The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

“In the cracks” is the operative phrase for microtonal music. This is music with notes and scales that fall between those of conventional Western music, which assigns 12 pitches to an octave. Tuning ...

UPDATE: We wrote “at the rate they release stuff, King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizzard might have a new LP by the time of the tour.” Little did we know they’d be releasing FIVE new LPs in 2017. The first ...

Outfitted with an amazing array of custom-built microtonal instruments, Partch, continues its ongoing survey of the profound music of Harry Partch with two evenings of microtonal music and ...

Restless Australian psych-rock crew King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have always released music at a rapid pace -- their most recent album, Nonagon Infinity, came out back in April -- but they've just ...

Among the dozen members inducted last month into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters were historian Ron Chernow, playwright Terrence McNally, novelist George Saunders and artist Jenny ...