Seth Colter Walls has worked as a political correspondent in cities such as Beirut and Washington, though now he writes about books, movies and music — often with an affection for experimental forms. His criticism and reporting have appeared in Newsweek, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, and The Awl, among other places.
Julia Holter may have gone to school to study formal composition, but she… more »
When Timo Andres made his debut full-length recording for Nonesuch in 200… more »
While composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans has been a prom… more »
Saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell has been at the forefront of inn… more »
Saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell has been at the forefront of inn… more »
This is Roscoe Mitchell’s finest classical album yet. And, interest… more »
With Infernal Machines, Darcy James Argue seemed to come out of nowhere: … more »
Nadia Sirota is the violist of choice for the New York contemporary-class… more »
“I just chose to conveniently ignore what I would have to do with a… more »
Up until late last year, pianist Alexandre Tharaud’s biography was … more »
Mere months after Le Boeuf sur le toit, the young French pianist Alexandr… more »
This summer, I went to a bar in my neighborhood to see a show aimed at th… more »
Just what kind of R&B visionary is the ascendant star Miguel? While … more »
This is cocktail-hour music with a non-trivial progressive kick – a… more »
The story most often told about composer Pierre Boulez is the one about t… more »
How influential and well-respected is Roscoe Mitchell, at this point? Wel… more »
This is a late-period tour de force: three different “solo” a… more »
In which the polymath Mitchell embraces the emergent sounds of hip-hop as… more »
Three hugely important 1969 albums — some of them infrequently avai… more »
Mary Halvorson has kept busy since stepping out as a bandleader toward th… more »
As the executive director of the New York City-based International Contem… more »
This soundtrack for Otto Preminger’s classic legal thriller isn… more »
As long as PT Anderson is making movies about uber-driven weirdos, Jonny … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
