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All this month on our series Sound Off we've been looking at Noise. We live with it, sometimes it feels like we live IN it, and it affects everything from the music we hear to the way... (article)
We conclude our Sound Off series on noise -- with a look at silence. Author Anne D. LeClaire tells us about her personal regimen of silence. And: Pulitzer-prize winning author Frank M... (episode)
Now that Memorial Day has unofficially started the summer season, it doesn't take long for all the summer festivals to get their schedules out. Celebrate Brooklyn, in Prospect Park, h... (article)
Bettye LaVette is just one of the many acts performing free concerts in the New York area this summer. Maura Johnston, editor of the music blog Idolator, weighs in on today's Soundche... (article)
Rapper Q-Tip, New Orleans music impresario Allen Toussaint and indie rock godfathers Dinosaur Jr. are just a few of the big names playing free concerts in New York this year. Today: a... (episode)
Reggaeton might just be the most successful cultural export from Puerto Rico since Ricky Martin. But if Puerto Rican authorities had had their way back in the late 90s, this hard-driv... (article)
This week’s picks take us to the cradles of civilization, the depths of YouTube and an uninhabited island in Massachusetts. Plus, download a free track from the new Grizzly Bear album... (article)
Five years ago, Puerto Rican politicians criticized reggaeton music as base and immoral. Today the music has become the soundtrack of the nation and is studied in the halls of academi... (episode)
Rock has become so good at grand, anthemic statements - the kind that can fill a stadium with 60,000 screaming fans - that it already operates on a grand opera-like stage. So you migh... (article)
Green Day’s chart-topping new album has all the trappings of a rock opera: big ideas, star-crossed characters and an epic song cycle. But the art form pioneered by The Who and The Kin... (episode)