This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter includes thoughts on the new Sound & Gravity Festival, Marina Mello Andrade, Maria IJ Reich, Pierre Borel, and Thomas Ankersmit. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This month's edition of the contemporary music column Bandcamp Daily is out with music by Leo Chadburn, Zachary Good, Sarah Nemtsov, Katie Porter, Judith Wegmann, Julia Eckhardt, Marc Sabat, Caiman Gilmore, Giuseppe Ielasi & Jack Sheen, and Mattie Barbier. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter looks into sounds from Frederic Blondy & Gamut Inc, Sandro Sáez, Xhosa Cole, Anzû Quartet. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter previews Water Damage , the music of Lisa Streich and the duo of Michael Thieke & Beat Keller. Plus news on the return of the Serious Series. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter discusses the brief reappearance of Au Topsi Pohl, new music from Ryan Packard, Linda May Han Oh, and show previews of Shelley Hirsch & Joke Lanz and The Pitch & Jules Reidy. It's free to subscribe. petermargasak.substack.com/p/the-pedal-...

This week's edition of Nowhere Street eases back into action with thoughts on Jon Irabagon, Russ Johnson, and Margaux Oswald. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

Sometimes good things last: Chicago Underground Duo pushes into new realms while holding its roots closely. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Looking back on the month in classical music.

The new contemporary music column at @bandcamp.com Daily is up w/ sounds from Laetitia Sonami, Hannah Kendall, Darragh Morgan, Kory Reeder, 70s San Diego, Vanessa Tomlinson, Teo Dora An Drea, Doris Dennison, Jürg Frey & Manuel Zurria, and Shannon Wettstein. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

Shorter than usual edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter, as heavy travel beckons—thoughts on Hamid Al-Saadi and Editrix. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

For those with exceptional taste, the brilliant reedist Tobias Delius will play live on the radio with two terrific trios at 2 PM EST: www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...

This week's edition of Nowhere Street digs into the daring Scottish traditionalism of Alasdair Roberts & Fredrik Rasten and Quinie, as well as checking into recent music from Jasmine Guffond, Violeta Garcia, and Lucio Capece. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's installment of Nowhere Street looks at Will Guthrie's Ensemble Nist-Nah, Vasco Trilla, and classic Guinean sounds from the Authenticité era. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter reports from Monheim Triennale and previews shows from Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force and Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa XL. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This month's installment of the contemporary column over at Bandcamp Daily includes sounds from Chiyoko Szlavnics, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Musarc & Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Zeynep Toraman, Kelley Sheehan, dedalus, Lila Meretzky, and more. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

This week's edition of Nowhere Street celebrates Tobias Delius , listens to Branford Marsalis tackle Keith Jarrett's European quartet, and waves goodbye, for now, to Lisa Ullén. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's Nowhere Street takes notice of the passing of two percussion giants, Sven-Åke Johansson and Louis Moholo-Moholo, and considers new music from Jung-Jae Kim. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street Newsletter ignores the American shit show in favor of music from Horsegirl, Miman, and Simon Lucaciu Trio. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

The new installment of the monthly contemporary music column over at Bandcamp Daily is up, with sounds from Fredrik Rasten, Ghost Ensemble, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause, Austin Wulliman and more! daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

This week's installment of the Nowhere Street newsletter looks at some recent action from Aspen Edities and a stunning archival release from the great Irène Schweizer. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

The latest installment of the Nowhere Street newsletter with music from Stereolab, Matmos, Uli Kempendorff's Field, and Tom Rainey with Ingrid Laubrock & Brandon Lopez and Stefano Schultze & Peter Ehwald. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter is piano-heavy, with thoughts on a new benefit compilation for children in Gaza, Rieko Okuda & Mia Dyberg, Jane in Ether, and Felix Henkelhausen Quintet. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter considers new music from Rashad Becker, The Ex, and Burkhard Beins & Angharad Davies. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This month's edition of the contemporary music column at Bandcamp Daily includes sophisticated tones & notions from Anzû Quartet, NO HAY BANDA, Raven Chacon & Present Music, Jürg Frey & EXAUDI, Martin Iddon, Laura Steenberge, Kory Reeder, Joris Rühl, and G. Eckert daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

Very nice compliment from the generous @nightafternight.bsky.social.

