Lars Gotrich
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In his horn, subway cars rumbled, buses hissed, traffic screeched and sirens howled. Homeless for more than a decade, Gayle was forever in conversation with the streets of New York. -
In his work alongside bandmate Adam Wiltzie, McBride warped and wondered at new pathways for ambient music.
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With a who's who of forward-thinking guitarists, Bill Orcutt brings his ecstatic minimalism to the Tiny Desk.
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The singer makes four simple words into an Escher-esque puzzle built on loops and layers of her voice.
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Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.
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Joe Bussard not only sought out obscure 78-rpm records that otherwise would have disappeared, but shared the music with giddy excitement.
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On Kali Malone's "Living Torch II," distortion and feedback reshape mourning into triumph.
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Cruise's instrument, a voice of such intense calm it could be unsettling, made her a natural collaborator of director David Lynch — and, later, new-wave icons The B-52s.
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On the guitarist's first string quartet composition, she comes with a dramatic precision.
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At his last recorded concerts, the avant-garde outlaw's seemingly disparate sound worlds came together.
