Amanda Cook
Amanda Cook (she/her) is a music critic and digital editor based in the Twin Cities. She is the Editor of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
Defining the full scope of Amina Claudine Myers’ artistry feels impossible. At 84, she has nurtured...
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AACM, Amina Claudine Myers, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith
Denver, Colorado born Xavier Emmanuel (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist/scholar and PhD candidate...
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Angela McCluskey, Elijah Fox, Knxwledge, Les Halles, Nala Sinephro, Xavier Emmanuel, Xavley, Yves Tumor
On a spring day in 2022, an uninterrupted hum emanates from the center of a room, as natural as the...
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Annea Lockwood, Charles Curtis, Éliane Radigue, Laurie Spiegel, Nate Wooley, Pierre Schaeffer, Rhodri Davies, Rhys Chatham, Silvia Tarozzi
The Estonian composer Madli Marje Gildemann explores the fragile thresholds between sound, embodimen...
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KAIROS, Kaspar Mänd, Ludensemble, Madli Marje Gildemann
Before she took the stage as “Babygirl,” we were preparing for Lucy Liyou’s character to bleed. Ushe...
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Laura Cocks, Lucy Liyou, Mingjia Chen, Nick Zanca, Performance Space New York
Although Camae Ayewa, Tcheser Holmes, Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, and Keir Neuringer had lived an...
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Aquiles Navarro, Camae Ayewa, Helado Negro, Impulse! Records, Irreversible Entanglements, Keir Neuringer, Luke Stewart, Moor Mother, Motherboard, Tcheser Holmes
Olivia Block is pictured on her website before a glistening Steinway piano, illuminated from behind...
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Alvin Lucier Award for Music, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Olivia Block
Keren Abreu is a singer-songwriter whose music is a multilingual blend of folk lyricism, pop melodie...
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Cam O'bi, Emily King, Forager, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Juan Luis Guerra, Keren Abreu, Mahalia Jackson, Natalia Lafourcade, Noname, Raury
Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA As s...
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Money Matters
Harriet Tubman’s Electrical Field of Love is a deeply personal album collaboratively written and rec...
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Brandon Ross, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Harriet Tubman, JT Lewis, Melvin Gibbs, Pi Recordings
Seated in the round at Åsane Kulturhus, a string of spoken words transmogrified in spatialized audio...
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Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, BIT20 Ensemble, Borealis, Camille Norment, Cecilia Fiona, Diana Soh, Elin Mar Øyen Vister, Hannah Kendall, Helena Tulve, Hilde Marie Holson, Jaleh Negari, Jiennagoahti, Johan Sara Jr., John McCowen, Mariam Gviniashvili, Øyvind Torvund, Peter Meanwell, Sara Marielle Gaup, Serene Din, Spreafico Eckly, Trine Hansen, Tze Yeung Ho
Sometimes, music transports us to a place so far from reality, it can feel like an out of body exper...
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International Anthem, International Anthem Recording Co., Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart, Whitney Johnson
London’s Eternal Series is a relatively new addition to the city’s contemporary and experimental mus...
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Ecka Mordecai, Eternal Series, Mayah Kadish, Sasha Elina, Timothy Cape
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and poet based in Los Ange...
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Albert Ayler, Béla Bartók, Boris, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, HIroshi Yoshimura, MAGMA, Patrick Shiroishi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sufjan Stevens, Vegh Quartet
An important part of preserving history is cementing it in our cultural memory, reintroducing and re...
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Estevan Olmos, Gustavo Dudamel, Judy Baca, Juhi Bansal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Nina Shekhar, Viet Cuong, Xavier Muzik
It is easy to forget that the use of electronics in music composition was initially seen, by some, a...
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Adam Rosenblatt, Beyond This Point, John Corkill, Julie Zhu
What defines a song? Is it verses, choruses, and bridges organized in a way that builds tension and...
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Carmen Quill, Celia Hill, Cleo Reed, Close Up, Dana Lyn, Devon Gates, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Jason Burger, Jen Shyu, Kabir Adhiya-Kumar, Kalia Vandever, Kristina Teuschler, Laraaji, Luminescence, Rahul Carlberg, Ryan El-Solh, Toso Toso, Wendy Eisenberg, William Parker
An audience of all ages flooded Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium with curious energy on Feb. 26 for t...
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Qasim Naqvi, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium, Steph Richards, Talk Show
An omnipresent dialogue between Lisa Bielawa the composer and Lisa Bielawa the singer was on enticin...
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Chelsea Wimmer, Claire Solomon, Contemporaneous, Daniel Kochersberger, David Bloom, Gleb Kanasevich, Josh Henderson, Lisa Bielawa, Meaghan Burke, Paul Kerekes
Borealis is somewhat of a unicorn in the world of new and experimental music festivals. Held each Ma...
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Borealis, Camille Norment, Jaleh Negari, Johan Sara Jr., Peter Meanwell, Sara Marielle Gaup
Rachel Beetz is an American performer-composer-improvisor on flutes, various electronics, and an Arp...
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Alma Laprida, Berglina María Tómasdóttir, Chris Williams, Heather Stebbins, Julie Herndon, Mattie Barbier, Patrick Shiroishi, Rachel Beetz, Raven Chacon
In the last few years, arts workers have been hitting massive walls, witnessing the absurdity, toxic...
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Basel Abbas, Black Quantum Futurism, Dancers for Palestine, Decolonize this Place, DJs Against Apartheid, Dread Scott, Just Stop Oil, Moor Mother, Nan Goldin, PAIN, Ruanne Abu Rahme, Ruanne Abu Rahme and Basel Abbas, Shellyne Rodriguez, Toshi Reagon
Stunning textures and timbral exploration are hallmarks of Camila Agosto’s compositional output. As...
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Camila Agosto, International Contemporary Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble