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter includes thoughts on Nels Cline, Liam Grant, Judith Hamann, and Adam O'Farrill. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

It was inevitable but still awful—no one that doesn’t subscribe to a plastic existence that feeds on cruelty will be spared. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

This week's Nowhere Street newsletter reflects on the work of Nicolas Collins, Jeb Bishop, Eliana Glass, and Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's packed Nowhere Street newsletter includes thought and news on Marthe Lea Band, Sol Sol, Kate Clark & Mitch Renaud, FMP-Publishing, Internet Archive, Enemy, and Laurent D'incise Peter. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

“This is a peaceful town hall,” she says as two protesters are tased. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter discusses new music from Nina Garcia, FLUT, and a quartet with Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Mat Maneri, and Billy Mintz. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's Nowhere Street newsletter remembers Michael Hurley, with additional thoughts on Philip Donkin and Melissa Aldana. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

March's edition of The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp has arrived.

The new contemporary column over at Bandcamp Daily is up, with sounds from Sarah Hennies, Owls, Sebastien Roux, Carla Kihlstedt, Francisco del Pina & Charlotte Mundy, Ensemble L'imaginaire, Ferdinand Schwarz, Gerauschhersteller, Pierre Boulez, and Luke Martin. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

This week's Nowhere Street newsletter laments the sorry-ass state of the world and finds hope in the reporting of Liz Pelly and music of HSO, Oscar Jan Hoogland's LOOT, KUHN FU, and the trio of Michael Foster, Webb Crawford & Joey Sullivan. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

I was seriously fucked-up after reading Paul Lynch’s “Prophet Song” last year because it seemed so plausible, but I didn’t expect to see it occur in the US so quickly. It’s accelerating every day.

Don’t ever make a typo on an international flight through @americanair.bsky.social because they will totally fuck you over.

This week's Nowhere Street Newsletter considers a big celebration of Radu Malfatti and a Berlin visit from Argentine pianist Santiago Leibson. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

This week's Nowhere Street newsletter checks out some nourishing sounds from David Grubbs, Dennis Egberth, and I Am Three (Silke Eberhard, Christian Marien and Nikolaus Neuser). It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

This week's Nowhere Street Newsletter features gentle sounds from Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Anil Eraslan & Taner Akyol, Unzeit Quartett, Jeff Kimmel & Jack Langdon. It's free to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

The February installment of the contemporary music column over at Bandcamp Daily is up, with music from Mystery Sonata, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Hans Thomalla, Max Andrzejewski, Petr Bakla, Gabriel Paiuk, Watt, Crash Ensemble, Simone Porter, and Reiko Füting. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

Impossible choice, but I went with Air in this @nytimes.com feature on Chicago jazz. Thanks to Giovanni Russonello for the invitation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

The Nowhere Street newsletter is back, w/ thoughts on Sophie Agnel & Joke Lanz, Jules Reidy, Craig Taborn & Peter Evans, Silke Eberhard & Céline Voccia, Christian Meaas Svendsen/Tobias Delius/Randy Peterson, and the old trio of Fire! It's free to subscribe. petermargasak.substack.com/p/back-in-a-...

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter features throughts on Adrian Myhr, Simon Jermyn, and Sullivan Fortner. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

Big thanks to Bill Meyer for this thoughtful and informative preview of next week’s Frequency Festival in the Chicago Reader. Full details and ticket info available from link in comments, below. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

Thanks much to Hannah Edgar for this thoughtful preview of some the performers on this year’s Frequency Festival in the Chicago Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/12/f... The festival kicks off on Tuesday, February 18 and runs through the 23. Link to full lineup in comment below.

This week's Nowhere Street looks at the beautifully liquid, open-end improvisational rigor of Jeong Lim Yang and the just intonation jazz of Will Mason. It's free to subscribe. petermargasak.substack.com/p/fighting-h...

The latest installment of the contemporary music column over at Bandcamp Daily is up, with evocative sounds from Nate Wooley, Kari Watson, Iancu Dumitrescu, Gloria Cheng, Teodora Stepančič & Ordinary Affects, James Weeks with Apartment House and more. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...