Night After Night

Playlist.

Lou Harrison La Koro Sutro - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Lou Harrison/Richard Dee - Suite for Violin with American Gamelan - Gabriela Diaz; Lou Harrison - La Kora Sutro - Providence Singers

Lukas Foss - Complete Symphonies - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Symphony No. 1 in G; Symphony No. 4 ("Window to the Past"); Symphony No. 2 ("Symphony of Chorales"); Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrows")

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (BMG; due Sept. 4)

Louis Andriessen - La Passione - Cristina Zavaloni, Monica Germino, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Bells for Haarlem; Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno; Letter from Cathy; La Passione

Donald Crockett - Blue Earth - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Wedge; Viola Concerto - Kate Vincent; Blue Earth

Arthur Berger - The Complete Orchestral Music - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (New World)
> Ideas of Order; Perspectives II; Serenade Concertante; Prelude, Aria, and Waltz; Polyphony

Sylvian|Fripp - Damage (original Fripp mix) (Virgin)

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (Earache)

Candiria - Invaders 7 Inch (Rising Pulse < Bandcamp)

Reza Vali - Toward That Endless Plain - Janna Baty, Khosrow Soltani, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Folk Songs, Set No. 8; Folk Songs, Set No. 14; Toward That Endless Plain

Milton Babbitt - All Set - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Composition for Twelve Instruments; All Set; Correspondences; Paraphrases; The Crowded Air; From the Psalter

Scorpions - Blackout (Mercury)

John Harbison - Ulysses - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (Chrysalis)

Led Zeppelin - Presence (Swan Song/Rhino)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 15: Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN 4/22/78 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

Johannes Brahms - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 - NDR-Sinfonieorchester/Günter Wand (RCA Red Seal)

Furthur - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, Feb. 23, 2010 (self-released)

King Crimson - Beat (DGM)

Deafheaven - Sunbather (Sargent House)

Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet - Night & Day (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp)

Motörhead - Bad Magic (Motörhead Music/UDR; due Aug. 28)

Black Table - Sentinel (self-released < Bandcamp)

Ufomammut - Ecate (Neurot)

Toyah - Ophelia's Shadow (E'G)

Chou Wen-Chung - Eternal Pine (New World)
> Eternal Pine I - Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea; Ode to Eternal Pine - Boston Musica Viva/Richard Pittman; Eternal Pine II - Yi- Ji-young, Kim Woong-sik; Eternal Pine III ("Sizhu Eternal Pine") - Taipei Chinese Orchestra/Chang Yin-fang

Scott Worthington - Prism (Populist)
> At Dusk; Quintet (after Feldman) - version 1; Prism; Quintet (after Feldman) - version 2; Reflections (in memoriam Stefano Scodanibbio)

Moufang-Czamanski - Live in Seattle (Further; due Oct. 30)

Donato Dozzy - The Loud Silence (Further; due Oct. 2)

Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor (Op. 23); Etude in C-sharp minor (Op. 2, No. 1); Prelude for left hand alone (Op. 9, No. 1); Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Chernov/Bax) - Alessio Bax (Signum)

eighth blackbird - Filament (Cedille)
> Bryce Dessner - Murder Ballads; Nico Muhly - Doublespeak; Son Lux - To Love; Philip Glass - Two Pages (w/ Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly); Son Lux - This Is My Line

Yes - Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT, Aug. 7, 2015 (audience recording)

Playlist (Matt Stevens prog-rock edition*).

Celer - Pockets of Wheat (Soundscaping < Bandcamp)

Josh Mason - Hellified Irie (FET Press)

The Crimson ProjeKCt - Live in Tokyo (Inside Out)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (Columbia/Legacy)

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)

Cardiacs - Sing to God (YouTube)

The Fierce & the Dead - Spooky Action (Bad Elephant)

King Crimson - Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 25, 1981 (DGMLive)

Voivod - Nothingface (Geffen)

Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb (Parlophone)

Bobby Conn - The Golden Age (Thrill Jockey)

Bruford - Feels Good to Me (Winterfold)

Radiohead - Kid A (Parlophone)

Vessels - Dilate (Bias)

Grant Evans - Silent Refusal (Invisible Cities < Bandcamp)

Billy Gomberg - 062915e (a little meta) (Soundcloud)

*Much of the above prompted by this provocative Musicradar listicle of 10 Essential Prog-Rock Albums as compiled by Matt Stevens, guitarist for English quartet The Fierce & The Dead. (Pretend that I listened to King Crimson's Red from memory somewhere in there.)

Playlist.

