Stream It Here: Asphalt Orchestra
Urban marching band Asphalt Orchestra plays a wide range of music, including Swedish metal.Its repertoire doesn’t encompass Sousa marches or school fight songs but rather charts by Bjork, Charles...
View ArticleAnother Private Reel: Live on Soundcheck
Dip into the private stash of live recordings from John’s other show, Soundcheck, for this New Sounds program. Hear Kronos Quartet playing Terry Riley, and some electroacoustic music from the...
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Gig Alerts: Asphalt Orchestra
Asphalt Orchestra"Frank Zappa: Zomby Woof"Playing at: Broadway Plaza at Lincoln Center (1941 Broadway, U.W.S.)Get: Tickets FREE | DirectionsThe Asphalt Orchestra debuted at the Lincoln Center Out of...
View ArticleFake Orchestras
The band name may say “Orchestra,” but the groups’ sounds are not what you’d expect. Hear Slavic folk, Latin jazz, African guitars and balafons come together in music by The Fake Orchestra. Also,...
View ArticleAlleged Orchestras
All sorts of different ensembles will play with our expectations of the "orchestra," for this New Sounds program, including Alexander Berne & the Abandoned Orchestra, where the traditional...
View ArticleAnother Private Reel: Live on Soundcheck
Dip into the private stash of live recordings from John’s other show, Soundcheck, for this New Sounds program. Hear Kronos Quartet playing Terry Riley, and some electroacoustic music from the...
View ArticleFake Orchestras
The band name may say “Orchestra,” but the groups’ sounds are not what you’d expect. Hear Slavic folk, Latin jazz, African guitars and balafons come together in music by The Fake Orchestra. Also,...
View ArticleSongs and Instrumentals for Big Bands
For this New Sounds, we'll hear music from the unexpected and irresistible collaboration between Richmond, VA's Fight the Big Bull (9-piece avant jazz band), and San Francisco-based songwriter/...
View ArticleAnother Private Reel: Live on Soundcheck
Dip into the private stash of live recordings from John’s other show, Soundcheck, for this New Sounds program. Hear Kronos Quartet playing Terry Riley, and some electroacoustic music from the...
View ArticleAlleged Orchestras
All sorts of different ensembles will play with our expectations of the "orchestra," for this New Sounds program, including Alexander Berne & the Abandoned Orchestra, where the traditional...
View ArticleAlleged Orchestras
All sorts of different ensembles will play with our expectations of the "orchestra," for this New Sounds program, including Alexander Berne & the Abandoned Orchestra, where the traditional...
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Asphalt Orchestra Owns The Pixies' "Surfer Rosa"
by Caryn Havlik —There are few things that the New Sounds All-Purpose Assistant loves more than the Pixies and brass bands / marching bands who party like brass bands...well, maybe pierogies. And this...
View ArticleThe Pixies : New Sounds-Style
For this New Sounds, hear songs of the Pixies as arranged “New Sounds-Style” by everyone from the Asphalt Orchestra (the punkass marching band from Bang on a Can) to the Polaris Prize winner, Tanya...
View ArticleNew Sounds Year in Review 2014: 3
The New Sounds Staff of one finally weighs in with a year-end new music list. It's about time too, since being on tour with a metal band for all of December is only an excuse for so long... Anyhow, the...
View Article#3651: The Pixies : New Sounds-Style
For this New Sounds, hear songs of the Pixies as arranged “New Sounds-Style” by everyone from the Asphalt Orchestra (the punkass marching band from Bang on a Can) to the Polaris Prize winner, Tanya...
View Article#3651: The Pixies : New Sounds-Style
For this New Sounds, hear songs of the Pixies as arranged “New Sounds-Style” by everyone from the Asphalt Orchestra (the punkass marching band from Bang on a Can) to the Polaris Prize winner, Tanya...
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