2025
Album

Our Top Contemporary Classical and Experimental Albums of 2025

Alex Paxton, Amina Claudine Myers, Darian Donovan Thomas, Errollyn Wallen, Gabriela Ortiz, ganavya, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Jessica Moss, Katie Porter, Los Thuthanaka, Rafiq Bhatia, Sphinx Virtuosi
It’s that time of year again, and we’re excited to share a list of our contributors’ top albums of 2025. Some of the artists are new on the scene; others have been in the game for 30…
Eden Girma -- Courtesy of artist
Playlist

ListN Up: Eden Girma (December 18, 2025)

Billy Strayhorn, Bobby McFerrin, Cecilia Bartoli, Gigi, Girlpool, Guilio Caccini, Lorez Alexandria, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Take 6
Eden Girma is a multi-instrumental musician, vocalist, producer, and composer hailing from Madison, WI.  Having grown up at the nexus of widely varying and vibrant musical traditions, Eden creates thr…
Dameun Strange -- Photo by Valerie Oliverios
Interview

For Dameun Strange, Music is a Conduit for Individual and Communal Expression

AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Cedar Cultural Center, Dameun Strange, Renee Baker, The Cedar Cultural Center
As a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, Dameun Strange’s conceptual chamber and electronic works explore the African diaspora through an Afrofuturist lens. Drawing on West African poly…
Albert R. Lee, Melissa Wimbish, Marvin Wayne, and Anthony Ballard in Damien Geter's
Concert

Damien Geter Explores the Myth and the Man in “The Delta King’s Blues”

Albert R. Lee, Christian Simmons, Damien Geter, Doug O’Connor, InSeries, Jarrod Lee, Marcus Pyle
It’s no surprise that nimble and flexible chamber operas have been at the forefront of the increasingly important role of new opera in American musical culture over the past few decades. This month, W…
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Essay
Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA During my collegiate studies, the goal of my vocal arts degree program was unequivocally to prepare…
Ashley DuBose -- Photo by Jayme Halbritter
Ashley DuBose — Photo by Jayme Halbritter

American Composer Forum

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Sivan Cohen Elias -- Photo by Patrick Pelham
Sivan Cohen Elias — Photo by Patrick Pelham

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