Chicago’s Resonance Arts Presents Snek Trio + Seldomly Trio Source: Resonance Arts. Resonance Arts Presents: Snek Trio + Seldomly Trio February 16 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Doors open at 8p, music at 8:30p This month, Resonance Arts presents the Snek Trio feauting Reid Kerris, Janna Lee and Erik Sowa…

Andrew Cyrille Profiled Source: Downbeat. Midway through August, a few days after concluding a week at the Village Vanguard with the quartet that Andrew Cyrille convened in 2019 for his third ECM album, The News, Bill Frisell distilled the rarefied experience of playing with the 85-year-old drum…

A Closer Listen Reviews Source: a closer listen. Chris Watson ~ Planet Ocean Stéphane Clor ~ Exarcheia – Εξάρχεια Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ Points of Inaccessibility Yamila ~ Noor Rodent ~ Night of Return Mai Mai Mai ~ Karakoz Kirill Nikolai ~ Solennelle

ATTN:Magazine Reviews Source: ATTN:Magazine. Review: ZU – Ferrum Sidereum Review: miska lamberg – Evening, window

Roulette to Feature Three Nights of Bill Orcutt  Source: Roulette. On March 20-22, Roulette presents a colossal weekend centered around iconoclast experimental guitarist Bill Orcutt and his eclectic Palilalia record label, showcasing presentations of Orcutt's recent forays into mashup and pastiche…

Lampo Announces Spring Season Source: Lampo. Zosha Warpeha Feb 21 In dilations, Zosha Warpeha treats body, instrument, and room as a single resonant system. She performs on the hardanger d’amore, a fiddle with additional sympathetic strings that enrich its sound. Here, moving slowly among the…

The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026  Source: Bandcamp Daily. The taxonomy of contemporary classical music—new music, contemporary music, whatever you want to call it—is a thorny issue. But every month, we’ll take a look at some of the best composer-driven music to…

I know this is a first world problem but... At some point you start receiving so many review requests that you spend most of your time going through them rather than actually writing music reviews. We hit that point a few years ago and we receive even more requests now.

Zeromoon’s Best of January 2026 Playlist  Source: Bandcamp. A highly subjective playlist of interesting albums focusing on the obscure, obtuse, and overlooked which were released on bandcamp in January 2026, with a few curveballs to keep your ears on their toes. Follow us to read the micro reviews…

Coming to Chicago  Source: Now Is. Saturday, February 07 Corbett vs Dempsey 2156 W Fulton 3:00PM Glenn Kotche Solo Elastic 3429 W Diversey, #208 773.772.3616 8:30PM Asian Improv aRts Midwest Presents Trio WAZ : Edward Wilkerson Jr, Tatsu Aoki, Michael Zerang Sunday, February 08 Elastic 3429 W…

The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026  Source: Bandcamp Daily. Welcome to a new year of jazz. Welcome to the end of the old year. The January column is a looking-forward event, an opening salvo of optimism and excitement for a new year of excellent modern jazz releases. Where my excitement lies…

Coming to Downtown Music Gallery  Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Tuesday, February 10th:6:30: PATRICK GOLDEN / KEVIN SHEA Drum Duo7:30: SYLVAIN LEROUX - Fula flutes - reeds / HILL GREENE - Contrabass / DAN KURFIRST - Drums8:30: HILLIARD GREENE - Contrabass / JAMES KEEPNEWS - Guitar / ROSI…

Jazzword Reviews Source: Jazzword. Ziv Taubenfeld Full Sun Nomads Orè Matter Antimatter Hery Paz Fisuras Zack Lober So We Could Live Spinifex Maxximus Andrew Moreno Axiom

Coming to San Francisco Source: Bay Improviser Calendar. Friday, February 6 Fri 2/06 7:00 PM Cupertino Library Before Your Eyes is a participatory multimedia performance created and performed by harpist and composer Renée Qin, with artists from Sound Palette. Fri 2/06 7:00 PM Medicine for…

Dusted Reviews Source: Dusted. أحمد — سماع (Audition) (OTOROKU) Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City) Angharad Davies & John Butcher — Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax) David Vélez — Capsicum: Music Against Racism (Marginal Frequency)

The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026 Source: Bandcamp Daily. All kinds of experimental music can be found on Bandcamp: free jazz, avant-rock, dense noise, outer-limits electronics, deconstructed folk, abstract spoken word, and so much more. If an artist is trying something new…

Acousmatic Crossings: Sound as Passage, Passage as Sound Source: Metapsychosis. Daniel James Burke is an improviser, composer & performer from Chicago using strings, piano, extended techniques, field recordings, synthesizer, & electronics. He has been making music since 1983 as Illusion of Safety…

Rabble Without A Cause Show – February 4, 2025 Source: CKCU. Black History Month show #1: Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's "Ascension" with Rova.

