The Selected Ballads

Peter Stampfel utterly lacks all the qualities that sometimes make folk music boring to me. Though his knowledge of American music matches t...

In no particular order: Sebadoh - Harmacy I imagine this is an unusual entry point into the Sebadoh catalog (I almost entirely slept on t...

Symphony of Souls at Brecht Forum Last Saturday, I saw Jason Kao Hwang's Symphony of Souls  performed by the composer and his 38-piece...

Paul Motian - Windmills of Your Mind It couldn't have been a particularly easy task singing while backed by late-period Paul Motian. Le...

I recommend watching the entirety of this BBC documentary on the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, but if you need to be convinced, the two mi...

Rounding up some of the better items I've found in recent record digs, stretching back to that annual colossus of record shows, the WFMU...

Once again, The Selected Ballads strives to be the last blog to submit a yearly Best Of list. The format this year is my top ten (or eleven,...