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.
As SydeBoob Duo, soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka perform bold and athletic repertoire...
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Anna Elder, Anthony Braxton, Beat Furrer, Eric Moe, Max Johnson, Ramin Akhavijou, Rebecca Saunders, Sarah Steranka, SydeBoob Duo
What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celeb...
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Goal Weight, Jennifer Gersten, Marguerite Cox, Relative Pitch Records
The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orch...
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Anssi Karttunen, Camberwell Incredibles, Cee Haines, CHAINES, Daniel Hay-Gordon, El Perry, Imogen Holst, Kaija Saariaho, Laura van der Heijden, Manchester Collective, Thick & Tight
“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th...
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American Composers Forum, Ernest Bisong, Grant West, Kavyesh Kaviraj, Khamara Pettus, Recomposing America, Reverend Carl Walker, Walker|West Music Academy
Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her rete...
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Carrie Frey, Columbia University, Damian Norfleet, Hannah Kendall, International Contemporary Ensemble, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Jonathan Finlayson, Josh Modney, Levy Lorenzo, Miller Theatre, Nuiko Wadden, Timothy James Robinson, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Yu-Ting Cheng
A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or...
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Adrián Cortés, April Guthrie, Carmina Escobar, Christopher Votek, Dorian Wood, Emily Elkin, Michael Corwin, New Amsterdam Records, Violetta Parra
Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif are a formidable couple: as a composer and a cellist, respectively, th...
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Hamed Erfani, Oklahoma Chamber Symphony, Yasaman Seif
Andrea Curutchet-Stevenson is a trans non-binary and second-generation New Yorker who releases and p...
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Buika, Hermeto Pascoal, Hiatus Kaiyote, Marcos Villalta, Nate Smith, Roy Hargrove, Thao and The Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen, Tierra Whack
With Project Poetic Justice, artist and activist Ryan Alexander combines his passion for social just...
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John Hopkins University, Nuburooj Khattak, Peabody Institute, Project Poetic Justice, Ryan Alexander
The 2026 Rewire Festival opened not with a bang, but as a beautifully disjointed conversation. In th...
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Aaron Dilloway, Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Aernoudt Jacobs, Anaïs Lossouarn, Apparitions, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Caterina Barbieri, Chuquimamani-Condori, dilesmavis, Einstürzende Neubauten, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, Felicia Chen, Johannes Kreidler, Joshua Chuquimia-Crampton, Kevin Martin, Kiki Hitomi, Kim Gordon, Leila Bordreuil, Los Thuthanaka, Moor Mother, Nihiloxica, Nyege Nyege Tapes, OK Williams, ONCEIM, Rewire Festival, Shigeru Ishihara, Smerz, The Bug & Dis Fig, Val Clipp, VJ Kalma, WaqWaq Kingdom
Few children dream of being a pop star and actually achieve that goal — but that is what happened fo...
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Diamanda Galas, Eli Namay, Jeff Siegfried, Mai Khôi, Mai Khôi & the Dissidents, Mark Micchelli, Ngọc Đại, Nguyễn Nhất Lý, Nicole Mitchell, PJ Roduta, Roomful of Teeth
On Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire (Sono Luminus, 2026), violinist Maiani da Silva suggests that listeners...
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Fjóla Evans, Ian Gottlieb, Jascha Narveson, Kelley Polar, Maiani da Silva, Sono Luminus, Zachary Good
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull has al...
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Allison Loggins-Hull, Avie Records, Castle of our Skins, Franz Welser-Möst, Jessie Montgomery, Joshua Smith, Julia Bullock, Laquita Mitchell, Roomful of Teeth, Spoleto Festival, TCO Media, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Everything Band, Valerie Coleman
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