AMN Reviews: KMRU – Kin (2026; Editions Mego) Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) is a Nairobi-born musician and sound artist, whose drone-based compositions are often referred to as having "warm" tones. While that may be the case from time to time, I think a better way of describing these pieces would focus on…

Impulse! Records Profiled

The Free Jazz Collective Reviews Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Lucian Ban, John Surman and Mat Maneri Jon Raskin and Jon Bafus - Ultimately, It's Everything (BLALKED, 2026) Frank Gratkowski's Recent Recordings Sally Gates and Eyal Maoz live duet concert Lawrence Casserley at 85 Christian…

The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026  Source: Bandcamp Daily. Bandcamp hosts an amazing array of field recordings from around the world, made by musicians and sound artists as well as professional field recordists. In this column, we highlight the best sounds recorded outside the…

Coming to Detroit’s Trinosophes Source: trinosophes. Robert Dick, Stephan Haluska, James IlgenfritzDATE CORRECTION: Saturday, March 7Doors 7:30 pm, $20 BUY NOW Robert Dick is a flutist, composer, teacher, inventor, and author. World renowned as the leader in contemporary music for flute, Robert…

Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan  Source: The Quietus. Your Rum Music roundup returns for 2026, where Jennifer Lucy Allan presents early AOTY contenders from Silvia Tarozzi, Tashi Dorij and more

The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026 Source: Bandcamp Daily. Every month, Ted Davis scours the fringes of Bandcamp. This column embraces an abstract approach to the fluid genre—anything deemed worthy of the ambient tag is considered eligible. Here are exercises in organic noodling,…

Coming to Seattle Source: Wayward Music Series. Maatt Sargent + Ben Luca Robertson + Aaron Michael ButlerFri. Feb. 6, 8 PM; $5 - $20 at the door Matt Sargent (NY) is a composer/guitarist whose music grows from resonance, memory, the making/breaking of patterns, and computer models of musical…

Musique Machine Reviews Source: Musique Machine. Periode - Grapes of Nothingness Eldritch Priest - Dead-Wall Reveries Jürg Frey - Je Laisse à La Nuit Son Poids D’ombre Spent Stiletto/ No Fun Harsh Noise Wall - Split Pink Wool/Sado Ritual - Split Olion - Glimmers of Hope

Cyclic Defrost Reviews Source: Cyclic Defrost. Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske – At Source (light-years) Various Artists – Elemental Studies (Carpe Sonum) Jana Irmert: Portals / 7038634357: Rope (GRM Portraits) The Bug & Ghost Dubs – Implosion (PRESSURE)

Extended Techniques NYC Calendar for February 2026  Source: extended techniques. WEDNESDAY, February 4 8 pm Mixology: Ted Gordon’s “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America” Book discussion and performance Ted Gordon, author, Buchla Music Easel Marcia Bassett, panelist, Buchla…

Moonjune Festival 2026 Source: Moonjune Records. MoonJune Music is partnering with the well-established Italian concert promotion company from the city of Teramo, Let's Get Lost by Music By Eder, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of MoonJune Music (a boutique record label and booking agency) by…

Having one of those days where I think I need to either drink less or a lot more. Not sure which.

Coming to IBeam Brooklyn Source: IBeam Brooklyn. Spontaneous ResonanceTuesday, February 3, 20268:00 PM 10:00 PM8 pmJames Mckain - Baritone SaxophoneNic Rose - PianoEvan Palmer - BassMichael Larocca - Drums10 pmStan Zenkov - Multiple WindwoodEric Plaks - PianoZach Swanson - BassKen Kobayashi -…

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos Source: DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET. January 30, 2026Mostly Other People Do the Killing Electic Trio, Prospect SeriesMoppa Elliott Kevin Shea Ron Stabinsky January 30, 2026Gían Pérez & Nic Rose, Prospect SeriesGían Pérez Nic Rose January 30, 2026Dada Bebop Quartet, Prospect…

Another Place Show, February 2, 2026 Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.

