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Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds

During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
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Vanessa Ague
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Darian Donovan Thomas Charts a Visceral Journey in “A Room with Many Doors”

In his debut album, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist Darian Donovan Tho...
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Michelle Hromin
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Yaz Lancaster’s Thoughtful Curation of “comp.01” Unifies Wide-Ranging Aesthetics for a Common Cause

comp.01 accomplishes a lot of things that compilation albums often struggle to do: it is unified by...
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Tristan McKay
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A Cosmic Centennial: Han Chen Premieres 18 Piano Pieces in Response to Ligeti’s Etudes

When Han Chen finished his “Infinite Staircase” program at National Sawdust on Sept. 24, he had jour...
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Lana Norris
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Annika Socolofsky Tugs at the Complexities of Womanhood on “I Tell You Me”

“Sugar and spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of…” or so goes the well-kn...
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Lauren Ishida
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2023 ACF | create Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa...
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Adrianne Munden-Dixon Commissions Solo Violin Works with a Splash of Electronics for Debut Album

In her debut album Lung, violinist-composer Adrianne Munden-Dixon and a cohort of five composers unv...
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Esteban Meneses
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ListN Up: Phong Tran (October 28, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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ACF Partners with Look + Listen for 20th Anniversary Season

Look + Listen’s free annual spring festival marks its 20th anniversary with a trio of boldly i...
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ListN Up: Cassie Wieland (January 7, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Editor's Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

Editor’s Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau...
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Amanda Cook
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Video Premiere: de_dust2 from The Computer Room by Phong Tran

For anyone old enough to remember the birth of the internet, the room in the house where that endear...
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ListN Up: Darian Donovan Thomas (December 18, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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PoC Perspectives on Diversity Initiatives, Part 2

This is the second installment of a two-part series addressing the growing trend and praise of diver...
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Sugar Vendil
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PoC Perspectives on Diversity Initiatives, Part 1

I felt compelled to write this piece after observing the growing trend and praise of diversity initi...
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Sugar Vendil
Cassie Wieland

This week: concerts in New York (August 5, 2019 – August 11, 2019)

in a (once-)blossomed place Release Show People Places Records hosts a release show for the new Cass...
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Aeryn Santillan and Andrew Noseworthy (People Places Records)

Aeryn Santillan and Andrew Noseworthy started independent record label People Places Records in 2017...
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Jason Charney
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This week: concerts in New York (January 23, 2017 – January 29, 2017)

OpenICE at Abrons Underground As its next installment of free OpenICE initiatives, International Con...
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Sam Reising

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