UK electro-rockers the Big Pink played a buoyant, big-sounding new song recently on Zane Lowe's BBC show called "Hit The Ground (Superman)," which samples Laurie Anderson's "O Superman." Listen to…   Read Story »

A couple of days ago Frog Eyes frontman/Swan Lake member Carey Mercer sent us a link to an article in the Edmonton Journal that discussed a clause in the contracts signed by performers at the 2010…   Read Story »

Canada's known for indie rock, so makes sense you'll find plenty of homegrown talent (BSS, Stars) and international musicians (Wilco, Iron & Wine, Joan As Policewoman) near the slopes at Vancouver's…   Read Story »

Last night Carnegie Hall hosted the biggest assortment of megastars this side of the Orpheum for a (RED)NIGHTS charity show, benefiting the Global Fund's efforts against the African AIDS epidemic.…   Read Story »

Twenty-six years after debuting her epic modern opera United States: Part I-IV, Laurie Anderson returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night to launch the venue's Next Stage Campaign. The…   Read Story »

Nonesuch recently released a remastered version of Laurie's seminal '82 debut Big Science and the intraoffice email chain about it is fairly shameful, so we'll just come out and admit ... when it…   Read Story »

What would disappoint an avid NYC high-culture music buff more: that we've only been to Carnegie Hall twice in the past year? Or that both times were to see Rufus Wainwright? Well it's true, we don't…   Read Story »