Steve Hauschildt and Kara-Lis Coverdale Reflections Tour Source: Reflections. STEVE HAUSCHILDT + KARA-LIS COVERDALE ~ A f t e r i m a g e T o u r ~ SEATTLE* Fri 3/6 ― First Baptist Church Get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO Thu 3/12 ― St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Get tickets here LOS ANGELES Fri 3/13 ―…

Lia Kohl Interview Source: The Tonearm. The cellist and composer discusses her album 'Various Small Whistles and a Song,' a collection of field recordings that transform voting lines, train stations, and strangers' whistles into intimate sonic portraits of daily life.

AMN Reviews: Pat Thomas & XT – Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)* (2026; We Jazz) I don't claim to understand it, but I don't hesitate to recommend it. Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)* is a sprawling collection of live performances from XT, the duo of saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul…

AMN Picks of the Week: Emily Manzo / This Morn’ Omnia / 1984 / Corima / Lia Kohl Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention. All of the releases listed below I have heard for the first time recently and come recommended. Emily Manzo…

Michal Urbaniak (RIP) Interview

All About Jazz Reviews Source: Jazz Album Reviews. Presencia Nebbia/Banner/Andrzejewski REX Christopher Hoffman Four Freedoms Dave Douglas 12 Stages of Spritual Alchemy Ray Anderson / Ivo Perelman

New Dinzu Artefacts Releases Source: Dinzu Artefacts. Bosque VacíoAves de NaháAves de Nahá is the result of an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge between anthropology, ornithology, and the Lacandon community of Nahá, Chiapas, México. It centers on the aural relationships between the Lacandon…

Coming Soon From Neuma Records Source: Neuma Records. Sean Noonan and the London Symphony Orchestra The Drummer of Tedworth 20 February 2026 A drummer’s place – as everyone knows – is in the back. They should be heard, preferably not seen, and certainly never allowed to speak. And yet attempts to…

AMN Reviews: Lia Kohl – Music for Union Station (2026; Bandcamp) I was convinced that nothing could make me like Chicago's Union Station. A major downtown transit hub, it occupies an archaic building that is poorly designed, often crowded, and notoriously associated with delayed commuter trains.…

Reviews You May Have Missed – January 2026 Last month we published a number of original reviews of some very interesting music. Check out the list below. AMN Reviews: Corima – Hunab Ku (2026; Soleil Zeuhl) (1/31/2026) AMN Reviews: HLAD – Imminent (2026; Cryo Chamber) (1/24/2026) AMN Reviews: Zu –…

New phone. Holy crap the amount of bloatware and stupid default settings is ridiculous. Spending hours just getting back to moderately sane configuration.

JazzTrail Reviews Source: JazzTrail. Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet - The Solastalgia Suite Odense Jazz Orchestra meets Loren Stillman Maximilian Hering - The Gathering Julian Lage - Scenes From Above

A Closer Listen Reviews Source: a closer listen. Jeune Oji ~ Clausura Ben McElroy ~ Allotment Tapes Dalot & Sound Awakener ~ Ianos Natalia Tsupryk ~ Are We Alive? The Soft Pink Truth ~ Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? XII Sound ~ Tube V

This is Darkness Playlist January 2026  Source: This Is Darkness. insectarium – with wings removed Poena Sensus – A Cold Furnace Music Analysis Discussions Records – M​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​D. VI Esmam La Crowned – Trance Substak – Glass Whispers Mark…

Ars Nova Workshop Spring Schedule Announced Source: Ars Nova Workshop. March 25 7:00PM & 9:30PM Shabaka Ars Nova Workshop welcomes the extraordinary British multi-instrumentalist Shabaka to Solar Myth, for two shows on Wednesday, March 25. Fri, March 27 8PM Irreversible Entanglements Ars Nova…

Guapo interview with David J. Smith From It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine: Guapo is a project existing for several years now. Originally consisting of Matt Thompson (who left in 2005) and David J. Smith. They started with a noise rock band with a very complex structures and they released several…