Lea Bertucci/Leila Bordreuil - L'onde Souterraine (Telegraph Harp; due Sept. 14)

Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia (Grönland)

Navel - Ambient 1: Music for Spaceports (taping-desk-ophon-mania < Bandcamp)

Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Brainfeeder)

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg/Interscope)

Keller Quartett - Cantante e tranquillo (ECM New Series)
> Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 - Lento Assai, Cantante e tranquillo; György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 2 - Allegro Con Delicatezza – Stets Sehr Mild; Johann Sebastian Bach - The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Contrapunctus I; György Kurtág - Aus Der Ferne V; Alfred Schnittke - Piano Quintet - Moderato Pastorale [Alexei Lubimov]; Alexander Knaifel - In Air Clean and Unseen - An Autumn Evening; Johann Sebastian Bach - The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Contrapunctus XIV; György Kurtág - Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreæ Szervánsky, Op. 28 - Arioso Interrotto (Di Endre Svervánsky), Larghetto; Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130 - Cavatina. Adagio Molto Espressivo; György Kurtág - Flowers We Are – For Miyako; Hommage À Bach; Ligatura Y; Ligatura for Two Violins; Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 - Lento Assai, Cantante e tranquillo

Dmitri Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District - Passacaglia; Symphony No. 10 - Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon)

Harmonia - Live 1974 (Grönland)

Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water (Atlantic)

Chris Squire/Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy (Purple Pyramid)

Chris Squire/Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy - Live (Purple Pyramid)

Circa - Circa 2007 (self-released)

Yes -  Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN, Nov. 15, 1972 (Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two) (Rhino)

Paula Matthusen - nacht nach nacht nach nacht nach nacht - American Academy in Rome Fellows (Vimeo)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Symphonies Nos. 1-8 - Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic/Christoph Poppen,  Osmo Vänskä,  Michael Schonwandt,  Ingo Metzmacher, James Gaffigan, Markus Stenz (Challenge Classics)

Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 (hatOLOGY)

Motörhead- Orgasmatron (Sanctuary)

King Crimson - The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 23, 1981 (DGMLive)

Playlist.

Blue Heron - Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 4 (Blue Heron)
(Nicholas Ludford - Ave cujus conceptio; Sarum plainchant - Kyrie Deus creator omnium; Robert Jones - Missa Spes nostra; Robert Hunt - Stabat mater)

Andrew Rudin - Cello Sonata - Samuel Magill, Beth Levin; Viola Sonata - Brett Deubner, Marcantonio Barone; Violin Sonata - Miranda Cuckson, Steven Beck (Centaur)

Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles; Violin Concerto, "L'arbre des songes"; Symphony No. 2, "Le double" - Augustin Hadelich, Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Seattle Symphony Media)

Philip Glass/Marco Beltrami - The Fantastic Four (Original Soundtrack) (Sony Classical)

Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast; due Aug. 28)

Hate Eternal - Infernus (Season of Mist; due. Aug. 21)

Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner)

Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang (Epic)

Tuluum Shimmering - Great Star Entered the Fire (TSR < Bandcamp)

Tuluum Shimmering - Wide Water Entered the Fire (TSR < Bandcamp)

Locrian - Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)

Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise (Relapse)

High on Fire - Luminiferous (Relapse)

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control (Rise Above)

Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Demon Chaser (hat ART)

John Scofield - Past Present (Impulse!)

Michael Byron - In the Village of Hope - Tasha Smith Godínez (Cold Blue)

Peter Garland - After the Wars - Sarah Cahill (Cold Blue)

Chas Smith - Twilight of the Dreamboats (Cold Blue)

Alice Cooper - Pretties for You (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Alice Cooper - Easy Action (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Yes - Magnification (Eagle Rock)

Live review: Slipknot + Lamb of God, Xfinity Center, Aug. 4, 2015

 

Mick Thomson and Sid Wilson of Slipknot, by Matthew Shelter for Rolling Stone

Slipknot + Lamb of God
Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA, Aug. 4, 2015
RollingStone.com
August 5, 2015

Much to my surprise and delight, my debut writing about music for Rolling Stone, to which I'd previously contributed a sizable Doctor Who feature last fall. I'm grateful to Hank Shteamer, former TONY compadre and now fellow TONY veteran, for the chance to write about the two mainstream metal acts I respect and enjoy the most, and had last seen together at Ozzfest in 2004 at Jones Beach.

Two other bands played on this bill. I'm sorry to have missed Motionless in White because of horrific traffic headed out to Mansfield after the freak hail storm that ran through Boston on Tuesday afternoon, but I did see Bullet for My Valentine.

That band played a solid, charismatic set, one much better received by the portion of this audience that saw it than was the only BfMV show I'd seen previously -- when the group opened for Guns N' Roses at Hammerstein Ballroom in 2006. A thankless task, one presumes.

As always, there are things that I reckon I could have done better with more time, but I'm happy with this fair representation of what went down last night. And as someone whose serious interest in music journalism/criticism began to show during a period of clipping reviews out of Rolling Stone in the '80s (so much Loder!), pasting them into scrapbooks, and trying to imagine what albums called Metal Box and Movement and Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) might sound like, it's truly an honor to earn this particular byline.