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Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning a heteroglossia of voices through group recitations, guttural catharsis and plainspoken word, graphic and other aleatoric forms of notation, samples, loops and effects pedals and the torrents...

The city of Johnstown, around 57 miles east of Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania, since being settled in 1770 has borne three historic floods. The Great Flood of 1889 after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam killed 2,209 people, whereupon the relief efforts of a team of volunteers led by Clara Barton helped to establish the American Red...

Last night Jolie Holland played at The Basement in York. A small and low-hanging room with a bar attached, located underneath the City Screen Picturehouse, the venue - which once seemed to focus on comedy, with intermittent appearances from across the more marginal performing arts - is showing renewed vigour as a place for foreign cinema and international music. It...