The title of the track is “With Broken Heart and Sharp Mind.” The album is the self-titled release by We Are Bright & Broken. Perhaps that mention of a “heart” helps explain the intermittent beep, a sharp bright ping that is not consonant with the light and slow guitar-like looping that is the...

The American Music Center (AMC) has awarded Composer Assistance Program grants totaling $31,000 to 28 American composers based in 12 states and ranging in age from 24 to 78.

By Eric Wubbels Taking off from the solo performance aesthetic of saxophonist Evan Parker, Peter Evans has devoted his early career to the cultivation and refinement of an exhaustive and totalizing virtuosity.

01 Couvre feu (2:38) 02 Bal masqué (2:28) 03 Passage à niveau (2:29) 04 Furie (2:22) 05 Une poule à Venise (1:35) 06 ZAP (1:05) 07 Conversation piece (5:15) 08 ZAP ZAP (:48) 09 Sortie de prison (et en plus il pleut) (2:53) 10 Giboulées (5:19) 11 Soap Opera (2:24) 12 Capacités de découplage (2:25) 13 Poteaux/Feux (2:43) 14 Pluie d’insectes (2:23) Total time 36:40 Cassette released by Echtzeit, Germany, [...]

Two views of the exhibit Aoyama Space by Carsten Nicolai, currently at Kunstraum Innsbruck in Austria: Those familiar with Nicolai’s work for the Raster-Noton label will recognize his trademark, and trenchant, stark minimalism, and likely envy the opportunity of those who get to enter a...

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was hospitalized after a bus accident in upstate New York this morning, CNN reports.

Weezer were on their way from a show in Toronto last night to one in Boston tomorrow night when the bus carrying Cuomo, his wife and daughter, and two other passengers hit a patch of ice on the New York State Thruway. According to CNN, "The driver said the back end of the bus slid on ice, then went into the median and hit some reflective posts before crossing back over the highway, going over the guardrail and landing in a ditch." Cuomo "complained of rib pain" and was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam, New York. According to the Albany Times-Union...

To close out the week of SoundCloud.com-focused coverage, it’s useful to take a look at the conversations that occur within the web community of music-makers and -appreciators. Not the website’s forums, mind you, though those are informative. No, each track posted to SoundCloud allows for individuals to comment at any place along the given track’s [...]

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Guitarist Jack Rose died today at the age of 38. The cause of death was a heart attack, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Rose was a versatile player with an experimental bent, known for his work both with his group Pelt and as a solo artist. Following in the footsteps of left-field steel string guitar pioneers like John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Rose incorporated elements of drone, ragtime, folk, blues, and Eastern classical into his playing. He was featured on the landmark Golden Apples of the Sun, the Devendra Banhart-curated 2004 compilation that served as a high-water mark for freak-folk. Rose released albums on such labels as Three...

Weird. The "Conference DJ" (at a tech event) in the film Up in the Air is none other than Cut Chemist. # ♫ Link to aforementioned Dutch downtempo beatcraft: http://is.gd/5cyA2 # ♫ Afternoon listening: Netherlands's Piyojo (aka Rik Möhlmann) does up some sloppy, slow, slurry beats of found sounds and old synth noises. # RIP, Eric Woolfson (b. [...]