Modern Composition

Josephine Wiggs

We Fall

PUBLISHED May 16, 2019

Best known as the bassist for the Breeders, Josephine Wiggs' latest solo album, We Fall, is a compelling mix of ambient electronics and spa...

William Ryan Fritch

Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film, Vol. I & II

PUBLISHED May 16, 2019

Perhaps the most consistently awe-inspiring collection yet in a career brimming with emotional epics, Deceptive Cadence is a stunning achie...

​Yann Tiersen Premieres "Usal Road" Video

PUBLISHED May 14, 2019

French composer Yann Tiersen released his latest album All earlier this year, and now he's treated "Usal Road" from that record to a set of...

Various Artists

Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Box Set

PUBLISHED May 9, 2019

Listening to this new box set of 50 years of performances from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (by Smithsonian Folkways), three re...

Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria

are SING SINCK, SING

PUBLISHED May 8, 2019

In a Toronto appearance in support of his 2018 solo album Pissing Stars, Efrim Manuel Menuck introduced a song with duelling questions: "Wh...

Caterina Barbieri

Ecstatic Computation

PUBLISHED May 6, 2019

Somewhere along the way, the spirit of early electronic music shifted from large-scale grandiosity to a more modest laptop DIY aesthetic. T...

Disasterpeace

Under the Silver Lake

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2019

Richard Vreeland has undergone quite the metamorphosis from his days as a chiptune artist and 8-bit videogame composer. While there were pl...

Alvin Lucier

Orpheus Variations

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2019

It may be the least linear piece of music you've ever heard. Influential American composer Alvin Lucier has transformed a seven-tone chord...