Knock Knock. Who's There? Philip Glass and Friends @ MHOW

BY KEITH MEATTO   The legendary composer Philip Glass makes music that's so minimalist and repetitive that it has inspired a joke: Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. Knock [more]

Phreak Out: A Review of Phil Lapsley, Exploding the Phone

BY JOHN NICOSIA In Sidney Pollock’s 1975 political thriller, Three Days of the Condor, a former AT&T lineman (Robert Redford), breaks into a Bell System building in Manhattan and calls the CIA.  Just as the agency thinks it has traced the call, a new location pops up, then another, then another.  “He’s tying twenty phones together!”  The Condor has [more]

Ideas of Reference: Ten Years of Four Tet, Rounds

BY PETER LILLIS Ten years ago, Four Tet released Rounds, his third full-length, and his most focused work. Four Tet—UK’s Keiran Hebden—composed an affirming masterwork of mood, rhythm and repetition using only disparate, seemingly unrelated samples, culled from just about anywhere you can imagine, and beyond. Throughout Rounds, Hebden carefully stacks loose, [more]

Chewed Up and Spit Out: A Review of The Haxan Cloak's Excavation

BY JORDAN MAINZER Death kindly stopped for Emily Dickinson, but hasn't been so polite to The Haxan Cloak's Bobby Krlic. Though in fairness, Krlic's music doesn't offer the kindest portrayal of Death. Within the first two minutes of The Haxan Cloak's incredible new album Excavation, Krlic (who kind of looks like Sam Beam's evil twin) pays tribute to some of [more]