This week, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in America, and we’d like to give thanks to everyone who reads the Jamz every week. We do this for you and hopefully you’ve all found some decent groups throughout the year. We’ll be rounding up our faves in a couple weeks and there are still two spots open...

Classical cellist Matt Haimovitz has been astounding audiences –- and confounding critics –- with his edgy, high tech "Figment" tour and album. In his own words, Matt talks with AMG about embracing non-traditional venues, new technology and his collaboration with new music composer Du Yun.

MONO NO AWARE IS AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCES. TAKING ITS NAME FROM THE JAPANESE EXPRESSION MEANING -THE PATHOS OF THINGS-. THE CONCEPT IS TO PRESENT WORK WHICH IS EPHEMERAL IN NATURE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE. RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE...

Originally published in Arthur Magazine No. 10 (available from the store), with an illustration by Brian Ralph… “I could use some flip-flops” What if Godzilla was one of us? A slightly testy King of Monsters reflects on his long career in this exclusive interview with Dave Tompkins Known for his bad sense of direction, Godzilla “King of the [...]

On view now at Fuse Gallery— 93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY. Wed-Sat 3-8pm 212.777.7988 —Show closes Saturday, November 28th.

“Red is all access, open to anything. Blue is hetero only. Pink is girl on girl—don’t say it, I’ve already gotten a rash of shit from the leather dykes—black is boy on boy, which doesn’t apply…Safety Orange means you just want to watch and probably shouldn’t be here anyway and you’re not wearing...

Its title aside (which suggests that Hoagy Carmichael was some distant forerunner of Jackson Browne or Dar Williams, a case that would be both difficult and a little absurd to make), there’s no doubt that First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946, a four-disc, 101-track collection from...

NOVEMBER 26 — HERMANN GORTER Pioneering Dutch Council Communist, poet. NOVEMBER 26 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS U.S.: THANKSGIVING. BAHA’I: COVENANT DAY. FESTIVAL OF BIG TALK. ALSO ON 26 IN HISTORY… 1792 — American anti-slavery and suffragist activist Sarah Grimke born. 1864 — Dutch poet, council...