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Steve Reich

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet on Their "Shocking, Terrifying" New Piece, WTC 9/11

    ​ Steve Reich's memorial composition WTC 9/11 -- out tomorrow, Sept. 20, on Nonesuch -- starts with the ferocious beeping of a phone left off the hook, doubled by David Harrington, violinist of the Kronos Quartet. Layers of strings pile on, and then: "They came from Boston - Goin' to L.A. - an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Steve Reich Pulls Controversial WTC 9/11 Cover Art; Kronos Quartet Supported Twin Towers Image

    ​Composer Steve Reich has retracted the artwork for his new album WTC 9/11, which is scheduled for release this September. The original cover art featured Masatomo Kuriya's infamous photograph of the second plane flying into the World Trade Center on 11 September, 2001. The photo was darkened ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Drone-Metal Duo Barn Owl Talks Desert Motifs, Meditative Sounds, and Performing in Cathedrals

    Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2010

    The Octopus Project: Show Preview

    Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Berkeley Writer Ayelet Waldman's Red Hook Road Inspired By Bach, Steve Reich

    Jennifer ChaneyAyelet Waldman​New York Times best-selling author and Berkeley resident Ayelet Waldman released a new book today called Red Hook Road. She and her husband, Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, have been called "a famous- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Tussle's Nathan Burazer Says the Band's Music is Like a Spider Goat

    Winni Wintermeyer​As one of the founding members of San Francisco's krauty, dubby, polyrhythm-toting Tussle, Nathan Burazer has seen his fair share of musical trends and scenes come and go. And while the expansive instrumental jams his band has continued to write for almost a decade have never bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Exclusive: DJ Mini-Mix From Bookworms

    ​Nicholas Dawson has been hard at work for over five years on the musical project Bookworms. In that time, Dawson has churned out a couple of EPs and the full-length LP The Hidden Staircase on Solos Records, in addition to remixing local favorites Mi Ami and Lemonade. His style is hard t ... More >>

  • Music

    January 28, 2009

    The Body Electric

    Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Chemical 'Lab

    Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.

  • Music

    August 6, 2008

    Home studio inspection with Dominique Leone

    Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.

  • Music

    July 30, 2008

    NOMO

    Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)

  • Calendar

    March 5, 2008

    Mapping Dance

    Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)

  • Music

    February 20, 2008

    Kronos Quartet and Wu Man

    Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

  • Music

    February 6, 2008

    Mexican six-string superheroes Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Adams vs. Glass

    Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

  • Music

    July 11, 2007

    Spoon

    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)

  • Music

    March 21, 2007

    OOIOO

    TAIGA (Thrill Jockey Records)

  • Culture

    October 19, 2005

    Where the Wild Things Are

    A haunting mix of Indonesian music and Shakespearean mystery

  • Music

    July 13, 2005

    Art of the States

    Q: How is indie darling Sufjan Stevens going to write 50 albums about all 50 states? A: One great record at a time.

  • Music

    September 29, 2004

    BeatBox

    DJ Krush lays down the moody beats; "Remember" takes you all the way back to the '70s, for better or worse.

  • Music

    February 18, 2004

    House of Tudor

    Crimp your hair and borrow your dad's Chevy: You've been invited to Kunst-Stoff's "The Prom"

  • Music

    January 28, 2004

    Feeding Back

    If six avant-garde musicians get together in an art gallery, does it make a sound? You betcha.

  • Music

    February 20, 2002

    Fantasy Land

    Blectum From Blechdom's fractured electronic universe comes back together -- with a little help from the Olsen twins

  • Music

    September 26, 2001

    Four Tet

    Pause (Domino)

  • Music

    March 29, 2000

    Various Artists

    Machine Soul: An Odyssey into Electronic Dance Music, Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

  • Music

    March 15, 2000

    Making Up Their Minds

    S.F.'s Other Minds Festival continues to blur the boundaries of modern composition

  • Music

    February 16, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Creatingmusic.com, "Silver Apples," and Morton Subotnick

  • Music

    October 13, 1999

    Boxed Ears

    From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

  • Music

    September 22, 1999

    Pointed Counterpoints

    A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

  • Music

    February 24, 1999

    Uncharted Territories

    Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

  • Music

    January 6, 1999

    Riff Raff

    Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

  • Music

    October 28, 1998

    Reviews

    Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

  • Music

    April 24, 1996

    Moog Swings

    Stereolab takes a thrift-store approach to Muzak

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