Dimensional Stardust is a splendid sonic antidote for the spirit-damping insults of a year that can’t end soon enough—growth and transcendence are programmed into the album’s DNA. The Exploding Star Orchestra’s leader, multi-instrumentalist Rob Mazurek, started out playing idiomatically correct hard bop in Chicago’s jazz bars in the 1980s. These days he lives in Marfa, […]
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Friday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
Friday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
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Wednesday and Thursday: Shawn Colvin at City Winery
With the help of Nashville producer Buddy Miller, Shawn Colvins toughens up her sound on All Fall Down
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Composer Steve Reich changes controversial 9/11 album art
Composer Steve Reich has decided to pull the controversial album art from his forthcoming “WTC 9/11.”
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Learning to Wilco
Not everybody can get into Wilco’s somewhat fussy studio albums, but the new concert film “Ashes of American Flags,” reviewed in this week’s Sharp Darts, shows the band’s fiery, sprawling, spontaneous side.