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Sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere but does anyone have an mp3 of the studio version of Cars Can't Escape (the one that Wilcoworld was giving away for free) that they could post? Thanks in advance!

Some Glass favorites: Einstein on the Beach Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass (string quartets 2, 4, 5) Violin Concerto (with Gidon Kremer: essential) Music in Twelve Parts Symphony No. 3 Mishima soundtrack Dracula soundtrack Piano Etudes Glassworks Etoile Polaire I also highly recommend Bruce Brubaker's recordings of solo piano music by Glass (which include pieces by John Cage and Alvin Curran).

How are there so many posts so far and nothing about classical music? (Whiskeytown? Camper van Beethoven? Sigh....) The sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Bach are the obvious place to start.......any recording really but violinists like Gidon Kremer, Hilary Hahn, Arthur Grumiaux, Christian Tetzlaff, Thomas Zehetmair, David Oistrakh, etc. are all worth checking out -- you can't go wrong with any of these..... From there, Beethoven's violin concerto is highly recommended (Itzhak Perlman recording on EMI with Giulini conducting and the Chicago Symphony I think?). There are also famou

Nice stuff, thanks.

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom: "Days of Mars" How did I go so long without knowing about this? Dios mio.

Just saw them Friday night here in NYC....surprisingly good live band, for as much of a studio band as they seem. NP

Thanks Craig, and sorry, just been workin like a madman! You or anyone else going tonite? My first Wilco gig since New Jersey I think.

What time were the openers and when did Wilco play pls?

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All you fans of Steve Reich and Gavin Bryars and "The Sinking of the Titanic" absolutely *must* check out a composer named John Luther Adams and an album of his called "The Light That Fills the World." I cannot recommend it strongly enough. Here is one of its three movements: http://goodvibrato.org/?p=49 Some other favorites/recommendations Takacs Quartet - any string quartet recordings by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, Haydn, Schubert, etc Arditti Quartet - amazing modern/contemporary music group, their recording of Webern/Berg chamber music is great Leon Fleisher - a pianist with many won

Nice thread. The classical peeps are definitely in the minority here but are an enthusiastic bunch. Here is a half-classical blog I maintain with lots of mp3s of favorite recordings: http://www.goodvibrato.org I have way too many favorites to name a top 10 but here's a few off the top of me head: Glenn Gould: Bach French Suites, Goldberg Variations, WTC, Preludes Partitas & Fugues Radu Lupu: Schumann & Schubert piano music Keith Jarrett: Handel & Shostakovich Piano Music Terry Riley: "In C" (any version, although I have been enjoying the Bang on a Can reading of late) Wilhel

Google is your friend. http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/kc.htm

"You Forgot it in People" and "Feel Good Lost" (the debut instrumental record) are the best. Apart from one song I thought that the self-titled record was crap. Be sure to check out the two records by K.C. Accidental (early Charles Spearin/Kevin Drew project), as well as everything by Do Make Say Think.

I was at that show too.

Nice. RIP.

I hear ya, and I always liked going to shows at Tonic too. The false nostalgia thing had more to do with CBGB, which had plenty of people howling about it who hadn't seen a show at the place in years, if ever. I just wish people spent half as much time going out and supporting artists and interesting concert presenters as they do lamenting Disneyfication, etc.

Exactly. The false nostalgia that gets cooked up for places like CBGB and Tonic is almost always by people who haven't been to these places in months, or years, if ever. So they closed - big deal. My heart goes out to the owners but they had a good run of it and will have left their mark on the city's music history, which is not something many people can say. You don't have to be an economist to know that a club booking 30 shows a month at which 50 people are in the audience and paying $8 to get in will have a hard time surviving, and not just here. The rent is only part of it; on any given ni

This thread is funny. Do people really think there isn't a single nonprofit arts group in NYC that owns their own property? Or that thousands of people in this city and across the country don't already give millions of dollars every year to support the arts? You would think the DMG people had never visited BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Issue Project Room, Joe's Pub, Miller Theater, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Living Room, you get the point? Read this article by the music critic of the New Yorker in this week's issue and tell me if the DMG letter doesn't sound the slighest bit hysteric

There are *plenty* of places to hear experimental music in NYC. It is definitely sad that Tonic is closing but the music will move somewhere else.

No particular order just yet Andrew Bird Panda Bear Deerhunter Holy Fuck Times New Viking Bill Callahan Arcade Fire A Sunny Day in Glasgow Amiina Do Make Say Think Ponys

The lyrics to Sky Blue Sky were provided by the band. But maybe they got their own lyrics wrong.

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